Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-27

object OF the war.
The telegraph this morning reports that Mr..
STANTON, the Secretary Of made the following
significant remark in reference to ths future con
duct of the war: Hereafter the army must sup
port itself" In a pamphlet lately issued by Mr..
SUMNER, the Abolition Senator from MAssachu-
sets, the following paragraph appears as to the
cause of the war and the means to be employed
to suppress the rebellion:
Misconceiving entirely the cause of the war,
and the aRirnus of the enemy, we have every
reason to be thankful that nothing worse has
happened to our cause, but what have we to hope
for in the futureY Aslong as we do not strikeat
the cause of the war, nothing Every dollar we
expend on the plan of restoring the seatum quo
ante beiiWa, is so much given to the rebel cause.
JAMES H. LANE, man of decided anti slavery
or abolition sympathies, has been appointed Brig
adler General, and separate command given
him, with permission to prosecute the war, so far
as he is concerned, by such agencies as he may
see fit. The President and Secretary of War
cannot be ignorant of the principles entertained
by Mr.. LANE and the objects he proposes to ac-
complish. few days ago this man made a
speech at Chicago, a report of which we copy
from the Chicago Tribune, the leading Republi
can organ Of the Northwest, to which we direct
the attention of the reader. as the development
intend to employ in putting down the rebellion.
Gen. LANE talks as though he had entire conf
dence of the President. and that his views had
the approval of those in authority. He said:
Ii is no time for talking now, but for action
We have consumed eight months in inactivity,
have wasted three hundrsa millions of dollars,
and sacrificed twenty five thousand lives, and
turned this country upside down in our insane en-
deavors to put dow this Internal rebellion and
save slavery. tell you can't be done and the
Government has come TO that conclusion. Let me
tell YOU. confidentislly, that on Monday last they
opened a new set of books and came to the con-
clusion that if the Union can't be saved and
slavery saved, then down goes slavery The
rebels have either got to submit, to die or to
away. tell you the time has come when play
must stop The rebels must submit or be sent
down forthwith to that hell already yawning to
receive them
This desirable onsummation was effected by a
compromise. The radical men agreed that the
conservative men should carry on the war ac-
cordng to their notions. for eight menths. pro-
vided they were allow ed the next eight. The time
is up for the conservatives, and they now hand
the war and its conduct over to the radicals. and
every conservative man should now extend the
same encouragement and support which we gave
TO them in the prosecution OF their method
There are i'm the South ESQ 900 strong and 10y
al male slaves who have fed and clothed the re-
bel army and have as good as fought upon their
side. Government now proposes that these slaves
shall feed and cothe our army and fight upon our
side The other day while talking with the Pres
ident, Old Abe said to me, LANE, how many
black men do you want to have to take care of
your army?" / told him as my army would
number "a 600 proposed to have "a .00e contra
bands in addition 10 my teamsters and wagon
masters. considered every one Of my soldiers
engaged in this crusade of freedom knight
rant and entitled 70 his squire to prepare his food,
black his boots, load his gun and take off his
drudgery. Vanity and pride necessary adj
juncts of the soldier, and do not propose to low
er him by n.enial offences. nor compel him to per
form the dntes of the slave. So, while shall
elevate the slave by giving him his freedom and
making a man Of him. ! shall also elevate the
soldier and leave him no work to do but lighting
A voice in the crowd" VI hat are you going to
do with the niggers?"l
The General, singing out the owner of the
voice, and pointing his long finger Mt him. re-
piled: "Ah, my friend, you are just the man |
have been looking for; will tell you what a,n
going to do with them. am going 10 plant them
on the soil of the Gulf coast after we have got
through this war; let them stay there and cult
vate the land; have Government extend pro-
lection to them. as it does to the Indians, and
send Superintendent and Governors among them
and pay them wages for their labor. There
could be no competition between black and white
labor" He believed, whether the rebels liked
the idea or not, that the blacks at distant day
would have possession of that Gulf country, to
which they were acclimated and physically con-
ditioned. he proposed to establish free State
governments as he went along, and he could
promise his hearers that either he or the rebels
would be cleaned out.
The people must form their own opinion, from
these bold declarations. whether the object of the
war is for the maintenance of the Constitution
and the restoration of the Union or the abolition
of slavery.