Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-05
Special correspondence Of the Chicago Times
From Washington.

Siauery the instrument and Abolifionisfs the
ofhe War-TAe National Debt One Thousand
Millions Of Dollars-Hor much of this sum has
beea stolen by Republican Politicians and Con
tractors.
WASHINGTON, March 81
Absurd Aboltionsts and ranting Republicans
take great pleasure in saying and re saying that
Slavery il the cause OF the war; if you would
have peace. YOU must first remove the cause"
Day after day, Lovejoy. Bingham, Ashley.
Julian. Sumner, Trumbull. Wilkinson, and Dry
Goods Chandler, proclaim the above premise and
conclusion.
But slavery is not the cause of this war. AL
low me An illustration: Suppose that Long John
Wentworth should take a long shot gun and
Herewith shoot and kill Deacon BrOss. Long
John might be arrested and brought before his
Honor Bob Wilson, who would undoubtedly find
that that Long John was tho cause of the death
of the decedent. Deacon Bross, and that the gun
was the instrument.
So, hereafter when the grand impartial tribu-
nal of History shall hold solemn inquest upon
the death of good feeling and concord among the
States of the American Union, and investigate
the cause of the war, it will find and pronounce
that slavery was not the cause. but that it
the instrument IN the hands OF the AbolitonIsts.
and that they were the cause.
Justice would be cheated and the gallows rob
bed Of its reyisi0uary rights II the courts OF the
country should condemn the instruments with
which murders are committed. and acquit the
persons who used them but to do so would be
equally equitable il 10 TO condemn slavery
and let the Abolitionists escape The former is
the instrument welded by the latter for the de-
struction of country.
The match in the hands of the incendiary is not
the cause of the conhagration, but the means of
bringing il about; but To condemn the match and
let the house burner 90 free, would be just as
sensible as il would be 10 condemn slavery and
exempt the Abohtiousts from censure.
Had there never been a rampant AbolitiOnist,
there never would have been blatant seces-
sionst. The latter is theological sequence of the
former, and Doth antaSonistic To the existence
of the Union Had Lincoln and Seward never
announced that the Government could not exist
part free and part slave, or had the Republican
party never Endorsed the rrepressbe conflict doe
trine, j ell. Davis and Toombs would never have
attempted To demonstrate the proposition though
the four men agree perfectly in theory
Ii is time Tor conservative men of all parties to
begin to impress npon the minds OF the people
correct ideas OF the cause of the war. The de
mOcracy, actuated by the purest patriotism, by
common consent agreed to forbear discussing the
cause OF the war until after the din OF arms had
given way 10 the hum of contented industry
Had the opponents of democracy also remained
silent it would have been we'll enough for all
But they have never ceased the endeavor to en-
force their ideas upon the attention of the coun-
try. and to make it appear that slavery was the
cause of the war. Not only the peple at home,
but the army itself. is flooded with their per-
nicious teachings. Thousands of abolition and
emancipation tracts distributed daily among
the soldiers of the Potomac, and upon Sundays
the Chapains-manv of them-deliTer stump
speeches upon the cause of the war a. e.. slavery,
so they say.) the eradication of the cause, the
niger aud him crucfed; and all this is simply
a part of a gularly organized system for poison
ing the public mind and preparing IT to endorse
proclamation OF universal emancipation. which
the radicals irving To persuade Abe Lincoln
to make, and which he may-uuder the plea of
military necessity-make within the next sixty
days.
The tax bill is still before the House of Rep
resentatiyes, and delegations from different parts
of the Union still infest the committee room of
WAYS and Means To protest against this or that
tax upon articles ia which they deeply inter
ested. The bill. when completed and law
upon the statute books OF the country, will prove
entire failure means OF raising revenue
for the support of the Government.
liz will be a success, however, in making nnu-
merable places To be filled by Republican Office
seekers, who. like Oliver Twist, are still crying
for more soup But admitting that raise by
taxation revenue OF $3.50 900 900. at 81 10000
per day, which is our daily expenditure now. it
will run the Government fifty days, if applied di-
rectly to carrying on the Government. But We
are told that this Is simply pay interest with
and keep credit good. But at the close OF
the extra session OF Congress in July we had an
authorized national debt Of. O3O49, fIO Ia
add present session. ........ eUO,O0O, OOO 10