Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-08
DAILY SENTINEL
! UNION III xUsT sE PSEsERvEo--IJ.'
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9


How Abofstienfsfs Forced ->eeesston4
The National Intelligence. In commenting
upon the means which the Abolitionists used -
force secession, remarks that sher the Southern,
States seeded they believed that any armed 4
sistance to their etdesvors would be contrary Il
the right Of rerolution as asserted in the Declii
ration Of Independence Il is known that ~
New York Tribune was a constant a. well n
earnest exponent OF this view and said mud
IN the winter Of Io61-6l TO justify the hopes !
the Southern agitators that they might at Ieas'
count on its aid in securing for them immunity
from Federal attack. As early as the 9Th I
November, 1869, when the secession storm val
brewing in the Southern heavens. the 1ribunf
said:
eff the cotton States shall become satisbe1
thar they can 10 better ont Of the Union than =
IT, We insist on letting them go in peace IN:
right To seceie nav be revolutionary one oC'
IL sxNsf- nevertheless We must efev
resist the right Of any State TO remain N n:
Cuion and resist ar nuify the laws thereof. IL
withdraw from the Union i quite another matte3
and whenever considerable section of ou3
Union shall deliberately resolve to 90 out, "a
an all resist all coercive measures designed ie
keen IL in We hope never TO live in Republic
whereof one section Is pinned TO the other D.:
bstonets :
Seventeen days afterwards, on the 26th Of Nos
vemb.r. Is6n. il held the following language:
IF the cotton States unitedy and earnestl
wish to withdraw peacefully from the Union, "
think they should and would be allowed TO do SGD
ANY attempt 20 compel them by force 10 remain;
would he contrary to the principles enunciated 4
the immortal Declaration Of Independence. conf
trary TO the fundamental ideas on which humal
liberty is based"
On the 18th Of December following. when tn,
secession storm had come 70 head. and war
bursting over South Carolina. the Tribune said;
lift (the Declaration of INDEPENDENCE JUST,
fed the =ece-~ion from the british Empire o,
three millions of colopists in l1I6. IRE do NOT SCI
schs II uo1ld NOT Justify the sseession Of IRE nHi
oas Of Soaf.r0ns from the Union ia 1851
Aud after all the cotton States had "seceded'
on the 23d OF February, 1861. it still held owe
them the spirit OF the Declaration of lndepend
ence. under th,t date il said:
ave have repeatedls said, and we once NOR
insist that the gre q principle embodied by Jefer
son in the Declaration Of American Independence
that governments derive their just power iron
the consent of the verDed. is sound and Ju-t
and that if the slave States the cotton States. %
the Gulf States only choose for an independent
nation, they have a clear moral right 20 do 80
Whenever il sball be clear that the grea
body of the Southern people have become con
claSiveIy aIiensted from tie Union. and anxiou
10 escape from il, We will do our best to iOrwar
their views"
IL was not only the Tribune that expresse
these sentiments and made these pledges. Tb
leading Republican papers promised the dissati'
fei States that IL they insisted upon secessio
80 forward their views" upon the ground tha
thew had "a clear moral right" to form an indie
pendent nation if they chose to do so. The Oh
cago Tribune. Mr. LrScoLSs organ; the Ind
annapolis Journal, Governor MoRros's organ; ii
Cincinnati Commercial. Mr.. CHAsEs organ; Il
Buffalo Express. Mr. SEwARD's organ; and var
Gus Others we could name. made the promise
aid and comfort To the Southern dsorganizers
their schemes of separation. All of these pspe
have backed down. We believe, from the postIo
that the cotton States. the slave States. the Gu
States hid not only the moral right to separa
from the Union, but also from the proffer of a
If they desired to go. In this respect they ha'
been treacherous to their Southern allies and q
latter have a right to complain of those who d
cIared that to- compel them to remain in
Union which they regarded as oppressive
them, would be contrary to the ideas on wh'
human liberty is based.