Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-27

ell treasures pundered. forts taken. the flag torn
and dishonored and the authority OF the Govern
ment driven out Of eleven States of the U,sion
With insult ami scOm Yet, iu the face Of al
fhs 18th the fuli proportions Of this great rebel
Hon IN clear view. DE President reasserted the
policy Of the inaugural: and in doing 80. Al gain
announced that he neither had the pow 81 nor the
inclination TO interfere with slavery in the States
where il exists and that the fugitive slave law
must be enforced and obeyed.
Sir. where then was tie indignant thunder
which has shookthis Hall during the present ses-
sionr In What cave were the winds then mpFis
Onell What enchantment chained tie fiery zeal
OF the gentleman from Massachusetts. Mr. e
liOtll What prudential considerations induced
the veteran leader from Pennsylvania Nc Ste
vesls 10 nurse bis wrath and keep IL warm for a
future dayl Where Was the able gentleman from
Ohio Mr.. Bingham who now champions the
cause Of abOtiOnism warmly and so gallantlyE
And even the voice OF the gentleman IRON Hi
nois. Mr.. Loveoy.l who. Ike the war horse
OF the Scriptures, i eager for the battle where
the negro j. involved was silent Az, sir, they
silent then, and silent all The day and the
hour had not vet arrived 10 throw off the Disguise
which was assumed TO hide the purposes which
are now avowed. Soldiers were yet rushing to
the field The great army was not yet complete.
The music Of the Union yet resounded through
litlonism There were no speeches then in favor
OF universal emancipation. serve instructions.
the destruction OF State Governments and their
reduction to the condition OF territories. Far
otherwise
Mr. Bingham The gentleman will pardon
me; was not altogether silent during the special
session upon that subject.
Mr. VOORHEES,. Certainly not; but the gentle
men will hardly assert that his voice was heard
: has been during the present session
Mr. Bingham. No, sir; but did something
better than speaking. | reported bill which
passed this House. and which. in my judgment,
gives freedom to five hundred thousand slaves
Mr.. VOORHEES, But the gentleman did not
then extend his proposition to the liberation of
the whole four millions Of slaves of the South
let he has proclaimed that to be the true policy
of the Government during the present session Oh
this floor
Mr. Bingham. OF course not; but it did go,
in my judgment. to the extent of five hundred
thousand slaves
Mr. Voorhees,. Yes, sir; his proposition Mt
the extra session, he thinks, would liberate only
about five hundred thousand slaves; but in his
speech on the fifteenth of January of the pres
ent session, he asserts it to he the duty of the
Government to declare free the whole four mil
lions of slaves held in the South But, sir, to
proceed
have thus shown the faith which the highest
officer in the Government pghted with the peo-
Pile on this subject There might rest and call
upon him in thei offhe people to frown upon
the efforts which his political partisan friends are
making here 70 that faith TO he broken. But
there others OF eminent position and in whom
tire people have the highest hopes and interests
cOnhded, who gave public assurances in the early
stages of this war OF the manner in which il
should be conducted with regard to slavery to
which desire % call the attention of the House
and country.
On the Goth day of May, at Cincinnati, Gen
George Is. Mcclellan then name comparative
~ unknown, now filing the civilized world where
ever the story OF our great calamity has penetra
ted, issued his proclamation TO the Union men of
estem Virginia. With it as his fOrerunner he
crossed the Ohio river with ten thousand SONS OF
the Great West, and planted his ban .er on the
soil OF a slave State Was his mission to pro
clam liberty throughout all the land to all the
inhabitants thereof, according To the stereOtyped
war cry now on this iiOorI Did his soldiers, brave
and honest men feel, according to the speech OF
the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr.. Ste
velS. that the cause in which they had shoulder
ed their muskets would not enable them to con
tend successfully with the rebel forces unless
their march became "A crusade for the freedom of
the Slavey No, sir, nothing of this. The Gene
raj commanding held the following language on
the manner in which the campaign was to be
Quoted:
Notwithstanding all that has been said by the traitors
TO induce you believe that advent among you viii
be sisnailed by interference with your slaves un err
stand one Thing clearly nO only will abstain from all
such interference. but VIII, the contrary, with
iron hand, crush any attempt at insurFection their
part
| remember well how this proclamation of the
young Western General rang through the country.
Its terms suited the law abiding people of the
mighty Northwest. Ii filed them with bright an
ticpations of his future, which hope may all
be fulfilled. They took this proclamation as a
pledge, sanctioned, too, by the Executive, that
the of the Government To he used to
maintain all the laws, State and Federal, through
out the nation, Ii was worth, sir. to the recruit
log service a hundred thousand men in the valley
Oi the Mississippi.
| know not how it received away up to-
wards the North star, in the cold latitude OF New
England. where the abolition of slavery is an Oh
ect of far dearer and higher import than the re
construction of the Union on the basis of the
Constitution. But at least no cry of horror arose
from that virtuous region then, no explosive pro
test burst from Puritan lips Their hour had not
been reached, the iulness of time had not come
the ranks of the army were not full. and they
waited-yes. sir. they waited, But is the pledge
which given TO the true friends of the Con
Stituton and the Union by the Commanding Gen
eral of the armies of the United States on the
banks of the Ohio to be broken on the banks of
the POtOmacl He has since then drawn his
sword in new and higher field; he has stepped
upon thelter with the world for his audience;
he walks upon the dizzy heights of human great.
ness. So far official station can be,tOw It, the
field of fame lies open before him. in which to
win a name that will never perish, to become one
OF the immortal few who cannot die; but no
change of circumstances or OF fortune can re
lease him, in the minds of IN honest and conf
ding people from the obligation he assumed when
he opened his career by the invasion of Western
Virginia They call upon him now. as he prom
ised them. % aIpstlin from all interference with
the institution OF slavery. and with an iron hand
to crush any attempt at servile in>uucction.
But, sir, shall proceed with the testimony.
Tie record of the first ninety days of this war Is
filed 18th il. No sound WAS then heard above
the roar of the conflict, save the Union, the Con
stitutiou. and the enforcement Of all the laws
The ear Of the new recruit draUk in It's sweet
strains a. he left his home TO join in battles
magnitcently stern array" The poisonous ma
larl of ah0l.tonisIu had not then. rs now tainted
every gale which swept from this Capitol. Even
Massachusetts furnished a high order of evidence
To the country that this war Was 70 be conducted
" thin the limits of the Constitution and that the
States of the South were To be protected in the
enjoy ment of their domestic institutions
On the 9th day OF Nav, from his headquarters
nj Annapolis. in the slave State of MARYLAND.
General Benjamin r Butler spoke ~ follows. in