Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-17
The Impuaence of the Journal.


The Journal attempts to impugn the patriot
il Of large class of the community who. while
stsnding firmly by the Government, doubt wheth-
er war will restore union or reconstruct the Gov
eminent. IL such sentiment is reasonable, the
editor Of the Journal is traitor of the deepest
I've. Day after day. week after week, and month
after mouth. the Journal, with all the ability il
could muster. opposed the policy of holding the
Union together by force. and favored parting in
peacs with any State which desired to leave the
Union. Such, it declared. with professions Of
sincerity, was the true policy of the North. So
strong were the convictions Of the editor. IS We
have stated them, that he announced that if the
Republican party did not like his views. they
might 90 to some verr wicked place. but as for
him, he would never yield hairs breadth Of the
views he sincerely entertained and honestly ex-
pressed. II he WAS honest in these declarations,
it turns out that he has not the courage to stand
by them, and with meanness characteristic of
towards, seeks to impugn the loyalty of men VII /,
are. and always have been, true TO the Constitu-
ton and the Union. From the files of the Jour
nal, since the election OF Mr.. LINCOLN to the
Presidency, we make few extracts to show the
reasonable sentiments uttered BY that print. or
which it now pronounces to be such sentiments,
too, which il has never retracted. Read:
OF what value will be an Union that needs
links of bsyonets and bullets to hold il together2
If any State will 60 from US, let it go.
Is that treasonf Has any South Carolina Sc
cessionst ever uttered 4 stronger disunion scnti-
mentf
Read the following from the same journal:
If one section of the Union will not endure the
a war will be monstrous cruelty. Let US part
inpeace.
War a monstrous cruelty. is ti Rather than
that, "pars in peace" says the Journal
Here is another extract which covers the en-
tire case at issue:
You can not compel friendship and fraternity,
and if the Union is not friendly one il is nothing
If is not held together by lore for it and trust
in il benefits, it Ia Union, whatever else it may
be. The Government will be weaker for it, the
nation must be poorer for it. 1t will cost much
and give US nothing. A subjugated province il
always an element Of weakness. and not I'M
frequently n door for ruin, until the eIaspera
ton of defeat and humiliation have had time to
wear out. and generation arises that has forgot
ten the past in present blessings. Fight the Gulf
States to compel them to love Us well enough to
stay with u.s. This is the absurdity at the bottom
of coercion. The countervsiling argument that
the Union must he preserved is argument at
all, because the Union is not preserved by war.
If il werc VIC would see the wisdom Of coercion
at once The Union, in its very life and essence,
Is broken to pieces by war, and it is hopelsssy
broken. Peaceful separation does not break the
Union half so utterly and rremediably as coer-
cion. for time will teach the slave States the
folly of disunion, and bring them back, while a
war will put an impossible gulf Of blood in the
way of return forever.
And the fellow who avowed such sentiments
but short time ago as his undyng convictions.
now charges men with treason who sustain the
Government, but who think the North "can not
compel the friendship and fraternity" Of the
South. and 'if the Union is not friendly one, il is
nothing