Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-10


disc for the past thouscnd years: and that he
would reud the Uaion 70 destroy slavery, though
heiCer around hv the riule bars OF the national
c9mphct, and though thirty three crowned sover
ei~ns with arms in their hands stand aroend IT.
! wish these MASTERS OF tue art OF war. who
quote so inappositeiy Joshua's writings. but for-
get how he his battles, whose knowledge Of
Agamemnon and Achilles i purely poetic, would
study some of the useful sxoms OF Hierocles
and would just 90 to sleep before looking glass
to see ipw hauAone they looked with their ewes
siiut and their mouths closed The country would
have a Jubilee over their silence only second TO
TINT which erected the outgoing Of the late Sec.
rotary OF War.
did intend. Mr. Chairman, TO review some of
the bills introduced here for cOnfscation and
emancipation and 70 discuss their feasibility and
constitutionalty. But am glad TO announce to
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 b,lls OF this black batch pretends to
strike out the State of Florida This bill has the
paternity of my colleague, Mr.. Gurley. IL is a
part OF his military plan. While striking for the
Union and the m . with everv star on its folds
he would blot out the Statehood OF Florida. He
would have It's everglades and swamps devoted to
the business of negro apprenticeship. with the
Federal agents for taskmasters, and the republic
rs cotton producer and Speculation. Here Is the
spot where my colleague would imparadise the
African. He would have Federal master watch
the negro apprentice, and see to- it that he pro-
duced living from that soil where diving is so
much easier. He would have us drop down the
little pckaniunies amidst the haunts of the allga
tor. He thinks he sees here opening for the
rising generation of colored children: knowing
as my colleague does, that they will all be saved
IN the other world, he Is willing risk their sud
den disappearance here. | can well ina CINE the
holy horror which will pervade the ntantile Alri-
can miad when il comes to understand the confis
eating character of my colleagues bill | can
well understand how the gentleman from Penn
sylvania Mr.. Campbell must have startled the
people OF his State by his proposition 20 hang all
the public plunderers, and thus depopulate so ter
ribly his State. But that was humanity com
pared to this scheme OF my colleague, which is
only paraleled in Dean Swift's plan to get rid of
Irish children by eating them Suicidal absurli
" go no Further than this. All such schemes
are in derOgaton of our whole system Of poEty
Their authors seem 90 be bent on prying away
mountains of granite with levers of straw.
Such schemes rs are here discussed will do no
good to the blacks nor the whites. unless a scheme
of forced repatriation be at once started and that
isattended with formidable obstacles The North
will become in turn the worse than masters of
the slaves. For very sef-protection, and 10 pre-
vent such runOus aud adulterOus admixtue of
society, the North will rise drive the freed
blacks from their soil. Interest which is stronger
in society, in the end, than philanthropy, will
issue its edict of expiration. and no good will
accrue 70 the black or white Ii YOU would
blrbarize the war, undignify lis object and, in
deed make it failure in every sense you
may follow the impractical schemes of New
England politics, and their neophytes in the
country.
These emancipation schemes will divide the
North and create dissention and rebellion in
the border States. 1t will paralvze the efforts
OF the army, and make cold and Indifferent the
ardent and anxious friends of the Union
Alre'dy we have seen that Fremont became
the recruiting officer of Price and such cam
followers the member from Illinois, whose
speeches are quoted IN Southern papers, helped
to give aid and comfort To secession. This Iii
vision of the North now, when all united by
State legislation and Federal action to defend
our flag and sovereignty, would utterly DESTROY
every hope which has tuoyed US ia this grea
conflict.
Ii would be an act of fraud on the soldier,
and officers of the grand army of the Re
public. They were called out by a proclama
ton of the 81 of May, whose preamble reads
thus:
Whereas the existing exigences 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 tht
insurrectonary combinations now existing ia sew
er''l States tor opposing the laws OF the Unior
and Obstructlng the execution thereof, to which
end a military force, in addition to that calleC
forth by my proclamation OF the 18th day OF April
in the present year. appears tn be indispensable,
necessary
The invocation of the sohliers called forth is a
follows:
''In the meantime earnestly invoke the co
operation OF all good citizens in the measure
hereby adopted for the eifectual suppression O
unlawful violence, for the impartial enforcement
of constitutional laws and for the Speeuiiest pos
sible restoration OF peace and order and witt
these, OF happiness and prosperity throughout GU
country"
The first law of the extra session. passed Jul,
ID. 1861, provided for an army to execute tia
laws OF the Union, suppress Instructions. ant
repel invasions The Crittenden resolution
were an explicit avowal of the only and legiti
mate object of this war. House Journal of las
session, p. 1919 They said:
In this national emergency we would bsnisl
all feelings of mere passion or resentment; an,
would recollect only our duty to the whole coun
try; and that this war not waged upon on
part in any spirit of oppression, nor tor any pur
pose of conquest or subiugation; nor for the pur
pose of overthrowing or interfering with th'
rights 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 unim
paired
To divert it now into warfare against the in
sttution OF slavery will be to make il the 'viOlen
and remorseleSs revolutionary struggle whicl
the President fears Besides II would make it
gigantic swindle upon the people, upon vote
for taxes. and upon the soldiers who imperil thei
lives in defense of the Union and its authority
Ii would be fraud only measured, If not exceed
ell in atrocity, by the rebellion The only OBJ ect
if such war is successful, which would be at
tained, would be the utter humiliation of th'
Union; perhaps worse, the destruction Of thu
Government remaining in the fragmentar!
Union
This was not the understanding of large part,
in this country who rallied at the call OF Doug
las He most distinctly disavowed such Oh
,iect He would not by n Federal army. an
more than by Federal Congress, interfere witt
State laws and institutions 81 he declared Owe
and over again This forum il no place for IL
discussion, much less for its enactment. ~ en-
State Legislatures. in their sovereigIS choose L
do this il is Tor Them, not for us We have ~
right; and IL * none Of our business 10 make th,
Federal Government a morn reform society
This attempt has broken the Union: and the con
tiauance OF the effort viii widen the breach unit
the separation i everlasting
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