Here is another interesting piece, emphasis in original text. Undoubtedly a Democratic Party leaning newspaper.
George Martin
Criticism of President Lincoln's handling of the crisis was not restricted only to the slave-holding states of the southland. Many northern newspapers railed at the President as witnessed by the following article from The Indianapolis Sentinel, the organ of a hundred thousand voters in that State, under the heading The Abolition War of Seward, Lincoln and Company, records:
The telegraph dispatches announcing that civil war commenced in Charleston Harbor on yesterday morning and caused intense excitement all over the country. Civil strife has commenced. The Abolition and disunion Administration have attempted the coercion of the Confederate States. Such are the first fruits of Republicanism--the end no one foresees . Mr. Lincoln will seek to evade the responsibility of inaugurating civil war, by charging the overt act upon the Montgomery Government. IF WAR WAS NOT INTENDED, WHY WAS A MILITARY AND NAVAL EXPEDITION FITTED OUT,WITH THE MEN AND APPLIANCES TO REINFORCE AND OCCUPY FORT SUMTER AT ALL HAZARD? This was not a peaceable mission. It was an expedition intended to convince the people of the Southern States in Republican language, that we have a Government. It was known that the demonstration would be regarded as an act of war, and the men of the South would have been regarded as mere braggarts if they had not resisted unto death. Their honor was at stake-IF THEY HAD YIELDED WITHOUT RESISTANCE THEY WOULD HAVE STOOD DISGRACED BEFORE THE WORLD.
[The Athens (Tennessee) Post, April 1861]