Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-26
From the Albany Argus
The Potency OF the Black Draft.

the Necessity OF draft from the militia ald
home guard of the North. to reinforce our be-
leaguered troops on the Peninsula. Thew have
apparently abandoned all trust in white troops of
any kind. conscripts or volunteers. They have
faith only in black draft, which they hold TO be
an inf,llible nostrum tor our case. GIVE US, they
say. but the liberty of recruiting among the
"lOyaliStS of the South" as they denOmnate
their cOOred brethren. and the war Will be over
in less than the sixty days" in which Mr. Sew
ard is continually winding up our troubles.
Their faith is in the black man. They regard
the white race as played out. The coming man
who is TO win the day is gentleman OF color.
Some SclpO Airicanus l. 10 wear the laurels of
triumph. Your McClellans. II Illecks and Popes
are poor white trash They are no more to be
compared with the POmpeys and Caesars OF to-
day than with their nameSakes OF history The
war has gone OH for year inetiectvely, all be
cause We trusted too little to complexion. They
now propose new order of things
"s nequeo fectere Superbos
AcherOn Ia mOvebo."
If we cannot move the upper powers, we will
invoke the gentleman in black So he il. IL
they must DO it, let them do it, No one stands
in their way.
They have The Cabinet, the Congress, the
States. the provisional governments. 1t they are
convinced that none but negroes carry on
this war, they can resort TO that alliance. For
ourselves We have faith in negro Indian
auxlllaries; and believe they will cost far more
than they will come to; while the incidental dis
advantages OF a recourse to them will be very
great! But what does our opposition amount
tor Who asks our opnionsl What consiera-
ton is paid to the opinion of any one who
considers white man better than "A negro, or
even as goodT
Ii this thing is to be DONE let it be done open
ly, not conspre to create necessity for il. and
then force IL upon the people under the plea of
necessity. Do not first reject regiments of n Orth
ern volunteers, eager for the war-dO not forbid
recruitng-do not disband reg iments-do not di-
vide our armies and dissipate their strength
above all do not sacrifice the flower of our army
in order TO create this necessity for "A military
ganization OF the negroes Do not throw the pa
tent into commissions, to which nothing but a
black draft will act as an opiate.
The determination to force the Government
intoa recourse To levy of black troops has been
pursued persist entity fom the beginning The
organization OF contrabands, the opening of IA
city at refuge for runaway blacks in the District
OF Columbia, the negro school opened by Secro-
tarv Chase, aud the whole social scheme OF Gen.
Hunter ending in his black brigade show Ell it..
Not less, though indirectly, the stopping of re-
cruiting Senator Wilson's proposition to dsband
one hundred and fifty thousand of our men in the
Held. and the opposition to a conscription IN the
North show the ultimate purpose of the Abolition
demagogues to press into their negro military
scheme
We will not charge that the straits to which
Mcclellan has been reduced were contrived by
the arch tects of ruin; but we know that they
exult to think that one of the results of our
disasters will be TO compel a resort to the black
troops.
In Heavens name, if the policy is to be put in
L.
dreadful as theSel Better call your negroes to
your banner at once. and commence your new
ctreer. But 10 not sacrifice any more of our
armies, or any more OF our country, to your
African ietishe
Call your black into the field, if you please
uniform them and arm them-,ieconte them
with orders and honor them with titles; fill up va
can't BrgadershIps, and the blanks in the army
lists caused by death and disasters, with these
ebony heroes but do il openly. and as part of a
straight forward policy. There is no one to pre-
vent your doing it. You have the power wholly
in your hands.
But there is a sequence to this policy which
you must pursue. 1t il not in the army that the
inefficiency is found, which has caused our Gala IN
titles We want new element in civil rather
than in military administration. Let US have "A
negro or two in the Cabinet; we might gain by
it. There would be economy in displacing Sim
mons IN the Senate, by a gentleman OF almost
any color; and Massachusetts, and Michigan
might gain by similar change. 1t is twenty
years since il was said OF Fessenden. of Maine,
at negro festival. that Though he bad white
face. he had black heart" but the public exig-
encies and the politics of Maine require a black
face we'll as a heart OF that color.
As to subsisting negroes for the black legs who
hang upon ne army and Congress and the Cabi
net. the work OF change is already half done TO
or hands Nor is much more required to be
done TO Airicanize the pulpit and the editor al
staff OF large portion OF the country The pro-
cess of colonization has been going on for years,
and will soon Toe completed under existing pro
ces>es We demand that all of Us should be en-
titled To the benefits of a reform. which our Gov
ernors propose To limit To the army. Let the AT
rlcan color extend over navy and civil depart
ment> over Congress and Cabinet and the Ju-
dietary: and let the delightful fragrance OF this
reform exhale through all the departments of
business and social life Let the reform be a.
complete as il j. benign Tie white race is
played out Let the black man enter upon the
scene.