Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-03-09

Men shrink from looking into the future. They
find fault with those who insist on questioning
the effect of present policy on the nations des
tiny. The rebellion must be put down. To this
all agree but what then? This question is es
teemed i'll timed, coppersh, disloyal. The voice
OF the dominant party overpowers the voice of
the earnest lover of his country, who asks anx
iousy what is to follow the suppression of the
rebellion. "What business is it of ours nOw?'
thew say: "what right have YOU to interrupt the
crushing of the rebellion by suggesting that there
is any other question:
The rebellion is terrible curse, grand evil,
a huge crime. Ii must be got rid of. But there
are other curses. other evils, other crimes.
disease in the human body is great evil But
the phy stefan is u murderer who directs his whole
skill to suppressng the disease. and pays no at
tenton TO preserving the constitution. Many dis
eases might be suddenly and wholly driven out of
the system by doses of arsenic. Many terrible
swelling or tumor might be eradicated by free
use of the knife but the blood and the life might
follow the knife Fevers might be cured by rem
edes that would bring bodily weakness and GER
tain death soon afterward Shall we crush re
belion in such way as to destroy the vital sys-
TEN when IL can be done otherwisef Shall we
carry on this war so to come out OF 1t weak
ened, impoverished, with terrible load of debt
and terrible load of sectional hatred and bitter
ness. and without that compact, hearty, healthy
able US to recover even ordinary strength The
life blood of our country is the affection OF the
people for the Union; and if this affection fails,
blood fails and the body dies. Temporary alien
alton NAV be cured but if seek to cure IL by
means calculated to make the alienation perma-
nent, we are not likely TO benefit the system by
our experiment. The work can be accomplished
without this result Why not be wise in timer
Men NAV seek to stide these questions, but
49, fast hnl On m n
people Ii is plain as the MONDAY sun that If the
policy of the present Administration is continued
into another tour years, We have seen the end OF
the American Union. Mr. Lincoln and his adv-
sers can never restore that Union 10 life and
health nor can they build up new Constitution
10 replace that which they are DESTROYING They
cannot save the life of the nation II We are to
trust to them. il may as well be confessed To day
a. il will certainly be confessed next year,
that the old Union il gone. and forever. and that
their new government will be weak and worth
less experiment Why close our eyes 10 these
solemn truthsl The principle Of wholesale abo-
lition and conhscaton. foun led on the idea of
conqucring and governing conquered people
millions of Americans Is contrary TO the spirit of
free institutions 1t Is poison in the blood OF the
Union. liz - death TO republican government
The one tenth plan of Mr. Lincoln. by which
one man is to govern niue. and one-tenth Of the
population are TO elect representatives, electors,
legislators and governors for the whole popula-
ton. WELDING The old power Of the whole, as il
all we've acting-this plan is in direct violation OF
American principles and Of moral right Ii IS
directly hostile 10 the constitutional guarantee OF
republican forms of government At best the
one-ten,h ought not TO elect more than one tenth
OF the representatves-Ought not 10 be welding
the power OF more than one tenth of the populs-
ton. How would free principles survive The
sheek OF behodng the one-,ehth OF the popua
ton of Virginia balancing in the House OF Rep
resentatives. the votes OF i've Northern States
and ten times their number of Northern votersl
The idea Is not only absurd but Is deadly
thrust NJ the whole fabric Of our govern ment
But what if that be permitted and the one tenth
do make new State Constitution for the uine
tenihs, a. the absolute. ineOntrov ertable Law oil
the State are those nine tenIhs ever likely TO be
cheerful lovers of the Unionl /, is useless &c
discuss this plan. /, is too plainly con,raryitO