Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-16

earth, changed into bowling wilderness. We
have even dreamed of millions of men being in
arms. OF a despOt u Washington 6ling dun icons
With prisoners; OF southern soldiers tortured and
hung; Of great battle ieldss where ~eniy or
thirty thousand fallen warriors slept Their las,
sleep on earth. All this mus; have been drear m.
eugendersd by the excited state OF the public
mind Tor TIE last three years, aud the criminal
tons and recriruinstions which have passed be-
tween estranged and unnatural brethren. A ike
elect seems 10 have been produced upon the
venerable Kendall. NOV we should think about
the age OF Methusalah.) and the separation has
been so much like dsylight life that be begins
Ike ourselves, 20 fear that ne j. awake. and that
all this Is not an oppressive nightmare. but a
hOrris reality
The National Democrats of the United States
have lot yet arrived AZ the somber and intel-
gent apprehensions of the melancholy Kendall
They appear TO indulge sanguine hopes OF the
probability Of averting that dismal catastrophe
the dissolution of the Union, by such policy
toward the insurIent States will bring them
back IN love and confidence to the dear old fam-
IL hearthst'n me They evidently look upon the
Visions which more or less have visited all men s
minds, OF blood slaughter. desOlatiOn. groans and
walings, as mere pbdntas magoria, illusions of the
eve and eAr-possibIy. even iorerunners of com
ing insanity, which NAV, however. be averted by
judicious course Of treatment They, there
fore propose certain policy" policy
lovely word, suggestive Of everything honest.
candid and above boaTd-which will sOOthe and
harmonic all conflicting elements and dismiss
from the body polite forever these disiempered
dreams which are now haunting its Imagination
They will open the ewes of the wretched sleepers
and enable them to wake up and thank God that
all this has been a dream.
The mothers wives, and sisters whose faces
are wet with tears, will wake to find their loved
ones once more ia their warm embrace; the aged
father viii grasp once more TO his heart the
manly son who his pride aud hope, and
whom IN dream OF agony he had seen mangled
and dead upon furious battlefield; the captain
who had fancied himself in a dismal cell pnng
away his LIE IN hopeless captivity, will wake
to breath once more upon his native sod the free
air of heaven. The dry bones of the vision will
stand upin an exceeding great army rising from
their multitudinous graves as if the last trumpet
had sounded. and bearing aloit the celestial bail-
ner OF the stars aud stripes, Davis aud Lincoln
will rush into each others loving arms. the iHev-
itaole negro will once more return 70 his apprO-
pirate sphere, and-the Democracy will divide
the spoils
To dismiss these blissiul visions and come &c
sober waking truth. We must say in all sincerity
that We regard the Northern Democracy and
their policy" as the worst form OF Northern hos
liltNl hHitl HIS httu HlduICsl6l III lIt NdF- Dui
for them We should not be where are
But for the military chieftains and soldiers of the
Northern Democracy, who once prOfessed 10 be
the bitter enemies OF coercion in every shape ano
form. the war could not have lasted two months
The Black Republicans proper unaided by the
Democratic element, would have been siruch
with paralysis before Lincoln had been three
months IN his STAT At the same time, however
that this polite party has given the war il,
chief itpvo in iaat4a-- md ha,
feSsed policy OF peace upon honorable terms
which WAS far more formidable in is arts tLar
the combined arms OF all parties at the North
There was at one period of the war more dan
ger from It's seductive tongue than the bra " linz
and bitter mouths OF Lincoln and his Cabinet
Even now we would much rather have Lincoln
for the President of the United States than th.
candidate of the conservative De mocracy Lin
coin seems to have been raised up. as was George
III to render a restoration OF colonies 10 their
tyrants impossible. If he had pursued the wise
and c0nciliatOry measures which the NortherI
Democracy profess 10 advocate, ''the rebellion
would have been crushed in it, cradle. But hi,
heart has been hardened ike Pharoahs: he has
gone from bad to worse; he has trampled upOr
all law. dsregarded ali right, and outraged al
humanity that the whole Coniederacy has be-
come consolidated in the resolnte determination
TO submit To every form OF human suffering
rather than return to the detestable embrace of a
government which he has rendered 10 their mind,
an embodiment of the powers OF darkness. 81
long rs he i President, So long az VIC see the
devil in his proper shape and form. We have moth
ing to fear we have only TO resist the fiend. ana
he will flee from us Ii is only when the prince
of the internal regions takes the shape of angel
of light that the faithful in danger We
must be excused therefore, from wishing success,
to the Northern Democracy. Let the No-ti
stick to its representative man, and not change
front in the hour of battle