Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-17
WHOLE No. 1,1S0.

De f10lculed. etl We nave tneSe clftl "arfiOtSs
whose only fight is logomachy, barking at Gen.
Mcclellan: and for what? Because he does not
proclaim liberty throughout all the land and 20
all the inhabitants thereof. All. there is the
troubled Can you wonder that " endell Phillips,
whose speeches are hailed so rapturously oy this
class declared that he sh0uld deplore a victory
by Mcclellan, because toe sore would be salved
over, and il would only be the victory of slave
Union; and that be thanked Beauregard for mar
shalng his army before Washington, because il
conferred upon Congress the constitutional power
TO abolish siaveryf Nor would wonder 10 see
my colleague from the Cleveland district, who
lectured US on our duty to the Union upon the
slavery question, rehearsing again bis contempt
for the Union which he expressed in his printed
speech made az Cleveland on the day Of John
Browns Obseqnies, when he said that no puner
spirit than John Browns had ever entered Para
disc for the past thousand years; and that be
would rend the Union to destroy slavery, though
hedged around by the triple bars Of the national
compact, and though thirty three Gro wned s0ver-
eigns with arms in their hands stand aroend itl
wish these masters of the art Of war, who
quote so inappositely Joshuas writings, but for
get how he won his battles whose knowledge of
Agamemnon and Achilles is purely poetic, would
study some Of the useful axioms of Hierocles,
and would just go 70 sleep before looking glass
70 see how handsome they looked with their .eres
shut and their mouths closed The country would
have jubilee over their silence only second to
that which greeted the outgoing of the late Sec
retary of War
did intend, Mr. Chairman, to review some of
the bills introduced here for confscation and
emancipation, and to discuss their feasibility and
c0nstituti0nalty. But | am glad 70 announce 10
the country that there is no hope of such suicidal
legislation passing the present session of Con-
gress. That announcement, which the opinions
here Justify, will give relief to our army and to
the Union men everywhere
One of the blis of this black batch pretends to
strike out the State of Florida This bill has the
paternity of my colleague. Mr.. Gurley.l 1t is
part OF his military plan. While striking for the
Union and the flag, with every star on its folds,
he would blot out the Statehood of Florida. He
would have its everglades and swamps devoted to
the business of negro apprenticeship. with the
Federal agents for taskmasters, and the republic
a cotton producer and speculator. Here is the
spot where my colleague would mparadise the
African. He would have a Federal master watch
the negro apprentice, and see to il that he pro-
duced living from that soil where diving is so
much easier. He would hare us drop down the
little pickannnies amidst the haunts of the alliga-
tor. He thinks he sees here opening for the
rising generation Of colored children; knowing,
as my colleague does, that they viii all be saved
in the other world, be is willing 70 risk their sud
den disappearance here. can well imagine the
holy horror which will pervade the infaBte Afri-
can mind when it comes TO understand the confs-
eating character of my colleagues bill. / can
well understand how the gentleman from Penn
sylvania Mr.. Cainpbelll must have startled the
people Of his State by his proposition hang all
the public plunderers, and thus depopuate so ter
ribly his own State. But that was humanity COM
pared to this scheme of my colleague, which is
only paralleled in Dean Swift's plan to get rid Of
Irish children by eating them. Suicidal absurdi-
ty can go no further than tlisi All such schemes
are in derogaton of our whole system of polity.
Their authors seem 70 be bent on prying away
mountains of granite with levers of straw.
Such schemes as are here discussed will do no
good to the blacks nor the whites, unless scheme
OF forced expatriation be at started and that
is attended with formidable obstacles. The North
will become in turn the worse than masters of
the slaves. For very self protection, and to pre-
vent such runous and adulterous admixture of
society, the North will rise to drive the freed
blacks from their soil. Interest which is stronger
in society, in the end, than philanthropy, win
issue its edict of expiration, and no good win
accrue to the black or white. If you would
barbarize the war, undignify its object and, in
deed, make it failure in every sense, you
may follow the impractical schemes of New
Eng politics, and their neophytes in the
country
These emancipation schemes will divide the
North and create new dissention and rebellion in
of the army, and make cold and Indifferent the
now ardent and anxious friends of the Union.
Already we have seen that Fremont became
the recruiting officer of Price, and such camp
followers the member from Illinois, whose
speeches quoted IN Southern papers, helped
to give aid and comfort to secession. This di-
vision of the North now, when all are united by
State legislation and Federal action TO defend
our flag and sovereignty, would utterly destroy
every hope which has buoyed us in this great
conflict. -s.-..- - .-f
1t would be an act of fraud on the soldiers
and officers of the grand army of the Re
public. They were called out by proclama-
ton of the Sd of May, whose preamble reads
thus:
Whereas the existing exgences demand i'm
mediate and adequate measures for the protection
of the national Constitution, and the preservation
Of the national Union, by the suppression of the
insurrectionary combinations now existing in sew
eral States for opposing the laws of the Union
aud obstructing the execution thereof TO which
end military force, in addition to that called
forth by my proclamation OF the 18th day of April
IN the present year, appears TO. be indispensaby
necessary"
The Invocation of the soldiers called forth is as
follows: ft
-"ln the meantime earnestly invoke the CO
operation of all good citizens in the measures
hereby adopted for the effectual suppression of
unlawful violence, for the impartial enlorcement
OF constitutional laws and for the speediest pos
slble restoration of peace and order, and with
these, of happiness and prosperity throughout our
country"
The FIRST law of the extra session, passed July
Is, 1861, provided for an army to execute the
laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and
repel invasions. The Crittenden resolutions
were an explicit avowal of the only and legiti-
mate object of this war. House Journal of last
session, p l2y. They said:
''lB this national emergency we would Danish
all feelings of mere passion or resentment: and
would recollect only our duty to the whole coun-
try; and that this war was not waged upon our
part In any spirit of oppression, nor for any pur-
pose of conquest or subugation; nor for the pur-
pose OF overthrowing or interfering with the
rights or established institutions of the States:
but to maintain the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton and preserve the Union, with all the dignity
equality, and rights of the several States amin
pared y - ftt"t
To divert it now into warfare against the in
stiution of slavery will be TO make Il the violent
and remorseess revolutionary struggle" which
the President fears Besides, il would make ita
gigantic swindle upon the people, upon our votes
for taxes and upon the soldiers who imperif their
lives in defense of the Union and lis authority.
IL would be a fraud only measured, if not exceed
ed IN atrocity, bs the rebellion The only object,
if such is successful which would be at
tanned, would be the utter humiliation Of the
Union; perhaps worse, the destruction Of the
Government rensining in the fragmentsry
Union. ss,.-- - So
This was not the understanding of large party
in this country who rallied az the call OF Doug
las He most distinctly dissvowed such an OBJ
ject. He would not by Federal army. any
more than by Federal Congress, interfere with
State laws and institutions So he declared over