Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-08


court martial, was found guilty of the neglect.
But Gen. Hooker has no authority TO break the
swords of officers, OF to dismiss them firm the
service
The Presidents message. delivered to Con-
gress yesterday. is Just the document which an
Abolition President might be expected to deliver
to Abolition Congress. Ii proves, IL any
proof were wanting, that the Administration al
ways intended the war TO he war Tor the aooll-
ton of slavery. The burden Of the message is,
show slavery can be abolished" The argu-
ments and the reasoning (if reasoning 1t can be
called) by which Mr.. Lincoln endeavors to show
that slavery can be abolished. and that he can
abolish it, are childish. illogical. and superla
lively weak. The idea OF proposing 10 the
Southern States to abolish that system OF labor
which the experience OF generations and the laws
of an inscrutable Providence show to be thu only
one by which TIE products of the South can be
raised, is as absurd as his other idea of "com
pensated emancipation" is chimerical
Mr. Lincoln certainly tells the truth when he
says that 1--WE Of this Congress and this Admin
istration cannot escape history" Ii ever there
will be an Administration held up 10 the scorn,
the hatred and the contempt of posterity, it will
be "thls Administration Trey found the
country prosperous = happy = united. They
launched il into civil war, for the sake of chi
mera. Their logged, suen obstinacy caused
| the Southern States TO secede, at time when
conciliation and FIVE words assuring them of their
rights, would have kept them in the Union. The
war being naugurated. the Administration has
made it for the abolition of slavery know
ing that. ii they succeed in this, the restoration
OF the Union would be impossible During the
progress of the war the Administration has thrown
away one opportunity after another for winning
decisive victories, BY interfering with our Genes
| ais, breaking up their plans, and dsmissing then
from their commands These are some of thu
things for which this Administration" will b,
remembered in history
The first days proceedings of Congress are ne
doubt Indicative of those of the whole session
| The conservative members will do all in thei
power to bring the Administration to II sense o
its duty, and to do justice to those who have beer
made its victims; and the radicals will delea
these endeavors On test questions of this kin'
yesterday the radicals had a clear majority o
forty. But the fac that. with House not We
full, the conservatives can already muster fort
votes, fills the radicals with dsmay. 1t is notices
tha' nearly all the talent and parliamentary skill
nearly all the men of mark and intellect ar
monOpolizcd by the conservatives; and that anon
the radicals several men not much noted TO
strong minds and fixed purposes. Ii is feared tina
as the session progresses, some of these weake
vessels may be won over by arts that will nc
now be used Tor the first time, and that the rad
Gals may thus lose ten or twelve votes. OF courS
the efforts of the radicals to maintain their ascer
dancy will be fierce and determined.
But the power of this Congress for evil will b
short lived. 1t will expire on tie 4th of Marcl
On that day will terminate the weakest and Il,
wckedeSt Congress with which the country ha
ever been cursed. X.