Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-10
The SIurs of the Journal upon Loyal
Republicans.


The Republican organ takes peculiar pleas
ure in doing mean act. There is an old adage
which reads, chat what is bred in the bone will
manifest itself in the flesh" The Journal states
that it is requested by ga subscriber to publish
the names of all the prisoners at Camp Morton,
because many citizens have relations there" 1t
is well known that large number of the loyal
citizens of Indiana, those who are identified with
the Republican party and have been, as they yet
are, the most efficient supporters of that organ
izatIon were born in the South, have near and
dear relatives there, whose well being, if they
not worse than infdels, they sincerely desire to
promote. We know that a large number of the
most prominent and conscientious members of
the Republican party in Indiana have relatives in
the rebel army and while utterly regulating and
eondemning the cause in which they are engaged,
and regarding them enemies while in
whom it is their duty to overcome, yet if brought
here as prisoners Of war, powerless and defense
less, they would treat with the consideration
prompted alike by the claims of humanity and the
principles of christianity. But the Journal sheer
ingy remarks "that loyal citizen of free
State Is not likely to have a relative in the rebel
army" This il gratuitOus, uncalled for
insult to the citizens of Indiana who were born
in the South, OF whose parents came from that
section of the country. 1t charges thousands of
our best and most loyal" citizens. and we use
the term in the sense which the Journal desires
that it should be, with dislOyalty with reasonable
sympathes because they may happen to have rel
alive ilfShe rebel army There can be other con-
struction upon the language of the Journal. 1t
says:A loyal citizen of free State is not likely to
have relative in the rebel army" Has not the
Journal editor a mean or misguided relative? If
so, is it impossible for him to be on that account
a decent man, or good citizen? The Journal
has over and over again stated that the people of
the South has been msled and deceived by dis
honest and demagogical leaders. If such be the
case, do not the people who have been thus de
ceived and misled, deserve our sympathy for their
errors as much as our censure for their wrong
acts2 We believe, as must every candid man,
the great body of the people of the South
are as earnest in sustaining what they con-
ceive to be their rights and interests in this great
struggle which is now convulsing the nation,
the people. of the North. We may overpower
them, but the argument of force rarely convin-
ces the judgment or changes the heart of an en-
envy. In this view of the case, why is it not pos
sible. nay, probable, that loyal citizen of free
State may have relative in the rebel army? The
imputatiOn of the Journal that loyal citizen
cannot be 50 situated, can have no other object
but to excite prejudice against all who have
been who may have relatives in the South.
Such base insinuations spring from wicked heart.
The motive is malicious, the purpose is deyilish,
and the journal which gives them utterance
and character deserves the execration of every
one who has particle of manlness and sincerity
desires solution of our national difficulties
which viii more firmly reunite US, and make US
again powerful. happy and prosperous people.
We know that the thousands of our best citizens
who emigrated from Virginia, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, North Carolina, and other Southern
States are equally as good and legal citizens as
even those who were to the manor born, if they
do happen "tO have relative in the rebel army"
which the Journal regards an objectionable