Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-12-14

tion.-lNew York World. EHHw
Work for the Future.
We must not permit our enemies to misrepre-
sent our real issues. We must not let them i'm
press on the public mind, BY dint Of often repe
thon, false ideas in regard TO what they call the
" Peace" party.
We do not ask, or recognize as possible, con-
stitutonally, what the Puritan abolitionists aim
at. They aim, in the North. at the same thing
that Jefferson Davis party, at the South. are
working for $50
Jefferson Davis and his partisans do not want
the war to stop soon, even by the recognition of
their Confectionery. We know from men devoted
to the Southern cause, active in their battlefelds
and Influential among the Southern people. that,
were the Northern war on them to be stopped
we're the Democratic principle to be anckowl-
edged by the North that the war ought not to be
made on States-were the Southern people to
feel sure that no more war was to be wsged on
their institutions, in the la of the Federal DOW
er of the United States-the domination of JEFF
ferson Davis Government could be counted by
months. Having achieved once more their CON-
mon independence States, which was the sole
object of their forming the Southern Conledera-
cy. each State would cheerfully resume the tenn
porary powers delegated to Mr.. Davis Confed-
eracy. States rights is the political genius of
the people of the Southern States. jefferson
Davis knows il so well that he desires to protract
the contest till the Southern States will have be-
come. AS he hopes, accustomed by usage TO a
centralized rule. Hence be fosters and endorses
Generals like Bragg and Pemberton. while gen.
fuses like Beauregard and Price are thrown into
bye plays. The Incompatible jackson he kept,
till the day of his death, in subordinate position
and Lee. whom he trammels. he would still keep,
as he once tried to do, a. partisan fighter. with
men armed with squirrel rifles, on impracticabIe
mountains, except that Virginia would not sub
NIT to such caprice
We fully believe now, what we have long sus-
pectcd, that IL is Jefferson Davis's policy TO pro-
tract the war, despite of Undesirable suferings
oil the Southern people. in order 20 consolidate
bis new rule-to cement il in Southern blood.
The Puritan abolition game. as revealed by
Seward in his cups and hiccOughs at Auburn, is
substantially parallel The Puritan game is to
protract the war till the period of another Presi-
dental election is passed, which is to be decided
not by the people. but by the army. Then to
recognize the Southern Confederacy, on whatever
terms. and to employ TIE army, now become a
veteran machine, in the subjugation and enslave-
ment of the people of the North
North and South, this is the one inevitable re-
suit of protracting the war.
The sole Democratic plan would defeat the
conspirators in both sections Stop the war at
oncel Howf By recognizing the Confederacy3
The Federal Government have no power 10 do
this The Federal Generals have no such power
except by a revolutionary act This is what
Davis organs ask. They want Lincoln to re-
cognize the Davis Confederacy, when the time
comes.
We want the military power, on both sides, 20
agree to step fighting. To aGree to respect, in
the meantime, the respective buntings called
flags, till the people of each sovereign State shall
have, by their decision, agreed to some compro
mise, or else pronounced for a renewal of war
for reasons that rational men can understand.
Let US not permit our unreasonable but mali
cious enemies TO misrepresent true Democrats.
1t is not that we oppose, but an unreasona-
bic. an illogical, an unconstitutional, IN un-
American The Federal Constitution re-
fused to the Federal Government any power to
coerce, or to make war on States. Let us look
the fact in the face. that except as an intruder
and a usurper, the Federal Government has
lapsed, and that the dissolution of the Union has
been followed, as all great statesmen saw it must
be followed, by war between the States In
this war Southern States combined and called
themselves Confederate States. Northern States,
holding, by virtue of fagitious sectional cleo
ton, the machinery of the late Union, cling to
the name of United States. Ii is an old name,
but new thing Ii means the States that unite
on New England ideas. It's true name would be
1.-THE Puritan Commonwealth"
Now, it is of prime importance to have the
minds of the people of the different States en-
lightened on the true issues. By and bye, if we,
if our friends, do not bestir themselves in the
propagation of the truth, it will he too late. TIE
puritan Commouw ezlth," when fully establish
ed, will permit views to be published not ema-
mating from themselves We have been be-
logged. and betrayed. by trusting to professed,
not real friends. The men with whom Governor
Seymour is now acting are part and parcel of the
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quarrel bitterly with their Puritan brethren. Pu-
ritans always do But they are "War Demo-
cratsi-as thoroughly so as John A Dix. John
| Cochran, John Van Buren,. and the rest of the
free soil Johns that lift their eyes to the orient Of
New Englandism. The quarrel between them is
not about the butchery, but about who shall have
the hides and tallow OF the Federal butcher shop.
In this the people can have no interest. Let
the butchers settle their disputes among them
selves.
lu this, Democratic principles have no inter-
est, and true Democrats only mourn that
they have been betrayed.
Dark days are before us. But, yet. couragel
Human society is the work of God, and He pro-
tects His own. On this soil the principles of
American Democracy, and they only, can sue
coed Once more. we cry, Enroll, organize, ed
ucate! No man, now. is to be trusted AS Dem
ocrat. till you have taken him apart, read to him
the simple political catechi>m OF Democracy,
be sure that he understands it. and then re-
quire from him the avowal asd promise that be
will be faithful to II, and maintain it. When he
has done this, enroll his name. AS names null
tiply thus, organize yoIr men by tens, in hun
dreds. Then call these hundreds often together,
in their hundreds and instruct them, and fortify
them. In Democratic principles There is an as
ISOLATION engaged in doing this. IL is widely
spread. IL operates quietly anddeterminedly, in
many of these Northern States. Ii invites, now,
the co operation of all like minded. "ln union
is strength" and il will be well for all Demo
cratic organizations throughout the country, who
appreciate the thoroughness Of the work to be
DONE and have the earnestness TO engage in il. 70
act on a common plan. This viii be at the same
time safeguard a.sainst excuses and unlawful
acts, provoked by oppression, but foolish, because
proftleS to any public good.-[N. Y. Freemans