Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-31
Alarmed.


The Journal Is very much alarmed over some
resolutions presented to the Senate by Messrs.
WoLyE and BRowx IL saws Of the latter: This
measure. II passed gill take our State out Of the
Union as surely an ordinance OF secession. IL
" an ordinance Of secession. II was meant TO
be Now what is the substance of the resoiu-
tons Of Senator Bnowsf They call for an,
srmi-tice aud a Convention Of all the States for
the adjustment Of our National difficulties. A
request i made Of Congress to call such Con-
vension. but in case Of It's failure 10 DO so, the
people Of every State Of the Federal Union. in
GLIDING the so-calei Confederate States, are in
vtei to meet the delegates Of Indiana in Con
vention At Nashville. the lst day Of June,
1863, with view 10 the restoration OF
the Union, with all the dignity,
equality and rights of the several
states unimpaired." In case the Administration
and majority Of Congress refuse 70 call con
vention Of all the States to adjust our national
troubles. have not the people a right TO do sol
The yosrHsfs idea Is that the Cabinet. a ma
jority in Congress is the Government We admit
no such doctrine. This Is a Government OF con
sent. and the people are the rightful source OF
power. The representatives Of the people are
not the Government The Constitution says.
I'VE. the people Of the United States. do ordain
and establish" &c. But the Journal says il is
firmly convinced that an armistce aud national
convention, with a view 20 the restoration of the
Union, are measures Ito take Indiana out of the
Union" IL pronounces it to be "plain. direct
TO be pitieI for his alarm over Indiana being
thus taken out of the Union. A stranger
e,ding the ar,icla would suppose that the Journal
man expected To wake up some morning ere long.
and find the State. himself and all quietly float
ins down the Mississippi into Dixie. All this
comes from paper that two ye,rs ago was advo
eating a dsse.a,on Of the Union the best thing
that could happen for the North. The theors
then that the right Of revolution existed
when any State, any number Ut States, c"n
cluded that continuance in tn. Union was no
longer desirable, or that il injurious to their
interests. IL also declared that secession was
revelation. and that the secession of South Caro-
lima was dissolution of the Union. 1t was in
favor of peaceibIe separation Of the States
letting all the States that desired TO leave the
Uni,n go ia peace IL regarded civil war as
worse evil than the loss of a dozen States, and
most decidedly opposed Union which could only
be held together by bayonets. If the Journal
was honest in its expressions two years ago, it
certainly should not object to armistce. to the
stoppage OF civil war which it said worse
evil than the loss of dozen-States, and the call
ing of convention to adjust national troubles
with view to the restoration Of the Union. 1t
certainly cannot. unless it is in favor of dsso
luton Of the Union. That is the only ground
npon which il consistently object to the reso
lutons of Messrs. woLFE and BRowS, for the OBJ
ject of both of them il not to "take Indiana out
Of the Union, but Ito restore the Union with all
the dignity. equality and rights of the several
States unimpared.'' We cannot see even a
sqnint at secession in resolutions having such an
object in view, and object to them uD-
less he il a disunionst per Sc.