Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-25

that so many as possible should be impelled to
desist from serving rebels end the rebellion and
come over TO The side of the Union. They souLht
their liberty IN strict accordance with the Law 81
the land-they were butcheIed or enslaved Tor 80
doing bv the help OF the Union soldiers enlis Ell to
fight against slavehoding ueasOn. IL was stme-
G0dg's fault that they were murdeIeC-i others
shall hereafter suffer in like manner. IN default of
explicit and public directions 20 your Generals that
they are to recognize and obey the COuh>cation
Act. the world will lay the blame on you. Wheth-
you will chose to bear it through future history
and at the bar Of God, will not Judge l Can
only hope
VII. On the face of this wide earth. Mr. Pres
dent, there is not one disinterested, determined,
intelligent champion of the Union cause Who
does not feel that all attempts 10 put down the
rebellion and at the same time uphOlds lis hcitng
Cause are prepOSlerous and iute-that the rebel
lion, If crushed out morrow, would be renewed
within year it slavery were left in iuIl vgOr-
that army officers who remain TO this day devoted
tn slavery at best he but half wav loyal a. the
UnIOn-and that every hour OF Difference TO
slavery Is an hour of addict and deepenel peril
to the Union. lappeal TO the testimony of your
Ambassadors in Europe. 1t is freely at YOUR FER
vice. not ut mine. Ask them to tell YOU candidy
whether the seeming srbservency OF your policy
10 the slaveholding. slavery -upholdlng interests
is not the perplexity, the despair OF statesmen
of all parties, and be admOnished by the general
answer.
| TX close as began with the statement that
what an immense majority OF the loyal millions
/ of your countrymen require of you is a frank de-
clared, unqualified, unsrudgng execution OF the
laws OF the land more especially OF the cUnfsca-
ton act. That act gives freedom to the slaves of
rebels coming within our lines, or whom those
/ lines may at an times inclose-we ask YOU 20 rem
der it due obedience by publicly requiring all
/ your subOrdindes 70 recognize and obey it. The
! rebels are everywhere using the late anti negro
/ riots in the North as they have long used Scur
officers treatment of negroes in the South, TO
convince the slaves that they have nothing to
hope from Union succeSs-that We mean in
1 that case 10 sell them into bitierer bondage to
deray the cost of the war. Let them imnress
! this truth on the great mass OF their igno-
| rant and credulOuS DOndmen and the Union will
never be re>iorei-never. We can not conquer
ten millions of people united in solid phalanx
against US. powerfully aided by. Northern :, mpa-
Ihizers, and Euroi can allies We must have
scouts. guides, spies. cooks, teamsiers. digeers
and choppers from the blacks of the South, whe-
ther allow them TO .ht for u or mot, or We
shall be bafiei and epelied. A one of the mil
lions who would gladly have avoided this struggle
at amy sacrifice but that of principle and honor.
but who now feel that the triumph of the Union
is indispensable not only to the existence of our
country. but TO the well being OF mankind,
entreat You To render a hearty and unequivOcal
obedience to the law Of the land.
Yours, Horace GREELY.
New York, Aug 10, 1862.