Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-31
The Abolition prift.


When secession was threatened after the cleo
ton of Mr. LINCOLN to the Presidency, the New
York Tribune took the position that the people
of those States who felt they had grievances
TO endure which made farther continuance in
the Union undesirable or intolerable. had right
TO separate-to dissolve their connection with the
General Government This right it based upon
the principles avowed in the Declaration of indie
pendence. The Tribune is now in favor ofpros-
ecuting the war to compel the dissatifed States
to remain in the Union-to continue connec-
ton with the Government FOR which they 10 longer
have any respect or regard. And this leading
organ Of the radical Republicans only favors the
war with the expectation that one of its results
will be the overthrow Of slavery and the eDfran-
chisement of the negro. In fact it declares such
should be the object of the war, and that, in its
estimation, it will fail ofits purposes unless those
results are accomplished. In an editorial in that
paper of Thursday last upon Estate renovation"
We find the following exposition of its views,
which clearly show the drift and aims of the Alb
olitionists:
"If the Federal Government were ready to rec
ognize all the loyalists of South Carolina as
rghtful citizens of that State and integers of her
political fabric, that would bravey alter the case.
Great Britain or France holding our position
would thus cut the gordian knot which our fin
gers tumble over without beginning to unite.
simple military order recognizing the colored half
of resident South Carolinians as entitled to all
the rights OF manhood, and prescribing the mode
of asserting and exercising those rights, would
very soon develop a loyal South Carolina which
could stand alone. For that, however, neither
the Executive nor Congress is vet prepared, so
must for time stumble on as we may We will
not dogmatize bet we see clearly that the
attempt to constitute loyal within rebel
State, leaving out both the aristocracy and the
s'mud stills, will prove a failure Refusing to
enfranchise the loyal blacks, the Union must for
an indefinite period rule the disloyal majority of
whites by the strong arm; and every attempt to
escape or disguise this alternative will prove cost
ly, irritating perilous and Intellectual And if it
involve the protection and perpetuation of slavery
in the revolted States by Federal authority and
bayonets, it will prove exceedingly distasteful to
very large proportion of the people of the loyal
States" SIS
The only means of restoring the Union and
cementng Il. according to the Abolition idea, is
to enfranchise the negro. This is the doctrine of
WENDELL PHILLIPS who received such distn-
guished attention from the high digntaries of the
Government on his recent visit to Washington
City. To the Constitution and the Union as
they were the Aboltionists are opposed PHIL
LIPS declared he had "abored nineteen years to
take nineteen States out of the Union" But we
see no condemnation in the Republican press for
such rank disunion sentiments. He is one of the
class who think the Constitution "a league with
hell and covneant with death, vet he is received
upon the floor of the United States Senate by the
Abolition Senators and the Vice President of
the United States with marked consideration.
he said: al have cursed the Constitution and
and. thank Sod, they are broken" YAScEY.
RHErT or JEFF. DAVIS never uttered a
ranker or more infamous disunion sentiment,
yet be is permitted to utter his treason without
rebuke from the party in power. If the war has
not the abolition of slavery and the elevation of
the negro to the equality of the white citizen
for its end it will prove "distasteful' to the fol-
lowers of the Tribune, and they would prefer 10
see the Constitution and the Union broken, rath-
er than that slavery should be perpetuated, if
their preservation would have that effect. That
is the abolition drift. The Abolitionists have no
love for the Union as il was, and the Constitu-
ton as it has been interpreted They have but
one idea. and that is love for the negro. No
greater good could be done TO the country than
to colonize the free negroes and Abolitonists To-
gether, so that the latter could have have the
largest liberty TO lIusrate their philanthropy and
fanatieism.