Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-29
From the Newburypod (Rep) Herald, Sept 10, 1863
slavery as the ssCause OF the war
what n Massachusetts Republican
Paper Says.

Mr. Lincoln in his inaugural address used this |
language in regard TO slavery
81 do but quote from one of my speeches when
| declare that have no purpose, directly or IN
directly, to interfere with the institution OF
slavery i'm the States where it exists. believe
have no lawful right Ia do so, and have no IN
cIinstion 20 do so Those Who nominated and
elected me did so with full knowledge that had
made this and many similar declarations. and /
have never recantei hem
81 now reteraie these sentiments: and in doing
so | ony press upon the public attention the
most conclusive evidence of which the .se l.
susceptible that the property. peace and security
of no section TO he in snywise endangered by
the new incoming Administration. add. ton
that al! the protection which, consistently with
the Constitution aud laws, can he gwen, VIII he
cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully
demanded. for whitever cause-as cheerfully to
one section as 10 another
Admitting slavery to be the cause. then It
would still he question how Tar we could act on
it. Mr. Lincoln said he had no right, or inclini
ton. to interfere with IL This is the ground
that all statesmen have taken. from W arlington
tn Lincoln. There has been no difference OF
opinion here. E,ch State has the right 70 resu
late its own domestic concerns. and no other
State has a right 10 dictate. Having abolished
African slavery ourselves, IL the system be "A sin.
il was not sin; for, in sense. these States
we're to each other foreign countries We OF
Massachusetts have no right To question South
Carolina in relation To her domestic affairs more
than We have France. or England; Russia. or
China So il arranged by our fathefs; 40 "
was decided by the Constitution; so IL was writ
ten i'm the bend We have not reached a point
where any considerable number Of people will
declare that the Constitution is not binding upon
/ Us in time of war; for how curious then would
be the spectacle of twenty four States lighting TO
force the Constitution eleven States, when
they did not regard or execute II Themselves
! We have a written Constituton--the law of all
the States alike, and the law of all the people
from the President to the humblust citizen alike:
! Ii i binding in war as we'll 10 peace; II not.
/ republican liberty would be no more secure ~
! Amercl than in France.
Mr. Lincoln NAV have been right or wrong in
| his inaugural address; but whatever are the lin
! its Of the Constitution, there We must stop. and
I To those limitS--to the uttermOst verge against
! slavery which is a cursed system, we would go
liz il true there Is war power provided Tor M the
Constitution, by which in times OF great danger
local civil law must give way tO military suprem
acy and by the laws of war, the Communities
IN Chief NAV impress the services OF men, on
seize u e or destroy property AS the public safety
shall require But even then he eau only combs
cate property of persons within his military liue-
IL il an absurdity tn say that because war exist:
In one section the President NAV ttke that Occt
sion to produce revolution IN the industrial affair
of the whole nation. Within the lines OF hi
army he may abolish slavery, seize ships. DESTROY
towns OF otherwise change property; and slave
nv has been broken Up and will he extermn1le.
; wherever the army hold possession. Beyon'
their lines we have not and cannot affect on'
slave A proclamation j.. Mr. Lincoln told the
Chicago clersymeu like the POpe's built agan~
, | the comet five saw there can he no peace whit
{ slavery remains. is to utter what Is false Ose
seventy wears of trial under the Constitution
- ann
try more peaceful, more happy, more prosperou
than we're the United States: and they nigh
have remsined so till now AM forever, II We ha'
all agreed that slavery should be what our father
made it-a State Institution. create 10y and sun
iect 10 local laws Then the North would no
have troubled the South about what was none q
our business: and the nth would not hay
attempted TO claim for it:nationsl preroestive
\ IL was not the fact that slavery existed TIA
f m,d- war more than that the Ohio river exi>'
ed: but the further fact that neither section ~
: willing to Ierve it To its own fate and the la"'
7. We are not willing TO abide by the Corstituto
q As twas Slavery is the pretext. the subject {
. war not the cause Wecould have fought aooi
something else as we'll. If that had not existed
q and thirty wears be ore a rebellion attempte
n upon the tariff To hear some argue, We mig
l. suppoSe that war never occurred ull America
# slavery commenced il: and that removed ~
], other could not be in the future Slavery i OF
q one development OF eyl-its removal mSh' ~
~ make men better worse; for It II did not Grad
" cate original sin from the heart and lie and ,
4. troduce the millennium, the cause OF war-tl
influx of the hells upon earth-would still renal
Men NAV So 6x their thoughts upon one topic
To delude themselves vi h the idea thtt the 7
moval of some one evil would change the natu
OF man and return the earth TO it, Paradsic
condition The cause lles deeper-a0oll>h
- bells or prevent their infusion into the earth. a
~ YOU abolish the Cause of the var. ana noth'
-, else touches il: and that can be and will be on
when government j. founded. and laws are e,
-r cute,i. this grand platform-"Thou shalt 10
" the Lori thy God With all tbs heart. with all I
-, soul. with all thy mind. and with all thy strenc
'' and thou shalt love thy neighbOr thySel
God has made no other provisions for perman,
'N peace or tor a removal Of the causes of war.
The RADICAL DOcToRs THE UuoS.-I
or following are gems in thea way:
The Union as it gas is Pis=ed OUT