Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-01
The jeff. Davis Correspondence
Who re the Oisuni0nisfN,

The court organ has had great deal to say
lately about the JErF DAVIS correspondence
which was recently discovered upon his panta
ton in Mississippi and it has published several
letters which IL says were written by prominent
men years ago TO the now rebel President Sup
pose these letters express the sentiments which
the Journal charges. or the construction IT de
sires To place upon them. even then they fall far
between the disunion avowsls of the leading men
OF the party in power and the most prominent
Republican presses of the country Ii cannot be
forgotten that movement set foot in the
North some twenty FIVE years ago to dissolve the
Union-to make slavery and freedom the divid-
ing lines. and IL was advocated upon the ground
that the constitution was "sleague with hell
and covenant with death" in toleratng slavery.
For years petitions were sent from these people
10 Congress praying for q dissolution Of the
Union. and those who set on foot this movement
or sympathized with il, are now the leading
spirits of the party in power. These men we're
the original secessonists. aud to iay they would
be violently opposed 10 the Union a. they ever
have been. if il not for the hope that slavery
nav be abolished through the agency of the ter
rble civil war which the Journal said would be
greater evil than the loss Of dozen States
The men who have always been for the preserva
ton OF the Union. the central organ Of the Re
publican party of Indians now charges with dis
loyalty" but those who have ever been disunion-
is,s. tia, print transforms into loyal" citizens
What better is Northern dsunionist than
Southsrn secessionistg And if to entertain and
proclaim disanion sentiments. is treason, the
leading men of the Republican party are guilty
Of that crime. and the very men too who are
most fierce tor the summary punishment of those
whom they denominate traitors" The remark
that Christ made to the crowd who wished TO
punish the poor woman. will apply with equal
force these rampant Republicans. Let him
~ho is without -in. cast the first stone" Ii that
rule adopted. there would he but few eIecu-
TONERS found in the Republican party
We propose u give few examples of the Re
publican disunionists. and We have the proof at
band without going back later than 1860. In
that year. il will be recolected. there was Pre-
sidential election and the Republican party tri.
umphed. Immediately after the re-alt of that
election vas known. proposition came from the
leading Republican press for peaceful sepsra-
ton Of the States. The election was held on the
9th of November. and the 9th, three DAYS
sfterws ard. the following appeared in the Nes
York Tribune:
1.-THE Cotton States become satisfied that they
can do better out OF the Union than in IT, We inss,
EN- 90 I'M he n hi IN.
NAV he a revolutionary one. but il exists never
theless
We resist the right of any State TO remain
in the Union and nulify the laws thereof. To
withdraw from the Union quite another matter:
and whenever considerable section OF our Union
shall deliberately resolve 10 go out wc shall re-
sist all coercive measures TO keepit in We hone
never to live in government where one section
Is pinned to another with bayonets
The Tribune not only willing 20 let the
Cotton States withdraw from the Union hn, :,
pledged itself and its political friends to resis, Al,
eoercive measures TO keep them in On the 18th
OF November. the indianapolis journal reiterated
the views Of the Tribune Said the Journal
Thew know very we'll that, II they are determ
aimed to leave the Union. no Republican will
care 20 have them stay. A Union preserved
oay by Intimidation, and force. is a mockery. aid
il i better brok en- than whole. IL South Carolina
and her associates 10 folly really want to leave
the Union. they 90 without a ~or,i of obiec
ton from man north of Mason and Dixon's
line We do not believe 10 resisting
any secession movement. in the least
Again, on the 18Th Of the same month. only
nine days after the election Of Mr.. LINCOLN. i,
expressed iiself strongly against coercion:
There wall be ~ collision of hostile forces
unless she south Carolins) makes il. for the
people Of the North uH Hersr raise or use an
srmg 10 tores eHy State 70 stay IN the Uaion.
such an Union would combine all the burthens
OF Union and all the weakness If disunion Go
econ We regard AZ out OF The question in any
case.
Could JkET DAVIS L Co. ask for a more
polite invitation to walk out Of the Union. With
ever assurance TIA, there would be no effort pu,
cssb nor-lis by force 10 prsvsn, ,bs, g.