Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-21
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1862.

vor of slavery, when required to decide differen-
ces between these antpodes. Then. why should
freemen depore the loss of the Unionl Separate
peaceful existences of the sections are preferable
to a Union which is Unsatisfactory to one, and
which retards the progress OF the other.
NEw YORK TRIBUNE.
This journal is one of the most sidely circuIa.
ted and influential Republican papers in the coun-
/ try, and one of the most rampant ultra Abolition
sheets. The value it sets upon the Union aud its
secession sentiments can be seen by the following
quotations:
If the cotton States have become satisfied that
they can do better out ofthe Union than in it, we
insist on letting them go in peace. The right to
secede may be revolutionary one, but it exists
nevertheless.
| We must ever resist the right of any State to
remain in the Union and nullity or defy the laws
thereof To withdraw from the Union is quite
another matter; and whenever considerable Sec
ton of our Union shall deliberately resolve to go
out, shall resist all -coercive measures design
ed to keep it in. We hope never to live in a Re-
public whereof one section is pinned to another
by bayonets.-N. Y. Tribune, November 3,
1860.
If the cotton States unitedly and earnestly
wish to withdraw peacefully from the Union, we
think they should and would be allowed to do So
Any attempt to compel them by force TO remain
would be contrary to the principles enunciated
in the immortal Declaration of Independence
contrary to the fundamental ideas which hu-
man liberty is based.-Nelo York Tribune, No
vember 26, 1860.
| If it 1.-THE Declaration of Independence justi-
fed the secession from the British Empire of
three million colonists in l776, we do not see
why it would not justify the secession of FIVE
million Southrons from the Union in 1861 .-Neic
| York Tribune December IL 1860
We have repeatedly said, and we once more in
sist that the great principle embodied by Jeffer-
son in the Declaration of American Independ-
| ence, that governments derive their Just power
from the consent of the governed, is sound and
just; and that, if the slave States, the cotton
States, or the Gulf States only choose to form an
independent nation. they have a clear moral right
to do so.
Whenever il shall be clear that the great body
of the Southern people have become concusively
alenated from the Union, and anxious to escape
! from it, we will do our best to forward their
views.-Netc York Tribune, February %, 1861.
THE CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL.
This paper is lavish in its charges of disloyalty
upon Democrats Its secession sentiments are
fully exposed in the following extracts from its
editorials at different dates last year:
War for the subjugation of the ssceders would
be unwise and deplOrable. There IA no province
in the world, conquered and held by military
force, that is not weakness to its master.
The history of the world certainly proves that
it is not profitable to govern people without
their consent.
1.-The logical lesson of this fact in this coun-
try is, that if there are two nations here who
have been living in an unnatural Union, they
should, for the benefit of one or both, be sep
arated.
"The dream of an ocean bound republic which
has been so grateful to Young America, we yet
hope to see realized; but in the meantime there
is room for several fourishng nations this
continent, and the sun will shine as brightly and
the rivers run clear-the cotton fields will
be as white and the wheat fields golden
when We acknowledge the Southern Conlederacy,
as before
eve are not in favor of blockading the South
ern coast. We are not in favor of retaking by
force the property of the United States now in
possession of the seceders We would recognize
the existence of government formed of all the
slaveholding States, and attempt to cultivate
amicable relations with it,
EDWARD FEssENDKN.
This gentleman is a Republican member of
Congress from Vermont In the House, on the
18th of March, 1861, Mr.. Fessenden said in re-
ply to Mr.. Wadsworth, of Kentucky:
AS the gentleman from Kentucky has referred
to ine, merely wish to say, so far as that ques
tion is concerned, that so long as / hold to the
views to which he has adverted. and which ad
vanced as the sentiment of the President, much
more desire the determination of slavery, if il can
be constitutionaly effected-as believe it can
than do to see the Union restored"
NJ. F. CONWAY.
Mr.. Conway is Republican member of Con.
gress from Kansas. He said in the House, Dec
-. 1861:
"This is the immense sacrifice we are making
for freedom and Union; and yet is it all to be
squandered on a subterfuge and cheat? For
one, shall aot vote another dollar or a man for
the war until It assumes different standing, and
tends directly to an anti-slavery result"
GEORGE W. JULIAN.
This gentleman has long been a prominent and
influential politician of the radical school in In
diana. He is how Republican member of Con-
gress. In the House, on the l4th of Jan. 1862.
Mr.. Julian said:
''The rebels have demanded .'reconstruction"
| on the basis of slavery; let us give them ere
construction" on the basis of freedom. Let us
convert the rebel States into conquefed provinces
remandng them to the status of mere Terrific
ries. and governing them such in our discre-
| tion."
SIDNEY EDGERToN.
| Mr.. Edgerton is a member of Congress from
attempting to show up the address issued by
Democratic members as a secession document.
The editor of the Norwalk, o., Experiment, in
alate number of that paper, thus describes an in
terview he had with Mr.. Edgerton:
We will give short speech that this same
Congressman from the Summit District made to
us, in Washington, little more than two years
ago. Mr.. Edgerton being from the same town
in the State of New York that we came from,
and 0oyhood acquaintance, we called upon him
at the capital, and in the course of conversa-
ton on matters and things in general" he thus
defined his position concerning the Union: Il tell
you there is going to be dissolution of this
Union, and do not care how quick it comes; all
] want is to give those fellows (meanng the
South) good licking, and then kick them out. /"
We have given his exact language.
j. q. Adams ON the Laws of War.
The following extracts of letter from JOHN
QUINCY ADAMS to Mr.. RUSH in 1920, when the
former was Secretary of State under Mr. MoS
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