Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-14
D.plomaey and statesman


This may be true in one aspect of the case The
Administration. so Tar as developments are
male. seem to have ignarel our for sign rel tons
since il came into power. The Rep"Saican
leaders. if we1may 5e permitted to jSlae by re
suits, have no foreign policy. In every conflict
with foreign nations the administration has
yielded. IL surrendered MASON and SLIDELL
upon the demand of the British Government.
notwithstanding the Republican press and the
Republican orators declared in the most positive
terms that Admiral WILKES should be sustained
in his capture of the Trent and those arch traitors
from Republican sources against England for
permitting the Confederates to fit out privateers
in her ports, and that the continuance Of such
outrages would be regarded as a just act Of war,
bat we have daily accounts that the business is
increasing. instead of being stopped. LOUIS Ma
~PoLEoN, in total disregard of the fact that there
is such a power as the United States, goes quietly
but openly at work to subjugate Mexico. change
its government to a monarchy, and the Ad-
ministratiOn tamely submits to this VIC
lation of American policy. 1t is not
only the MoSRoE doctrine which is
thus overridden, but it places the commerce be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific States. which has
heretofore foun1 transit across Central America,
under the surveillance of a foreign power. Un
der any other Administration. would our Govern
ment have submitted to these humiliations. or
surrendered the control of a commerce which
would have largely contributed to the nations
prosperity, wealth and power? Commerce has
given to FL 81 md all her greatness. and she
never misses an opportunity to open new fields
to the commercial enterprise of her people. And
France desires the control of Mexico as a com
mercial foothold on the American continent. 1t
is a prize worthy the effort of a great nation to
secure, and while the party in power is d~evoting
the entire energies of the Government in The vain
attempt to subjugate its p~artizin opponents and
perpetuate party rule, LOUIS NAPOLEON gathers
the golden fruit
We noticed in some leading Republican paper.
a ew days ago. an enumeration of the triumphs
Of this Administration. among which it boosted
that it had again fastened upon the country a
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protective tariff. These two financial falIacies
the people, after years of fiery contest, had repu-
dated. and. just as the country had
settled upon a firm and safe COM
mercial policy which guaranteed enduring pros
peritv, it is made to give way to the exploded
theories of the past. If the scheme of the Ad-
ministration to conquer and hold the Southern
States as subjugated provinces. involving, as it
must. an immense drain on the national re
sources, should be successful, in addition to that
enormous burden upon the country, we have the
prospect of a financial crash, unequaled by any
previous paper bubble explosions. with all its at
tending evils. The present fictitious prosperity,
based upon a rapidly extending paper currency,
can not last long, and when the r~evulsion comes
the storm will sweep from power the short-sighted
politicians who have built their airy castles upon
an imaginary basis.
If the country had been directed by wise states
manship the evils now upon it, and those which
must follow. would have been avoided to a great
extent, if not altogether. The terrible civil
war, with its immense cost of blood and treasure
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serb the energies and resources OF the nation for
two years and a half, and still progressing with
the same gigantic proportions. The policy of
the Government, in both its external and inter-
nal relations, would not have been disturbed and
radically changed. threatening not only the sub
version of constitutional government and popular
institutions, but widespread financial disasters, if
the visionary and one idea men which abolition
ism developed had not obtained control and di
rection of our public affairs. That class, if per-
mitted to administer the government. will sacri
fee all our great national interests to enfranchise
a degraded race. utterly united for freedom
And the war is being prosecuted by them for that
single purpose, not to restore the Union or the
national authority over the States in rebellion.
If the latter had been the object there is no doubt
but that peace could have been attained long ago
on that basis. In December last, FERNANDO
WooD wrote to the President that there were
overtures from the South which. if entertained,
would result in the restoration of the old Union
The President declined to entertain them, as will
appear from the correspondence between those
parties, which are published to-day. A short
time ago ALEXANDER II STEPHENS, who. up to
the secession of Georgia, was devoted to the
Union, asked for a personal interview with Mr..
LIcNoLN, but it was rejected. A leading rebel
paper in the South says this overture
meant peace and Union, and il ~rejoiced
over the refusal Of our authorities to receive Mr..
STEPHENS on account of its hostility to such a
mission. If subjugation. or alliance with for
eign powers to prevent il. are the alternatives
presented to the rebels. can there be a doubt but
that they will prefer the latter? 1t is said that
the rebel Vice President is now on his way to
Europe to consummste an alliance with France.
Such are som of the fruits OF Republican
diplomacy and Republican craftsmanship We
trust that the evils which still further threaten
the nation may be averted by an overruling
Providence, for it has nothing to hope from
the men in power whose i~ntellects are bounded
by a single idea, and that one totally impracti
cable
abandonment o. theI5-inch Guns.
A correspondent of the Army and Navy Gaz
cite states that Admiral Dahlgren has sent a
requi sition TO he Ordnance Department for
eighty 300 pounder Parrot riled guns to. replace
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