Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-24
The True Policy.

The New York Herald. after referring to the
recent triumphs of the Union armies, makes the
following suggestions as to the policy of the
Government under the present circumstances:
What ought to be the policy of the Govern
ment under these circumstances? The admirable
proclamation of the President, announcing an
amnesty to all political prisoners, ought TO be
followed up by declaring amnesty TO all now
in open hostility to the Government, upon laying
down their arms and submitting to the authority
of the laws of the Union, to execute which is the
sole and single purpose of the war Such pro-
camaton would operate as atalisman upon what
remains of the instruction, and dissolve il like
the snow of winter before the genial rays
of vernal sun. There is no vindictive pur-
pose to crafty on the part of the President,
and there ought not to be on the part of those
in authority under him. Certainly there is
not on the part of the officers of the army or
the citizen soldiers who enlisted for the war
For what WARP The war to restore the Union
and the Constitution, and not war for ven
geance, nor war for any Utopian ideas Of philan.
thropy for negroes at the expense of white men.
The Presidents proclamation of pardon to politi-
cal offenders eau not fail to produce a powerful
effect upon the misguided dupes of the insurgent
chief Its wisdom is obvious to all men not
not blinded by fanaticism and blood thirsty re-
n
pardon to the rebels in arms, upon their submis-
sion, would crown this policy, and afford the
most practical refutation of the enormous lying
of the leaders in the rebellion and of the misrep
reservations of the British press. 1t may disap-
point the rabid AbolitiOnists in and out Of Con-
gress; but, standing ON such a broad platform,
the President afford to despise their enmity
and their friendship both alike. The plaudits of
a nation redeemed will compensate for the Satan
ic hate of disunon faction, who are the primal
source Of all cur troubles.
What do the fanatics propose to do when the
war is overf To rule the Southern States as
conquered provinces territories. and to eman-
cpate the whole negro popuationf Did they ever
seriously consider the effect of their insane propo-
sitiOnf In many districts Of the South the blacks
outnumber the whites. Now. ifthey are are eman-
cpated they will be entitled To members of Con-
gress and Governors of States. In "A brief time,
therefore, we might reasonably expect to see
some hundred negroes in the House of Represen-
tatives il not even in the Senate Chamber. What
sort Of ludcrous figure would such piebad Con
gress present TO the eyes of wondering nationsl
Such laugh ng stock, indeed, has Jamaica al
ready become Nor would the atsurdity stop
short here. As the negroes in Southern climate
increase more rapidly than white men, it would not
be long til they would have preponderance
in numbers and then perhaps the idea would
occur to Sambo that he ought to have the en-
tire South TO himself. and that II would be well
TO get rid of the whites, after the fashion Of St.
Domingo, so earnestly recommended by the Abo-
lition tribe. In the North the negroes can be
politically free with impunity 10 the white race,
though social freedom is further from their reach
than IL is at the South. But in the cotton States