Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-20
Republican LOgic-whO is he
SDOnSiDle

Republican LOgic-who is he
sPOnsibIe!
The Vincenes Gazette, in referring to a Demo
cratic paper, which it says is a fair type or repre-
sentative of the Democratic party, inquiries
did any of you ever see in its columns any
plan suggested for putting down the rebel
lion 2"
Do the Republican officials consult and advise
with the Representatives of the Democratic party,
those recognized as such. in reference to the
means to be employed in putting down the rebel
lion During the extra session Of Congress in
1861. the Democratic Representatives. who were
voting all the men and all the supplies and all
the laws asked by the Administration for the
prosecution of the war, we're not taken into the
councils of the President or the leaders of the
Republican party to advise in reference to the
dangers and difficulties of the Government.
Never has an Administration been treated more
generously by en opposing party than has the
present. From the commencement of the strife
in Congress and every State Legislature. the
Democracy have voted the most liberal supplies
to prosecute the war, which was under the sole
control and management of the party in power
Under such circumstances, what ~propriety in
asking whether the Democracy have suggested
any plans for putting down the rebellion ? Their
advice was not asked by the party in power, nor
would their councils have been needed. Fully
equal, to say the least, to the Republican party
in numerical strength, they had not the power
in either tho laui=lativa mr. tho aAr,ipssf-a4,u.
branches Of the Government to carry out n plan,
even if they had proposed cone. What mockery
then to ask, whether they ever suggested any
plan to restore the national authority and unity ?
What did Mr.. LINCOLN and Mr. SEWARD say
to the country during the winter of l66O-6l? Did
not the former repeatedly declare that the crisis
was an artificial one. and the latter predicted, in
a speech at a dinner, in New York, in December,
1860, that the then impending troubles would
pass away before the expiration of sixty days
And how many times since the fall Of Sumter,
has the country been promised that the rebel
lion would be put down in the succeeding ninety
days? Richmond was TO have been captured by
the 4th of July. 1861. The country being thus
assured of the early overthrow Of the rebellion.
and Of the most ample means having been Sc
cured TO accomplish that desired result, why
should the Democracy be tainted now with not
having suggested any plan for putting down the
rebellion, especially when their advice was Meth
er asked or desired by the party in power ?
This is one view of Republican logic. Let US
look at another side. The Republican papers
and oraters constantly charge that the Democra-
cy sympathize with the rebellion, and t.lat the
only hope the rebels have for success, finally. is
through and from the Democratic party of the
North. The Richmond Enquirer. the leading
organ of the Confederate cause. in unmistakable
language, takes an opposite view of the matter,
and pronounces the Northern Democracy the
worst foe of the South. 1t says
4" To be plain, we fear and distrust far more
these apparently friendly advances Of the
Democrats, than the open philanthropists of
Massachusetts That Democratic prrty was al
ways our worst enemy; and but for its poisonous
embrace, these States would have been free and
clear Of the unnatural Union twenty years ago.
IL Is nos the Stewards and Summers, tine Black
Republicans and AbolitiOnists. who hayehurt US"
And yet Republicans, in the face of such tes-
timony, the men whose only desire is that the
war shall be so conducted as to advance partisan
purposes, haunt the lie. day after day, that the
Democratic party sympathize with traitors and
rebellion. For two years the party in power has
been prosecuting the war upon a gigantic scale;
gigantic not only in the forces and agencies EN-.
ployed in its prosecution, but equally gigantic in
the frauds and swindIes upon the public treasury
vh;.b bsvo r.arEad - prorrasz That n.rtv
with the whole power and resources Of the Gov
eminent placed at its disposal. has utterly
failed in accomplishing the purposes for which it
was 10 be prosecuted. The National authority
has not yet been restored in the rebellious States,
and to-day the rebels are as bold. as defiant, and
rs apparently confident of success as when they
first bid defiance to the Federal Government.
Who is responsible for the failure thus far ? Can
it be others than those who have been furnished
with the means they have asked to put down the
rebellion 2 Senator TRUxRULL, the Republican
Senator from Illinois. one Of the ablest of his
party, remarked in a recent speech in Chicago,
" that the Administration was invested with all
the powers possible to be bestowed by Congress,
and must now be responsible for success or defeat
in war; This has been the fact from the be
ginning of the war. and such must be the test
mony Of every fair man, as il viii be the record
Of history.
The Democracy have thyown no impediment
in the way of the Administration. in its manage
ment Of the war. All they have demanded is
that IN liberty and rights Of the citizens and THE
Govern ment for which we are fighting, shall Be
preserved i~nviolate.