Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-13
From the Columbus COhio) Statesman
The Conspirators Against the Union,
North and South. -.r.


One of the signs of the times, the significance
of which no man can mistake. is that truly patri-
otic Union men, North and South, who desire a
restoration of the Union on the basis of the Con
stitation, and the consequent cessation OF this
murderous and desolating war. are equally the
objects of ridicule and persecution by the ex-
treme men of both sections.
The extreme men in the SOuth-the Rebel Sc
cessonists, who constitute the fierce and uncon-
stitutional war party in that section, denouuces
in the Ditierest terms the Northern men who dc
sire a restoration of the Union founded by the
fathers, and maintained by jefferson, jackson,
Clay and Webster These slanders, the unceaS
ing ridicule and bitter reviling of Northern Dem
ocrats and conservatives in Rebel newspapers,
are quoted and paraded by the ultra Abolition
organs as evidence of the hatred of Southern peo
pie to Northern men who are for settling this ter
rible conflict of arms upon the basis of the Goa
stitution and its guarantees the several States.
The Rebels and the Abolitionists agree in this,
that neither desire the restoration of the Union as
il existed for over seventy wears, and both ridi-
cnle and prosecute the men who do desire and
labor for such restoration. They are in mutual
sympathy, and labor TO the same end-the de-
struction of the Union and the overthrow Of the
Government.
There is but one way TO foil the extremists.
North and South, in their common plot TO com
pass the destruction of our National Union and
National Government, and that is, for those who
sincerely and earnestly desire the restoration and
maintenance of both upon the old platform of the
Constitution to unite and place the political power
in the States and in the General Government IN
the hands of such men as will honestly and ener-
getically carry out their views. This can and
must be effected at the ballot-box, and unless il
is DONE the destruction of our glorious Union and
the overthrow of our Government and free insti
tutions by the combined action CT fierce Rebels
and mad ultra Aboltionists, is as certain as the
rising of the sun to- morrow morning. A reac
ton begun in the North in favor Of the Union and
Government upon the basis of the Constitution.
will be followed by one OF a similar character
and equ.Ily potent in the South.
With the wane of ultra Abolrtionism in the
North, rsbid Secessionism will sink down in the
South The fire of rebellion in the latter sec
ton has been fed and intensified by its Abolition
co workers, who seek to nourish and keep IL Wig
orously alive until they have "crushed out" not
the rebellion but slavery by means of an interim
nable war of raysge and determination. The
spirit of the Northern radicals the Southern FIRE
eaters like, and help them to make the war more
cruel, sangunsry and bsrborous. IL such men
continue to sway both sections, what the general
result will be it requires prophet to foretel II
is for the people TO say at the ballotbox whether
the conspirators against the Union and the free
dom, peace and prosperity the whole country has
heretofore enjoyed, shall accomplish their mad
designs. s -. s.riss i.i ts.i.-r d rlr'