Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-25

they would gladly have laid these down If assur-
e. that they should be free They we're set upon
and maimed, captured, and killed. because they
sought the benefit Of that act Of Congress which
theY may not specially have heard Of. but which
Was none the less the Jaw OF the land-wh ch they
had clear right 10 the benefit of-wheh it was
somebody's duty to publish far and wide. in order
that so many possible should be imPelled to
desist from serving rebels and the rebellion and
come over to the side of the Union. They sought
their liberty in strict accordance with the law Of
the land-they were butehered or enslayed for so
doing by the help Of the Union soldiers enlisted to
hight against slavehOlding treason. Ii was some
1ody's fault that they were so muriered-ifo others
shall hereafter suffer in Ike manner, in default of
explicit and public direction 10 your Generals that
they are 70 recognize and obey the Confscation
Act. the world will lay the bla me on you Wheth.
er you will chose bear il through future history
and at The bar Of God, will not judge | can
only hope
VIII. On the face of this wide earth Mr. Pres
ident, there Is not one dsinterested, determined
intelligent champion of the Union cause who
does not feel that all attempts TO put down the
rebellion and at the time uphods It's melting
cause are preposterous and futile-that the rebel
lion, If crushed out 10 morrow, would be renewed
within year If slavery we're left in full vlgOr-
that army officers who remain to this day devoted
To slavery at best be but half way loyal to the
Union-and that every hour of Difference to
slavery Is an hour of added and deepened peril
to the Union. appeal TO the testimony of your
Ambassadors in Europe 1t is freely at YOUR ser
vice, not at mine. Ask them to tell YOU candidly
whether the seeming sCbservency of your policy
to the slaveholding, slavery unfolding 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 frank, de
clared, unqualified, ungrudging execution OF the
laws of the land, more especially of the cOnfisca-
ton act That act gives freedom to the slaves oil
rebels coming within our lines, or whom those
lines may ut an times inclose-we ask YOU to rem,
der it due obedience by publicly requiring all
your subordinates to recognize and obey it. The
rebels are everywhere using the late anti negro
riots in the North they have long used your
officers treatment of negroes in the South, to
convince the slaves that they have nothing 10
hope from a Union success-that we mean in
that case to sell them into bitterer bondage to
defray the cost of the war. Let them impress
this rs a truth on the great mass of their igno-
rant and credulOus bOndmen, and the Union will
never be restored-never. We can not conquer
ten millions of people united in solid phaanx
against us powerfully aided by Northern sympa-
thizers. and European allies. We must have
scouts, guides, spies, cooks, teamsters, diggers
and choppers from the blacks of the South, whe
Their we allow them to fight for not or we
shall be baified and iepeled As one of the mil
lions who would gladly have avoided this struggle
AT any sacrifice but that of principle and honor
but who now feel hat the triumph OF the Union
is Indispensable not only to the existence of ouT
country, but to the well being of mankind,
entreat you to render hearty and unequivocal
obedience to the law of the land.
Yours, Horace GREEDY.
New York Aug 10, 1862