Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-02
How the Abolition Policy Helps the
tebei--southern Opinion OF Nerth-
ern Rudieai>

Prom 'hc Richmond Examiner. Nov. n.
One vIe~ NAV be taken of the recent Northern
eieriiniIs With = not encouraging 20 the Souih.
The radical party there have pursued a pol c.
which hss consolidated SoUfheru sentiment and
united our people. one man. in support IT the
var he popularity nf disuniun the SSurii
VS. never great The measure Of sece-sIOn vas
al last tolerated rather than cordially embraced
by the majority Long after tie sar had begun,
the hope of reconstruction a latent sentiment
iD the bosom OF the Southern community. More
than any other people in the world those OF the
South conservative IL j. the feeling of all
agricultural communities: il was peculiarly the
feeling OF Southern planters aud SHAREHOLDERS
Give us the Constitution az il is-had been their
single demand in all the long controversy they
had bad With the fanatics. Let u and our insti-
,utoDs alone-was the Alpha and Omega OF their
political philosophy.
| The proof Of the controlling performance of
thi- conservative sentiment Was afforded by their
patient endursn nee Of the commercial policy OF the
Federal Government. which had. by tariffs and
navigation laws. for more than fifty sesrS. con
| tnued TO saddle alt the public expenditures mon
the planting States, besides imposing burdens
upon commerce which constantly accumulated
wealth in the North. and extracted il from the
South. Not only did the Southern people sub
nit TO this policy Of the Government, but thew
seconded the policy in their own private expendi
ture: buying always Yankee manufacture mt
double price, in preference to any other. and buy
ing of these more than prudence or economy
would allow.
| Nothing but the truculent and brutal policy Of
the radical party at the North could have eradi
Gated the deep seated sentiment from the South
ern bosom. and unite them rs one man in support
OF the war Ii the wisest men of the South had
been cllled upon 10 suggest course 81 policy for
the North which would most eferfually secure
the final aud irrevocaIle dissolution of the Union
beyond all possibility of reconstruction the, would
have indicated the violent and fiendsh course
which has been pursued 10y the Government and
armies OF the sD-ctlcd Uni;ei States. The radi-
cal party, having possession of the Government
would seem To- have gone to work wit, malice
aiOreihonght To break up the Union. and to rem
der all further connection with il the most ab
horrent thought OF the Southern people.
This party have been OF eminent service 10 the
South. in the mode and character of their pro
ceeiings, not only by consolidating public sent
ment AMI combining the public energies al home
but by thoroughly disgusting the foreign world
; with the Yankee cause. and enlistng the sympa
thes of the good. the wise and the great of al
lands in behalf of the South The North com
menced this with all the moral ideas of the
foreign world arrayed ia their behalf They had
! previodsly succeeded in mpresSng the foreign
mind with false and monstrous ideas of the South
: ern character. They have since rs thoroughly
succeeded, albeit unintentionalIy. in completely
removing that impression and in loading them
selves with degree of o,lIum i'm foreign e~tma
ton which has rarely. il G, er before been brought
upon themselves by any people They have in
filced upon us great material damage in the
2 progress of hostilities; but they have far more
than compensated losses in this respect by the
: exceentiesults OF the moral campaign they have
! waged in our favor
The recent success of the conservative sent
ment of the North for it is missioner to speak
Of it rs a Democratic party triumph,) i'm ob
! tanning control of the next Federal Congress, i:
probably too p'rtal to bring about reform il
the mode and spirit of hostities on the part o
. the North Congress may he able to exert but
I limited control upon the Executive in thi par
ticuar. But to the extent that wise and elevated
measures shall he infused into the nanage men
of the war, the Southern cause will suffer from
3 the accession OF conservative men To influence il
the Government. "A vigorous prosecution of th.
war, coupled with constitutional administration
5 of the Federal Government, attended by concilia
tory words and appeals for harmony and goos
feeling would demoraIize the Southern cauS,
more than all the rant and Dcendiarism and ma
lignant brutality and knavery that have charac
terlzed the proceedings of the radicals.