Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-04
a Don Argument.

In Governor WRIGHT's great war speech, OF
the 18th of July, as the Republican papers term
it. we find the following. which is eminently wor-
thy of general consideration:
have a letter before me. written in the South,
from gentleman that | have known for MANY
years and purpose now to read an extract from
il in relation to Gen. Halleck's order No. 3. Nv
friend writes follows:
Haleck's order. No. 3. has killed at least TO-
900 of your wes.ern soldiers. You car see them
in every car. and ON the corners of every street.
At Hamburg. four miles above Pittsburg Land
ing. there were 2 200 soldiers sick, and 600 had
been taken away the day before We were there
i saw attachments of our troops making roads
In the hot sun; | saw the boats unlOaded by
them; and, ia fact. young men, noble men, who
had sprung To arms to save the country, were
performing labor which was enough to break
down the constitution of the strongest; and
did not see a single black man at work at any of
the landings on the Tennessee or Cumberland
rivers; but did see two stout fellows blacking
the boots oil rebel prisoners on board the steamer
Uncle Sam, at Pittsburg Landing"
This is the authority of gentleman / can
vouch for as n man of responsibility. he sent
me another fact. He inclosed me list 476 men
who were then board one steamer most of
whom were from my own State and Ohio; and
out of the whole list but three were wounded in
battle. They were all afflicted with the disease
OF that country, as shown from the list opposite
~ each name. and but three were wounded.
Thus il appears that the labor in building forti
fcatious. roads, &c. under Southern sun, with
the diseases incident to the Southern States, are
doing more to kill and disable our soldiers than
any other cause This Is a strong argument, if
any be needed, for the employment of the negro
in all the mental and laborious service. of the
camp and Notifications. But is likewise an ar
gument equally forcible in another direction
The attempt is being made to turn the war into
one OF determination, killing all the white in
habitants of the South. and peopling il with
new race Ii is demonstrated by actual exper
imeni that the hardy sons o. the North can not
successfully. by their own labor, cultivate the
Southern soil; hard labor. then, according to the
testimony Governor WRIGHT furnishes, will break
down the constitution of the strongest. An in
tellgent officer, connected with Gen. HALLEcK's
staff. told Us few weeks ago. that not man in
that division of the army would agree to take 800
acres OF land in the best county in Mississippi, and
agree to cultivate it with his and white labor
Beyond controversy il is the labor of the black
And il is also another TACT equally capable of
demonstration. that that labor can be made
productive only ny compulson; that il can not
be made to add 10 the wealth and comfort of the
nation and the world except by force. ne
gro's idea of liberty is freedom from labor. That
is his conception OF paradise. Free from con
straint. necessity alone will induce the black race
to raise from the soil barely sufficient for sub
s;stence. The history OF Africa illustrates most
completely this position. Ii has been only in a
state OF servitude. and by the surrounding infu-
ences of a civilized and superior race, that the
negro has progressed at all in civilization and
Christianity.
Col. BIcKLK IN late speech in this CITY, the
New York Tribune of 4 recent date, and that
class of fanatics generally, demand that the war
shall be prosecuted 10 exterminate the white PEG
PIE of the rebel States We protest against such
an Infamous proposition as at war with ciyza-
ton. Christianity. manhood and every material.
as well moral, interest 81 the nation. We are
making history for our children Shall il be one
of honor TO which they can point with pride as
not recording any act OF humanity. or shall
our hitherto proud escuteheon be furnished with
deeds of infamy. such proposed by the Tribune
and which will make the acts of tyrants which we
have hitherto. as a people, denounced with We
hemence. respectable in comparisonr Rebel
atrocities are no justification for even similar re
tsliatory acts on our part. If they become in
human il is no reason that We should become
savage. There is no necessity for a savage
warfare Let the President announce that the
var Is for the single object of putting down the