Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-01

There is much food for reflection in the fol
lowing remarkable article from late Richmond
paper:
From the Richmond Sentinel July a.
OF all the formal expressions of public opinion
which have come TO us from the United States,
we have noticed but one that has kind word for
the people of these Confederate States. True,
they all claim that we are one people with them
that belong TO the same country and the zane
government; aud, in short, are their brethren.
But the dominant party breathes out against us
nothing but slaughter and destruction. and de
nounces rs with as much demoniacal fury
"As all the fends from Heaven that fell,
Had pealed the banner-cry of He'll"
They intend to have us again by sheer brute
force They disdain the very thought of con
ceding much civil word to the uiie Reb
els" They intend to have US, that they may
crush and destroy US. They scout with fury any
compromise short of this They are filled with
rage at the bare mention of it, The rumor has
gone out that Seward thinks the time has come
when he NAV. with some hope try upon his
hypocrtical Establishments and his false preten
sions-never falser than when he Swears-never
less secure than when he pledges his sacred word
OF honor. But the very mention that Seward
proposes 10 address conciliatory words, no
matter how hollow and tire lcherouS, has thrown
his followers into parOxysm of rage, and they
denOunce Us
The meetings of the Democratic or peace party
have not gone far : this. They denounce the
war as wickedy and netliciently conducted and
they declare for peace "a the best means of
curing reunion. War they consider rs hopeless
To effect that object. But they have not in any
other instance that we remember, spoken as in
the New Hampshire Democratic Convention
presided over bv ex President Pierce, and doubt
less animated by his sentiments
The New Hampshire Democrats. addressing
the citizens of the COnfeieracv. pledge US that IL
We will come back into the Union. they will do
all in their power TO gain for such guarantees
will secure our safety This proposition We
believe 10 be as frankly made as il Is courteousy
expressed We believe II TO be an honest propo
siiion for Franklin Pierce and Willard illmore
and few others. have pursued course that
commands confidence in their sincerity. We
credit the simple word OF one of them sooner
than We would "a many oaths as could be sworn
in week by the men who promised that peace
should be preserved at Fort Sumter. and the ex-
isting status maintained. at the very time they
were sending thither the material OF war.
We respond. therefore, to the New Hampshire
Democrats with courtesy and respect But We
tell them wha, they must know, when we say 70
them that they are powerless 10 secure for US
those guarantees of which they admit the neces
sity. Less than three wears ago, when the late
Union was in the very throes of dissolution. the
States which now form the Coniederscy sought,
in the spiri, of conservatism and forbearance. 70
avoid disruption, With ala importantly that nov
seems 10 US amazing. We would then have &C
ceptei terms which our OWE better judgm eat told
Us were inadequate. and 70 which nothing but the
extreme reluctance to dissolve the existing order
of things could have reconciled Us. When we
look back at Il now. il makes tremble TO think
that We offered 20 take the Crittenden Compro
MISE IA
But Cancellation on our part was met only BY
contumely and defiance by the Republican ma
iOrity They were warned Of the necessity and
inevitable effect of the course they were purssipg
but they treated the warning with contempt and
scurrility
In that decisive hour the Democrats of New
HAMPSHIRE however willing. could do Us no
good
We had 10 take care of ourselves. Falling
back on our sovereign rights, and calling upon
God 10 vnicste ", We assumed 4 separate ma.
tional life. From that time the men who wilfully
DESTROYED the Union have been assailing us with
all The ensnery of destruction They have