Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-03-14

tiny The feoellion must be put down. To this
all agree: but what then7 This question is es-
teemed i'll timed. copperisb, disloyal The voice
of the dominant party overpowers the voice Of
the earnest lover of bis country, who asks anx
iously what Is to follow the suppression Of the
rebellion. What business is il of ours nowf"
they say; "what right have to interrupt the
crushing of the rebellion BY suggesting thatthere
is any other question:"
The rebellion is n terrible curse, grand evil,
huge crime. Ii must be got rid of. But there
are other curses, other evils, other crimes. A
disease in the human body is great evil. But
the physician 10 murderer who directs his whole
skill to suppressing the disease. and pays no at
tentoa 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 eradcated by free
use of the knife, but the eood and the life might
follow the knife. Fevers might be cured byr
ed;es that would bring bodily weakness and GER
tain death soon afterward. Shall we crush
belion in such way as to destroy the vital sys-
TEN, when it can be done otherwse7 Shall we
carry on this to come out of it weak
ened, impoverished, with terrible load of debt
and terrible load of sectional hatred and bitter
ness. and without that compact, hearty, healthy
condition of the nation which is necessary to en-
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 may be cured, but if we 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 may seek to stihe these questions. but
they are Selling fast hold on the minds of the
/ people. 1t is plain the MONDAY that if the
policy of the present Administration is continued
into another four years, we have seen the eed Of
the American Union. Mr.. Lincoln and his advi-
sers can never restore that Union to life and
health, nor can they build up new Constitution
to replace that which they are destroying. They
cannot the life of the nation. IL we to
trust to them, it may rs well be confessed to day
as it will certainly be confessed next year,
that the old Union is gone. and forever, and that
their new government will be weak and worth
less experiment Why close our eyes to these
solemn truths7 The principle of wholesale abo-
lition and con6scation, founded on the idea of
conquering and governing conquered people
millions of Americans, is contrary to the spirit of
free Institutions. 1t is poison in the blood of the
| Union 1t is death to republican government.
The one tenth plan of Mr. Lincoln, by which
one man is to govern nine, aud 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 if
all were acting-ths plan is in direct violation of
American principles and of moral right. 1t is
directly hostiieto the constitutional guarantee of
republican forms of government At best the
one tenth ought not to elect more than one tenth
OF the represeHtatives-Ought not to be welding
the power OF more than one tenth OF the popula-
ton. How would free principles survive the
sheck of beholding the One-tenth of the popula-
ton of Virginia balancing in the House of Rep
resentatves the votes of five Northern States.
and ten times their number of Northern yotersf
The idea is not only absurd but is deadly
thrust at the whole fabric of our government.
p,,t hat; &c tbat 10 nd fha
do make new State Constitution for the nine
) tenlhs, as the absolute, incontrovertable law of
the State, are those nine tenths ever likely to be
cheerful lovers of the Union2 1t is useless to
discuss this plan. 1t is too plainly contrary to
the fundamental principles Of our government to
command the respect even Of the most devoted
followers of those who invented it,
What sort of free government will the United
States be when reconstructed on this planf New
\ Ork. with her million OF freemen, will find her
self out voted and out-weghed in both houses of
Congress by other States with one-tenth of her
own numbers and that tenth will be partly or
wholly negro, il the dominant party carry out
consistently its present avowed pOlicyl Doesany
one imagine that that will be Union which
! Northern men or Southern men will love, will
cling to, will fight for? Was it such Union as
that. which we have poured out our treasures of
money and life to save?
How will such Union pay the iBsoFcs. OF
debt?
;; II the present policy is pursued the war will
last for yeUrs, a1d only terminate in an armed
occupation, equivalent to a constant war, with
expenses annually footing up hundreds of mil
lions. We want no unwilling union, mere
conquered submission to carry out such debt as
ours will be. We must have a cordial, hearty
! willing union, or we are bankrupt, ruined Our
nation united willingly, can carry debt than
any other people, and car pay it, Our nation,
pacifed by the eOn6scatOn of Southern property,
the extirpation disfranchIsement of Southern
men, cannot carry that debt The first element
of doubt and danger viii be the existence of
States unpledged to pay the debt, and mOrtgaged
TO it only by One-tenth of their people The fu-
ture is big with other forms of discord, with other
elements of national disease. and if the nation
be not healthy and willing they will breathe out
as ulcers here and there. II is vain to, close our
, eyes to these truths. The rebellion must be put
down, but it must be put down in such way
to leave the nation WITH -~itality energy and
hope Under the present policy there is no flu
ture OF union new government, new Con
, stitutiOn, a new form of Union. a new pnacipe
, of unity-all these 60 into the radical c,cula-
ton, but all these fail 20 show anything but a
! wreck of the old American Union in the radical
view Of the future. Men of America, rouse
yourselves to the truths we have set before you.
Awake before il is too late. The opportunity to
return to the safe policy is before in the com
ing election. Let US go back. Let present
to the vast population Of the South the old Union
and old Constitution for their acceptance, with
the rights Of the States unmpaired. Let the
principles of the Crittenden resolutions be studied
carefully and adopted heartily. The present dis
ease OF the nation is rebellion. Let that disease
be eradicated without introducing forms of
internal suffering aud complaint Let us act as
millions Of men talking to millions of men should
act if they would exercise ordinary common sense
basel on the experience of nations in all the
turtles
Ont of this terrible strait the nation may be
brought, free, eunobed, strong to resume her old
pathway OF glory aud benefeence Rebellion
will have received lesson which will prevent its
! hideous form from again rising for century
either in New England Or in the South. But il
We 60 on now the very principle established
will be IN favor of new rebellions whenever any
part of the people become insane over some fla
natical notion of reiorm.-LN. Y. Journal Of
Commerce
} The Radical Germans Cut Them.
selves Loose from the Republican
Party.
The Buffdo Commercial (Republican,) utters
some savage "words of warning to GREELEY and
those who with him arraying the ultra radical
wings of the Republican party in such deadly
hostility to LINCOLN that it will be impossible for
them to support him in case of his nomination
bv the R,ltimore Convention II talks Of .sharn