Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-16

form each Union for itself Il is the dictate OF
bnmabits. aud the demand Of the enlghten mens
Of the nineteenth century that war shall never be
resorte.i 10 to decide question of humanity Le;
" face di-uuion calmly. measure IL fully. and we
shall ind that however much NAV lament y
We need not be frightened at H." And these
sentiments came from paper which now declares
that division Of the nation Is = destruction Of
the government. On the 22d of December leo.
in announcing The secession Of South Carolina,
the Journal remarked: ~ ell. we are a severed
nation. We are divided house. Aud We are
none the worse for H." Yet Yesterday the same
paper saws that Mr. LONG advocates the division
Of the nation and therefore the destruction of the
government This it did not think in December
l-60 when il announced that a severed
nation IL had no thought then that the seces
son Of any State or Of all the dissatisfied States
could or would destroy the Government
We could make numberIess extracts like the
foregoing from the Journal during the months Of
January February. March and April OF 1851
but We have not now the space. IL maintained
with great earnestness and pertnacty throughout
that secession vas revolution: that the Declare
ton Of independence upon which our Govern.
ment was based recognized the right Of revou
ton; and that disunion, peaceable separation
from the seeded States far preferable to
civil war And four months after the fall of
Sumter and hostilities had commenced. the Jour
nal stated that il had seen no reason to change
the opinions it had expressed. and il was then
willing 10 let the dissatisfied States 60, upon the
condition that they should first lay down their
arms
Such is the record of paper that. with nj
fected innocency. lectures US for affirming the
right of Mr. LoSG to express his convic-
tons a to the true policy of the nation in the
present crisis IL may have been impolitic Or
inexpedient for him to have done So and his
views NAV be erroneous. but his right 10 express
them cannot be questioned. II advocated no
proposition 20 destroy the Government. but on
the other hand the policy that he thought would
best preserve it II. AS the Journal charges
Mr LONG committed crime. what deep-dyed
lnusi DC tue lin. ne ulu III
in his power encourage recession By pedging the
dissatisfied State. that not man north of Mason
and Dxons Line would oppose heir leaving. And
then after those States had cecele with full real
izltion Of the terrible calsmities which foew civil
war. he turns around and advocates coercion
10 the subiugation not only. but the extermiua
ton of the very people he invited out of the
Union with the assurance that be would sustain
them in doing We pity the man whose
moral de.ra dation reach such depth Of in
fanny. We cannot see how he look upon the
desolation that the war has already occasioned
without suffering the ptngs at remorse.
The original AbotionSts, like GARRISON,
SUMNER and CHASE. occupy equally incon
sistent position They where the original advo-
Gates of disunon from the slave States But
when separation proffered and attempted,
then they advocated coercion" to force their re-
turn and submission to the Union
We make these remarks not to justify or apollo
gize for Mr.. LoxG, but to hold up to merited
scorn and contempt the men who. with the guilt
OF disunon upon their souls. charge those who
cannot now subscribe To their policy with 'ds
loyalty and treason" But enough for to day