Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-01

our troubles, and therefore so long as they are in
control they are compelled to prosecute the war
as a war of conquest and sublugation," and with
an eve single 10 the destruction of the institution
of slavery; for such is the logical consequences of
their political creed.
The scope of Republican policy embraces one
of two results. Either the Southern States must
be subdued and their institutions overturned, or
failing in this, the independence of the South
will be established. This war cannon be con-
tinued for all time. An end must come. They
would suppress the rebellion, if by doing so they
can lay the South at the feet of the Federal
power, and as conquered provinces remoddle
their institutions and their laws under Federal
dictation. But if this cannot be done, then they
are for a separation. Or in other and palmer
terms, for disunion. They do not intend that
the Southern States shall ever again be repre-
sented in Congress upon the old basis of the Fed
eral Constitution. 1t is their fixed purpose that
when this war ends there shall be no single Con-
gressional district composed of slaveholding
electors with the right of representation in the
Federal Congress. They are not for "the Con-
stitution as it is and the Union as it was;" their
dream is of empire, composed of States
homogeneous in their institutions, with powers
but little above that of countries controlled and
governed by strong central government with
imperial power.
troll the Government what must be the RESULT
Can you conquer the Southl No; nv iudg-
ment is you cannot. l do not think that history
has recorded single example of the conquest of
eight millions of people firmly united together by
any kindred race, however numerous or powerful.
They have suffered much, and may be made to
suffer more. Their country may be overrun by
our armies and desolated, and yet until you can
change the minds of the people-untl they can
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Government as blessing, no disasters in the
field, no destruction of their property no laying
waste of their country, will compel their su5mis-
sion. Look, now, our armies move even over
| the soil of Kentucky. State that has never at
tempted to throw off her allegiance, and you see
their parting waves close mp behind our columns
and our communications have to be kept open by
an armed force even in a loyal State The dream
of serve insurrection ought to be banished.
NJ one now believes that it will take place, and
the time will come when wewill rejoice that no
such aid came to our side in this great strug-
gle.
If the Republican policy of crushing out the
rebellion is to prove a failure, what then is to
follow? Manifesty if other ideas and principles
not brought to the foreground and placed in
the ascendant, the Union is gone forever.
But slavery be at this time abolished? /
do not believe it can. If the time should ever
come when this can take place, il is not now.
Neither race is prepared for it. The blacks are
incapable of rational freedom. .and the white race
will not accord to them political equality, and
we have intermediate place in cur social or
political system to be occupied by them. These
are facts that are every day making their impress
upon our soldiers in the field and the most cas-
ual observer must have been by this time struck
with the fact that .he army is all the time be-
coming less anti slavery in sentiment; and the
great question that forces itself upon all condi
tons of our people, and was put with so much
force and earnestness by President Lincoln to the
Chicago Committee, What shall we do with
themy-how shall we feed and clothe such mul-
ttude?"--remains unanswered. Popular in
stinct shrinks back appalled, from the ideas that
arise like dim and musty shadows from the faith
omless depths OF this momentous inquiry. The
result will be that the negro race will be left, at
the close of this war; where the commencement
of hostllites found It, The very army which
has suffered and bled to uphold the flag of the
ULion will compel the negro to return to the con-
dition of servitude.
All these facts are thrown away upon the Re
publican leaders, wrapped up in a fanaticism that
is impervous to any i'm pressions from without,
entertaining no doubt of the correctness of their
own dogmas, they have not discovered, and will
not, that the people are losing confidence in
them, and that many who have been deluded into
following thus far now falling off from them.
They attribute the result of the late elections
to the absence of our volunteers who are in the
army, and for the sentiments of the army they
recur to the letters of a few camp-followers,
whose business it is to pander to the tastes of
those in power If they could only penetrate
some of our military camps in disguise that
would enable them to mingle with the men around
their camp fires, in the silent watches ofthe night,
they would hear much that would make them
wiser, and, if needed, better men. They would
find that the American volunteer thinks as well
as fights, and that the ballot-box has but fore
shadowed the returning wave of reason which
will sooner or later hurl them from power.
1t will take time to accomplish this. Having
tasted power, in degree almost without limit,
and carried their rule with high hand even to
the verge of despotism, until that terrible word
the ''bastie," linked with the horrors of the
French revolution, has become Americanzed,
and being supported by the whole band of public
plunderers, they will not yield up their hold on
power at the first summons of the people.
The effort will be made, and fear with sue
cess, to bend the Border States to their purposes
Let no one be surprised if, in the next Congress
ional election in those States. such patriots and
statesmen as Crittenden and Wicklff are dis
placed for men of the CassIus M Clay school
We have already seen that Missouri has not
proved impractcable under the plastic hands of
the military authorities within her borders. The
political incubus that rests upon the country will
not in all probability be removed until the next
Presidential election, when we may hope it will
be consigned to political grave upon which no
resurrection morn shall ever dawn.
What in the meantime is to be the fate of our
unhappy country?
do not believe any people ever clung with
more tenacity to their Government than the peo-
pie of the loyal States; and in no part of our
population has this death defying sentiment been
more manifest than in the great body of the
Democratic party in those States. The attitude
of that party throughout this contest has pre-
sented one of the most sublime spectacles this
world ever saw or the pen of the historian has
recorded.
Dissenting from every measure of civil policy
that has been naugurated or adopted by the pres
ent Administration, they have stood firmly by the
Constitution and the Union, and so far as men
and money have been required to save the Gov
ernment from overthrow, they have contributed
literally and bled freely. Excluded from any
voice in the counsels of the Government, they
have done no more than the people of the
evil tendencies of those measures which they had
no power to defeat; and under the most CALLING
denunciations, hurled against them by mag
nant and INSCRIPTIONS party-their loyalty i'm
peached, their motives misrepresented, and the
leading men sandered-still in the face OF this
storm of invective, they have been unmoved-
"their steps keeping time to the music of the
Union"
Before hostlties commenced, the Democratic
party bent all its energies to avert them. When
the blow fell, it ranged itself on the side of the
Government, and strove to bring about restora-
ton of the broken Union, not by war alone, but
by every MEANS civil and military. that would
conduce to that end. Impressed with the belief
that the Union of our fathers could only be re-
stored through the agency of "Union party in
the Southern States" it has insisted on so con