Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-14

who sought political success az any c0st. The
anti slavery excitement vas n capital political
aliy.s Tie marriage Va formei Men Who were
90 The party sud were not Abolitionsts, could
rot precisely undersisur where thes were or what
they we're. Tie orators Of tue party on plat
forms. howled their denunciations of slavery %
catch the anti.slaverv .x0te. TIE newsrapeTs Of
the party reiterated the anii-sayery cries charg-
Ing the STAKEHOLDER with All crimes and shames,
'the sum Of all villainies but the party a
party never indOrsei any Of these fanatical prop
ositions and claimed 10 be free from them
The object Of the Southern disunonists the
fear OF Washington and Of all the patriots down
20 the lately honored dead of Kentucky ard
Massachusetts, Was realized. 4 sectional party
was formed and it. triumph was the excuse for
another sectional party To plunge into rebellioR
against the Government. While We stood shout
iIig to the North that they were putting into the
hands of the Southern disunion men the very
weapon they desired TO accomplish their ends, We
but met the derisiYe laughter Of the men who
now charge on slavery the war INTO which their
folly permitted few disuuionists TO plunge the
nation.
Look back two years. Who warned anti slave
~ men that they were furnishing fuel for con
fagrationr Southern Union men and slavehold-
ers. Who besought the Northern dominant party
to loose their abolition allies and save the ma
I
Who most loudly, longingly, begged, prayed, be
sought the Republican party TO pause in their ca
reer of triumph, and cOncede something to eifa-
bic them 20 save the South from the wiles of the
small and weak party of dsunionistsg Southern
; shareholders. who would have lied for the Union
then as bfzvely and a joyOusly as any OF Us to-
dav.
We make no excuse for the rebellion. We DO
not pretend 10 sav that il was justified by any act
OF the Northern States or Northern people. 1t
was conceived in sin and born in niquty But
if the mother was a Southern party or was
slavery, the father was Northern ianatcism and
anti slavery, and the child of shame bears more
resemblance 10 the father than the mother. For
slavery WAS the prOfege the adopted child of the
Constitution, while anti-slavery was the avowed
enemy of the Constitution. and bore its flags.
it, newspapers. on is very forehead the marks of
that enmity which are now assumedby the South
rebellion.
+ Ii j. hardly probable that we have convinced
the World that slavery is not responsible for the
war. but we have endeavored courteously TO an
swer a question that was eOurteously put. We
do not attempt To ''whitewash" slavery. We but
defend the founders of the Constitution They
pledged Us their posterity, to support that in.
stitution just rs long a any State desires it. We
believe the truth To be plain daylight, that IT
Northern States amt Northern anti-slavery men
had observed the pledges of the Constitution to
ward slavery. the Southern disunionists would
have remained impotent and we also believe that
Northern fanaticism. playing into the hands ot
Southern disunioni-m. is the cause of the war,
while slavery recognized by the Constitution. has
been the silent subject which designing men of
both parties have used to produce the terrible re
suits We are now experiencing Y. Journal
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