Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-26
The Opinions OF Judge Perkins, Pub
iicly Expressed, ON the Questions
Between the south and the AboIi-
tioutsts of the North, IN Chronolog.
icaI Order.

In his speech at Richmond September 25th.
1860, he said: What the South now wants is,
not aid in extending slavery into new territory,
but the enforcement of constitutional guarantees
to protect it where it is-;hey want the crusade,
"the irrepressbe conflict, against them hushed
they want to be left in the quiet enjoyment of
their political and social rights, undisturbed by
Northern fanatics, emmssaries and fllibusters.
These wants the Democracy will give them; the
Republicans will not"
Again: II cannot vote for them, [the Republi-
can State ticket for that would be sanctiouing
the unholy crusade against our Southern breth-
rem and give aid to their election, THAT is. the
Republican State ticket which should regard
as National calamity, inasmuch as it would
send forth the shocking impression that Indiana,
so long and Justly honored as a reliable con-
servative Union State. an immovabe bulwark
against the surge OF Northern fanatcism, had, i,
at last, succumbed To its dark and turbd, may
say its bloody, tide II Fugitive Pieces. &c, pp.
and g.
In April, 1861, he wrote:
The war, as | said before. il to enforce the
tcrfltOTF
that has revolted from it.
The case is this: The Republican party came
INTO power upon platform threatening. as the
South thought. to their constitutional rights.
Some of the Southern States, in fear, attempted
TO withdraw from under the government of that
party. That party refused to secure the exercise
of the jurisdiction of the Government over them
by giving them guarantees that their rights
should be respected but resolved to enforce il by
Tlo., al. - l..
and other still more powerful States joined them
in leaving; and now, we have said. this war is
to enforce by the sword that Jurisdiction over the
seeded territory that might have been secured
by amendments TO the Constitution, or agree
ments to adopt amendments And now theques
ton arises, what is the duty OF Democrats in
these exigenciesg
Is it to aid or countenance the South in seces
siong Most surely not The South can have no
support from the ever Union loving Democracy
of the North. in any attempt 10 leave the Union
Hence. the Democracy can never consent to the
acknow ledgment of her independence. Never,
never. There is no necessity for the dissolution
of the Union. The two sections composing il
can live harmoniously and prosperously together.
if both will do right
Let the Union Democracy, then, adhere TO the
standard which floats upon It's folds, Just guaran-
tees to the South, 10y amendments to the Consti-
-
Congressional Recommendation, and State adOp-
ton, the means of ending the war. and restor-
ing iraternal union. Let such terms of peace be
at once offered to the South
Is it said that the South should first ask for
terms2 She has doue 80, time and again She
asked them in the next Congress after Lincoln
elected; she asked them in the Peace Con-
ference; she asked them in the Border State Con
yentiOn. The Republicans have obstinatey re-
fused all terms of compromise and peace.
May 5. 1862, in article. published in the
Daily Sentinel of May 7, 1862, under the head
ing "Tl proposed Union Party" he wrote in
the conclusion of his article:
IL will not 20 into such a Union but there is
one that am willing to go into; one appropriate
10 the exigencies of the times; one that has some
thing practical in it for the salvation of the
country, and our old, great and glorious Union.
Ii is this: A Union with all men, with Repub
lcans even. upon platform as to the terms of
settlement with the South, conquered-as to the
rights which are to be secured to her-the priv
eges she is to be allowed 10 enjoy, &c. IL the
Republicans had come forward with a call for a
convention OF all the lovers of justice, good
fellowship and fraternal feeling between the
North and the South, upon platform declaring
that the latter were not to be robbed Of any of
their rights; that their slaves should not be
taken from them; that their property should not
be coniscated, and that guarantees should be
given to them to this effect and that conserva-
tive men should be nominated who honestly held
these views to carry them out, would, with
alacrity, unite with the Republicans in such a
convention
/ close this with an extract from the lst volume
Of SCOTS Life of Napoleon, p lis. He says:
aft was the will of Providence that the ex-
perience of twenty years and upward should make
manifest. that in the hour of victory itself, con
cessions to the defeated as far justice demands
them. is the only mode of deriving permanent
and secure peace
liz an article under the head of Political His
tory" found in the Weekly Sentinel of October
ID. 1862. and in the daily previous to that date.
he wrote:
In 1879 Missouri applied for admission into
the Union. She was slave State: and as her
knock at the door for leave to come in was heard
by the sanctimonious Puritan cf the East he cried
out TO her, in piOus cant, that she could not come
in while she was guilty of the sin of holding ne
groes as slaves. To this proposition the South
erner objected. He insisted upon letting her
come in He said this Union was formed upon
the platform of non intervention by the General
Government in the internal affairs of the States:
thai they were ali equal 10 tile ewes of the Con-
federation and that the North WAS to let slavery
alone. excep; withu her own several States, where
it might be established abolished as those
States severally should see fit The controversy
then arising spread wild till at length il convulsed
the nation. Ii was carried in the North by
Abolition societies, papers, petitions, &c. Ii
continued to rage upon the general question OF
slavery, with more or less violence, till 1880,
being all the time resisted and held in check
by that great Democratic party, nov so meanly
slandered disloyal by those who have here.
tofure made it, extreme devotion to the Union
matter of ridiculo
Now, what was the cause OF all this? Why,
slavery And the trouble was that the Abo
litionists would not let il alone What were
Abolition societies formed in the North for but
TO make slavery in the Southf What
were Abolition papers established ia the North
forg What we're Abolition petitions sent to Con
gre<s forf Why. 10 make slavery in the
South. Slavery was the cause OF these because
il furnished the suffice; for Abolition meddle-
somenesS anil the trouble produced in the couD
trv WAS from the Tact ihst the North would not
let slavery alone. This j. e,sily eamprehended.
The apple in the Gaiden uf Ellen the cause
of sin because Eve could u, let il alone. And
wish here to ss,v that the iFritasiag abuse heaped
upon the public men ard institutions of the
Southern States by Northern Abolition papers
and publications. in deno1ncng them as barbar-
Gus. wicked, thievirg murderous, &c, III the
style OF Sumner. aud by sending among the
slaves of those States iucendiary documents
melting them 10 rapiue aud murder. were out
RACES upon the Southern people, which the Gov.
ernments of the Northern States. by the rules OF
international law we're bound to punish and pre-
vent, as political libels be guilty OF the charge
of bad faith toward those States. This is be-
cause the States, 10y neslecting to punish, aprsr
emily sanctionej the libel.
Again-the same article:
And on Friday. (hangms.n's day May ls, 1860,
Al, lincoln N AZ uominafei M Chicago. for Pres