Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19
Democratic Union State Ticket.
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In article under this caption the Journal of
yesterday says:
The awful weight of crime that the leaders Of
this unholy must bear would appal 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,ths?
No one is more guilty than the editor of the
Journal for encouraging and aiding "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 if
any Of the Southern States desired to withdraw
from the Union they should be permitted to go
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: I've hope nerer to lice in Re
public lchereof section is pianed TO the residue
By 6GyoRets." The Editor OF that print is as
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, and insisted upon 'the right OF the
people at any time to change government
which is oppressive to them" According to his
standard of Judgment, "on the heads of
men who thu aided the rebellion and 1.-THE rebels,
be the blood that is spilled, and the infinite
misery yet to come" Here is the evidence of
the completely of the Journal in chat great
crime" In November, 1860, it said:
Secession is revolution. We, who have estab-
hshed our Government by revolution Oh the right
OF the people at any time to change Govern
ment which is oppressive TO them. cannot deny
that right to those who deliberately declare our
Government oppressive What we claimed
our right we cannot deny to those who claimi it
OF US, and helped to assert our claim at the out
set. They may be mistaken In our judgment
they are fatally mistaken. but We carnot judge
for.them whether the Federal Government Is too
oppressive to endure any more than England
could Judge for US. We know how eloquently
may be urged the ''glory of this great country"
and "the Union cemented by the blood of our
fathers" but it is all wasted by the side of the
simple fact that if any State in this Union feels
the Union to be injurious and oppressive, n civil
war won't change her opinions in fact it is not
calculated 10 change il, and if she pH not stay
in the Union, il would be cheaper and kinder to
let her go. The argument that secession is
constitutional, and involves ever so many viola
tons of law and party pledges. is little better
than trffing with serious a subject Men do
not treat revolution they would a trespaSs
and urging the enforcement of the Constitution
as a remedy for secession, is just rs wise as urg
ing man whose house is on fire, to keep 1t in
good repair.
Aud to make the case still stronger against the
Journal. that paper, some months after the war
had broken out, said that it had not uttered
sentiment in reference to the controversy which
it would retraet. And the paper with such
record has 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 divided and give them the victory after
all" These libellous charges the resolutions
themselves most completely refute- The Jour
nal man knows that there is not a sentiment in
them but which breathes devotion to the Union
determination to maintain its integrity, and a
resort to any means necessary to preserve it un-
der the Constitution. The Democracy are for
the Union, they always have been. No
man, North or South, can make those res
olutions mean anything else than that the
Democracy were opposed to secession. They
can not be construed to mean that the North
would be divided in overcoming all opposition to
maintaining the Constitution as it is and the
Union it was. matter from what source it
came. These infamous ISLANDERS upon Democra
~ come with i'll grace from paper which was
willing to let any State who would not stay in
the Union. 60. Neither will the Journal be per-
mhted to screen its own disloyalty by falsely
charging its own crime upon the party which has
always been loyal to the Constitution and Union,
and which for seventy years has stood in their de-
Tense as a breakwater against the fanaticism
which has so often aSsailed them and threatened
their destruction.