Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-29
From the Richmond Dispatch. April II.
1ebei View of the connecticut Eiec-


The Connecticut election has gone against the
DEMOCRATS. Gold has fallen on the strength of
the Republican success. obtained no doubt by
bribery, and the hopes which rested on the tri-
umph Of Seymour have fallen to the ground. The
importance of this defeat Of the Democracy can
not well be exaggerated; for. if TIE result had
been otherwise. the Northwest would have risen,
the pesee party would have been organized on a
permanent basis: the next meeting of Congress
would have been followed by a summary abroga
ton Of OF the imperial powers bestowed upon
Lincoln by the Abolition Congress just ended.
and n cessation Of h~ostiluies might have been
confidently looked upon, at or before the close OF
the present wear. Lincoln has succeeded Con-
~necticut is lest, and with il goes the hope of an
early peace. based upon party action at the
North. which so many entertained.
So be il. Whatever is, is the best in the long
run. The Yankees may now run the fall length
of their tether. and that is all that is necessary
90 insure a fearful retribution of the manifold
wrongs inflicted on the SOUTH. Had the 'peace
party" of which Sey mour and Vallandigham are
the chiefs. succeeded at this time. many fearful
wars would have been arrested. and the hand Of
the avenger of blood would have been STAYED.
But Justice would have been defrauded they who
drew the sword would never have felt its edge in
all its keenness. aud the nation which in its pride
and hate heaped Outrages so countless and crimes
so UclnOuS upon tue UttlS VI It's WDDtcut DTctu
zen, would have returned TO the blessings of peace
with ut a conception of the horrors of war in its
own land, and by its every Preside. 1t was not
philanthruphy a one. or a large- he'rted symuat Y
for the South. that brought from Vallandigham
and Seymour those earnest aspirations, those fer
vent entrenties, those eloquent appeals for peace.
which the Southern press have lately repub-
lished.
1t was common sense. the far seeing percep
ton of infellects not dulled by tanaticism, a Ger
tain looking forward to the wrath to come-when
the measure Of Lincoln's enormities shall be full,
his power consolidated. his satraps and soldiers
swsrming in every stronghold. city, village and
hamlet in the land, his unbridled will ~inficting
daily cruelties greater and still greater upon all
those who dare to oppose him-when, in a word,
the bitter fruits Of deSpUtism being fully ripe, the
hour shall strike for n people oppressed by intol-
cradle tyranny. but remembering the freedom so
lately lost. to rise in their might, unarmed and
unequipped. vet burning with v~engeful fury, to
contend against the armed, organized. perfectly
drilled and skillfully Differed legions of the op
pressor. Then will come back the poisoned
chalice which the s~cornful and vainglorious North
commended TO the lips of the South Then a
revolution. fercer than that which desolated
France. will begin. to end no man knows where
or how. Then the blood of their slaughtered
Southern brethren, which has been so long CRYING
from the ground for vengeance, will be appeased
bv the sights and sounds of terror, the cOnflagra-
tons, massacrees, riots. battles, great and small,
which will sweep over tine North from one end to
the other. Then the AbOlitionists, so eager to
provoke war. so slow to engage in it, win know
what war is.
Hitherto it has been a pretty pastime TO them.
They have reaped riches, honOrs, offices from iL.
Then will il be what thew have made il to us of
the Sduth; nav, worse, far verse. And when
that frightiul time comes, as come it surely will,
the innocent and the guilty. must suffer alike.
This is what Vallandigham and Seymour
wished to avert when they pleaded so earnestly
for peace. But the divine purpose cannot be
thwarted; the penalty of blood outlines must
be paid. The election Of Buckingham destroys
all chance of a speedy peace-ali prospects of a
D ,rty which might overturn the Abolition tyranny
through the mild and lawful nstrumentalities Of
the ballot boxes.
By their own act. the people of the North have
made Abraham Lincoln their despot. and thew
must abide the consequences. With the Connect
lieut. election. passed the best opportunity which
they will ever have of depOsing the tyrant and
of restraining his power by peaceful means.
Nothing is left but the SAD resource of fierce and
bloody revolution. There is literally no escape
from the most sanguinary civil war that ever dis
grnced the annals of human history. except a
universal acquiescence in absolutism. This
would be nv tar the best solution of the troubles
in which the North is now involved, and those
still greater whichare rapidly approaching But
the people will not accept such a solution. The
revolution at the North cannot be averted. 1t is
doomed. in the inevitable order of things. 1t
may be delayed, but it will as surely come rs suf-
fering follows crime.