Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-08-15
Prom the LoaisrfIls Democrat
Prom the Louisville Democrat
The Tendency OF Power-The FUTURE
Of the Country Under Republican
Male.

OF the Country Under Republican
huie.
Restoring fragment OF = country to full and
complete fellowship. ia rot task 10 be accom-
plshed By mere brute force The very sagges
ton of force 10 itself 10 contradiction 10 the g.
tablished form Of thi. Government. The con
sen. Of the governed has so long been the basis
upon which have proceeded. that different
form 10 rspugnAnt. Fancy eleven States, gov
srned under the old Constitution, having certain
reserved rights. having free elections, and coorts
governed by civil law-martal Utterly populated
in short. half the country governed By .
| free people and the other half governed
subiugated people. vith no rights that the Gov
eminent need regard Our Cnief Magistrate be-
come. the President Of the Northern States; the
sole irresponsible despol over the Southern
/ States
How would this work ia the process OF time
IL was asserted by Calhoun, repeating What had
been said by philosophers on govern nent, that
the tendency OF power is to gain power. The ne
cessary power placed in the hands of the Chief
/ Executive, to enforce his arbitrary will in the
South, will increase HE strength or the strength
Of the Federal Government, enormously. The
policy nov adopted to confer on the Southern
States, or people, only certain limited rights.
must nscess. rily demand a strong power to main
tain il.
liz nav DE said that. as all this power is given
by the Northern States, they can at any time re-
fuse it twill be time enough to talk OF refus-
| log this power when We see any general dispOsi-
ton TO do il. There is very little nov if any
aud what will no, be done nov. after years of
rule, when custom and precedent have immense
| ly strengthened the Executive, cannot be done
The Government will have become too strong
| to have its demands resisted, aud what 10 now
given as "a grant will come 10 be assumed as a
prerOgstiye.
Let Us suppose. however. that after period
when the States in the North have become
Gained. that they conclude they will Withdraw
this pover-let see in what condition they
will be TO refuse il.
The Southern section OF the Union. embracing
nearly one third OF the Uuion. will have been
governed for from ten years TO half a century by
the Federal Executive. All they have is as a
gift from him. They are subject to his will
and are responsible directly to him. He vii
therefore have TO resist the Withdrawal of the
entire control Of rich and populous territory
he begins the dispute with eleven great State:
certain to be with him There he can gather hi.
armies, feed, clothe and pay them He has il
Congress q delegation subservient to his will
numbering nearly one third or that body DE
has sole control of the army. The vast smounl
of patronage in his hands the strong influence o
custom. aud the dread of entering into what sp
will, beyond all question. make him irresistible
When the States awaken to their danger the evil
will be irfemediable. IL will be found that III,
tendency to uniformity, aided BY the tendency o
power to gain power, has established one form o
government from ocean TO ocean, and from III.
lakes TO the Gulf Mr Lincoln once announced il
as an axiom, tina; country could not exist hal
slave and half free We will have found that
this, in its broadest sense aud not in the narrow
in hi0hh a al haa haor Eod. q
in the effort to hold the Southern States in a
condition of subiugation has cost US our owr
freedom, and placed ourselves IN the condition il
which we hoped TO keep them. We believe thi.
to be uEdenable We believe that no rejecting
man supposes for an instant that the Southern
States can be held in bondage by the free States
aud the latter retain their freedom. Such thinJ
Is impossible; and although it is not advocated il
its planness. vet we all know il is fact. tina
the Southern States are held under diferen
form OF government from that which we &C
knowledge in the loyal States, aud that th
: policy OF the dominant party is to keep up th
present condition of things.
| This il what should cause rejecting men 4
pause. and, for reasons purely selfish, oppose the
establishment of the pro consular system OF gov
eminent in the South. Ii s no. only their tree
dom that 10 imperiled but
The remedy for this is by promptly acknowl
edging perfect freedom in the Southern States
to treat them the same footing the othe
States; to allow them all the rights of mansgin,
their own affairs 10 their own way, subec onll
to the Constitution.
We know there are some who argue that ,ucl
4 course would now be dangerous. No one be
believes it, not eveG those who say it, The les
son the South has learned has been a bitter on,
we'll learned, and we believe that if complete
amnesty in its fullest sense was given that ther
would be less danger of revolt in the South thar
in any State or section CT the Union. This wa
the basis OF the Sherman ohnston treaty, ant
the only Que by which q complete smicabl,
Union can be restored.