Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-26
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y Union by FOrce-Wendeli Phillips
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At ihe recent anniversary meeting of the
lips said:
You can never make this nation one by force.
II wss possible in 1861. when. ~ think, one
half Of the South was Union and the other half
: Confederate The great Crittenden resolution of
July. 1861. vas based on that ide,-that large
body of Southern white men VIDE on our side
aud only wanted TO be assured mat meant to
he concIliatory. and they would snow themselves
Possibly il might have been so: but we can never
know now because every month of the has
hullt up Confederate sentiment, angered, con-
6rined against Us Jefferson Davis made a rebel
. Hon; IL was all he could make. Abraham Lin
&c0ln msde a Coniederacy no man but he could
have made IT, Misses Well. if il is not true dis
| prove il Applause The Crittenden resolution
vas hassed. rs believe. on the sound basis that
Ne S,uth hal beer hurried against her will into
eebellion. Fremont's statesmanlIke word ech-
oed over Missouri Applause ! Had il been sec
kpn3e<ik~ith that element at the South and simi-
lar enthusiasm at the North. we might have
Z sten out the rebellion In six or nine months,
pad the South not thoroughly aenated from
But the men who have lost their sons their
operty their houses, who have seen the loved
IN of their State beaten to ashes-these men
to-day Conteierstes IRON anger. who were
49, Unionists from old association Three
yo<rs Of war have rooted that which was merely
= tenporary rebellion into planted Confederacy,
and IL Is the slowness and Indifference OF the
Government that have done it. To day. there
fore. the man who takes the helm of the vessel
Of State in his hand. has ten fold harder work
60 do than Abraham Lincoln had in March, 1851 ::
Tor he has got the South. so far such thing
can be. unanimous against him. You cannot
reconstruct this Union the loyalty of the
white men at the South there is nothing of IT,
You may conquer them to New Orleans you
msy cover Virgins with the best blood of the
North aud OF the South both, and. when il is
over the South will hate you worse than before
You must reconstruct these States on the loyalty
Of somebody How shall it be done? There
are but two ways
One Is To Keep them territories for twenty
years. until this generation dies out, until the
temptations of business. until the patronage of
the Government, until the associations. until the
Immigration Of Northern mercantile interests
shall replace that white population. Then you
may 90 il. But. in the meantime. YOU must
keep one halt of this country under the form of
Territories. and trust the Government with
despotic power | tremble for such an exrer-
ineut. In the hands of such men as some we
have seen in the Presidential chair. should
give up all hopes of ever again seeing Republic
The only other way to reconstruct the Union aud
save republican institutions reconstruct il on
the only laval basis that exsts-the blacks
Applause II there are not 10 900 white men
IN New Orleans who will vote for US A. there are
not (Gen Banks had 10 press his own soldiers up
TO the ballot box TO make that number then
take the 400 900 blacks-sive them vote-tnk
them To the fortunes of the UniOn-acknOwledge
the manhood of the black man till the white man
is converted. Applause