Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-06
Have We Governments and "A Policy

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Have We N Government and Policy!
1t looks very much as if we have both.
For few weeks past, some of our radical friends
have been m state Of gOrlhcatOR over a con
versaton, aleged to have been had with the
President, by Gen. Lane in which the former APP
proved OF the latter's proposals to make a gener-
al guerilla expedition into Arkansas, arm the
slaves "a he went along, and substitute for the
Government Of the United States reign of ter
rOr, and slave Instructions. No denial on the
part OF the friends of the President convinced
them of the folly OF the story. They telegraph
ed, wrote and published daily from Washington,
that General Lanes expedition had the hearty
approval of the President, aud of course they
took IL for granted that all his plans had equally
the sanction of the Government.
We have not spoken without authority i'm as
surfing our readers that Mr.. Lincoln Is determined
TO adhere TO his conservative plan of administer
ing the war. Whenever stories that he has
scented to or approved any plan, looking to pro
CARNATIONS of ireedOmt 10 slaves, putting arms
in their hands, are related, they may be at once
rejected as false. Ii becomes newspapers and all
public men to hold up TO admiration before the
world the consistent course of Mr.. Lincoln
this subject, instead of weakening confidence in
ing different policy in the West from that which
he avOws in The East.
IL is absurd 70 imagine that Mr.. Lincoln, the
President of the United States. or General Nc
Clellan, the Commander III Chief of the armies
intend, would consent to let any General or
other inferior officer 90 into Arkansas, or any
other part OF the South, with an independent
my, To carry OF his own, principles
diametrcally opposed TO their views. The radi
cal t~outiaunan ho hove a,caura.,ai % i
petition, have talked of it ali along il Gen.
Mcclellan had nothing to do with it. 1t Was Il
sort of patent right issued 10 Lane, which he
could carry out on the radical plan, President or
DO President COMMANDMENTS Chief or no Com
manderi Chief This idea has in fact been all
along prominent in some mems plans of the war.
They would have it fought according TO the
whims of each and every Goueral, provided only
thOse whims were anti slavery.
1t now appears that Gen. Lane, in the regular
order of things is the inferior offfer of several
distinguished and trustworthy Generals5-<1I that
Lanes Expedition" Is myth OF the newSpa-
pers. Whether General Mcclellan, always cool
and calm, and knowing what he Is about, has di-
rected Hunter TO take charge of the Kansas ad
vance. whether this has all along been the pro-
gramme, does not clearly appear. But it is sui.
fcenty evident that we have a Government,
which understands Its own business, and that the
Government has policy which is not regulated
either IN Kansas or Washington, by any radical
or anti-constituti0nal advisers.
\ contemporary says that lit has been reported
on good authority that Secretary Stanton author
lied Lane to arm the slaves in certain contin-
gency. These reports good authority are he
daily manufacture OF sensation correspondents in
Washington. Secretary Stanton never did any
thing OF the sort. More than this, he has not
now arms for the soldiers in Washington, much
less for the slaves at the South More still, Gen.
Lane will get his authorizations" of every kind.
through his regular superior officers, via General
Mcclellan 1t is not the policy OF the Govern
ment to authorize Brgadier Generals to pursue
other orders than those of the Commanuer in
Chief. More than all, Secretary Stanton, Gener-
Mcclellan and the President are in perfect con-
cord of their views in this matter, and no one OF
them has approved of the published plan of the
"Lane Expedition" or of the slave-arming prin-
cples which it attempted to confer on it by
Act OF Congress few days ago; failing which
they invented the story about the President,
which Gen. Hunters order now sets at rest. " e
certainly have Commander in Chief and a
President The radical gentlemen who doubted
whether We had policy, ought, by this time, to
rest satisfied that we have policy. and il is not
OF the General Lane sort.-NeU York Journal
of Commerce