Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-30
DisunEon.

A contemporary attempts denial of our state
ment that disunon party has existed at the
North, equally anxious with the Southern dis
uniOnsts 70 effect the same object. Tie denial
is not in words That of course would not do.
We challenge a denial of our statement in words.
But it is said "It is singular that when the dis
unionsts of the South proceeded TO carry out
their programme by force of arms, those whom
the writers calls the Northern disunionists rush
ed at once to the defence OF the Union''
We stand aghast at the GOODNESS of this asser-
ton, which every Child knows to be-what shall
we call itl We will say a misapprehenson
The writer goes on to illustrate by the case of
Massachusetts sending her volunteers so rapidly,
as If Governor Andrew letter not an open
confession that the Northern disunioniSts of whom
we spoke had not vet volunteered and would not
volunteer unless the President should make the
war a negro crusade. We need no other proof
of the truth of our assertion. The fact is noto
rious from the to the praries that the soldiers
who have gone to this war are not the Northern
anti-sayery men, certainly not the men who three
weeks ago held convention in Boston, den0un-
ced the Union, expressed a willingness to fight
for j eff Davis if he would free the slaves, and
abused the President with stint, while they
discouraged volunteering and approved the inla-
nous letter of Governor Andrew.
1t illustrates, sorrowlully, the character Of
suasOn, denies that there was Northern Aboli-
ton disunion party before the warl Day after
day we have printed extracts from their proceed
ings we have quoted their resolutions, we have
shown their boasts that they did not love the
Union well enough to pay for it, and their vows
to seek its destruction even by correspondence
and action with Southern disunionists. And
contemporary doubts the fact, because the Massa-
chusetts boys, who were the true lovers of the
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England regiments where the Indignation of
every man is as fierce and furious against certain
notorious leaders of the Northern disuniOn party
as it is against Jefferson Davis himself.
Does our negbbor desire to make this n ques
tion of veracity? We will, if it is necessary,
prove, that for years past there have been held in
New York city Abolition disuniOn meetings
That these meetings have never been rebuked,
but on the contrary have been encouraged by the
New York ECening Post, the Tribune, the Inde-
pendent, the Li6eratOr, the ARfi- -SLd1ery Stand
ard, and by certain other newspapers. That
when any manifestations of public Indignation
were expressed by the people of New York, or
by the audiences at such meetings, on account of
disuniOn sentiments and resolutions there offered,
the papers We have named defended the disunion-
lists and ridiculed and abused the loyalists The
history is as black as midnight. If our cotempo-
rary persists in doubling that there was a North
ern Abolition disunon party, we shall have to
open the volume, and perhaps the record may
prove instructive.
If there is anything plainly true now, it is that
thus far the prosecution of the for the Union
has received no material aid from the radical
party, end that the men, the money, the means,
are furnished, nearly all, by the conservative
masses Radicalism opposes the war for the
Union, boldly and without shame. Why will
respectable New York papers attempt to keep
their position with the abolitionists by ignoring
this fact? Disunionists will before long find it
necessary to work together, and the Emancipa-
ton League resolution, which proposes to erase
from the flag all the stars except those of nom
slavehoding States, is ingeniously intended as a
platform which they can unite to accomplish
the common object of Northern and Southern
disuniOnists, to-wit, the formation of one Gov
ernment of free States and another of slave
States.-N. Y. Jour. Of Com