Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-08-26

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to protect Bat We are tod tha, TIE people OF
certain Of the Southern States have been il open
Instruction, and that thereby the States in which
the insurgents lived have fOrfoed their political
| existence II Is true THAI The people Of the
| South. a. fret 10 small numbers, afterwards
majority, did rise In insu-recti0n. But hare they
not been terribly punished for this faulty In their
slaves alone they have lost two thoDszrd million
dollars Their lands have been ravaged their
/ houses have been burned. and the region in
which The war was waged has been converted
/ into a charred wilderness Can justice, nav not
justice. bat Gao human vengsance demand more
than thisi Aud where lei Us ask is the provi.
sion in the Constitution, which declares that
4 State shall forfeit its polit;ca. exisiencs-its
rights under the Constitution, because portion
of all it, citizens have been insorgentsI No such
power exists, and it would be absurd 10 suppose
that the Constitution would provide for lis ow5
overthrow by authorizing the disintegration OF
the Union, out IL does provide for the suppression
Of i1surection and domestic violence Where
individual persons have done wrong they are
smsnable 70 the civil laws, but the acts of indi-
viduas cannot forfeit the existence Of States nor
| confer powers upon the Federal Government IN
known to the Constitution.
By what process is the Union 10 be restored?
| BY what means are We again to become country
nien 10 heart, as we'll es IN nfmei If We con
can We expect them 10 become friends! Would
it not be well 70 remember that civil vars are
like family feuds, and when, after strife has
ceased. and the cadse of the difficulty has been
| calmly considered, that both parties are general
ly found to be more or less 10 faultl
UBselhsh patriotism can restore the Union
while selfish ambition may invole the country in
new horrors and our institutions in total ruin. 1t
requires no art. 10 mystery, no diplomacy to re-
lofnr h. frfn
counirYmen of the South. come, let Us again be
friends; il in aught We have both erred, then let
Is both profit by the terrible lesson OF the past
four years, and if only one has been wrong then
let that one be generously forgiven
Had our civil authorities been influenced by
the same spirit OF generosity and wise concilia
ton which inspired our armies; or had soldiers
like Sherman and Mcclellan been authorized to
treat for peace, the war would not have surviv ed
the second year. and the Union would have
been restored. with sentiments OF cordial adm-
ration and affection warming the hearts of our
countrymen North and South; for generous
manhood begets respect
Our country only be brought back to the
hsppy and prosperous condition which existed
prior to the war, by returning TO the lundamen-
tai principles upon which our institutions were
based, and those great doctrinsl truths taught by
{ Jefferson and Madison. and the other early faith
ers of the Republic.
THE NEGRO PROBLEM
General Cox proposes 20 create a negro de
pendency" to the United States, from contiguous
territory Of the States OF Alabama, Georgia.
Florida and South Carolina, without breaking
up the State organizations" / dissent from this
solution, because Congress has no authority un
der the Constitution, convert one or more
States into "a negro dependency because if
such dependency" were created, a war of ex
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the inevitable result and lastly, because the ode
tendency" could only be established after having
obtained the lands of the white inhabitants by
first extermlnating them; or by the Government
| purchasing the lads the condition that the
, white citizens would abandon their homes that
the negro mi ght possess them
The plan Of purchase is unp.actcable, even
were ii constitutional The area of the proposed
negro dependency" would contain nearly thirty
million acres OF the best land in America, which
at an average cost OF twenty dollars per acre
: would amount to about six hundred million dol
lars. Six hundred million dollars, Where is
that enormous sum TO come iF0ml Is il 70 be
added our present debt of four thousand mil
ionsl or does General Cox propose that al add
tional six hundred million dollars shall be added
to thestax assessment for the year 1862
, This question cannot be solved by the apalica-
I ton of the remedy proposed, and lit true soln-
ton il the National
In most civilized countries, there are inhabit-
ants who are not citizens, but they are fully pro-
tected by the laws of the land in which they re-
side. There ia no hardship in limiting the negro
! to the rights of an 'nhabitant" and still less so
when it is considered that for such services as he
NAV have rendered in the field. he has been re-
! wsrded with freedom.
> Ii the negroes desire. they remain az
perpetual inhabitants, Who" says Vattel "ars
kind of citizens of an inferior order. and are
united to the society without participating in al
its advantages" That s, they would be pro
tected in life. liberty and property, without hav
ing the right to vote, the exercise of other
; rights which are incident to suffrage.
, MICRO EQUALITY IN OHIO.
{ The "Oberln Committee" said to Genera
: Cox. in their letter OF July "A. 1865. I'VE want
to know directly from you your views on the
following subjects: LIST Are you in fdror OF
modifying our Constitution so as 10 qire the cleo
!; tire franchise to eOlored mem"
t To this question, thus plainly put. General
Cor made no reply. and every reader of his letter
is left to draw his own inference as TO his views
{ as to negro suffrage in Ohio He speaks of "tht
Q logic Of erents," which understand TO mean to
D drift with the current, and III in the event" OF
his election, and it appearing that a majority oil
{ the leaders of his party favor negro suffrage in
{ Ohio. then he, as Governor, will favor amending
our Constitution to make negroes voters
He saws that "the few colored men We have
amongst Us are mere waits and strays from that
. great body" But the question is, are these
"colored waits and strsys' to be given the right
5 OF suffrage in Ohio? 10 his letter General Cox
declined to answer that question. But at the
late meeting at Oberlin, General Cox took occs-
5 sion to define his position to negro suffrage in
| Ohio. According to the special Dispatch 70 the
Cincinnati Gazette, he declared
" hare seen black IrO0Ds f0kfia0 a0kiu and
say Of all. that they rrhO irere good enough 10 fqht
nth us good enough 10 stand on The Union
J platform ,eifh me +"
4; This frank and explicit declaration OF General
Cox in favor OF negro equality in Ohio, clears
away the doubts which existed as 70 the true
interpretations OF certain passages OF his letter
e And as recognize the right OF the people to se
informed of the opinions OF a candidate upon all
public issues submitted TO their consideration,
I here declare thas
am opposed 10 comforting the right of suf-
} frage on negroes in Ohio, or in the South, now
or at any future time, or under any circum
stances
In 1860. there were more than % ,0OU ne
{ gsoes 10 Ohio. and it ia believed that the mum
Der has been increased four fold since that time
Are We to confer the right CT suffrage on a Negro
convert our great State into negro colony
Q For, grant citizenship 10 negroes in Ohio, and
the negro dependence proposed To be estab
, lished by General Cox, would become depopu-
: lsted-the waits" and "s,rays' would be the