Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-07


leading Republican press for peaceful separa-
ton Of the States The election was held on the
9th of November, and on the 9th, three days
afterward, the following appeared in the Ne#
York Tribune:
Ifthe Cotton States become satisfied that they
can do better out OF the Union than in it, we insist
on letting item GO in peace. The right to secede
may be a revolutionary one, but it exists never
theless.
We must resist the right Of any State to remain
in the Union and nullify the laws thereof. To
withdraw from the Union Is quite another matter;
and whenever a considerable section of our Union
shall deliberately resolve to go out, shall
sist all coercive measures to keep it in. We hope
never to live in government where one section
is pinned to another with bayonets.
The Tribune was not only willing to let the
Cotton States withdraw from the Union. but it
pledged itself and its political friends to resist all
coercive measures to keep rhemin. On the 18th
of November. the Indianapolis Journal reiterated
the views of the Tribune. Said the Journal:
They know very well that, if they are determ
mined to leave the Union, Republican will
care to have them stay. A Union preserved
only byintimidaton and force, is a mockery, and
it is better broken than whole If South Carolina
and her associates 10 folly really want to leave
the Union, they can go without a word of objec
ton from any man north of Mason and Dixon's
line We do not believe in resisting
any secession movement. in the least.
Again, on the 18th of the same month, only
nine DAYS after the election of Mr.. LINCOLN, ;t
expressed itself strongly against coercion:
There will be no collision of hostile forces
unless she (South CaroIna) makes it. for the
people of the North iou neUer raise or use an
army to force any State 10 stay in the Union.
Such an Union would combine all the burthens
OF Union and all the weakness of disunion Co
ercon'' we regard out OF the question in any
case
Could JEFF. DAVIS < Co. ask for more
polite invitation to walk out of the Union with
every assurance that there would be no effort put
orth morally or by force to prevent them fro m
leaving staying out after they had left? But
the Journal went further against coercion than
this 1t opposed to civil war. even if to pre-
vent il, it should become necessary to separate
the whole Union into independent nations We
quote from that print of the 18th of November.
the following intense expression against the evils
of civil war, which it prophesied would result
from any attempt to coerce the dissatisfied States
to remain in the Union:
We can imagine no evil equal to an American
civil war. The separation of the whole confed-
eracy into independent nations would be harm
less beside il. We can not endure the thought of
it. The main question, therefore, is not the
constitutionality of secession, but the blood and
horror OF coercion Will coercion produce civil
war? To our mind it is beyond question. But
this is not the only why secession, if it is
l. L. L..
If coercion means anything. it means to preserve
the Union. Ofwhat value will an Union be that
needs links of bayonets and bullets to hold it
t0getherf What better off shall we be with
South Carolina in the Union than out
of it, if she is to tester with the
wound inflicted by hands. chafe with the
memory of defeat and degradation, and seek the
first opportunity of revenge? Is family better
off with member in il who has to be watched
perpetually to keep him from firing the house?
We say no. Common sense and humanity cay
no. If any State WILL go from US, let ir go.
The price of retaining it. if It is to be paid in
blood. is far greater than the worth OF it when
we have got 1T. We are, therefore, clearly of the
opinion that any attempt resist by force the
secession of any State, or combination of States,
from the Union, would be unwise and calamitous
in the last degree 1t is better to preserve lives.
and all of friendliness cin with seeding rela-
of war.
The Buffalo Express. the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading
papers. now supporting the Administration and
its coercve policy. expressed views similar to the
New York Tribune and the Journal. As still
further evidence of the willingness of the Re
publican leaders to consent to peoceable sepa-
ration of the States, we quote the following from
the Chicago Tribune of December 1. 1860:
Not few of the Republican journals of the in
terror are working themselves up to the belief,
which they endeavoring 10 impress upon their
readers, that the seeded States he they few or
many. will be whipped back into the Union. We
caution all such that in language of that they
are now adding new fuel to the Same which is
already blazing too hercely: and that the proba-
bilities are that the result will prove them to
be false pruphets. No man knows what public
policy may demand OF the incoming Administra
tion but the drift of opinion to be that, If
peaceable secession is possible. the retiring States
will he assisted to CO. that this needless and bitter
controversy may be brought 10 an end. If the
Union is to be dissolved bloodless separation is
by all means to be coveted. Do not let us make
that impossible
| 1t is mistake. said Mr.. LINcoLx's organ. to
suppose that the seeded States will be whipped
back into the Union. otherwise "the retiring
States will be assisted to 60" This is strange
language to come from those who are now en-
gagged in advocating the prosecution of civil
war, the-most gigantic ever known, to whip back
/ the retiring States.
Comments unnecessary. Is there further ev-
L
idence needed to show tbat the Republican party
in 1860 and 1861 was the disloyal party-the dis
union party, and that il was the expression of
such sentiments have quoted from the lead
ing Republican press which gave encouragement
and strength to the rebellionl
The Reason.