Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-03
The Wax1o SION the war.

The Louisville Democrat, as sound and sincere
Union paper as the New York Tribune or In
dianspolis Journal suggests the following way to
stop the war:
A part of the North will sneer at the word
compromise. Their sneers will be re-echoed bv
the fanatics South-no compromise! But both
sides had as well make up their minds to the ne
cessity that is coming-compromise is the word.
All Governments. especially all free Governments
are founded compromise, and this difficulty
must be compromised. 1t can't be fought out
1t is not worth while for the North to cry out no
compromise with rebels. The rebels will reply,
with Just as much ferocity, no compromise with
Abolitionists. Let these rebelsand AbolitOnists
rail at each other, and fight if they choose; the
more of them sent to heaven the better. They
do nothing but evil in this world, and perhaps
will be troublesome in the next. At all events
we are tired of them here and will be glad to get
rid of them. No compromise means war, until
one or the other can impose its own terms to the
other, and we shall never see the end OF such a
As long as Southern men remained at their
post, they had ample means of selfprotection.
Upon the slavery question, the South got all she
ever insisted on, except the last trumped up issue
that Congress would protect slavery ina Territory
where the people didn't want it; and on this point
all the protection needed is granted. According
to the Interpretation of the Supreme Court, Con
gress cant abolish slavery in Territory; and, in
fact, by the late territorial bills, prohibition is
given up as an obsolete idea, and all property is
alike protected; no vested rights to be nterlered
with.
Why not put in the Constitution guarantees
that this policy shall be permanent? Why not
fix in the Constitution what seems now to be fixed
in practice? On the subject of fugitive slaves,
the law has done all that law can do; but as its
execution will ever be unpalateable in some To-
calities the proposition to pay damages to the
owners of slaves who are rescued by mob law, is
not unreasonable, and ought now to be accepted.
This, together with the amendment now before
the country, prohibiting Congress forever from
interfering with slavery in the States, would allay
all reasonable and overcome unreasonable, ap-
prehensons in the South. The Union sentiment
i'm the South would do the rest.
These concessions, frankly made, will be worth
a hundred armies. 1t is idle to think of settling
this matter by mere force. Humiliation will
never be endured by white men in this country.
Ii may be said, even by conservative men North,
that all apprehensiOns unreasonable; that
there is no design of interfering with the rights
of States. All men are not philosophers or
statesmen, and even if they were they are not
free from apprehensions on this subject; and the
fact that such apprehensions exist, is due to the
language and conduct of a part OF the North.
With them, this is a war on slavery, and its mo-
tive is hltred of the South They don't really
intend to save the Government as it was. or as it
is possible to it. They prefer disunion to
the existence of slavery in the Union. Their
language and speeches are published all over the
South, and used to excite the worst apprehen-
sions.
We assure the Union men North, vino desire
to save the Government, here is the course.
Armies a necessity just now; for the leaders
of this criminal movement in the South belong
to the political school of no compromise. Whip
them; but compromise with the masses who have
no interest in this war. The people North and
South have no interest in carrying this war be-
yond mere defense Let the majority in Con
gress propose a compromise, and do 1t with a
good grace, which will show that it is honestly
intended. Let this be done without regard to
these armies mustered in Virginia, under the pre-
tense of fighting for independence, when it is only
fighting that Davis, Cobb, Tombs & Co., may
hold Office and power; and then look at the fol-
lowing, section iv, art. LIST, of the Federal Con-
stitutiOn:
''The times, places and manner of holding cleo
tons for Senators and Representatives, shall be
prescribed in each State by the Legislature there
of; but Congress may, at any time, make or alter
such regulations, except to the plan of choosing
Senator's"
times and places, and provide the means for elect
ing members of Congress. Western Virginia and
East Tennessee will respond at once, and other
districts in the South The whole Southern Con
federacy will soon be disintegrated, and no subju.
CATION in the case. We shall thus precipitate the
Cotton States out of revolution.
The last means will not be efficient without a
compromise. The people Sonth must be relieved
from this notion of subugation. They will never
be compelled to do what they even desire to do.
They will resist to the last man, woman and child.
This is now the lever by which the revolutiOnists
move their States and keep down opposition Let
the people that they come back by their own
free will and on honorable terms and they will
come. The people South love the great republic;
it is a Islander upon their taste and judgment to
assert that they do not Give them but chance
and this glorious Union will be preserved; and in
no part of the country will the event be hailed
wilh more heartfelt exultation than in the South.
Let's have all the gunpowder left to burn on
every hill top in celebration of the great achieve
ment