Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-09
From the Providence (R - Post Dec. /.
a New England Paper ON Reconstruct
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Wendell Phillips. in his recent political address
here. admitted that the West was even now pre-
pairing to 20 with the South One could hear
talk Of it all through the western country. The
West did not love the East. 1t did not love ne
groes. Ii did not love high tariffs. If disunion
South. New England and New York would be
left out in the cold.
Our belief is. that Nep England alone will be
left out in the cold We said. years ago, that if
separation came, a new Confederacy would fol
low. and that It would not embrace New Eng
land. We have not changed our belief on this
point. Indeed, it is every day strengthened; and
we entertain no doubt that the West itself would
object to our company it il should be offered.
New York will belong to the new Republic, if
ore is established. Certainly it will seek to; and
We see no reason why both South and West
should not unite in desiring her presence. But
New England. with her Abolitionsm and her po-
litcal priests-the hot-hed OF all the sms and
the author OF our great calamity-the everlast-
ing beggar for protective tariffs-wil be objected
to- and will be excluded. The old Union once
gone, il never belong To another, unless per-
chance, il finds for herself and is forced to nc
cept the same condition of dependency which she
is now preaching for the South No other sec
ton will want her on terms of equality.
And this is the finale to which this Admins
ing restoration OF the Union more aud more
difficult Instead of acting upon the recent ex.
pressions of sentiment by the people at the ballot
box, il Is defying this great source of power and
exhibing the utmost contempt for popular con
demnation.
Lincoln, the President, is represented as SAYING
that he would sooner die thousand deaths than
withdraw his Abolition proclamation, and as at
taching tar more importance to the result of the
lings at the point of the bayonet and by terror
ism which kept more than two fifths of all the vo
tiers from the polls--than all the other elections
which had taken place during the year. He re
oces over verdict thus shamefully obtained.
in State where he desires TO Introduce in a
practical shape, the fre-brand of emancipation,
and spurns with contempt the honest condemna-
ton of his conduct which comes to him with the
Endorsement of fifteen millions of Northern peo-
ple He removes the ablest General in the army,
with no other than political motive, and declares
his intention to thrust out every officer who dares
c.iticise his conduct He empties Forts Warren
and l. .fayette of political prisoners, without a
word of apology or explanation to their victims,
and without the moral courage to- rescind the un
constitutional order under which thew WERE and
others probably will be, AR ested He throws
himself, body and soul, into the embraces of the
Greeleys and Loveioys of the party which elect
ed hui, and defes the honest men who have sup
ported the Government To change his policy or
avert the final calamity to which radcalism is
tending.
This is our position. The hope of the Union
is every hour growing fainter, until a majority OF
the people of the North at last look upon separa-
| ton or revolution certainty. We have al
lowed personal rights and State rights TO be
tramDled upon-we have allowed the country to
be flooded with currency which, five years
hence, will not be worth the paper upon which il
is printed-we have submitted to taxation such
| as Americans before never dreamed GIVE have
offered up hundreds of thousands of valuable
lives. And what have we gained? Why. so
hopeless is our cause to-day. that the people OF
the West, as Wendell Phillips truly said, are
making their arrangem, nts to follow the South
They will follow the South, and Will the mid
die States, if the Union is sundered: and that il
will be sundered if the President adheres to hi.
determination tn make this an Abolition war aftel
the first of January is as certain as that the SUI
shines in the heavens