Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-25

A contemporary attempts = denial n our state
meat u,at a di-uufon rsrty his excited AZ the
Nu4fh. equally aux ous NtH tile SIutlieul dis
unfsui-i- 60 effect the -sme object Tbe GENIAL
j. not ga aoids That oI course wound not de-.
We ehsllenle a denial 81 our Ststemeut ia wosd-.
But il - said Ii : -ing ulsr that when tie aiS-
uniouists Of the South procee5ei to carry out
their programme BY force Of arms, those whom
the writers calls the Northern disunionists rush
ed az once 10 the defence of the Union
We stand aghast at the cOOluess Of this asser-
ton, which every child knows tn be-what shall
we call il! We will say a misapprehensiOn.
The writer goes on % illustrate by the case Of
Massachusetts sending her volunteers 80 rapidly,
as n Governor Andres leiter was not an open
confession that the Northern disunionists Of whom
We spoke had not yet volunteered and would not
volunteer unless the President should make the
war a negro crusade. We need no other prUot
of the truth Of our assertion. The fact j. MOTTO
riOus from the sea to the prairies that the soldiers
who have gone 70 this war are not the Northern
anti slavery men, certainly not the men who three
weeks ago held a convention IN Boston. denoun
eel the Union, expressed "a willingness 10 b-ht
fr jeff Davi. II he would free the slaves. and
abused the President With no stint, while they
discouraged volunteering and approved the mia
nous letter OF Governor Andres.
IL Illustrates, ~sorrowlully, the character of
radiclli>m when a New York plper OF that per
sutsi0n, denies that there was a Northern AbOii-
ton disuni0n party before the waii Day after
day We have printed extracts from their proceed
ings. We have quoted their resolutions, We have
shown their boast that they did not love the
Union well enough TO pay for il, and their VOWS
to seek its destruction even by correspondence
and action with Southern di-unionists. And a
contemporary doubts the fact. because the Massa-
chusets boys, who were the true lovers of the
Union. vent 10 fght for il. Why, We know New
England regiments where the Indignation OF
every MN J. a. fierce and furious against certain
notorious lie tdets of the Northern disunion party
as IL is against Jefferson Davis himself,
Does our neighbor desire TO make this a ques
ton OF veraeity? We will. If it i necessary,
prove, that for years past there have been held III
New York city Abolition disunion meetings
That these meetings have never been rebuked
but on the contrary have been encouraged by the
New York EceRiHg Post. the Tribune, the hide
pendent, the LiberafOT, the int SldDery SfaHd
ard. and by certain other newspapers. That
when any manifestations ct public Indignation
were expressed by the people OF New York. OF
by the audiences at such meetings, Oh account OF
disuniOn sentiments and resolutions there offered
the papers we have named defended the di>union-
lists aud ridiculel anu abused the lOyaliSts The
history j. as black rs midnight. II eur cotempo-
rary persists in d~oabting that there WAS "a North
em Abolition dl,union party. We shall have u
open tie volume, and perhaps the record may
prove instructive.
Ii there is anything plainly true now. IT IS that
thus Tar the prosecution OF the war for the Union
has received no mtterial aid from the radica
party. Gnd that the men. the money, the means
are furnished. nearly all. 10y the conservative
masses. Rldicllism opposes the war for the
Union. boldly and without shame. Why vii
respectable New York papers attempt to keel
their position with the abolitlonists by ignoring
this fact? DisuniOuists will be ore long find i
necessary to work together. and the Emancipa
ton League resolution. which proposes to erase
from the flag all the stars except those of non
slaseholding States. Is ingenlously intended a. d
platform on which they can unite to accomplish
the common object OF Northern and Southern
disuniOnists, to wit, the formation OF one Gov
eminent OF free States and another of slav,
SfAtes.-N. Y. Jour. Of Com