Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-25
THE PRESIDENT DENOUNCED As sxuI1.rIsH.


The President, judged by both proclamations
that have followed the late confscation act Of
Congress. has no mind whatever He has not
uttered a word that gives even a twilight glimpse
OF any anti slavery purpose He may be honest;
nobody cares whether thet0rtose is honest or not.
He has neither Insight, nor provision, nor decs-
ion. Ii is said in Washington streets that he
long ago wrote proclamation abolishing slavery
in the State of Virginia, but Mcclellan bullied
him out of it. 1t is said, too--whatis extremely
likey-that he has more than once made up his
mind to remove Mcclellan. and Kentucky bullied
him out of it. The man who has been beaten to
that pulp in sixteen months, what hope can We
have of him2
HE HAS NO CAPACITY.
Inever did believe in the capacity of Abraham
Lincoln, but do believe in the pride Of Davis,
in the vanity of the South, in the desperate de-
termination of those fourteen States; and be-
lieve in a sunny future, because God has driven
them mad; and in their madness is our hope.
NEGROES SHOULD BE ARMED AGAINST SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS.
The papers are accumulating statistics to prove
that the negro will work, and asking whether he
will fight If he will not fight we are gone-that
is ALI If he will not work without the lash the
Union is over. If the popular theory is correct,
there can be no peace nor union on this contn-
ent. except under the heel of slaveholdng des
potism. 1t is not the South we have got to con-
quer; it is the Egypt Of the Southern half of Hi
nois.
LINCOLN NOBODY.
Lincoln would act if he believed the North
wanted him to. He is not genius He is not
man like Fremont to stamp the lava mass of the
nation with an idea he is not a man like Hun
ter to coin his experience into ideas. will tell
YOU what he is. He is first rate second rate
man. He is one of the best specimens of
second rate man, and he is honestly waiting like
any other servant of the people, 10 come and
send him on any errand they wish.
THE CABINET ARE MURDERERs.
What we want is some stunning misfortune;
what we want is a baptism of blood, to make
the achilg and bereaved hearts of the people
cry out for Fremont. for idea, and the head
OF the armies. Meanwhile we must wander
ON in. the desert. waseful murderers. Every
life lost in that swamp is murder by the Cabi-
net at Washington. Every dollar spent is sio-
len from the.bonest Toll of the North to pam
per the conceded pride OF the South in her own
institutions.
PRAYER Fea THE SUCCESS OF JEFF. DAVIS.
Pray God, that before he abandons this nation,
he will deign to humble it with one blow that
shall make it spring to its feet and the
strength it has Beseech him to put despair into
the hearts of the Cabinet If we are called ever
to see another President of the United States
on horseback flying from the capital, waste
not tearsl He will return to the capital on the
arms of million Of adult negroes, the sure
basis OF Union that will never he broken.
Applause
WHAT ILLINOIS LAWYERS SAY.
l asked the lawyers of Illinois, who had prac
ticed law with Mr.. Lincoln for twenty years, as
he man of decision, is he man who can say
nor" They all say, elf You had gone to the IL
linos bar, and selected the man least capable of
saving no, it would have been Abraham Lincoln
He has no stiffness in him." ! said to the bank
ers and directors of railroads in Chicago, lis Nc
Clellan man who can say nOT" and they said,
Blanks we had only few months; we don't
think much of him; but to every question you
asked, he wOald say YES or no in sixty minutes.
Mcclellan never answered question while he
was here If there was a question to be decided,
he fOated until events decided it. He was here
months, and he never decided a single question
that came up in the management of the Hi
nos Central"
SOUTHERN SUCCESS HOPED FOR.