Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-25
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Mr.. Lane or Indiana, presented petition
from the free colored citizens of the United
States, praying for the setting aside portion of
the territory outside the national limits for their
colonization, and naming Central America
Mr. Lane said that while he did not believe
that the free coored were entitled tc all the rights
and privileges of white citizens OF the United
States, he nevertheless favored their just right to
petition, a right accorded even under the most
despOtic governments 1t was evident that as
slaves were freed here and by our armies some
thing must be done with them, emancipation or
an apprenticeship system must be adopted for it
not in accordance with the genius of our in
stitutons that these people should be returned to
slavery. He alluded to the great blOodlesS and
moral triumph of freedom in the abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia. fully equal
10 The triumph of our army by the chiralric and
brGUe of the West, to whom he paid IA glow
ing tribute. The memorial respectful and
deserving OF the attention of Congress. He de
sired that il should be read and referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations. which was
agreed to-Tele9rophic Dispatch
The heroes of Mill Spring, Pea Ridge Don
elSOn, and Shiloh will possibly feel complimented
by the remarks of Col Lane in the Senate yes
terday to the effect that he REGARDED the passage
of the bill aboishing slavery in the District of
Columbia triumph equal to any of the great
victories recently achieved by the gallant troops
of the West. For ourselves, we must confess
ourselves astonished as we'll as mortified by this
remark of Senator, whom we had hoped
would occupy a conservative position during this
crisis If Senator Lane thinks that the people
of Indiana, thousands of whose sons and brothers
were slain or manned in these terrific struggles,
will sympatEize with him in the opinion that the
nominal liberation of a few hundred worthless
negroes in the District of Columbia is a "tri-
umph" equal To their victories these fields, We
think he will find himself grievOusly mistaken.
1t IS perhaps pleasant for Senators like Messrs.
Lane. Trumbull, Wade, &c, to sit IN their COR
geoUs chamber at Washington, and imagine that
in voting for the liberation Of slaves, at the ex
pense of the people, they are making heroes of
themselves equal 10 those who fought on the
bloody fields of Kentucky, Tennessee and Ar
kansas. Not so. in our view of the case, will
think the people of Indiana, whose gallant sol
diers are now living beds of agony in every
hospital from St. Louis to Cincinnati, and who
themselves will be called upon to pay out of their
pockets for the miserable darkies set free in the
District of Columbia
Col Lane paid glowing tribute, so the tee-
graph tells u.s. TO the Western soldiers. They are
worthy all the Senator's eloquence. But we
hardly think that his panegvrc will reconcile
them to having their great deeds on the battle
field put down as of less account than the setting
free of the slaves in the District as Columbia.
Our Senator, we fear, sits in the midst OF a
tainted atmOsphere-an atmosphere poisoned with
the breath of such fanatics as Sumner, Hale, and
Lovejoy, mingled as it has been of late with the
traitorons givings out OF Wendell Phillips,
Beecher. Cheever. and Greeley. These abolition
dIsunonists may imagine that the votes of the
Republican Senators abolishng slavery at the
expense of the people constitute them "heroes
equal to those who have stood before the can
mons mouth and have fought for davs together
beneath a storm of iron hail But Senator Lane,
for whom We entertain none but the kindest feel
ings, will learn on his return home that that
species of heroism, however it may be regarded
in New England, is not appreciated among his
own constituents -Ne,r ALjaDu Tedger