Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-10

On Saturday last the National Inteliigencer,
of Washington City, regarded as the semi official
organ Of the Administration, published a long
and able article on the means to be employed to
restore the Union. On Wednesday last, the Jour
NAL the Republican organ of Indiana, contained
an article coinciding with the views expressed by
the Iateiligencer. using the same arguments. if
not the language, 10 maintain its position. The
Intelli9encer, il thought. reflected the senti-
restoration" and the Journal was not therefore
either singular original in the views it ex-
pressed. We copy condensed statement of the
arguments of the InfeIligencer to show their
marked similarity to those used by the journal:
According TO the IRfeligencer, 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 1t is not
"war" at all in the ordinary sense OF the term,
but is a use of the powers of the Government to
quelI 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 as territories, is to
accept the proceedings of the Southern insurgents
of individuals. perpetrated under the guise and in
the name of the State authority which they have
usurned. The Government adopts the theory
that these acts are the acts of usurped authority
and that so soon 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
A. a Il 4. A
OF faction 1t is not the State that is dead, but
a civil death which has overtaken all who now
assume to exercise its functions in the name of
an authority alien to 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
@gs of the Constitution, and where different parts
OF the same State may be loyal or sloyal
whether for such districts provisional
Administration, with the forms of a territorial
corporation, should be adopted by Con
gress as better than military government, OF
whether the loyal people of these districts, as fast
as they may be reclaimed should themselves pro-
coed to the erection of provisional governments,
until such time MS the conditions of a State reor
ganiZation may exist in seeded StateSf Though
the article comes to no settled conclusion which
plan is best, yet its whole scope and design is to
Keep prominent the TACT that the Government Is
only warning against usurDation, and not
against States" or Confederation of States, ,"
and that, $50 soon as State or portion of a
State shall be reclaimed by the advance of our
armies, aud the United States authority shall be
in position to afford protection to all who may
seek il, the President should have authority to
declare, by proclamation, to the people of that
State or district, an amnesty for all past oenses,
of those who shall, within stated time, return to
their allegiance to the United States"
The IRteiLigencer ends its article with the fol-
o wing blow at Mr.. Summers theory:
I'VE deny that any State can go out of the
| Union, and therefore there can be no necessity
in any event of providing for her 'readmission.
We hold that the interpretations made in the
State constitutions by the insurgents who have
usurped the control of certain States drop out Of
those constitutions many utilities the in
slant that the usurping power is overthrow. The
work OF reconsIructing and restoration is simply
a return OF the people to the lawful constitutions
displaced by the temporary reign OF fraud and vi
olence. Let US not, in the act of recovering our
Union, adopt theory which shall recognize the
| pestilent heresy of secession"