Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-23
to go, adding that he would do his best to for

to go, adding that he would do his best to for
ward their views"
A. whose door does the '.lie" rest7 In one
particular Mr.. Greeley has kept bis word. He has
done "his best" to get the slave States out of the
Union. and to keep them out. His great but
banelul influence has been potent in uniting the
SJuth. and in dividing the North.
Again, as TO his saying. in the darkest day of
the war, that we must tut down The rebellion in
"sixty days" or make peace on the best attain
able terms" summon Mr.. Greeley into Court as
a witness:
s.If three months more of earnest fighting shall
not serve to make serious impression on the
Rebels-if the end of that term shall find US no
further advanced than its beginning-if some ma
lgnant fate has decreed that the blood and treas
of the nation shall ever be sqnandered in fruit
less efforts-let US bow destiny. and make
the best aitlinable peace"
Though ninety instead of sixty days we're Civ
en- the Government to conquer the rebellion. be
fore blowing 10 our destiny and making 'sthe
best attainable peace" vet his argument was that
the battle then imminent under the auspices of
Gen. Burnside. would be decisive. His language
that in the conflicts then daily apprehended,
we must either "whip" or be whipped. and it
whipped" we must ..bow to our de tiny"
Mr.. Greeley. however, did not abide his own
time Tor his country's humiliation. for he rushed
Immediately into correspondence with the French
Minister and Mr.. Vallandgham for the chest 1T
tain lble peace"
Finally. upon this point. Mr.. Greeley's position
is:
1. He defended the fright of the cotton States
to dissolve the Union
2 He declared that If they chose to avail them
selves of that fright" any attempt to restrain
lem wouid be contrary to the ideas ON which
human liberty is based"
3. That he would do his best TO forward the
views" of slave States anxious to escape from
the Union
4 That it our Government. "at the end-of three
mouths earnest fighting" failed to subdue the
rebellion is duty would be TO make the best at
tainable peace
Now, / assert unhesitatingly, that for the ex-
preston of sentiments less disloyal and unSpeak-
ably less mischievous (for Mr. Greeleys disOs al
utterances reached and influenced hundreds OF
thousands) fifty men have found themselves in
Forts Lafayette and Warren. His craven, treach-
erous signal thrown 10 the enemy. encouraging
them to perseverance, for "three months" after
which we should "b9w to our destiny" will cost
US thousands OF lives and millions of treasure
IL is known that, comprehending, as early as
December, 1860. both the certainty and the for
midable character of the rebellion, endeavorel.
il il could not be averted, To at least its
boundaries. On this point Mr.. Greeley SAYS:
Mr. Weeds personal supervision-his elito
rial associates, even early the last of 1861,
the first of 1861 having felt constrained pub
liely To disclrim all participation in or sympathy
with Dir. Weed's amazing support OF Senator
Crittenden's called compromise. which in
volved surrender by the Republicans OF the main
distinguishing principle for which they had ever
contended."
was elrneStly in favor of proposition which
the loyal members of Congress from the Border
States agreed upon, and which would have tied
those ateS 10 the UniOn, thus narrowiag the rebel
lion to the Gulf aud Western Mississippi States
Aud as earnestly urgei. in the formation Of the
Presidents Cabinet, the selection of two of its
members from North Clrona and Tennessee. 50
that from the Mississippi to the Atlantic, tile
southern line of those States would be the from
tier OF rebellion.
These two objects, with all the advantages re-
sulting from them. we're defeated by Abolition
ism. For the long train of disasters and horrors
that followed, 10 the bereayed widows and Or
phans whose sibles darken the land. and to the
battered forms and broken constitutions Of the
thousands who are to drag out their existence
without legs or arms, the Greeeys, Summers,
Phillipser &c., are largely responsible
But Mr. Greeley dreads as the worst calamity,
an ..infernal compromise whereby this whole
country, bound hand and foot, shall he delivered
over TO the accursed slave power And vet,
what IS Mr. Greeley driving at but an "infernal
COMPROMISED" What but an "infernal compro
mise" was the object Of his letters TO M. Mercer
aud Mr. ValIandigham? What but an "infernal
compromise is .'the best attainable IeaceY' Is
Mr. Greeley demeute1, that he involves him
sell in such contradictions and absurditesl
| would not obtrude Mr.. Greeley or myself
upon the public attention for any mere personal
reason. | follow MIN uD because he has held
and abused mighty power. His teachings have
diseased the popular mind. His journal has per
yerted the judgment and misled the sympathies
OF the nation. His insolence has shaken and his
threats paralyzed the army aud the Government.
Ii is time that engine so potent for evil driven
by ambition, revenge and fanaticism, should be
either switched off, or deprived Of its motive
power. The New York Tribune. in first eneOur.
aging rebellion; in then agsravatng its horrors,
laboring steadily to unite the Snuth and divide
the North; and now, when courage aud fiielity
are more than ever needed. in demanding "the
best attainable peace" has done quite mischief
enough.