Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-14

IL was hest ITO let South Carolina go) because
our Declaration Of Independence recognizes tie
right of a people TO change their Government;
because If retained BY force she would not b. a
member Of the Union; because If subiugaled She
would be more troublesome than ii rel ased; be-
cause, in short, cvuld not maintain the
Union, and anything but the Union would not
be worth maintaining a; all
THE JOURNAL PRoNoUScEs THE MONTGOMERY
CONSTITUTIONS An IMPROVEMENT UPoS oURs.
Prom The Indisnapols Journal, March %, ISL
We have read il (the Constitution of the
slave Confectionery carefully and must confess
that, except lis special provisions in regard to
slavery, il i about IS good a charter Of govern
ment as could have been devised. Probably this
excellence Is due TO the fact that in all important
respects il i n copy Of the one the Confederacy
has just repudiated, though improved in a few
points which experience has shown TO be imper-
feet in ours.
After enumeraiing number of those amend
ments the Journal adds:
In all these particulars the Southern Constitu-
ton Is an Improvement on ours.
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN ORGAN II FAVOR OF
RECOGNIZING THE SOUTHERN coSFEDERAcY.
From the Cincinnati Commercial. March lssl.l
War for the subiugation of the Seceders would
be unwise aud deplorable
If there are two nations here who have been
living in an unnatural Union, they should, for
the benefit of one or both, be separated.
The will shine brightly and the rivers
run as clear-ihe cotton fields will he as white
and the wheat fields as golden-when we ac-
knowledge the Southern Ccnfederacv.
We are not in favor Of blockading the South
ern coast. We are not in favor of retaking by
force the property of the United States now in
Il u
recognize the existence of Government formed
of all the seeding States, and attempt to cult
vate amicable relations with IT,
THE JOURNAL ENDORSES THE POSITIONS WE
HAVE QUOTED FROM 1T, POUR MONTHS AFTER
THE FALL OF SUMTER.
From the indianapolis Journal, August Il, 1851
If they lthc rebcls) will lay down their arms,
and now come to the nation for permission 10
separate, we shall again say Eyes, FOR WE HAVE
SEEN NO REASON TO CHANGE THE VIEWS WE
ADVOCATED LAST WINTER.
That is the only condition the Journal requires
to permit the rebels to dissolve the Union, to di
vide this grca. Confederacy of States in twain
If the rebels will Law down their arms and ask
permission to separate, the journal, the organ OF
the Republican party in Indiana, is pledged 70
let them GO. Is that loyalty to the Constitution
and the Union!
We ask every candid citizen TO read the record
of the New York Tribune, the Chicago Tribune
the Cincinnati Commercial and the Indiana State
Journal in favor Of letting all the dissatisfied
States secede or separate from the Union in
peace, and set up Government of their own,
and then we inquire, if they can arrive at any
other conclusion than there was an extensive
conspiracy among leading Republicans 10 divide
the Union to pcrpctuate the rule of the Repub-
lican party! More than this. They conccde
the right of those States to secede. whenever. in
their own opinion, the old Government has be-
comeoppressivc or injurious TO them. Secession,
these representatives of Republican sentiment
say, is revolution. Our Government, they say.
is founded upon this doctrine. The Dec
claration of Independence, they claim, gives
dissatisfied States the right to dissolve their con-
nection with the Government 10 which they owed
allegiance, whenever in their Judgment, that
Government becomes inmical TO them And
they not only concedc this right Of revolution.
but they go one step farther, and say that scpa-
ration in peace is infinitely preferable to civil
war. Follow out the premises of these Repub-
lcan organs TO n Legitimate conclusion, and what
is the result! Is it anything less than coercion
on the part of the Federal Government is des-
polic, tyraunical, cruel, anii-American, and rll-
inous to all sections of the country? If they ia
vor the prosecution of the war, are they not
traitors TO their own convictions, and there can
be no meaner treachcryl
Such Is the record of disunion in Indiana and
throughout the North. Can any one doubt that
the oft-exprcssed willingness of these leading
Republican prints to let all dissatisfied States de-
part in peace, had powerful influence in
engthening SccesSionism in the South, and
producing the present condition of public affairs
Upon those papers re Is much of the responsi
biity of the terrible civil war which is now con-
vulsing the nation, and all the evils that may fol-
low. They loved their party more than their
country; and were willing that this great
Government frcighted with hope to
the oppressed of all nations should
be disunited, and even destroyed, that polit-
cal party might triumph and continue in power
Such is the result of unhalowed ambition.
There are other acts of the Republican lead
crs, to which we can not now refer for want of
space, that perhaps more than the evidence we
have produced, confirms the charge that imme-
diately after the election of 1860 q conspiracy
existed among them to dissolve the Union, by
driving the Gulf States, if no Others, from it,
Special Correspondence Of the Chicago Times
from Washing kOu.