Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-08
treatment OF the ne bel states.

On Saturday last the National IHfeifigenoer.
of Washington City. regarded a. the semi Official
organ Of the Administration, published a long
and able article on the means to be employed TO
restore the Union. On Wedaesdoy last. the jour
nal the Republican organ OF Indiana. contained
an article coincidng with the views expressed by
the IRfeIiigencer. using the same arguments. il
not the language, 10 maintain ts position. The
Infeil,geneer. IL was thought, reflected the sent-
ments Of the Administration upon the work Of
restoration, and the Journal was not therefore
either singular or original in the views il ex.
pressed. We copy a condensed statement Of the
arguments of the Inteligeneer 10 show their
marked similarity those used by the Journal:
According 70 the Infeiiigeacer, the Govern.
ment Is engaged IN war, not against the States -
for such war would be unconstitutional, but
against individuals or communities, who are re-
sisting the laws OF the United States IL is not a
"war" at all in the ordinary of the term,
but is use Of the powers Of the Government 10
quell Instruction. To say that the Southern
States, by their secession have cut themselves
loose from the Union. are, therefore dead as
States and may be governed "a territories Is To
accept the proceedings of the Southern Insurgents
as the sedtious acts oil States and not as the acts
of individuals. perpetrated under the guise and IN
the name OF the State authority which they have
usurred. The Government adopts the theory
that these acts the acts Of usurped authority
and that so soon as this usurped authority is re
moved the people will OF their own motion, pro-
coed TO recognize the State Government on the
State Constitution which existed prior To the out
break Of the secession revolt. The organic forms
of the State Government have not persisted. but
h.v hoo lie tiaA l.sf
OF faction. II is not the State that is dead. but
civil death which has overt.,ken all who now
assume 10 exercise its functions IN the name OF
an authority alien 90 the Constitution. and which
cannot possibly exist under that Constitution
The article also discusses the question, what will
be done in cases where the people refuse To act
to reconstruct their State Government under the
egis OF the Constitution and where different parts
OF the same State may lie loyal or Il sloya
whether for sCch districts provisional
Administration, with the forms OF territorial
corporation, should be adopted by Con
gress as better than military government, OF
whether the loyal people of these districts. fas
they may be reclaimed, should themselves pro
ceed 10 the erection OF provisional governments
unit, such time the conditions of a State
ganlzatiOn may existin seeded Statesr Ihougf
the article comes To no settled conclusion which
plan il best, yet its whole scope and design is e
only warning against usurDation, and no
against States" or confederation of States,
and that, $50 soon rs a State or n portion of
State shall be reclaimed by the advance of oui
armies, and the United States authority shall b,
in position to afford protection 10 all who ma,
seek il, the President should have authority I,
declare. by proclamation, to the people OF tina
State or district. an amnesty for all past oienses
OF those who shall, within a stated time return t.
their allegiance To the United States"
The IRtelllgeRcer ends IT, article with the fol
owing blow at Mr. Summers theory:
I've deny that any State can go out of thu
Union, and therefore there can be no necessit,
in any event Of providing for her 'reidmission.
We hold that the interpretations made in tn,
State constitutions by the insurgents who have
usurped the control of certain States drop out o
those constitutions as 40 many utilities the in
slant that the usurpIng power is overthrown. Th
work OF recOnstructing and restoration is simpl
return OF the people to the lawful constitution
displaced by the temporary reign OF fraud and Vi
olence. Let Us not in the act OF recovering Gu
Union. adopt theory which shall recognize tn
peStent hereSy of secession"