Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-29
what Does the south want,

We look to restoration of the Union. For
that our soldiers die For that the North is will
ling TO pay. For that should be ready TO make
all necessary sacrifices. Is it too much to ask.
for the sake of restoring the Union, that the
North should also seek to deserve the confidence
of the loyal men of all the States South a well
as North
Some DAYS since we asserted that the people of
the South entertairN fear that the laws will not
be mpartially administered by the dominant party
of the North and that this more than any other
reason. prevents the voluntary return of the ma
iOrity of the Southern people to the Union. This
proposition is denied by Lending Republican
presses. To prove its truth, we recur briefly to
past history
Governor Moore, of Alabama, less than sew
enteen months ago, addressed the Legislature of
that State thus:
II am no secesSiOnist per Sc, and would like
to contemplate our future glory as nation
could have the assurance that the Union, upon
the basis OF the Constitution would be as durable
as the hills and valleys embraced within the vast
territorial limits of its jurisdiction
Gov. Letcher OF Virginia, in a letter written just
seventeen months ago, said:
If the North will respect and uphold the
rights of the States, the Union will be perpetu
al"
A. H. stephens about the same time. said in the
Georgia Legislature:
Il say to you. don't give up the ship; don't
abandon heryet. Ifshe can be possibly preserved,
and our rights, interests and security maintained
the object Is worth the effort.
J0hu B FLOYD then said in letter:
For one am not for secession as long as any
honorable effort be made to preserve the Union
on Constitutional basis believe
that the great material interests ofthe country de
mand reconciliation of the sections and the
preservation of the [ MON F"
IA O. Z. Nicholson of Tennessee, said. fifteen
months ago:
IF am not mistaken in the sentiment or
Tennessee our people require honest effort to
be made To the ORION"
Gov. Brown OF Tennessee at the same time
said:
Il am for the Union as long a. it can be main
tanned consistently with the compromises Of the
Constitutions and | am for rereSsng the wrongs
OF the South in the Union by peaceful remedies,
and until such remedies exhausted by fair
trial Let our war cry be: The Union and the
rights OF all under it; its undivided fortune and
glory
Said Mr. Cobb of Alabama, year ago last
fall:
Il am not Sece-sionist. desire peace
peace predcated on the principles ct the Consti-
tuition
said jefferson Davis himself a year ago in De
cember:
The union of the States forms in nv judg-
ment the best government instituted among men
IL i only necessary to carry it out in the spirit
IN which il was formed"
Long have offered propositions OF equality in
the Union. Not single Republican has voted
for them"
We might quote sentiments of this purport
without limit. They we're then the honest sen
timents OF the great majority of the Southern
leaders. We believe they to-day the Senti-
ments of the mass ofthe Southern people What
are xe to infer from this1 Simply that the mass
of Southern men iu>tiuctiveiy love the Union ami
the Constitution: that they are not per Sc seces
sionists and they actuated IN the present
beliOn not By hostility 70 the nature Of our Gov
eminent and It's constitutional principles. but By
fear that the dominant party of the North in
tends 10 deny them the rights guaranteed them
BY the fundamen law.
IL becomes solemn duty of the people OF the
North therefore. % remove this Apprehension,
and thus recover the confidence and allegiance OF
those whose hostility the unconstitutional meas
urea of Northern States aud the dsunion sentl
ments OF Northern presses have encouraged. To
re-aSsure the masses % Southern men Of the stu
cerely constitutional purposes of the North is 10
restore the I Mon j. not the object which msy