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

case 20 a better advantage than elsewhere. We
Of the North will have only our due share Of the
national debt to pay. and win have fair share
Of the national property. Business VIII soon
fall into the changed channels, and 20 on as
prosperousiv "a ever Ii j. az least a easy to
keep M profitable Business with the South Sc
with England, if we are willing 10 take the same
steps g. do IL. But if we not, and insist on
preserving the Union by force, we shall destroy
all trade. North aud South utterly. We. Is the
remainder Of the Union viii be saddlcd with the
whole national debt, and with diminished reve-
nue., and worse than all, with debt fifty times
a. large 10 keepup the WARMTH the South. When
all i done, both sections ruined in trade, one full
of rcbellious slaves, the other full OF starving
workmen. and both loaded with war debts, the
Union is Just as utterly difaded II before The
,rar begaa. For all our expense, bloodshed, ILL
feeling and ruin, we have got-whatl Nothing.
Think ofit, We coercion advocates and profound
statesmen, who deem force the wisest power of
this nineteenth century, You have had your
war, and you have GOT its evils for pay, and YOU
have got nothing else. Your Union is n thou
sand times more hopelcsly divided than ever.
Disunion. then. can do no harm however wisely
met but il will ruin both sections if unwisely
met II i the dictate of human
ify. and the demand OF the enlightenment Of the
nineteenth century, that shall never be re-
Us face disunion calmly, measure il fully, and we
shall find that. however we may lament it, we
need not be frightened ar it.
1t viii not be forgotten, in connection with the
foregoing Argument, that the seeded States sent
Commissioners to Washington to arrange terms
for peaccable separation. the division ofthe ma
tional debt and the public property.
Prom the indianapolis Journal, Dec. ~ ls60
If South Carolina comes TO the Union, asking
TO be let 20, deliberately assuring Us that she is
not as well off here as she would be alone-that
association with Us is oppressive TO her, and
injurious TO her constitutions" We should say
CONSENT With thousand voices, if we had
them, with every fibre of every tongue in the
Union. if we could command it, we would say,
CONSENT If any State, States, desire
TO leave Us, and represent that they arc damaged
by connection with Us, we say, LET them GO.
In an article reviewing speech of Senator
SEWARD on the Crisis" before the New England
Association in New York, the same paper re-
marks:
From the indianapolis Journal, Dec u, 1861
On the other point he expresses only the views
we have advocated from the beginning of this
disturbance. You can not compct friendship and
fraternity, and if the Union is not a friendly one
it is nothing. If it is not held together BY
love for it and trust in its benefits it is 10
Union, whatever else it may be- Fight
the Gulf States to compel them 10 love us
well enough to stay with u.s. This is the alb
surdy at the bottom of coercion. \
But if they do not aSsail the Government, but
come TO the other States respectfully represent
inc that the Union is oppressive 10 them. and
that they desire TO be relieved from it, and to
form a Government of their own. the party
that makes war in reply to that petition will find
itself hopelessly ruined in a very little time
The Journal, in comparing the different cir
cumstanccs between the notification of South
Carolina in 1882, standing alone, and the SYM
pathy of at least seven other States, making
common cause with her in 1860, says.
From the indianapolis Journal, Dec. 20, lsco.l
The cases are too terribly different TO admit of
an application Of the same policy with the same
results. What was judicious iirmness in 1892,
may be ruinous policy in 1860. What was
wise assertion of national power in 1882 may
become disastrous and useless civil war in
1860. Those who urge earnestly the Jack
sonian' policy, should show the nation that this
is 'Jqeksonian" cause
In its issue of January 8, 1861, and at different
periods afterwards, it advocated similar views to
those We have quoted.
THE JOURNAL CLAIMS THAT THE SECESSION OF
SOUTH CAROLINA DIssoLvEs THE UNION.
In announcing the fact that South Carolina
mad passed an act of secession, the Journal takes
the position that that act dissolves the Union.
Read:
from the indianapolis, Journal, Dec. %, 1850
South Carolina has seeded. Well
We are a severed nation We arc divided
house. And we are none the worse for it, All
the mischief that the apprehension of disunion
could do, has been done and disunion itself
can do nothing if we do not force it TO. We
are well rid of South Carolina, if we are only
wise enough To count it iiddanoe and nothing
worse. Ii other States follow, let them
If all the South follows, let it. In Gods
name, and for humanity's sake, let them go in
peace. IL South Carolina pretends TO
be an independent Government, she must control
her own ports, and if we blockade them she must
drive Us cut. Ii is absolutely necessary 10 her
national existence as the air is TO individual
existence. BY blockading their ports, therefore,
VIC only resort to a trick TO bring the first attack
from South Carolina, instead of making il our
selves. And that trick is unworthy great ma
ton. IF right we can begin the attack
without seeking pretcxts. If we are not rieht.
we are only showing cowardce as well as cruel
ty in resorting to such n trick. There i. there
fore. no escape from war; if we refuse TO admit
the independence of South Carolina.
THE REPUBLICAN PAPERS coSoEDE THE RIGHT
OF SECESSION or REVOLUTION.
From the Tribune Of November 20, 1850
If the cotton States unitedly and earnestly
wish To Withdrew peace fully from the Union we
think they should and would he allowed to do so.
ANY attempt TO compel them by force 10 remain
would be contrary TO the principles enunciated
in the immortal Declaration Of Independence,
contrary 10 the fundamental ideas on which hui
man liberty is based.
From The Iril une Of Dec. ". 1850
If ii 1.-THE Declaration of Independcncc) iusti-
fed the secession from the British Empire Of
three millions of colonists in l176. we do not see
why it would not justify the secession of five
millions of Southerners from the Union of
1861.
From the Tribune Of Febru airy %, 1861.
We have repeatedly said, and we once more in
sis thatthe great principle embodied by Jefferson
in Declaration of American Independence, that
Governments derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed, Is sound and just and
that if the slave States the cotton States or the
Gulf States only choose TO form an independent
nation, they have n clear moral right TO do So
Whenever it shall be clear that the
great body of the Southern people have become
conclusvely alienatcd from the Union. and
anxious TO escape from it, we viii do our best TO
forward their views.
rFrorn the Indianapolis Journal Nov. IS 1901