Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-26


Of lives and hundreds of millions of treasure in
North CarOlina, Virginia, Tennessee. and Ken
lucky, have reserved those troops and that treas
u-e 20 crush out rebellion in the cotton States.
The rebellIOn-as wanton and wicked as any
that stains the pages of history-thns embracing
more States than was necessary-has been nearly
two years in progress, with what measure of sue
cess and what promise of termination We can
Judge, one as we'll as another Its lessons teach
us that it requires all the strength of united
North to preserve the Union and uphold the
Government. We had at the commencement of
the war a united North The elimination of
treason, in its attack on Fort Sumter, kindled
blaze of indignant patriotism over the whole
North, East and West. A.. merely partisan
feeling merged in higher and nobler i'm
pulses All good and true men, in imitation of
their ancestors at Concord and Lexington, in
l776. rushed to contributed money.
Then we were. in the language of Mr.. Jefferson,
call Republicans-all Federalsts," or in other
language call Republicans-all Democrats"
For the first year the had, with few excep-
tons, the hearty support OF both and all political
parties. 1t prosecuted earnestly, but with
Indifferent success-with more heart than head
more zeal than knowledge. We had gallant
troops commanded by incapable Generals, made
so, probably by newspaper and other interference.
At any rate, the ill success of our armies caused
popular impatieuce, of which those whose ultra
anti-slaverv views enabled the secession leaders
to mass the sentiment of the cotton States
awaited themselves to impart an abolition charac-
/ ter to the war.
The evidence before us-in the rivers OF blood
tshed and he millions oil treasure expended-that
the preservation OF our Union and Government
demand the best and united energies and efforts
of the whole people. is vaiueless. What all
united haze so far failed to accomplish the AbO
ition chiefs and journals insist upon undertaking
| as a party They demand that the shall be
prosecuted under their auspices and for their pur-
poses. Mems opinions on the slavery question
must be heightened or shortened, in accordance
with PrOcrustean example.
These impracticable, one-idea lecturers and
journalists aided by the unfortunate "On to Rich
mond" military disasters, have already Withdrawn
| New York, New JERSEY, Ohio, Indiana and Hi
nois from the political support OF the Administra-
ten. Too MANY of the Democratic leaders IN
these Subsequently, in Ohio and Indiana
are of the VallandigImm school. This false,
dislOyal man, with shame be it confessed, found
sympathizing friends tn welcome and feast him
ata Secession hotel in the ty of New York
Still the masses of the Democracy, and most OF
their prominent men, are truly devoted To the
Union, and remain willing to contribute Their
money and peril their lives TO su tain the Gov
| eminent But in this there is no merit, unless
they adopt the anti slavery platform and accept
the dogmas of the New York Tribune.
Will those Of our old Wing friends, now SC
impatient with, and differing widely from, US
turn Their minds few years backward and re-
member what they then thought of Abolition
and what its course and action was? Was it not
narrow perverse and mischievOus? Did il moi
exert vicious and malign political influence
Did it not. for twenty years. at our elections
State and National, ever play into the hands Of
pro-slavery Democrats? While we were labor
ng for the right, doing all we could for the
Union and the country, were we not embarrassed
and thwarted by this fractions. impracticnblt
"third partyr Who were its leaders them
Messrs Garrison, Phillips, Sumner. Gerritt Smith
&c &c. Did we trust to their Judgment, or fol
low their lead, or vote with them then? Are no.
the same men, with Mr. Greeley fully developed
as a disciple the Abolition leaders now2 Have
they grown wiser or is your own intellec
dwartet. or has your common sense collapsed
If the North rejected Abolition as merely pot
cal test will it be accepted when the lives of Ou
sons and brothers and the preservation of Ou
country mvolved2 If we refused to follov
cone idea men" when it only cost votes shall
we commit all that is sacred and precious to thei
leadership?
We ask these questions now in view of tn,
concerted effort to narrow this mighty struggle
for national existence down TO an Abolition cru
SADIE We ask them in the hope of arresting
| popular ueluSlOn WHICH u utstNilp ltIS VI tuou
sands of patriotic, devoted men into vOrtei
which bodies inevitable ruin and destruction t.
themselves and their country. We ask them, Il
this moment, and in view of the studied attemp
to classify all who do not work up to their stand
ard, as enemies. And finally, we ask earnestl.
whether the experience OF the first year and
half of war; with all parties heartily engaged il
il, justfes the hope that the rebellion can b.
: crushed and the Union preserved with a unite'
. South and divided North2