Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-14

to know that they are better off where they are
than they could be az the North, end remained
nc home. Bur several thousands, nevertheless,
were caught by the aliuring bait, and. escaping
from their masters came here 20 Washington
The fifss few thousand that came foand here tie
negro's paradise; no work anil plenty TO cat. But
when they began to pour in by hundTeds At
time, when it became difficult TO feed them and
desirable TO make them work, they began 10
murmur. They find now that in order TO ct
their food, they have got 10 work n great deal
harder than they did at home. This has pro-
duced among them feeling Of deep seated dis
content, which the few willy black men spoken
of above have taken advantage Of.
The recent decision of the President not
to employ negroes as soldiers, but 10 use
them as laborers, has been seized by these men
as lever, and they have used it with trench
dous effect
AT the secret meetings of the leaders of the
blacks harangues have been made by these men
that make the blood run cold even to hear of
They describe in rude but forcible and expires
slve terms the promises that had been made TO
them by the leaders of the Republican party of
deliyerance from bondage and of participation in
all the rights and privileges of the whites, and
the shameful manner in which those promises
had been violated. They then spoke of the
Presidents decision and read it aloud from the
New York Tribune newspaper in order TO give IL
greater effect He is willing. said these In
cendiaTes, Ito work us to death but he viii not
let Us have arms and uniforms and he drilled a
soldiers. We are good enough to be his slaves,
but not good enough to be his soldiers. nc don't
want any nigger' soldiersl NiggerSl will Won
stand thatl" lCries of mol mol we will 6ghtl''l
You will fight Let me see, when the time
comes, whether Won will fghtl'' This language
was actually used at their meetings. 1.-THE ex-
istence of this Kind Of feeling does not lead TO
bloody results it will he because the negroes of
America are not the same beings as the negroes
of the West Indies
The apprehensions expressed in my letter of
July 20, about the i'll effects to be expected from
the execution of Gen. Pope's order permitting
the soldiers to plumber, are already beginning to
be realized. Nor are the men much TO blame.
They invariably quote Gen. Pores order,
printed copy of which, cut from a newspaper,
every man carries with him, as justifying them,
and even enjoining it upon them ''to subsist on
the enemy Every farm every farmhouse, ev-
cry dairy. every smoke-houSe every plantation,
every dwelling, that comes in their track is re-
morselesSy plundercd of every portable article,
and IL is fortunate for the owner if his houses
and barns are not burned down over his head
As 1t is, he is left with his family to starve and
with no clothes except those on the persons of
his family. Every domestic animal, every horse,
every chicken and PIG, is either killed or driven
of, The country, as left by our troops is a
desert. Is this the way to restore the Unionl
Docs any one believe that these people, thus des-
poilcd of everything will ever again become will
inc citizens of the Government whose soldiers
thus ruin them! l repeat it, the Union can
never be restored unless these practices are in
stantly stopped, and restitution made for the
damage that has already been inflicted What
does Mr.. Seward think of such practices! l.
this his "humanc" way of carrying on the ware
is this his ''conciliatory'' method of winning
back our crring fellow citizens?" Truly, indeed,
the world is standing appalled, al the "macnan-
unity" displayed by the men in power under this
Administration.