Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-28
will the Union he Restored,

with vast responsibility for ourselves and for
posterity.
Will the Union be Restored!
The Louisville Democrat has been manfully
fighting Southern secession for year or more,
and it has now turned its guns against that older
and more debasing treason, the abolition doc
trines of the Republican party. We are glad to
see this for in the melee of the present war, this
dangerous faction has been allowed too much
quiet and its leaders have gone from bad to
worse, ill they have well nigh crushed out all
manly sentiment from that political organization.
The destructives in Congress, in the adoption of
an abolition programme, have greatly strengthened
the cause of the rebellion, and loyal men in the
free States have either to consent to an utter
overthrow of the Constitution and its guarantees,
OF be classed as "rebel sympathzers, if they OPP
pose the wild despotism of the faction which
rules the roast in Congress. We speak pretty
confidently for the patient and manly Democracy
Of Indiana, and declare that they will oppose,
inch by inch, all measures which have for their
object the overturning of the institutions of the
slave States. They, at least will be faithful to
the pledges made by our fathers, and countenance
no measures of policy which shall look to the i'm
mediate emancipation of the slaves of the South.
as military necessity" which they regard
as a mere pretext for the commission of great
national crime to the free white laborers of the
North. The Democracy everywhere wish this
revolt put down, ana have contributed three hun
dred thousand men to aid that object, but they
never will become the advocates of a Union in
which the negro and the white man shall be joint
partners. 1t was not the Union made ut Phila-
delphia in 1877. and if the political traitors of
New England desire such Union. the Democra
cy will not consent to be portion of it. Indi
ana is specially committed to this great truth
that the negro and the white man can never be
joint partners in the heritage of national freedom
and glory. Nine years ago the people of this
State, by majority of nearly if not quite one
hundred thousand votes, declared a perpetual
separation of the races, and that majority and
their sons will see that neither ABRAHAM LIN
COLIN nor Congress. nor WENDELL PHILLIPS and
his confederate Abolitionists shall be able to
change verdict founded on the highest princi-
piles of our Government and the wisest dictates
of self preservation. Indiana has taken her stand
against this admixture of negro population and
has placed that prohibition in her Con- titu-
ton. If the members of the present mad and
crazy Congress think they destroy and over
turn slavery in the South, perhaps they would
have the same power to compel Indiana to change
i n
groes upor her soil. If so, let the poor fools
try it. The "bOys" who have. so far, done so
nobly in defense of the Government and the
Union, would quickly ''crush out" the Abolition
cohorts who might attempt to change the organic
law of the Hoosier State. Indiana is for the
Union as it was as it is, and as she means to pre-
serve it-'with the dignity and rights of every
State unimpaired" Go equals in everything, in
feriors in nothing Those who opposed to
such a Union had just as well join the rebels at
once, and cease their pretences of love for the
Union. They are, in fact, its most deadly foes.
The Louisville Democrat has the following
just remarks in regard to the present hypocriiical
and silly Congress. We think it about time that
the Democrat mad opened its eyes to the future
of the country, and if the Journal of tl1st city
would but open its batteries in unison, we might
have the proud satisfaction of attending the
funeral of Abolitionism in the West before many
months:
The Abolitionists are doing the worst they can
in Congress. We had some hopes of moderation,
but recently the radicals seem to have made some
Roadway and it is MT unlikely that they will
push all their measures through. That is now
the best they can do for the country. This re-
beliOn would have cost a few hundred millions
less if Congress had learned some sense without
experiments so costly, but the people nave filled
Congress with such partisans, and they will have
to pay the expense Of treasure and blood.
The army has done well; it will accomplish its
| work; but that will not be restoration of the
Union. We can assure the Administration and
these radicals that the sword will not accomplish
the end, however successful our armies may he.
All armed opposition can be put down and will
be put down, but still the powers of the Govern
ment can be nullified. We may have dead
Union, which, like poor invalid with one half
paralyzed. will linger out painful existence.
The violent craftsmanship in Congress will keep
alive feeling equally violent in half the country,
until chronic antagonsm accomplishes by mere
inertia what force never can accomplish This
Union must be harmonious. The Federal Gov
eminent must have the coop, ration of States
and people; and a policy must be adopted that
will bring that about otherwise all this blood and
treasure is wasted for nothing.
We had hoped that this Congress would do
what is to be done, and thus shorten the conflict,
but they lack the capacity. The people will
commit the work to other and more competent
hands
The children of Israel did reach the promised
land; but even Moses, for his sin, was not per-
mItted to see it. Just as certainly will this Union
be restored but the present leaders will see it,
They have sinned too long and sinned too much.
1t is not in the order of Providence to allow men
who have cursed the Constitution and the Union
to be permitted to rejoice at its restoration.
Men who have themselves been rebels against
the Constitution aud the laws for a quarter of a
century will not enjoy triumph over other rebels
with impunity.
Sumner Greedy & Co. may rejoice now. and
exult in what they think their triumph; out they
will fall fast and fall far. The people of this
country have a good deal of wisdom. if they do
go crazy once in while. They will soon APP
preciate the difficulty and dispace those who
stand in the way.
How Is IL!