Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09
Special Correspondence of the Chicago Times.
From Washington.
The Emancipation and the Arming Of Negroes
"The Constitution as Il is"-7he Early States
men of the Republic and the Present Race Of
Pigmies.
WASHINGTON, May 2S.


men of the Republic and the Present Race Of
Pigmies.
WASHINGTON, May 2e.
Some weeks since | stated in the Chicago
Times that general edict of emancipation would
be issued within ninety days by some Department
of the Government. General d. Hunter has YER
ihed the prediction in an extraordinary proclama-
ton, declaring "forever free" all the slaves now
held in the States of South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida
He simply follows the doctrines enunciated by
the late Secretary of War in his farewell speech
at Harrisburg, made just upon the of his sail
ing for Russia as the representative of Mr.. Lin
coins Administration at st. Petersburg. He re
affirms and ntensifies the abolition proclamation
Of Fremont and the fabergastic speech of Col.
John CochIane of New York.
Minister Cameron was not recalled for his
reasonable speech; Fremont was only removed
from one department of the army to have a new
one created for him; and Cochrane was nomina-
ted for Brigadier General by Mr.. Lincoln.
cannot, therefore, perceive how the opinion that
Lincoln will at once recall and reprimand Hunter
can prevail among certain conservative men to
the extent that it appears to this morning. True,
the force of public sentiment may frighten the
President into recall of Hunter, but, of his own
unbiased and uninhuenced will, Lincoln would
ron, or cease TO repose confidence in him any
more than he has lost faith in Fremont and Coch-
rane
Hunters proclamation and his enrolling and
arming of the negroes, are simply an invitation
to a carnival of barbaritieS-a solicitation that
negroes shall apply the torch to the homes and
dip their knives in the hearts blood of white
men-a buge call rousing the baser passions OF
the black race TO surfeit themselves in the raw
ishment of the white mothers and daughters OF
the South, to plunder and pillage, to raplne and
arson; to the re-enactment of all the terrible and
inhuElan crueties that characterized the insur-
rectionary revolution of st. Domingo.
Will such a mode of warfare restore "the
Union as it was,' or maintain 1.-THE Constitution
as it is?' Will such mode of warfare elicit for
the Federal Government the respect and sympa-
thy of civilized Europe? VIII the just and mer-
cful God whose omnpotent will gave victory to
our forefathers in the revolution for American
independence smile upon and bless the cause of
our Government if such mode of warfare is re-
sorted tor
Can negro mobs burn loyalty into the crushed
hearts of husbands whose wives they may have
violated? Can black assassns be taught to use
the dagger so adroitly to stab loyalty into the
vitals of white men? Is not the diabolical poll
cy of General Hunter calculated to prolong the
the South, to nerve to demonac desperation ev-
cry Southern arm, and to prevent forever and
forever the coming together of the States within
that grand and holy Union which fathers
made and consecrated with their blood?