Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-30

VIII be allowed now to cast In their lot with the
South. and TO follow the fortunes of the other
Southern States IL the other Southern States
return 90 their allegiance and return TO the
Union. kentucky and Tennessee will do so ike
wise, but not otherwise The recent and present
events IN those States have developed such strong
Southern proclivities, and so little Union feeling
that II - tell 70 be useless 10 treat them in any
different mAaaer than any other Southern State
While efforts will continue TO be made, therefore,
TO recapture and hold the strategic points in
those States, II will be done precisely as such
efforts are made in South Carona and Alabama
IL there be any laten, Union feeling still exist
ny IN any remo'e corner Of any OF the Southern
States, this proclamation viii crush il out for
ever. The Union men of the South. it there be
any, will see in il the deliberately expressed in
tenton on the part Of the Government to rob
them OF their property-tO reduce them 20 pow
erty. IL Is the cruelest mockery to talk OF com
peusation. Every statesman. every man, who
understands the financial condition of the coun-
try, knows that IL is a. much in the power of Mr.
Lincoln TO pull down the sun in heaven a il is 70
make any compensation whatever 70 loyal men
in the South who will be reduced 70 penury and
want BY the operation of this proclamation.
IL Is IDLE 70 suppose. however, that IL will have
any general effect, far as slavery is concerned.
1t may eau instructions in Maryland and Ken
lucky, audit may reduce to poverty many widow
and many true I Mon man ia those States, who
will look in vain TO Mr. Lincoln for compensa
tion- But Its chief effect At present will be TO
unite the Southern and border States as one man.
TO carry on the war, and 10 resist 60 the utmost a
Government which thus proclams its purpose TO
impoverish their people. The effect of the proc
lamation will be, then, 10 carrying on the war liz
definitely, aid TO furnish TO the South additional
means of doing so TO the extent OF tens of thou
sands a men frOm tho hordar S.atas
Will il be believed that there are people I'm
Washington who believe that the President means
this proclamation nothing more than one of
of his Western jokesl Such i the sober fact.
The organ OF that class, the National Infelligen
Ger, yes, the veritable, old, respectable Wing
National InteLigencer, says: The President has
taken tins method 10 convince the only class of
persons likely to be pleased with the proclamation
OF the utter fallacy of the hopes they have found
ed on il" But then il goes on to say. ION
any other theory than this, the procla nation
opens issues too tremendous. and traught with
consequences too undevelOped, TO admit OF calcu
lation"
True-every word true. For those ISSUES and
those consequences are nothing less than the
speedy downfall of the Republic Already the
pillars that support the glorious fabric OF the
American Union. and that uphold the temple Of
American constitutional liberty, are trembling at
thetouch OF the hands that undermining the
ba>e on which they rest-the Constitution of the
United States There is but one way in which
that edlice can be preserved, and that is by the
return TO power OF the Democratic party The
Republicans have acknowledged their inability to
restore the Union. And on the results of the
approaching election depend the question of
whether or not that Union shall be restored. Let
the Democracy of the North be true to the telch-
lngs of our beloved Douglas, and all will Vet be
well.