Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-30
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Inc journal and KINDRED patriots are eAceeo-
ingly FESTIVE under the charge that the present
difficulties Of the country are clearly traceabe to
the doctrines proclaimed and the influences exer-
ted By them. The evidence upon this point can
not be successfully controverted The strongest
and most urgent advocates of the present policy
Of the Administration, are the men who before
the Inauguration Of Mr.. LINCOLN were in favor
Of disunion and the right of secession. From
whom came the petitions 10 Congress praying for
dissolution Of the Union for years before the
presidential election Of 1850 Did they not
come from the very men who are now the most
intense supporters Of NJ. LINCOLN : They hold
st the present time just the opposite views they
entertained before the Administration OF the
Government was placed under the control Of
abolition influences. We propose to cite few
examples in proof of this declaration. In lo4I
Mr.. LIscoLS was representative in Congress
He made a speech upon the troubles then exist
ing with Mexico. Ia the course of it he made
the following strong argument in favor of the
right of secession. We quote his words:
Any people anywhere. being inclined, and
shake of the existing government. and form a
new one that suits them better. This is a most
valuable, most sacred right, right which
hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor IL
this right confined TO cases in which the people
Of an existing government may choose 70 exer
else t. ANY portion of such people. that can,
may revolutionize, and make their own of so
much of the territory as they inhabit. More than
than this: majority of any portion of such PEG
pie may revolutionize, putting down the minority
intermingled with or near about them, who may
oppose them.
Certainly no rebel has placed the right OF Sc
cesson upon higher ground than that.
Hon. B. F. WADE. one Of the Republican Sen
ators from Ohio. expressed himself equally strong
while representative in the 3ith Congress.
He said:
You cannot forcibly hold men in this Union;
for the attempt 10 do so, IL seems 10 me, would
subvert the first principles of the government IN
der which we live
Did even JErr. DAVIS make stronger case
than thatl
After the election of Mr.. LINCOLN, in 1860
nearly all the leading Republican papers were in
favor Of eparation-permitting the dissatihed
States to go in peace The Chicago Tribune
the especial organ Of Mr.. LINCOLN, made the fol
lowing declaration the lst of September,
1850:
If peaceable secession Is possible the retiring
States will be ASSISTED to go 10y the incoming
ADMINISTRATOR.
Was not this an invitation to the rebel States
from the incoming Administration, to leave the
Unionr Similar views were expressed by the
New York Tribune, the Buffalo Express, and
other radical. Republican organs. About the
same period, the Cincinnati Commercial, now
rampant for coercion. remarked, in view OF the
secession Of number eff States
War for the sublugation of the seceders.
would be unwise aud deplorable. There is no
province in the world conquered and held by
military force that Is not weakness TO Its
master"
Ia its present position consistent with that
As the Journal charged the other day that we
had misrepresented its position and that of the
leading representations of the Republican party
We make a single extract from that print. and We
ask for il q careful perusal Referring to what
1t termed the Secession fuss" the Journal, on
the 18th Of November, 1860 made the following
remarkable declarations.
The parade of military organizations, and
forcible resistance. which they making, Is the
acme OF absurdity, and they must laugh at II
themselves at times. They know very well that
IL they are determined to leave the Union, no Re
publicas riu care 10 haze them stay. A Union
preserved only by intimidation and force. is a
mockery, and IL Is better broken than rhOle. Ii
South Carolina and her associates in folly really
want to leave the Union they can 60 without a
word OF objection from any man north of Mason
and Dxons line. We would not turn our hand
TO have them stay if they must stay with
the feeling of hostility and distrust which
they proclaim is the only feeling they can ever
hold toward the North
Let all go who want to, we saw. and let them 20
quietly. build NJ a new government if they can
and run il as long a. they can and when they
find that il won't pay let them come back on the
old terms clearly and distinctly defined So that
there shall never again be quarrel about what
are the constitutional rights of an institution the
Constitution has nothing 20 do with but 20 let
alone in the States that have it,.
What honest man can read the foregoing with
out coming to the conclusion that the seceiers
were hot only invited to leave the Union. bu,
they were assured that the Republican party
would protect them in SO doing
Such is history. We have only given few
extracts from hundreds of a similar character
but enough to sho~ the utter Inconsistency OF
the men who are now running the Government
In view of the facts we have presented. ask,
are not the Republican leaders responsible the
thousands of millions of dollars and the hundreds
of thousands lives which have been sacrificed in
the unnatural civil war which has brought these
terrible ealamities upon the country From
every honest judgment the response must come
that they