Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-14

all concede that this view of the subject is cor
rect. if we believed that the incompatibility is
necessary, Inherent, and inevitable. But there
is not enough to justify the breaking up of such
a Union, If the supposed incompatibility is but
the result of causes which we can reach, or If it
arises from an unfaiIhful compliance with the
terms of our association. We can make such an
association no longer practicable if we choose
to do SO. We can prevent il from becoming i'm
practicable if We are so resolved. Ii the free
States, as one section, and the slave States, as
another. will not respect their mutual obligations,
then there is an end of the usefulness of all
effort. If we, of the North, will not
religiously and honestly respect the cOnsti-
tutiOnal right of every State to maintain
just such domestic institutions as it pleases TO
have, and protect that right from every species of
direct and indirect interference, then there is an
absolute incompatibility. If they of the South
will not as honestly ard religiously maintain the
right of the Federal Union to regulate those sub
jects and interests which are committed to it by
the Constitution. then there is. in like manner, an
incompatioility OF precisely the same nature. If
the parties, in reference 10 the common domains,
will admit of no compromise or concession, but
each insists on applying to them its own policy as
a national policy. then the incompatibility is as
complete from that cause as it is from the others.
The difficulty is not in the principle of the associ-
alton, for nothing can be clearer than that princi-
pie; and when it has been honorably adhered to.
no Government in the world has worked more
successfully. But the difficulty has arisen from
disturbing causes that have dislocated the ma
chine; and what we have now to ascertain is,
whether the PEOPLE on both sides will treat those
causes as temporary, and remove them, or will
accept them as Inevitable and incurable, and thus
make the separation final and conclusive.
In the gloomy conception of the old Grecian
tragedy. no room was left by the poets for the
moral energies of man, there was no force in hu-
man innocence or virtue. Higher than Jupiter,
higher than the heavens, in infinite distance, in
infinite indifference TO the fortunes of men or
gods, safe The mysterious and eternal power of
destiny. Before time was, its DEGREES we're made;
and when the universe began, that awful chan
Gerry was closed. No sweet interce1ing saints
could enter there, translated from the earth to
plead for mankind. No angels from love and
mercy came from human abodes, to bring tidings
of their state. No mediator, once a sufferer in
the flesh, stood there to atone for human sin.
The wall of Il nation in its agony, or the cry
that went up from a breaking human heart, might
pierce into the endless realms of space, might
cali on the elements for sympathy, but no answer
and no relief could come. He who was preOr-
dained to suffer, through whatever agency, suffer
Ell and sank. with no consolation but the thought
that all the deities, celestial and internal, were
alike subject to the same power.
Are we, too. driven by some relentless force,
that annihilates our own free wills aud dethrones
Him who is supreme? Are we cast helpless and
drifting, like leaves that fall upon the rushing
srreamI Must we give way to blank despair?
No, no, no. There are duties to be done-to be
done by MS; for whatever may be the result OF
this mighty array of army against ~army-what
ever may be the effect of victories that have or
shall be won-whateyer are to be our future re-
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coming when we and they, face to face, and in
the eye OF an all seeing God, must determine how
we will live side by side as the children of one
eternal Parent. Applause For that approach
ing day, and for the sake of a restoration of that
which arms alone can not conquer, let me i'm
plore you to make some fit and adequate prepa-
ration of instruments and agents and means and
influences. Trust to the humanizng effects Oi
a new and better intercourse. Trust to the law:
of nature which have pourel through this vast
continent the mighty streams that bind us
in the indssOluble ties of commerce. Trust
in that charity-the follower and the handmade
of Commensurate clothes the naked and
feeds the hungry and forgives the erring Trust
in the force of kindred blood, which leaps to rec.
onciliation when the storms of passion are sunk
TO rest. Trust in that divine law of love, which
has more power over the human soul than all the
terrors of the dungeon or the gibbet. Trust il
the influence over your own hearts and the heart:
OF Others, of that religion which was sent as the
messenger of peace on earth, good will to men
Trust in the wise. beneicent, impartial and neur
trail spirit Of your Fathers, who gave tranquility
prosperity and happiness to the whole land
Trust in God. and you may yen see your national
emblem. rot as the emblem of victory, but as the
sign of a reunited American people, floating in
the breath of a merciful heaven, and more radi-
ant with the glory of its restored constellation
than with all the triumphs it has won. or can
ever win, over a foreign foe. [Long continued
applause.