Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-13
The Cincinnati COmme renal an OrIgi-
nal Secession / dvOcate.

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nal Secession dvOcate.
The Cincinnati Commercial daily misrepresents
the position of the Democratic party in reference
to the rebellion Since the fall of Sumter every
Democratic convention which has been held in the
Northern States has taken ground in favor of
maintaining the Union inviolate. The Demo
cratic party has always been an Union party. and
for years they were derided by their political OPP
ponents as the "Union- savers" Ald the De-
mocracy have not only been in favor of presery-
ing the Union, but they equally desired to main
tain the Constitution in letter and spirit-in the
language of DANIEL WEBSTER, as "a bond, the
only bond of the Union of these States; as all
that gives us National character.
The Commercial, in March, 1861, expressed
itself in most decided terms against war for the
subiugation of the seceders and in favor of the
acknowledgement of the Southern Confederacy.
Read what it then said upon the subject after seUen
States had seeded:
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN ORGAN IN FAVOR OF RECoG
MIXING THE SOUTHERN coNFEDERAcY.
TFrom the Cincinnati Commercial, March, 1861.
War for the subjugation of the Seceders would
De unWlSe anu ueplOfaOie.
If there are two nations here who have been
living in unnatural Union, they should, for the
benefit of one or both, be separated
The sun will shine brightly and the rivers
run clear-the cotton fields will be as white
and the wheel fields as goiden-when
knowledge the Southern Conlederacy.
We are not in favor ofblockading of the South
ern coast. We are not in favor of retaking by
force the property of the United States now in the
VI
the existence OF Government formed of all the
seeding States, and attempt to cultivate amica-
BILE relations with it.
In its issue of yesterday. the 9TH inst, carry
ing out the idea it expressed in March, 1861, it
says the following is the programme of those
whose sentiments it represents:
They take the positions:
Ist That the rebelous States can not be con-
quered
ID That the Yankees are responsible for the
war.
Sd. That the Unity of the Mississippi Valley is
essential to the welfare of ali the people living in
it.
From these points they distinctly draw the
inference that the people of the Northwest
should cut loose from the Eastern States, stop the
war, and cast their lots with the Mississippi slave
States.
Those who vote, therefore, with the party and
for the candidates it nominates, to use the Ian
guage Of the Commercial, with 1t and them,
"would recognize the existence of a Government
formed of all the seeding States, and attempt to
cultivate amicable relations with it,
As further evidence that il favors such poll
cy, il indorses most cordially the nomination of
one LYMAN TREaAINE as a candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor in the State of New York who,
in February, 1861, after sir States had already
seeded, and the American Union was "tottering
from its foundation to its summit" said, in a
public speech, winch was reported at the time, as
follows:
wish to say that, traitorous though it may be,
stand here to oppose the policy OF war with the
South, now, hereafter and forever.
| think / am speaking for the unterrihed,
brave, conservative citizens of this State, when
say we have not only no responsibility In this
war, but we give notice now that that war will
be waged in spite of our opposition and against
our endeayOrs
Ii is enough that now | am prepared to take
the responsibility of saying j am resolved to re-
sist il here and TO resist it everywhere. "And u
that be treason, make the most OF it,
Who can doubt, after such indubitable evil
dence again using its own language, but that the
Commercial is "now engaged" in furthering the
views entertained by the cotton aristocracy when
they commenced the work of revolutiony