Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-08
WEEKLY SENTINEL.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5.
Mr.. LincoIn,s Economy.


The President. for years, has been infatuated
with The idea that the States must be all slave or
all free In entertaining such proposition be
disregards experience. and the policy of the
wisest statesmen that the country has produced.
WAsHISGroS. HAMILTON. JEFFERSON. JACKSON,
the ADAMsEs WEBSTER, CLAY, and the host of
wise aud patriotic men who founded iDstitu-
tons, believed that the States could exist in
harmony and prosperity under one Government,
permitting rejecting negro servitude as their
local interests might dictate or could be best
subserved. But ABRAHAM LINCOLN, pigmy in
comparison with the intellectual giants who have
guided the destinies of the country, thinks other
wise The war, if we judge Alright his policy and
read Alright bis message, is being prosecuted, not
for the restoration of the Union and the authority
of the Government, but to free the negro slaves.
He argues in favor of compensatory emancipa
ton as measure Of economy, urging that it is
cheaper to buy the freedom Of the negroes, than
to emancipate them by overthrowing the re-
belion with the force of arms. The abolition
of slavery, in his view, is the only measure that
will restore the Union of the States. He has
run the country into debt thousand millions of
dollars in attempting to enforce emancipation in
the slave holding States. and now be suggests
that it will be cheaper to buy the negros freedom
than to fight for it longer at the immense waste of
treasure and blood that thus far has character
lied the war What will the President DO with the
four millions of slaves if he could free them? They
can't be coonized. None of the surrounding for
eign States will permit such an addition to their
population. Besides, the negroes themselves do
not want to cOOnize. The free States do not
want them Even if we could find the territory,
it would impoverish the country to export and
provide for them The President himself con-
cedes that the two races cannot live together upon
terms of equality. What then is to be done with
the slaves when freed, if we can free them2 The
people of the North will never submit that the
remain States in the Union governed by ne
groes We have already spent thousand millions
of dollars and an ocean of blood in the at
tempt to solve the negro problem, and where
are we now? Still discussing what shall be done
with the negro. And now the President proposes
Americans Of African descent" at similar cost
of treasure. But what shall we do with them
when free? Would it not have been WISE as an
economical question, not to have wasted the
treasure which the war has already cost us and,
as provided in the constitution, let each State
manage its domestic policy in its way? The
people are rapidly appreciatiDg Mr.. LINcoLy's
economical schemes. They cyphering out
his financial policy. They are beginning to feel
its burdens. They are becoming FESTIVE under
what they have already to bear, with the pros
pect il the present policy shall be continued, of
largely increased burdens in the future, and all
for an impracticable. unwise and impOlitic scheme
to make four millions of producers non -produc-
ers- Nay. worse than this. burden upon the
nation This is the economy of the party in
power. How long2