Indiana State sentinel., 1861-01-09
Peaceable Disunion or Civil war.


The Journal. the central organ of the Republi-
can party of Indiana, zealously and ably opposes
the policy of coercion and favors peaceable dis
solution or division of the Government, rather
than yield to the demand made by the slave
States for the protection of slavery in the Terri
tories In discussing these subjects in its issue of
Saturday last, the Journal decidedly reiterates
the views it has heretofore expressed and pre-
sents additional argument to maintain its po-
sition, that the issues now before the country and
the state of public sentiment, have had no par
allel in the past. As an illustration of this view
of the case il refers to the condition of affairs in
1892, when disunion was threatened, to show that
the policy then adopted would not suit the present
altered circumstances of the country and the
widely different issue presented. Upon this point
it-remarks:
If South Carolina had stood entirely alone at the begin
ming the difficulty which threatens the division Of this
nation, she had had sympathy and no hope Of help
the other States the Jacsonian policy would no doubt
circumstances alter cases. South Carolina resisting the
whole strength and the almost united sympathy, OF the
other States the in 1882, IS very different
problem the statesman solution from South Carolina
supported by the active corporation Of all the Gulf States
and the sympathy. more OF
all the other slave States. In lS2 disunon in South Car
facous supporters outside of her bor-
ders and only doubtful majority within them Rebel,
lion then simply soliciting ruin in which she could
have little sympathy and but remote hope OF recovery
In 1850 South Carolina assured that seven other States
will make with her. and that if all the rest
do not volunteers from them will pour down 10 her as
sitance and leave the States to follow soon as their
wrath gets enough to move them In ls32 prov
ince, of little benefit the UnOn and constantly disturb
ing the nation with unreasonable petuance was TO be sub
dued In lS60 one-haf Of the Conederacy 10 De SUD
dued by the other half The are too terribly differ
O admit application of the same policy with the
results What was udciouS nrmness IN ls5z may oe
runOus obstnacy in 1860 What was wise assertion OF
national power in 1882 may become disastrous and use
JacksOnian policy should show the nation that this is
'Jacksonian'' case.
The Journal then states that "the contest now
is not merely between the two halves of the Con-
federacy, but it is between two utterly iTecOnci-
able principles of government, of social organi
zation and material prosperity" and proceeding
to portray the results which will attend coercion,
it says
We have then not only dangerous physical resistance
10 encounter in maintaining Constitution over thoSs
unwilling States moral resistance equally strong
should the physical resistance, as we might
with double wealth and population, in few years, we
leave the moral hostility strong as ever nay thousand
times stronger .
States to keep up Union which will be no Union when
the fight over that rationale Is it not prudentl
Is it not the policy of wise devotion to freedom, e
forms and all connections than peos tcdr to Tefatf
an our free 0orer7lDsSnt an element Of trouble.
In addition to this the Journal represents that
the feeling is spreading all the time in the slave
States in favor of "the protection of slavery out
side of the slave States, wherever shareholders
choose to 60" We again quote from that print,
so that it may speak for itself, in its own Ian
guage:
II pervades Kentucky. II Is already predominant in
II has long been master in Virginia. Maryland
Missouri the only slave States in which
this demand would not be supported by large majority
to-day, and there the result would be doubtful
Therefore, opinion the movement for the submis
Of the Constitution TO slavery disuniOn could not
have been prevented by any display Of force udcous or
otherwise We have held Ondly to the belief that the
border States assured of kind and faithful protection
slavery the place it Is entitled might stay with
and in time be weaned Of slavery, and into free
union free the rest and hence have yielded where
would have stirred jot 10 appease the Gulf
States But believe that yielding short of absolute
submission will retain those States with and are pre-
pared TO them with the rest for the North never
will submit this free Government TO slavery to H. ii
there is other salvation fc- it its ruin will be welcome
We have thus referred to and quoted the senti-
ments of the central organ ofthe Republican party
of Indiana for two objects, one of which is to dis
prove the charge made by many Republican ora
tors and presses, that the Democracy have mis-
represented the position of the Republican organ
zation upon the issues involved in the last Presi
Dental canvass; and the other, to show that the
conservative element of the Republican party has
no hesitation in declaring that disunion is less
evil than civil war, and is to be preferred. The
Democracy predicted that disunion would follow
the success of political party which proclaimed
that there was an irrepressible conflict be-
tween the two sections of the country, or, in the
language of its leader, ''that house divided
against itself can not stand, and that the States
of the Union must be all slave or all free" This
prediction we fear is about being realized but
in the way Republicans prophecied. There is pros
pect that the Union will be divided and the States
may be all 'free'' in one division and they may
be all "slave" in the other. The Democracy took
theconverse of the proposition. They contended
that the States with different domestic institu
tutions had existed in peace and prosperity for
three quarters of a century, by the exercise of
the same forbelrance towards each other and by
continuing mutual the respect for the constitu-
tional rights of each and all which had controlled
the sentiment of the country and which was really
the basis of union, the Government could be per-
petuated with the continuance of all the blessings
it had conferred. The Journal candidly comedies
by its argument that the Republican party has no
reason to complain of being misrepresented by
the Democracy; that such charge is without
foundation, and that the success of the Republi-
can party upon the issues it presented to the
country is the cause of the political difficulties
which threaten the overthrow of this Govern
ment. The Journal represents that such is the
condition of the country-the irreconcilable hos
tility between the North and the South-that, in
its view, division into separate confederacies is
the wsest and the only practicable solution of the
controversy. We need no better vindication Of
the principles and policy of the Democratic party
than is furnished by the Republican central organ.
COLLISION on THE Central RoAD-A collision