Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-01-23
Wnshinrton Corre.pondcnce.
The Committee of Thirty -three-The Republicans
for War-Iheir Programme TO make the Dem
ocrats do the Fighting-Sensation Ruunors-
The Vicksburqh Falsehood

The Committee OF Thirty -thTee-Ihe Repubticdns
for War-Their Programme TO make the Dem
ocrats do the MISREPRESENTATION Rumors-
The Vicksburgh FalsehOOd
WASHINGTON, January Is, 1861.
To the Editor Of the Daily State Sentinel:
The report from the House special Committee
of Thirty three NOW reduced to about eighteen
members) has at last found its way into print. 1t
falls far short of the psesent exigency, and
amounts to nothing. All but two Southern men
left the Committee some time ago, and the two
who remained (Bristow and H. W. Davis have
not the confidence or respect even of any portion
of the Southern men.
This report is in some respects funny affair.
1t assumes that ono considerable number of per-
sons in the free States opposed" to the recla-
nation and rendition of fugitive slaves-that eff
any such class exists it is that known as Abo-
itionists, and that ''ther numbers so small
that no danger can result to constitutional rights"
from theml This is indeed discovery, and the
people of the North ought to thank the commit
tee for giving it to the worli. Nine Northern
States have passed personal liberty bills intended
to nullify that provision of the Constitution pro-
vding for the rendition of fugitive slaves. They
have annexed penalties of fine, Imprisonment and
Acknowledgement against those of their citizens
who take any part in executing the fugitive slave
law. And yet this committee has the hardihood
to assert that 'no considerable number of persons
in the free States are opposed to the rendition
of fugitive savesl What hypocrisy!
And when their State legislation has been
baffled, who does not know and remember the eff
forts made by them to rescue the slave from the
United States. officers-efforts which in more
than one instance have proved successful? Why
even in the conservative State of Indiana, and
in the city of Indianapolis on the occasion of the
seizure of fugitive slave, have seen an excited
throng of niggers and Republicans ready to
gage in mob violence, and by force strike down
the officers of the Government, and were re.
strained alone by the determination and courage
of those officers. And yet the committee sol
EMMY assert that the number of such men are
$50 small" that no danger to Constitutional rights
need be apprehended from them. Such stuff
this deceives nobody, and is like jest perpetrated
in the chamber of death.
The report of this committee, coupled with the
rejection of the Crttenden amendments in the
Senate, and the substitution of Mr.. Cark's reso-
luton that the Constitution is sufficient as it is
gether with the tone and temper of the Repubi-
cans, conclusively demonstrate that they not only
intend not to do anything to heal our difficulties,
but that they are intent on plunging the country
into all the horrors of a civil war.
The truth may as well be told now. These
unimpeached traitors to the cause of liberty and
humanity intend to goad the South into disnnion,
and then seek retrbution upon her through civil
war. They are painting for vengeance, and mean
to have it. Even Defrees. of your city, hitherto
mild and conciliatory, is now loud -mouthed for
war. No one need be deceivedby their hypocrti-
cal professions of moderation and desire for
amicabe adjustment They mean war. They
proffer no acceptable compromise, and will not
until their President is inaugurated, and then
their programme is to let slip the dogs of war. In
all the Northern States they enacting laws
for the more perfect organization of the militia.
These are to be Differed by Republicans, who, in
turn, are to force Democrats into the ranks to do
the fighting for them; and, upon the call of the
President, the militia is to be marched into the
Southern States to suppress Instruction" This
is their programme as divulged to me by one of
their indiscreet leaders, in moment of unguarded
and boastful communicativeness. Yes, sir, it
may as well be set down first as last, the Repub-
licans are now for disunion and war of retribu-
ton, to desolate the homes and spill the blood of
those who have resisted their power; and they
mean, if they can, to compel the Northern Dem
ocracy to fight it. A war of vengeance is to be
naugurated, and | say to the Democracy of In
diana, according to the Republican programme,
you are to bear the brunt of the battle in the in
vasion of glorious old Kentucky-you are to be
the tools and the cats pars of the Republicans in
the bloody work of subjugating that gallant State
who sent her trusty warriors into your borders to
defend your fathers and your mothers from the
horrors of a merciless Indian warfare. Will you
do it? Forewarned let us be forearmed.
All sorts of sensation rumors are sent from this
city, and elsewhere, to infame the public mind of
the North. / will Just notice two. The New
York papers of the 10th contained Geographic
dispatch to the effect that Colonel Hayne of
South Carolina, had called upon the President the
preceding evening and demanded the uncondi-
tional surrender of Fort Sumter. This is lie
made up of whole cloth, for up to half past eight
o'clock yesterday evening the President had seen
no such man, and no such demand had been made
upon him.
Again, it has been telegraphed all over the
West, in order to excite the people there against
the South, that cannons had been planted at
Vicksburg, with view of obstructing the navi-
CATION of the Mississippi river, and causing steam
boats passing there to haul to. This is also lie
without shadow of foundation, coined for the
basest purpose, and manufactured out of whole
cloth. And vet, the telegraph and the Republican
papers, now that it is exploded, don't see fit to
correct it, but leave the falsehood do its work
in the minds of the people Men can not be too
guarded in giving credence to telegraphic and
other rumors these days. Better keep cool.