Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-09
The Horrors Of civil War.

In 20 DAYS issue give the savage speech
Of JIM LAVE. at Lelvenworth. Kansas, advising
he most barbarous measures in retaliation for the
outrages committed by QuASrRILL and his band
in their foray upon Lawrence Mr. United
States Senator LANE, leading spirit in the
Republican party. recommends the people of
Kansas TO organize military band for the
purpose of discriminating the inhabitants of six
codnties in Missouri. adjoining the former State.
without reference TO age. sex or condition. regard
les of their political views sympathes. and
TO thoroughly devastate the country. sweeping
over IL with the destruction of prairie FIRE.
According to the census of 1850, il appears
thst The counties which LANE recommends the
people of Kansas thus to devastate, through the
agency OF volunteer bands unauthorized by law or
the constituted authorities. contained population
of some 5000. Unoffending. unsrmed. aged
and helpless citizens. and innocent women and
children. with the spirit of savage LANE recon-
mends TO be exterminated to atone for wrongs
for which they not only gutless. but from
which they would shrink with instructive horror.
While QusSrRrLL the SCHOLAR and associate Of
LANE. and his coniederates deserve the most
conIign punishment for the infamous outrages
they committed ut Lawrence. is i'll becomes the
men who committed deeds Of similar atrocty to
recommend and urge the retaliatory measures
az Leavenworth.
The terrible tragedy at lawrence and the re-
tsliatory measures proposed by LANE are some
OF the horrors of civil war which the editor of
tie Journal so forcbly foreshsdowed would re-
suit from an armed conflict between the people
of this nation. In depicting the very scenes
which now occurring, the editor OF that print
said:
We can imagine no evil equal to an American
civil war. The separation OF the whole Confed
erscy into independent nations would be harmless
besIue u. We can not endure the thought OF It.
Can language be more expressive in portraying
the terrible evils now upon the country
IL must not be forgotten in this connection
that the leading Republican prints. such as the
New York Tribune, the Indianapolis Journal,
the Chicago Tribune, the Cincinnati CONNER
cial. the Buffalo Express. and Others of that
class. after the election of Mr.. LINCOLN IN 1860.
repeatedly declared their entire willingness TO let
the dissatisfied States Withdraw from the Union
and pledged themselves TO resist all coercive
measures to keep them in. Said the Journal:
They know very we'll that. il they are determ
ined to leave the Union. no Republican will care
10 have them stay. Union preserved only by
intimidation and force, is mockery, and il is
better broken than whole.
The Chicago Tribune said:
Mo man knows what public policy NAV de
mand of the incoming Administration; but the
drift of opinion seems To be that. If pesceable
ce>sion Is possible. the retiring States will be as
sisted go. that this nee iless and bitter contro.
versy may he brought TO end 1t the Union
is To be dissolved a bloodess separation is by all
means to be coveted Do not let US make that
inn ossible
Yet with such declarations staring them in the
face. these 10 ais are the most extreme in d,-
mai di & the prosecution of civil war, which
they declared the separation of the whole Con-
seierscv into independent nations would be
harmless beside it. and approve the savage bar
barities suggested by LANE in his Leavenworth
harangue Can there be more Startling evil
dence presented Of the moral and political de-
pravity Of the times than the instances 10 which
re have referredl What hope for the country
when such spirit prevailsG