Indiana State sentinel., 1863-05-25
From the Richmond Enquirer, April Il.
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The strife Of parties in that country which
bound- the Confederacy on the North. are.
strictly speaking, nothing to Us. Thank Cod
we have washed our hands of them. forever Yet
there Il A certain malignant satisfaction in seeing
that the Democrats Of those States are TO be
left at the mercy of their enemies the phiIanthro
pists They are TO experiences little what that
philanthropy amounts to in the case of white
men. Hard on the heels of the Republican tri-
umph in Rhode Island, comes the Republican
triumph in Connecticut. That Mr.. Seymour,
who cried peace, peacel when there was no
peace-he. and all his clan. are thrust aside. and
abolition and war flourish rampant in New Eng
land. In Indiana. Missouri. Ohio. the municipal
elections are reported; all for war; abolition. ex
termination Il is an overwhelming rehuke to
VaIIandigham ard those whom they nickname
"copperheads" Whom we prefer to call block
heads Blockheads in the most wooden sense of
the term; for their whole movement depended
upon the silly imagination that their olive branch
would be hailed with delight at the South, and
act like magic wand in bringing to life again
the dead old democratic party" irifh IN IT,
A blunderis crime: so let the blockheads suffer
the penalty. They thought, when they denounced
Lincoln as an ''usurper," and called on conserva
tive men to overturn his Government, that Con-
federates would take the invitation IS addressed
70 them and fv to aid the Democrats in re con
structing the old Government with guarsntees,
pledges and oaths And, singular to see. the
Confederates lock on with sneering Indifference
We care not If Lincoln il an " usurper;" do not
in fact believe he Isl for If have read Alright the
history of the country he was regularly elected
President and all parties have since placed them
selves and their Constitution at his feet. and made
him their gracious and impartial master. We
have the honor to wish them joy As for their
guarantees. pledges and oaths, we must really
be excused; we have tried all that once too often.
Not that we can saw that il is altogether indit-
ferent to us-as being alien enemies of that coun-
try. and engaged in actual war with it-what
men and what party NAV control its government.
and carry on the against In this point of
view we have some interest in the affair; and
avOw ourselves well pleased that the philanthrop
ic, subjugatiDg exterminating. and anti Union
party is to govern the United States: at least I'M
til we have done with them IL has been already
made sufficiently plain--even without the deelar-
atiOns of Conway and the New York Tribune
even independently Of the robber Buffers theory
of the war, expoubded to appauding audi
ence of New fork-that the Abolitionists have
given up all idea Of the Union and breathe only
slaughter and conquest and cOn6scation- Give
US the open foe, always! Him we know how to
meet: but defend us from the treacheious enemy
who asks for armstice. negotiation the
power of reason" Cancellation and eomDTo-
mise All we know too well what their
negotiation and reason NEAR. they mean intrigue,
bribery, ''spoils. "''log rolling" (Once more we
beg the readers pardon for employing this Yam
kee slang, which, like the ideas it expresses,
ought TO be left to our enemies exclusively and
for time we trembled lest those ancient Demo
cratic allies OF ours. who cheated us into conpro
misses for many year. should again have some
ehance of taking possession of their Government,
and should lay forth their tempting wares, which
they call reason and negotiation. We feared it,
because we have here also few copperheads and
blockheads. (alasl that we should say SOY and if
those ancient snake -charmers, the Democrats,
had come in, the rogues might have charmed our
coppe-heads and seduced our blockheads. Now
that sure they are effectually shut out and
the affairs of their country to be in the hands
of our worthy friends, the philan!hropists, (nos
amis les annemis why our rreconstructionists will
he ashamed and will hide their heads of copper.
Our blockheads will have chance to grow wise.
Even our towards will be brave.
Thank Heaven. it is open war, and war 20
the knife.