Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-29
Tne state suiIltary Department.

The Madison Courier, a radical Republican
sheet, reviews the management of the military af-
fairs of Indiana without gloves. We copy the
following extract from article in late issue of
that print, to show our readers how these matters
appear through radical Republican spectacles.
After referring to the fact that Governor MoRToS
had determined, if he could to transfer four OF the
six regiments of State troops into the United
States service, the Courier remarks:
Two regiments viii be amply sufficient to guard
the quinne and Quaker lines of defense adopted
by the Commander IN Chief, and the saving to
Indiana in dollars ard cents, by the transfer of
four of the State regiments to the United States,
will be some FIVE Millions The estimate for the
pay and subsistence of a regiment is a million Of
dollars year in the United States service. where
there is a well organized commssary department.
IL Is said there is some dissatisfaction amons
the privates in the regiments transferred 10 the
/ United States, many of whom did not voiuutee-
with any intention of serving more than year;
but the officers generally prefer the long service.
| = The telegraph informs our readers that con-
tracts have been made for furnishing the six reg
| iments with clothing, hats, blankets and shoes.
We learn that the contract for shoes for five regi-
ments was allotted to New York house, and
that the clothing went to Cincinnati We admire
the benevolence, the far reaching charity of the
| Chief of the State administration. A large man
should have large bowels OF compassion. The
poor needle women and the Hebrew children,
prosecuted for centuries, scattered over the
world are the special recipients Of the patronage
of the Quartermaster of the State of Indiana.
Charity. we are told, is the noblest impulse a
generous mind feel; and then, at e truly
| generous is the truly wise; and he who loves not
others lives unblest." ! istoiy and poetry are
full of the beauties of charity The poor working
women and the Hebrew children of Cincinnati
to whom the contract for furnishing the uniforms
for the regiments was awarded, will bless the ad-
ministration of Gov. Morton. John Randolph
ridiculed this far-reaching philanthropy when he
told the ladies of Philadelphia that the suffering
Greeks were at their doors" Dickens tried to dc
the same when he talked about sending moral
pocket handkerchiefs and rel flannel shirts to the
| heathens in Africa. ST. Paul in one of his
Epistles, says: "But if any provide not for
his own, and especially for those of his own
house, he hath denied the faith and is worse thar
an inhdel.' The good people of this and othel
cities and towns of Indiana. who have contributed
Of their small means to buy flannel. and of their
be grateful to the Governor for being permitted
to supply these articles to the State free of cost
If their benevolence had been slower. the Hebrew
children and the sewing women of Cincinnati
would have been paid by the State for the same
1t is pity that the generosity OF the ladies anC
people of Indiana should in any way be overrulet
| to the disadvantage of the operatives of Cincin
NATL