Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-19

A year or 80 ago. distinguished jurist Who
has sustained the Administration throughout. de-
hnei loyalty 70 be fdeIity to the Constitution.
Tbs simple definition or statement Of the obliga-
ton OF the citizen to the government. is so ap
propriAte and just that no enc will attempt TO
eonuovert or deny it. Fidelity to the cousttu
ton. faithful observance Of the Obligations Is
imposes. cannot but be regarded then as the
highest duty Of all who owe allegiance to the
government. Judged by this standard. IL i Dot
difficult 70 determine Who are the real traitors
Mr.. GKisNELL. Of Iowa. who figures prominently
- Republican leader in the House of Repre-
sentative-. 10 doubt expressed the honest opinion
Of his political friends. when be gave expression
TO the folloxing sentiment in the recent debate
upon the resolution proposing the expulsion
Of Mr. LoSa SAID Mr.. GsIsSKLL:
] would rather say. thousad times let the
country be divided. the South 20 their nay all
slave and the North all free, than To zee the
country under Democrats misruie.
The proposition to recognize the Southern
Confeieracy rather than the further prosecution
Of war for the sutugation aud determination Of
the people Of the rebel States. Was pronounced
BY Mr. CoLsAx and the radical majority in Con-
gress to he the quntessenee Of treason, but Re
publican member can say. without rebuke from
bis political friends. that he would rather see the
South 20 it, way all slave than to have the coun-
try again under Democratic rule. The uncon.
ditional unionism Of Mr.. GRISxELL and the radi
cal majority in Congress is nothing less than
the unconditional supremacy Of the Republican
party.
We notice that the New York Tribune favors
the proposition to expel Mr. LoSG from his seat
in the House for the sentiments expressed 10 the
speech in that body which we published few
days ago. The Tribune pronounces the speech
Of Mr. Lone to be disloya aud in sympathy with
the JtFF DAVIS government. Some time after
the secession OF the rebel States and the organ-
nation of the Southern Confederacy under the
Montgomery Constitution, this same Tribune
thus justified the Southern rebellion:
We have repeatedly asked those who dissent
from our view of this matter, whether they do or
do not assent to Mr. Jefefson's statement in the
Dedication OF Independence that governments
derive their Just powers from the consent of the
governed and that whenever any form of gov
eminent becomes destructive OF those ends il is
the right of the people To alter abolish it, and
To- institute new government, &c. e.. We DO
heartily accept this doctrine believing ii intrinsic
ally sound benehcent and one that universally
accepted. j. calculated to prevent the shedding
OF seas Of human blood, aud il il justliies the
secession from the British empire of three mil
lions OF coionists IN l776. do not see why il
would not Justly the secession of five millions Of
Southerners from the Federal Union in 1861 IL
we wrong on this point, why does not some
one attempt To show wherein and whyi For our
own part while DENY the right OF shareholders
To hold slaves against the will of the latter, we
do not see how twenty millions of people can
rightfuly hold ten or even FIVE, in detested union
with them by military force.
Here is an admission that the rebel States have
the right to withdraw from the Union. divide the
nation and thus destroy the Government. accord
ing 20 the view taken by the indianapolis Jour
nal. vet the Tribune is "loya' paper. and Mr.
Lone, for expressing the opinion that it would
be a matter of policy to recognize the Southern
Contederacy. is pronounced by the Tribune and
its sympathizers a traitor.
We copied yesterday extracts from the speech
OF Mr.. CoxwAr delivered in the Federal House
OF Representatives a year ago without being
expelled from that body, or even censured, in
which he advocated the recognition of the South
ern Confederacy. In n letter to the Tribune,
the other day. he states that he did express in
that speech preference for such recognition to
n prosecution of the for restoration of the
Union on the old slaveholding basis. or as es-
tabli-hed by the Fathers of this Republic The
1rihuI and the Aboltonists applaud this sen
timent, and pronounce Mr.. CONWAY TO be a very
..loysl" man.
We call attention to the expressions We have
aud the Tribune. They show exactly
the construction placed by the Abotlonis.s up
the term ''disoyal" One says that he would
rather see the South 60 their way all slave, than
the Republican party should be overthrOwn
Another that he would prefer the recognition oil
the Southern Confcdersey rather than the restofa
ton OF the Union upon the basis Of the Constitu
ton Aud the Tribune admits that the Southern
people have the right to alter or abolish the ole
government and institute a new one for them
selves. And yet the men who hold aud ad
vocAte these traitorous sentiments are regarde.
loyal. A. pure patriots. Tor the reason tina
they sustain the party in power while nh oppo
nent of the Republican party l. pronounced liz
loyal. traitor. by those same mer because h,
expressed the opinion that il the better polio,
to recognize. as two prominent Aboli,ionists wer,
willing to DO. the Southern Confederacy and thu,
stop the and the terrible waste of blood anC
treasure which il occasions
When the facts in the case are dispassonatel,
considered can there be any doubt a. to who ar,
the real trsitorsl
free Debate
What curious and suicidal doctrine is ,ha
which the radical majority in Congress. led b,