Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-01
A Change Os Policy.

The New York Tribune, in November last,
after the Presidential election, thus declared its
policy and the policy of the Republican party:
Any attempt to compel the cotton States to re
main in the Union by force would be contrary to
the principles enuncated in the immortal Declare
zion of ndependence-contrary to the fundament-
al ideas upon which human liberty is based.
If they really desire to 90 out, and will allow
time 30 effect the separation peacefully, we shall
do lchat 10 persuade the North to accede to
their iCiSheS
In its issue of last Friday, April Doth, it thus
defines its position, making, as will be seen, a
complete somersault:
NEVER NEVER NEvERl-It is reported in a
Baltimore paper that President Lincoln said TO
some Baltimoreans the other day, that neither he
nor Congress could recognize secession. That Is
true but it is not the whole truth. To have said
it all, Mr.. Lincoln should have added that the
American People ,ciH neUer recognize nor submit
to the disinte9ratiOn of the Republic. And, If in
any future emergency the country should prove
to have rulers who would consent to the separa-
ton of the States and the division of the terri
tory, the people would hurl them from power by
a revolution as resistess as the elemental forces
of nature herself Secession is to be crushed
out in blood and fire if necessary. The United
States still to remain Continental power, not
a fragment of one
Does the Tribune now propose to subvert the
principles enunciated in the immortal Declara-
ton of Independence" overthrow 1.-the funda-
mental ideas upon which human liberty is based,
by compelling the cotton States TO remain in the
Union by force''-nay more crushed out in blood
and fire if necessary? Such are its present
teachings The Journal of this city in NOvem-
Der, December and January last, occupied pre-
cisely the same position as the Tribune in Novem-
Der last. Does it now propose TO compel the Sc
cedng States to remain in the Union and hold
them there by the point of the bayonet? What
is Republican policy now2 Fit is war of ag-
erosion upon, and for the purpose of subjugating
the States which have seeded from the Union,
we should like to know whether it still aGheres to
the opinion it entertained three months ago as to
its effects upon the country 1t then regarded it
an impossibility TO subdue the Southern States
and pronounced most emphatically that civil
war would result in permanent dsunion, with dis
astrous consequences to both sections of the
Union. If the arguments advanced by the Iri-
bune and Journal from November mp to a few
expressed to crush out secession by blood and
fire if necessary is in direct conflict with the the
ory of our government, the principles of the Dec
laaaton of Independence and the fundamental
ideas upon which human liberty is based. These
are the arguments of two leading Republican
journals, not ours, and their policy now places
them in the position of an unjust war. To show
the spirit which now animates the Tribune, we
give two other extracts from that paper of Friday
last
The people will no longer be content with de-
Tending the Federal Capital. BY the end OF this
week, patriotism will have planted % 900 troops
in Washington. The stream is only just begin
ming to pour. BY the LIST of May, $4,000 viii
be encamped along the Potomac. Will they be
satisfied to idle away their time on the northerly
bank of that river, waiting for jeff. Davis tC
come and attack them? No, They, with tn,
$4,000 more that will be pressing upon theirheel
by the last of May, will demand to be led acros
| the river to Richmond And they will 20
and that den of rebels and traitors will b.
broken up and destroyed. =" On to Richmond.
is the cry.
Through Baltimore to Washington" is til
motto of the patriot sodery now rushing to arm
in the free States. In going to the Nationa
|
| they have no intention to turn short angles o
follow devious courses, either to avoid the Plug
Uglies of Baltimore or please their allies the lat
hypocritical Unionists of Maryland. The
promise to go to Washington "by the usual
Travelled route" as the law directs. If Baltimor
objects, they will insist. If she resists unit
blood, they will remove her out of the way, an
60 over the spot where Baltimore used to stand.
The predominant South-the only South pos
sessed of voice, or courage, or purposes an
mated by the deepest hate of the North and tn
most desperate determination to subdue it. TIL
simple fact is we are to fight for our existence
This war is one in which one party or the other
to be utterly subdued. The distinction Of Nort
and South when this war is finished, will be n
cognized no longer describing two people
The Union will be one of facial Northern
all Southern.
Let us not mistake this, for mistake is fata
The failure to see it heretofore has led the couI
try to the very brink of utter ruin We waite
till six States went out of the Union; we waite
till at least 10000 men encompassed Fort Sun
ter, and thousands more Fort Pickens; we waite
till forts and arsenals, minis and sub-treasurie
custom-houses and vessels, were stolen, and the
force or their wealth turned against US; we waite
till troops were driven out of Texas; till Sumt
was taken, perhaps till Pickens was attacks
till the direct communication between the n ori
and her Capital is destroyed, and Norther
soldiers lay dead in the way; till the Capt.
itself is in imminent DANGER and we hay
waited through all these events because "
were lulled into false security by smooth al
pleasant prophecies of the peaceful end to
"nnety days wonder 70 How much longer sha
we wait How much longer are We to be d.
, luded by hopes OF peace where there is and ca
be no peace? How many more reyerses mu
we accept? How much more disgrace shall "
suffer? How many more precious lives are "
to throw away in desperate struggle, unarme
unprepared, against fearful odds, before wal
, up to the fact-before the Government shall see
to begin to expect-that We are involved in a vi
7 where the desperation of treason side.
to be met by the desperation of loyalty on Il
; other
: With the Tribune it is now war of exte
| mination-ihe Southern States are to bedevastate
: "crushed out in blood and fire if necessary"
an attempt to compel them to remain in Il
! Union contrary 10 the fundamental ideas upC
which human lihartv il hacad