Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-29
CHAPTER IY.

lt i clear 10 Us that every wise and cOOl-head
ed statesman. vino had At heart the ''perpetuty of
our government and the integrity of the Union,
and who. as each well informed American no
doubt did, fully comprehended the causes which
had operated to produce the excited state of feel
Ing that existed, at the time Mr.. Lincoln was in
augurated: would at once have seen that both
factions must be reDudiated That which desired
to strike at slavery through the Governmental
authority and that which claimed the right to
withdraw States from the Union to avoid such
expected attack
The last named faction vas threatening 10
place itself in opposition to the government by
open war. The other preparing to sap the
foundations By subvertng the Constitution. Each
should have been placed at defiance by firm,
manly stand upon the Constitution as il is and
the Government as it was''-the government of
our fathers The result would haze been that
the lOvers-the true friends of the Union would
every where have rallied to the support of the
government. Faction would have been rebuked
-disarmed The leaders left without followers
The great conservative masses of the people,
North and South. would have controlled. The
border slave States had refused to secede and
would have been with us Seven extreme States
would have been left alone-and even they
might have been saved at an eirlier period from
withdrawal. This would have put the base of
Operalons-the line of contest, south of Arkan
sas, Tennessee, and North Carona: and, better
than all, would have given US the cheerful sup
port of those, and all States North of them.
The Gulf States seeing this union of the Free
and division of the slave States would not haze
proceeded To the extreme Of making war, for the
cause of the strife-fhe anticipated UltrGism Of
The nelc administration, would have been remov-
ed, and no excuse y9uld have existed by which
the leading u'urperS could have rallied the people
The Executive aud Legislative branches of the
Govern ment-torgettin party for the time be
ing, should have bent their whole energies to put
down both factions. Indeed that was Osiensibiy
the position assumed by those in power, and the
cry of "no party" went forth. as eretofore shown
But it was far abolitionists were concerned,
the false and simulated CRY of the Panther. to
deceive and delude. Their adoption Of Mr. Crit
tendens resolution, ON the day after the battle of
Bull Run, was the result Of general scare, and
did not express their real principles, for proof:
have doubt there gentleman here in favor of
suug1fo, and were from the hrst, because almost
cry thing that they have done since then has indicated,
that that their original dea.-Kr. t0lrgn, July tn,
ls62, Congressional Globe, D. sI44.
And again:
This doctrine Of The right Of conquest is precisely the
doctrine which held by the Parliament King
Great Britain IN our revoiuton--id. 3l43
As We have all along attempted to show this
position is in direct opposition to that which
was 0sfeHsibty assumed at first, and which in
good faA ought to have been assumed and proclaimed
IN clear manner that the "wayfaring though
fool nigh err n regard t. The rescue Oft
from the control OF ssurperthe restoration of the
fi0htfH authority Of the governmentthe uiaintanance
Of the Constitution and the laws, should have been in
scrbed upon banners and should have constituted
the tc0y in which walked forth purified ofthe
evil which upon Those uras disregarded their
own avowa after the scare was o-er like the SOW they
returned TO the waow, and like the dog 10 his vomit.
They forgot the maxims Of jefferson, do equal and
exact justice 10 all o. whatever State " and the sup
port Of state Governments IN all Their rights" and now
insist upon restoring the government, but suhju-
eating the southern peopeaD0gating the state govern
ments and reducing them 10 mere provinces-hus depriv
ing The loyal Of their mDst inestmabe right that Of
self government summers Resolutions Cong. Globepsge
796 Feb. 1ltb, 1852.