Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-11


Indiana. The President aud Congress. by recent \
action and legislation. propose pecuniarv aid to
such OF the slave States shall ADOPT schemes I
of negro emancipation, and the payment. from /
theresources of the nation. of the value Of such
negroes. Such a proposition, two years ago, /
would have been received. from Maine TO Geor
gia with one universal hiss of execration No,
so now. Mr.. Lincoln transmitted a message TO
Congress, accompanied by joint resolution
in March last. pledgfng the people of the free
States to this policy of negro purchase, and
recommending It's adoption by both Houses.
Congress opposed this policy, and passed. this
resolution, all the Republican members, with two
or three exceptions. voting fort. and all the Dor
der States Union members with one or two ex-
ceptions) and Democrats voting against il. lt
was thus made part Of the policy of the Admin
istration, and stands alone IS its act and deed.
No member of Congress, outside of the Repubh-
lean organization, was seduced into the support of
Ia measure unjust to the free laborng man, and
so fruitful of grinding taxation to the present and
future industry of the country 1t * RepubH-
ycan measure, bearing the recommendation OF the
President, aud the sanction of a Congress elected
as the friends OF his Administration. Then, 80
far the President and Congress involy
the people are pledged to pay for all negroes who
may be emancipated by State authority and it
will stand judgment and mortgage against
the labor and property of every man I'LL that res
oluton shall be repealed by succeeding Con
Bgress, as we trust il will be. 4 measure of such
transcendent injustice and oppression to the white
Trace OF the free States not long stand as the
wish and verdict of the American people.
! Ii is presumed that pledge thus solemnly
given was given after mature consideration. Ii
would be unjust TO charge the President and Con-
+ gress with haste on question so momentous. and
still more unjust, to accuse them of dupcity to-
/ ward the slave States which might inaugurate a
] 1sa.- Of In, ,asfi IL
/ make accusations The fact stands revealed 10
the nation that our rulers have proposed a scheme
+ which must stand or fall by the verdict of the
/ American people. We desire to submit facts to
/ a BETRAYED country We use the word betrayed
F in 10 offensive sense, and tor no purpose OF un-
patriotic reproach to those who supported the
measure which We now condemn, aud which no
/ change of political fortune shall induce ap-
/ prove. Whit mean To say is this: When the
present Congress was elected, not one member
f returned to either House dared to tell the people
+ that such scheme of taxation was contemplated.
4 What solitary member, when soliciting the vote
of his neighbOr, ever suggested that he would tax
them pay for four millions of negro slaves scat
F tered over the Southern Statesg Ii Indiana re-
| turned such member. some one knows him If
( there one such bold and daring candidate,
+ pending the election OF 1860, he must be remem-
I bered for the audacty and reckessness of his
/ political principles. There not such:
and, tor this reason. we say the people OF lndl
I ana, and other free States, were betrayed by
votes, after the election, which candidates dared
not acknowledge before. Ia this sense, the people
/ have been BETRAYED and with an utter disregard
/ for the Constitution which these Republicans
! have sworn to support. This right to make the
/ citizens of Indiana pay for emaucipated negroes,
/ by the toll and industry of the white man.
not even inserted in the Chicago Platform
LAW higher than the Constitution itself, IN the
/ opinion OF some peope-and which contained,
! we had supposed, all the political absurditieS APP
pertaining to the negro race OH this continent.
! n o one dared to breach or advocate policy
puGnant to the settled action of this Government
i before the election of 1860. 1t has been sprung
upon the country in the midst of "a terrible civil
war; and at time, too, when the patriotism and
resources of the country taxed to their ut
most capacity of endurance. If it was proper,
at any time, (Which we deny,) this is not the mo-
ment to put the resources OF the country to test
full or peril to the great industrial interests OF
the nation.
/ What does this resolution of Congress pro-
! poser What does it ask of the States and PEG
| Pile? We beg countymen to look at the
facts, and do it in the spirit of candor and EN-
! lghtened reflection. We have arrived al point
where self deception would be fatal. and where
! seif-delusion would be crime against ourselves
and our posterity. There are in this country, dis
persed in fourteen States, some four millions of
negro slaves There are probably more, but we
assume that number as the basis OF calculation.
These slaves would average. in value, 500 each.
Admitting that the ADMINISTRATION could com
pound their value at S4O0 each. might be
agreed upon with the States which favor eman-
cipation. This, beginning, would involve a
National debt OF sigteen hundred millions OF dot
lars as the first fruit OF this policy Inaugural
ted 10y the Republican party. This is IA fearful
sum, but it is not ali. Beyond this purchase
money, comes other questions and outlaws OF
great ma gnitude. These negroes, all candid per
sons admit, would have to be subsisted for at
least year. till some safe dOmicil should be pro-
vided for them. This would force upon the Gov
eminent outlay of two hundred millions more.
Colonization Of these negroes would be the
next duty of the Administration, for surely Mr..
Lincoln and his party cannot seriously think OF
bringing these negroes in the free States to com
pete with the white laboring man and artisan,
and. as Mr. Clay once wrote, thus degrading
the white American, German and Irishman to
the level OF the negro, 10y bringing them into
competition with the African" What the policy
of the Administration may be ia regard to the
future Of the negro, after he is emancpated and
paid for by the white man, has not been made
public; but il Is very certain that the citizens of
Indiana and Illinois have no room for him in
their respective States, and that colonization
would be forced upon the Government, as q ne
ceSSity This would compel further expenditure
OF four hundred millions more, one hundred
dollars per head for each negro We say moth
ing of the expenditures which the policy
would inausurate by the employment of hordes
of officials in the new department of negro emf
grafton. Their name would be legion, and their
expenditures appalling In the three items OF
purchase, subsistence and removal, we have to
record the stupendous National Indebtedness of
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS, added the public debt already
tracted for the present civil war, The debt
OF the Nation to day is over thousand millions
OF dollars; and, should il be continued another
year, we may safely put it down at douoe that
This, surely, is all that the people should
be called upon To bear 1t will tax their ener
gies TO meet it, and give them full scope for the
exercise OF their patriotic virtues. BE this war
debt nOre or less. however, we have entire conf
dence that il will be fully met. The people OF
Indiana, always faithful TO the Constitution and
! the Union, III peace and in war. would scorn 10
desert this Government, refuse to pay their
share OF its burthens. In every war in which
the Nation has been engaged, Indiana has been
pre- eminent in her devotion To the Government,
aud she will not falter now. She has to day
vastly more than her quota in the armies OF the
Republic and she is furnishing more troops for
the conflict Indiana makes no conditions in
4 her devotion 10 the Union. but devotes her sons
and her energies TO its restoration. But there
+ she will stop. She desires TO have neither part