Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-16
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In an a.ticIe under this caption the Journal OF
ye-terday.says:
The awful weight Of crime that the leaders Of
this unhosy var must bear would appai Luci
fer himself. On those who have aided them
by sympathy. advice and information must rest
a share of the guilt. Hadn't the rebel sympa-
thizers better think Of thisl
No one is more guilty than the editor of the
Journal for encouraging and aiding 1.-THE great
crime" ofthat he should think For months
after the election Of Mr. LINCOLN he argued that
secession was revolution, and he insisted that IL
any Of the Southern States desired to withdraw
from the Union they should be permitted to 90
in peace. The Republican organ before and af
ter the fall Of Sumter was in favor of peaceable
separation. With the New York Tribune the
Journal said: We hope never 10 lice ia Re
public Whereof one section is pinned 10 The residue
By bsyonets." The Editor OF that print is a.
much guilty of "the awful weight of crime
which has resulted from this ''unholy war" as the
leaders IN the South who argued that secession
Is revolution. aud insisted upon 'the right OF the
which Is oppressive TO them" According 10 his
own standard Of judgment. con the heads Of
men who thu aided the rebellion and ''the rebels
must be the blood that Is spilled and the infinite
misery yet to come" Here is tie evidence of
the completely OF the Journal in chat great
crime" In November, 1860, it said:
4. Secession is revolution We. who have estab-
lished our Governments by revolution Oh the right
OF the people az any time 10 change Govern
meit which u oppressive TO them. cannot deny
that right 10 those Who deliberately Ceclare our
Government oppressive. - " hat We claimed as
our right e cannot deny to those who claim il
OF Us, snd helped 10 assert our claim az the out
act. They may be mistaken. In our judgment
they are fatally mistaken, but carnot Judge
for them whether the Federal Government Is too
oppressive 20 endure any more than England
could Judge for us. We know how eloquently
may bi urged the glory OF this great country"
and '';he Union eemented by the blood OF our
iathers, but u is all wasted by the side OF TIE
simple fact that il any State in this Union feels
the Onion 20 be injurious and oppressive a civil
war won't change her OpIniOns; in fact 10 il not
calculated TO change it. and ii she iciH not stay
IA the Unan. t would be cheaper and kinder
let her g0v The argument that secession is un.
CONSTITUTED pal. aud involves ever so many viola
ton OF lass and party pledges. is little better
than trihiDg with serious a subject Men do
not treat revolution they would a treSpass;
aud urging the enforcement of the Constitution
remedy for secession, is just as VIE as urg-
ing n man whose house is on fire, TO keep Il IA
good repair
yehd TO make the case still stronger against the
journal. lat paper, some months after the war
had brOk out. sand that it had not uttered
sentimenttn reference TO the controversy which
il would setract. And the paper with such
record Ia. the brazen effrontery to charge that
"the men who passed the resolutions OF the 9Th
of January convention in this State have. by that
act. put arms into the hands of thousands OF
rebels who were thus led to believe that the North
would be ided and give them the victory after
all ThJe Lbellous charges the resolutions
themselves: most completely refute. The Jour
rol man knows that there is not sentiment in
them but which breathes devotion to the Union
determin ltion to maintain its integrity, and q
resort 10 agy means necessary to preserve il un-
der the Constitution. The Democracy are for
the Unio.. they always have been. No
man. No'h OF South. can make those res
Citations mean anything else than that the
Democracy opposed to secession They
can not lie construed to mean that the North
would be .vided in overcoming all opposition to
maintaining the Constitution as it is and the
Union as i was. no matter from what source il
came These Infamous ISLANDERS upon Democra
{, come with i'll grace from n paper which vas
wiling to let any State who would not stay in
tie Union go. Neither will the journal he per
united 10. screen it, own disloyalty by falsely
& arSing own crime uEon the party which has
always he loyal to the Constitution and Union
and rhieh3 OF seventy years has stood in their de
tense rs breakwater against the fanaticism
which has 8 often assaulted them aud Threatened
their destruction