Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-05

IL IS part OF the vocation of Abolitionism TO
tel untruths. Greeley, OF course, az the chief
prophet Of the sect. excels in this radical accom-
plishmsnt In Thursdays number Of the ITi-
bnne he says:
Take cows, bulls, sheep, oxen, lands. barns.
crOps-take anything but blacksi There has
been n great deal of foolish talk in this world
from the time Of its creation, bot We do not be-
lieye that the world ever listened to such con
summate folly before. It's like giving up to a
highwayman his horse and his weapons, and
taking from him by way of forfeiture. his under
wa.stcoat. lou meet rebel IN the held; and
you shoot him. or he shoots you. That's all
fair, and We understand it. But suppose. hav
Ing his life in your power, he proposed TO YOU
to buy his life at the cost Of has negroes OH
yo1 must answer, the public interest demands
that | have nothing TO do with your blacks
Keep them in the name OF the Constitution"
And so YOU pop at him, aud down he goes, leav-
ing the blacks TO his executors. What charm
iDgly sensible piece of Unionismi"
Now everybody knows that this is, to call it
by the mildest possible name. mere Imagination.
Nobody, that We know of at least, seeks to put
slave property upon any different ground from
other property, save the Ab0tionists. They, no
doubt, labor TO give 1t an importance IN the war
which shall dominate and crowd out every other
consideration; but the great mass of the people
i
snubbed Fremont, Cameron, Phelps and Hunter,
and which declared that niggers should labor
for white men. Everybody is willing that the
army shall seize many rebel slaves as possible,
and make them work for our army, bat no one is
willing to pay taxes to support in deness i'm
mense bands of Abolitonists, to place blacks
and whites side by side in the Union ranks.
That this is the sentiment of the people is
proved by the great uprising which followed Mr..
Il / -. he
work for the white soldiers. This is a very diff
ferent matter from indiscriminate emancipation.
/ The latter would throw upon our hands four mil
/ lions of persons whom, during the war, we have
no for, and it is precisely for that reason and
not for any regard to slavery, that the Govern
ment will not emancipate.
The President. in his letter to Mr. Greeley, ex
pressed the real and desire of the nation in
regard to slaves and slavery. Make them sub
seryient to the great and paramount object OF
saving the Union Every true patriot agrees
with him when he says "if he could save the
/ Union without freeing any slaves he would do it;
! if he could save il by freeing all the slaves he
would do so; if he could save it by freeing some
and leaving others alone, he would do that
What do Che said about slavery and the col
ored race, | do because | believe il helps save
the Union, and what forbear, forbear because
L do not believe it would help save the Union. "
This is not the position OF the radicals They
would do no such thing-they would not even
save the Union at the expense of their party, and
they would not have the Union unless slavery is
abolished in all the States. No, not unless the
Intel post of every home is crossed with the
blood Of the 6rst-born. The issue is made uI
between the radicals; the AbotioniSts-thOst
vino have fought the Union for twenty years past
and who fight against its restOration-art
on one side, and the President, sustained by The
mass of the people, who are fighting for the Con
stituton as il is, and the Union as it was, on tn,
other.-Defrou Free Press.