Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-09
Prom The clarksburg VA Patriot.
The Radical Policy.


Ii there ever was a time when an honest desire
was entert ined by the party in power for res
t0ration OF the Union, such purpose. we fear.
has long since given way to the pressure OF the
radicals. No better exponent OF their views. DO
ADLER supporter Of their policy, wields pen. or
e'iits paper, than their mouth piece. the writer
of the Occasional" letters published in the Phil
adelphia Press The author is the owner and
editor OF the Press and the Washington Chron
cle, as well the Secretary of the United States
Senate la a recent letter of his 70 the Press, he
quotes disapprovineis the following from arti
Gle in the New York World:
"lf the Democrats in power the next four
years after the war. the relations between The
North and South will be put on such friendly
footing that vast armies and military expenditures
will become unnecessary"
He charges that such result would be the hu-
initiation .'of the great Northern people and the
oxidation OF the insolent Southerners Never
was a more partisan appeal to the baser passions
of the lowest order made by pot house politician
We had supposed that the re establishment of
friendly relations between the sections, doing
away with the necessity for ''vast armies and
enormous military expenditures" was precisely
what every loyal man and honest patriot desired;
that for this we had raised vast armies" and in
CURED enormous expenditures" il not for this,
what lighting fort
assumed loyal people" for whom he speaks are
not for the restoration of friendly relations be
tween the sections. According to their view, the
re establishment of friendly relations between the
North ard the South would be the humiliation"
of the former and the oxidation of the latter
Occasional :" and those whose organ he is it not
for the restoration OF friendly relations between
the sections are for vengeance-for the destruc
ton Of the rights of the States of the South, and
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know that a blow struck at the rights of South
ern State is violation of the Constitution. and
as much a blow at the Northern rs il is the South
ern States? Does he not know that it is as much
treason to violate the Constitution i'm the North
as il is in the South and that the waginr of a war
for the adjustment of slavery in The Southern
States Is in open violation of the Constitution?
Yet for this he tells us Union Leagues are
formed and magnfcen, demonstrations gotten
mp If his letter does not mean this. it has no
meaning in il We are unable to see the loyalty
of such sentiments. and look upon those who en-
terrain them the ieadieSt foes of the republic,
the worst enemies Of the Union
We never believed that the South could sue
coed i'm permanently dissolving the Union We
knew they could not If the Union Is DESTROY ed
il will be because oi the efforts of those whose
loyalty is OF the kind advocated by Occasional.
II ever the so called Confederate States exist as
an acknowledged uatipnsAN Nt1 VIII Owe lHeF
establishment rs a separate COnfederacy to the
radical policy advocated by Occasional" and
which was announced not long ago by Wendell
Phillips to be Liberty TO the slave DEATH TO
TUE UNION" We advocate no such docrine-
our loyalty is not of that kind. We know if
that be the war cry the latter alternative death
To the Union" is sure to be the result The first
will not and cannot be accomplished war
therefore. for such purpose must end in death
l..
ed bv respecting the Constitution. not he
maintained by violating that which is our only
bond Of Union nor can the Union exist without
the 9 MS iu'ion Loyalty to abolition Is much
treason LOYALTY 10 secession. both are violative
OF the Constitution and destructive TO the Union.
We are alike opposed To abolition to secession
Secession prefers diSunion to apprehended inter
ference with the right of property in slaves. Abo
lition prefers dsunion to the recognition of the
right of State to protect the relation of master
and slave With two such foes 70 contend against,
il is hard to perceive how the Constitution is to
be preserved and the Union restored, but that
they will be we do not for moment permit our
self to doubt We have never entertained dis
loyal thought, or uttered Gisloyal sentiment
All our hopes are bound up in the mamie nance
of the Constitution and the reconstruction of TIE
Union under it
In discovered country We have no hope: death
TO would be preferable to life in States dis
cordsDt bellgerent." We would gladlav lay
down our lie. if by doing could restore the
Union as it under the Constitution as It il, 30
that we could die in the belief that the Cnnstiiu
ton and Union OF the fathers with all the bless
ings they afforded would be enjoyed by our child
rem. That the Constitution aud the Union rs
they were will be in time again enjoyed by all
onr people we 10 not doubt The way that it
will be done, and the lime when, may not he
known to US. We cannot believe that He who
makes and unmakes nations, whose voice is
heard in the raging storm and whose form Is seen
upon the waters stilling the angry waves will
permit such country as this to be murdered in
cold blood, although the attempt is made by Abo
itionists and secessionists.