Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-11-04


ito best efforts Ito forward the sie~s" Of the
insurgents II IL could be convinced that the
Southern people care conclusively alienated
from the Union Tribune. February 23d,
1861
On the 23d OF Janssry, 1868, the Tribune
was in favor OF "the beet aitainable peace" az
ter three months Of vigorous lighting" during
seasou-winter anu spring-rhen il knew wig
oro1s fighting vas impossible.
AT the sane time it added that the rebellion
vas much more likely to be crushed out" during
the said three months tern when it vas not
crushed out than Il was ever likely to be #
forwards
A few months Later the rribane waS 10 favor
OF owning the rebels: e. our masters il Gen
eral LEE could succeed in watering his horses
in the DclaWafe."-l Tribune. June IL, 1863
There il no 10 suppose that the conduc
tor OF the Tribune either believes in the res;ora
ton OF the Union OF that be desires i, The war
j. wiih him question Of boundaries. or alterna
TING between this and question OF emancipation
whea ne does not intermit both the one and the
What nc thought about secession at its outbreak
may be tead IN the following exposition. with
which we will conclude our "reminiscences" for
the present IL is quoted from the Tribune of
February 5. 1861:
Fear maguifes the secession movement into
wholly undue proportions Ii trembles ia its
shoes as though secession we're mailed giant,
capable OF Spreading ruin and death wherey er il
! chose TO tread Fear cries 'skulk and hide,
turn and flee. oh truth. honor. justice, consist.
ency for secession, terrible secession, approach.
/ Is, Fall on your knees oroptiate and pray, alb
dca,o and succumb, all &c political combinations
calad parties, for secession, terrible secession,
with his lordly strides and his mailed hand.
4 threatens TO overwhelm and destroy US all -
Let ns look az the monster thus suddenly held up
! TO us by the startled vision and bursting eyebals
OF siekly apprehension, aud try to measure It's
true proportions
Slayeholding States ere departing from the
American Union. A number have gone. More
are going. Lei assume that all of them.
south of the Potomac aud east of the Mississippi
river, will go out and form an independent Con-
| federacy. We suppose nobody is able 10 doubt
| that the power now known "a the United States
OF America is able TO enforce some of It's ideas
at least as 20 the proper boundaries Of the new
Con federscy. And We suppose it will not be
questioned that If this power insists upon great
natural frontiers, like the Potomac, the Ohio
and the Mississippi, it will find means TO make
its determination respected But We need not
stand upon this presumption. Let admit thar
the United States will DE very liberal and for
bearing toward the new organization, III the mat
ter of boundaries. aud in every other way We
shall start upon almost any kind of supposition
for arguments sake, TO show what secession il
and what it promises
Such. briefly sketched, Is the coming history
OF secession, if it shall 20 so far to get the
States mentioned into its fatal embrace. In
d, therefore. of its being the terrific monste
pic,'ared by an unmanly fright, it is really a re
suit not to be seriously dreaded Ii may. on tho
contrary, rather be fairly regarded "A naturs
historic development OF benlhcent promise, 10
stead Of the unnatural, distorted. hideous fea
tured movement which it is believed TO be by the
timid, shortsighted, compromising statesman .
the hour
Let be checked, and hndered, aud stoppe,
by the natural operation of the government in to-
exercise Of ills Just AUCTIONS, in just that way ans
just 20 that extent that wise regard for the ne
! tion.,l safety and the future national development
shall dictate. We shall thus avoid unnecessar,
collision With the seeding States. and unite tn
people of the free States upon the sure groun'
of Maintaining those national advantages which
ate. the separation, they will find essential L
their own security and greatness. We have here
J tofore often enough intimsted what those limita
} tons should be
Secession" being, according TO the Tribun
of 1861, "a result not - be seriously dreaded
, but rather "a natural historic development o
beDifcent PROMISE we can reldi!y perceive VIII
its conductors have 50 sedalously and consisten.
} " sought to forward the views" of the insuI
| gents aud embarrass the government