Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-08
Southern sentiment.
make the following extracts from our southern
exchanges. The Richmond Enquirer saws:

Southern sentiment.
To show the state of feeling at the South, we |
make the following extracts from our southern |
exchanges. The Richmond Enquirer says:
Nor DAY roo SooN.-The secession of the |
Cotton States and OF Virginia, has not come a
day too soon, to save us from the most CALLING |
and degrading yoke of despotism ever sought to |
be fastened upon free people. The North, |
bloated and overgrown, having utterly discarded |
the doctrine of States Rights, the very basis of
the old Constitution, has reached that point in its
history, at which it becomes necessary to them to
consolidate despotism at home to control the |
radical and agrarian elements of Northern soci- |
ETY.. This despotism is to be upheld by bayonets,
while the liberty loving, orderly, and conservative
South, is to be brought under the yoke as a con-
quered province, rich in resource, and necessary
to the aggraLdizement of this consolidated des-
potism What horrible perverson of the prn-
ciple that maorities should rule in Democracy, |
Is 1t TO attempt to rule without regard to COnst
tutional limitations by majority of bayOnetsl
Every act of the present despot at Washington,
IS usurpation of power, and an invasion OF
Constitutional right Underlying the slavery
question, it is now manifest that great contest
is to be between Constitutional States rights lib
erty on the one hand, and unlimited despotc
power on the other.
1t the negro question were entirely out of the
way, this battle would still have to~be fought
The Southern States would have to fight for the
assertion and maintenance of their equality with
the Northern States. The North has no idel OF
States rights Constitutional liberty-no idea
of the reserved powers of a sovereign people to
check the despotic excesses of corrupt and
dangerous Government. Maddened into phrenzy
at the thought Of losing the wealthy and fertile
South, which has heretofore supported the Fed
eral Government and built up the commerce and
manufactures of the North, they are frantcally
endeavoring to compel her to pay tribute to
Caesar. Having over reached us in every COM
promise and arrangement for the last half cen
tury, they have insoently thought there were no
limits to their aggressions or to our patient sub
mission. Like the greedy dog, in the fable, cross
ing the stream with bone, the North has drop
ped the bone and grasped at the shadow. In
vain will they seek to recover their loss The
day of our deliverance is at hand. 1t may be
that we shall attain it only through blood and
suffering, but come it will and speedily. The fate
of the old Government is fixed. Herelfter Re-
publican constitutional liberty will exist only at
the South. while military despotism and arbitrary
power will reign supreme over the North. The
authors of the '' irrepressible conflict T" having
sown the wind, mnst now reap the whrlwind.
| The MLIrARY.-All day yesterday, and up to
late hour last night, the streets were thronged
Will TIE Sdilslllb NOluHltcIb vi hhO otc
pouring into the Fair Grounds near this city in
| great numbers. Everywhere the gallant sons OF
Virginia are responding to the call of the Gov
ernor. As troop after troop, company after com
pany, filed by Office. We were struck with the
full ranks, the fine appearance and the soderly
bearing of the men, We not particularizt
any company, where all appeared so well The
volunteer companies, as they arrive, are being
mustered into regiments; ana, from present ap
I~oc, +l,a cha1 hax
pm imposing army IN camp before the city. WhC
can doubt that the glorious Old Dominion will
put herself in the front rank of States in this sec
ond struggle for liberty, she did in that which
secured our independence of the mother country
All honor to the true men who rush to arms a
their country's call.
The Nashville Union, of Sunday, contains tn
following:
THE NORTH USIrED.-In the hey-day of ou
prosperity-so long as we were willing to empt,
our bags of gold-the products of our rice ant
cotton and sugar and tobacco and wheat and corr
fields into their laps; so long as we were conten
to minister to the pampered pride of wealth, AM
submit humbly to the lashings of fanatical press
to the defamation of our good name Throughout
the world by those to whom we have paid tribute
to the amount of millions upon millions, We ha
so-cdlLed friends at the North. Now where ar
But in the storm of public fury their voices ar
hushed or unheard.
Democrats and Wings, all. all are alike silent
or m Ling their voices in the harsh, hellish CT
for Southern blood. Douglas, Fillmore. Pierce
Dickinson, all have turned their backs upon u:
! although each and all have time and again de
clared that the policy of the Black Repubca
party would driue US to resistance, if indeed "
were not ourselves prepared to be made slave
How patiently Tennessee and the border State
, have waited for some sign of relenting on the pa
oe the Administration; how anxiously they hay
; conned over the givings forth of Mr.. Lincoln: no
charitably they have been disposed to constru
!; every word and deed, in hopes to find some hon
orable pretext for waiting the voice of the peop
once more before making the final plunge. all me
know but too well. Our forbelrance has on
emboldened our enemies to strike at once, VIII
they vainly hoped would bo the final blow. "
are not left the appeal which some had hoped
make-the ballot-box I; it Is the sword.
Well, the alternative is indeed a painful on
, but with all the seeming odds against Us, we AZ
u cept it, Heaven grant us United South. and "
> do not fear the result. That We shil suffer Il
. calamities, always to greater or less extent IL
: cident to war, must be expected. But II we wi
9 strike with one arm and one purpose, we shall y
bring our naughty foe TO confess that the Sou
is born to a higher destiny than that of CO.
quered Province. dependent upon the will al
pleasure of purse proud manufacturing, fana
J. ical aristocracy. Give us but united South al
y we fear no danger.
TENDERS OF TENSEssEE-Governor Harris
daily receiving evidences of the devotion of o.
wealty citizens to the cause of Tennessee and d
South that proves how unconquerabe a
' Tennesseans when engaged in struggle for the
. rights. their honor and their hearth stones. v
{ have already mentioned the tenders mIde by hi
!, by Byrd Douglas. John Overton, General W.
: : Harding, &c. 1t is pleasure now to menti,
, that John NJ. Lea, ESQ.,, and Sterling n. Cockr
: have approached the Governor in similar spir
= = and have unreservedy rendered him their cree
= and cash, whenever he calls them. to al
" amount they can command, to sustain the ind
! pendence and sovereignty of their State. Bo
q of these gentlemen have very large estate
. amounting in the aggregate to several million
. and their hearts are larger than their estates.
e The New Orleans Della, of Saturday last, sa
u there is no middle ground, and remarks:
Is The fact is, the line is becoming distinct
: = marked between the two nationalties-the Nor
:; and the South. There is absolutely no midd
- ground The border itself, political separate,
n once declared, will be perhaps the most intense
y national of all parts OF the South. The Gulf W
= be fathomless and impossible, SO long as I
= North shall cherish the insane idea of subjug
=. ton-except Ior loatiillS, anu nate, anu warm
= defiance and retribution.
, We ecopy the following items from the telegrap
e c dispatches to the Delta from Alexandria givil
,r Washington news dated the 25th:
1 There is in the midst of all these accumulate
C. difficulties, visible lack of harmony and cob
siveness in the Administration. Lincoln appeS
to disregard altogether the counsels of his Cal
net, and to have yielded completely to the contr
lI .f 7 81 Gasciuu NJ nlor N
> Frank Blair.
These gentlemen have no hesitation in adm
ting that the war is to be prosecuted on the pa
of the North. not for the maintenance of q
Union, but for the destruction of slavery Th
declare openly that they intend to obliterate Sta
rights, and establish grand. strong Central Go
ernment under control of the North, sectio
The Foreign Ministers now here all symp
thise with the South, and think Lincoln and
followers are insane.
The Government suppresses all Southern di
patches. They directed your correspondent