Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-24
The northern EIecuon..-an Expires.
IN from the south

As il seems to be incontestible that the Demo
Gratis absent from home in the Yankee armies are /
in the proportion of ar least five to one to the Re
publicans. the victory which the Democrats have
just won at the polls is the most astonishing on
record. What does it signifyi
In our humble judgment it means this and |
nothing more: The Democrats have vast deal
more sense than the Republicans, and cannot fail
to see how completely the latter have succeeded
in destroying the prosperity of the North They
always opposed the suicidal folly of that faction
their continual aggressons upon the South, and
their systematic efforts make the niger the
only question in the Congress of the United
States. They opposed this policy because they
could not but foresee that il would lead TO the de
struction of the Union. and all the material inter-
ests which, so far as the North was concerned.
they felt to be bound up in il.
The Republicans afford, indeed. the most as
tonishing example of men quarrelng with their
own bread and butter which we recollect ever TO
have heard OF. They had in the South the most
magnificent market for their manufactures to be
found in the whole world. 1t untaxed and
unrestrained They paid no duties, and were the
only people in the world that paid none. Com
petition was not allowed to come near them.
Heavy tariffs shut il out from abroad and our
own people were engaged in other pursuits The
coasting trade--the heaviest in the word-was
all done by their ships. The Southern cotton
and tobacco, the great staples of the world. all
passed through their hands on their way to for
eign market
The very negroes for whose sake they were
constantly threatening the South. were a source
OF far more profit to them than they have ever
been to their masters. The cotton and tobacco
of the South were, indeed, tie grand levers that
set all Northern trade in motion. Without them
New York would never have risen above the fig
ures that presented her population in 1910, and
to be now, at the tail of the Union. The Demo
Gratis could see all this but the Republicans could
not and they persisted until they destroyed the
Union.
! The Democrats now wish to restore that Union,
because, whilst il existed, it was a source of un
allOyed prosperity. They see plainly enough that
if the North be compelled to pay the same duties
with England. England will supplant the manu-
features of the North They see that if direct
trade between our ports and England be once
firmly established. New York will cease to be the
money centre of America. They see that, il the
cOastDg trade be thrown open to competition,
England will do the larger share of it. In II
word. they clearly understand that the destruc-
ton of the monopoly they have been so long en-
joying will be a death blow to all Northern in
terests. for they know well enough the difference
between framing tariffs to shut out all other PEG
pie. and having tariffs framed to shut out them
selves
When it is too late, the Republicans see this
too; and seeing also the hOpelessness of restoring
the Union, they wasing savage war for the
purpose of rendering desert those portions of
which they can no longer control. The Demo
Gratis, however, take a different view of the sub
ject. They believe restoration still possible. In
this respect they do not manifest their usual sa-
gacity. They have the incredible folly to be
lieve that there still turks among the body OF
that people, who have fought against the Union
as men never fought before, secret attachment
to '' the old flag" which is the most detested OF
all earthly symbols to the whole body of the
Southern people. They do potrefect that, while
to them the condition which il is intended to rep
resent has been productive of unalloyed bless
ings il is associated in the Southern mind Will
images of commercial poverty and sectional op
preston. To this imagined feeling of latent 10y
atty to the Union they are willing 10 appeal
They have no doubt but that they will he sue
ceSsful. But first they must beat US into the hu
NOR for submission. They must make us know
their strength. They must teach US that they
are our masters They must kill "A hundred OF
two thousand of our men. They must crush the
rebellion. And then they will offer us terms
having first asserted the supremacy of the
American eagle" as they are facetously wont
to term the Yankee buzzard. They care, and
pretend to care, nothing for the niger. They
will lie willing, after having conquered US, tC
agree upon any terms, provided tie Union ot
restored They will consent to introduce slavery
into every State in the Union, provided this grand
object be attained.
If the Southern people will not agree to all
this, most assuredly they never will. then they
are for carrying on the war 10 any extremity thai
would satisfy the most ultra of the Abolition
party. They will never consent-let John Var
Buren, say what he may-to let the "wayward sis
tiers" depart in peace
1t may be that Democratic Congress might
propose to the Southern States as a condition Of
re entering the Union. to legalize slavery every
where and this before proceeding further with the
war But even were the South cisposed, under
any circumstances, to re enter such a state o
bondage, it must be borne in mind that the pres
ent Abolition Congress has still one year to run
In that time some of the most desperate battle:
the world ever heard of will have been fought
and the Yankees will already have conquered u:
or be expelled from territory So far, then
as the war is concerned, We shall gain nothing
By the late Democratic victories, at least for the
present. As in the case of expected Intervention
we warn our people TO trust to themselves, anC
to nobody and nothing else Nevertheless. it j:
pleasant tn find Old Abe thwarted in the dearest
wishes of his heart Richmond Examiner, No
vember 10Th.