Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-16
The Journal ON Longs speech

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speech. in its issue of yesterday. remarks:
1--WE say, with Mr.. Colfax. that he has no right
TO advocate the destruction of the Government,
anywhere. and least of all in Congress"
Mr. Lone advocated no such doctrine He
expressed the conviction that civil war must re-
suit in disunion. and if the alternative was pre-
sented 10 him OF the subjuga,ion and extermna.
ton of the people of the rebel States or the re
cognition of the Southern Coniederacv he would
choose the latter. =
Again the Journal remarks:
Nv hen Dir Long advocates the division OF the
nation aud the destruction OF the government
for that is Just what he does-the right OF other
TO maintain both rises as high as his right To
speak his sentiments aud they may stop him. or
punish him il they can't stop him "
After the election of Mr LINCOLN in 1860 the
journal aud many of the leading Republican
papers of the country advocated a division of the
nation, rather than civil war. "Of what yalue. -
said the New York Tribune. would Union be
pinned together by bayonets:" And this seuti-
ment repeated spproviugly by the Journal
Ii the division OF the nation j. equivalent TO tie
destruction of the government then we're the
leading Republican journals during the fall and
winter of is60-6l. when the administration of
the government was about to pass INTO the hands
OF tie Republican party. guilty OF the crime of
treason. They conserving to an act which
involved. ~ they argue. the lfe of the ma
ton It l. little singular. when the present
position Of those papers !. taken into considera-
tion that not one OF them ever intimated that
the separation of the dissatisfied States would
destroy the Government but on the other hand
they feared that such would be the result of civil
The Journal WAS guilty of the very ofense
Il now charges upon Mr. LONG. and we DO not
make the accusation without the proof 10 sus
tain it.
On the 18th OF November, 1850, the Journal
in referring the threats of secession by some of
OF the Southern States said: "'They know very
we'll that it they determined 10 leave the
Union. no Republican will care to have them
stay Ii South Carolina and her asso-
ciates really want to leave the Union. they may
20 without a word of objection from any man
north of Mason and DixoN's line We
do not believe in resisting any secession move
nent in the least On tbs 18th of November
lS60. the Journal said: The people of the
North will never raise al army to force
any State 10 stay in the Union. 'Coer
cion we regard As ont of the question ia any
case"
o. the 18th Of the same mouth the same paper.
discussing secession and coercion. remarked:
Secession i revolution. and the first act OF il
lifts the whole case above all questions of forms
anu laws We are 10 decide then. not what is
legal and constitutional but trhaf is Jssf2' In
the present case il seems 10 that If the enforce
ment of the Constitution leads to civil war. We
shall be better off 10 let the Constitution be bro
ken. and save boOdshed We can imagine no
evil equal 20 an American civil war The sepa
ration OF the whole COnieieracy into independ
ent nations would be harmless beside il We
cannot endure the thought Oft OF what value
would an Union he that needs links Of bayonets
and bullets TO hold it together! Ii is better to
preserve lives. and all the friendliness We can
with our seeding relations. than 10 preserve the
Constitution Al the cost OF war"
On the 2lst OF December the Io,,,.l
continuing its discussion of the prob.bili,ie. Of
secession. thus enforced the views IL had
previously expressed: And If We cannot have
the Union fathers made. aud can only have
such an one as CALHOUN has devised. re dost
cant any Let the sections part in peace. and