Indiana State sentinel., 1861-01-09
Another Remedy.

The New York Herald suggests the following
remedies as certain for the present condition
of affairs:
1t is the combined action of coercion and con-
ciliation. Congress should, without an hours
hesitation pass an act empowering the President
to order ten thousand of the militia from each of
the six border States-slave and free-from Mary
land, Virginia and Kentucky; from Ohio, Penn
sylvania and New York-to proceed to Washing
ton-put these sixty thousand men under COM
mand of General Scott, to protect the departments
and see that Mr. Lincoln be peacefully inaugarated
on the 4th of March. The fourteenth article of
the eighth section of the Constitution gives Con-
gress that power, in defining its authority in
these words: ITO provide for calling out the
militia TO execute the laws of the Union, suppress
insurrection, and repel invasion"
And in the same act which gives this power of
coercion, Congress should enact this conciliatory
measure by proposing amendment to the Con
stitution placing the social institution of African
slavery on precisely the same footing with the
religious opinions of the whole people-or Con
gress should at least evince disposition friendly
to such a measure. This was the spirit which
animated the convention when the Constitution
was adopted. All the States recognized slavery
then and the owners Of slaves could take them
into any and every State with perfect safety. No
restriction of this kind of servitude provided
for or thought of in the Constitution. 1t is only
within the last thirty years that slavery has be
come a great moral and religious question, and
the agitation of il religious propagandsm. As
such, it must be settled in the same way as the
great religious wars of Europe finally adjusted
after calamitous experiment of three centuries;
that is, by mutual compromise and conciliation.
And it is the present Congress which must do
this
BY embracing the double policy of coercion
and cancellation, embodied in the same measure,
as we have suggested, they will satisfy the North
that the new President will be permitted to
assume the reins of government in peIce, and
they will satisfy the South that the institution of
slavery will be put upon just and secure footing,
never here tfter to be disturbed. Nor will such
course change the position of slavery at ALL 1t
will remain and probably extend its limits in the
South but God and nature have set an unater-
able barrier to its extension in the North. There
can be no doubt that if the present do nothing
policy is to continue i'm Washington, the Southern
States will he drawn. and rapidly too, into the
vortex with South Carolina, and that an attempt
will be made to prevent the Inauguration of LIN
coin and pull down the whole fibr.c OF govern
ment But with 60 900 arme militia in Wash
ington under the orders of General Scott no such
attemnt will he mlde and with such concilis-
tory me lsurc proposed by Congress, the South
will have no cause for further exasperltion, and
no pretext for hostility. This is the remedy for
the IRE sent disastrous condition of affairs. and il
it is not ado~tel nothing c'n avert tie anarchy
which is he NJ pre- ;ipitItel upon u.