The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-07-31
JULY 81. 1869.
tion of the Union, made the following

:" Agttu we ask, what nope Tor Datn"
tanning the Union when such convictions
control the people of the South? We con-
fess that we can see none, and such is the
Judgment OF the most sagaciouS minds OF
the country. And perhaps disunion may
be the best remedy for our present political
difficulties. A revoh4tion Of this character
may be necessary 10 reconstruct the GoUern-
,aent upon an enduring bGsis-it may be the
shortest road to a more perfect Union"
Here the policy of allowing the Union to
be broken up that new Union might be
made of the fragments is ve , explicitly de-
clared.
A few days after, on Saturday the 22d Of
December, it said: -5 ~ 8o
We are no longer uni ed States. The
recession of one State dissoloes The Union
and each State assumes its original iRde-
pendent condition, with full power to recon-
struct The old Government or form eaO
alliances. A union or compact broken by
one party cannot be binding upon another
IF one is absolved from its obligation
thereto all parties are released.
We ASSUMED the position few days
since that the Withdrawal of one or more
States from the Union dissolved the Govern
neent, bringing TO an end The machinery con-
nected ao'th it. And is it not correct? In
Ia whose Sc; vice are the President, men,
berS of Congress; Judges and MarshaIs of
the Federal Courts, Custom. house officers,
Postmasters, etc, commissioned 2 Aud
when the Union is dissolved by the secess-
ion of one or more States, does not the ten
ure of all officers it created fall with it?
If the Constitution of the United States
aoas designed asa bond of perpetual Union,
why did not the trainers OF that instrument
anticipate and fear a dissolution of the Gov
ernment2 They provided for the admission
of new States, but there as no potrer granted
10 the Constitution to prevent The with
drawal Of State from the Union, or con-
tinue the existence of Union after State
shall have seeded. Does any one pretend
that the secession of South Carolina can be
prevented by the exercise of any constitu-
tional power? And If. the secession of a
State dissolves the Union, coercion can only
be attempted by a part or the whole Ie-
naming States in their individual cal pacity.
But few, we spprehend, are prepared to
maintain the Union by force.n tT ba-r.
Put these two articles together. lst.
Disunion is desirable, as step in creating a
new Union, and End, Disunon is inevitable
when any single State chooses to leave the
the Union. The sugar coating of the lSth,
a acesirahls disuniou, meIts off on the 22d,
and we swallow the naked dose of disun-
ion, or rather destruction of the nation and
the Government, at the will of any single
State. First, I'VE had better have it," and
next tive can't help it"
For a month following this declaration of
views, which the State Central Committee
say are +" sound" the Sentinel devoted itself
chiefly to State affairs. But early in Feb
ruary it resumed the topic of national af-
fairs, and mere is the first thing it says,
Monday, February 4th, 1861: szs
THE SOUTH IN DANGER.
We learn thai after two weeks fling and
drumming to rouse up the war fever to the
highest point, the " irrepressibles" of Ham.
ilton county have actually succeeded in
getting nineteen volunteers for the purpose
of fghing Southern "rebels" " ben it is
considered that Hamilton county has pop
ulation of 1870, and is Republican by a
very large majority, we are lost in aston
ishment and wonder at the aIacrity and
numbers with which they have rushed to
the rescue of our imperilled aag.0 Let
South Carolina tremble in her very boots.
Having declared disunionism desirable,
and thing which any State could produce
at any time it pleased, and which all the
other States could not prevent, it Of course
would ridicule any attempt to preserve the
Union. At the time this precious specimen
of loyalty appeared the seeded States were
mastering troops by thousands, heaping up
munitions of war, building forts, stealing
war ships, and ringing with preparations
for conflict which they did not hesitate to
declare.they regarded as inevitable. Not a
word does the Sentinel say of rebuke OF
ridicule of that, though it was openly aimed
at the destruction of the Union. But the
moment an effort is made to gather troops
to preserve the Union and resist this hostile
preparation, the Sentinel sticks out its
tongue, shakes its sides, and roars with
laughter at the folly of the thing.
Four days sfter, on Friday, the 8th of
February, it copies in its leading column,
without "a word of dissent or explanation,
the following article from the Mobile Reg
lister:
The grand principle Of pure Democracy,
which is the all-pervading basis, fundamen-
tai and presently practical, of our govern
mental idea, from the constitution of a
township up to that of State and Federal
league, has been the one enabling agency,
and by it we have triumphed in peace in
this revolution-a peace not to be inter-
fered with save by the wanton aggressive
ness of fanatical, of hot headed, or men
jealous il their authority, who cannot see
hey ond the letter of their Federal commits
sions, nor interpret that rightly, aud forget
that they are the mere representatives of
the peculiar sections which accredited them,
and not the anointed despots of an anti Re-
publican, anti Democratic, and monarchial
regime" - ieii
The rebellion is here characterized as
great moral triumph, which the Federal
authorities could not interfere with without
becoming "despots of an nti-RepubIican
anti Democratic, aud monarchial regime"
The Sentinel accepts all this withouta word
of dissent, as its previous declarations
would lead one naturally to suppose it
would do.
Having accepted disuniou as desirable
and inevitable, laughed at those who made
preparations to prevent it, and adopted re-
bellion as great triumph of the "principle
of pure Democracy" it is of course pre-
pared to regard the rebel Coufederacy with
great respect, and to accept it as a settled
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