Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-04
A DoubIe-Headed 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 a gentleman that | have known for many
years, and ! purpose now TO read an extract from
IL in relation To Gen. Hallecks order No. 3. My
friend writes as follows:
Halleck's order. No. 3, has killed at least TO-
600 OF your western 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 , 100 soldiers sick, and 600 had
been taken away the day before We were there
| saw detachments of our troops making roads
in the hot sun; | saw the boats unloaded by
them; and, in fact, young men, noble men, who
had sprung to rms 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 backing
the boots of rebel prisoners on board the steamer
Uncle Sam, at Pttsburg Landing"
This is the authority OF a gentleman | can
youch for as a man of responsibility. He sent
me another fact. He inclosed me a list 476 men
who were then on board one steamer most OF
whom we're from my own State and Ohio; and
out of the whole list but three were wounded in
battle. They we're all afflicted with the disease
of that country, AS shown from the list opposite
TO each name, and but three were wounded
Thus it appears that the labor in building forti
fcations, roads, &c, under a 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, il
anv ha noodad for tho amplovmanf Of tho nao-o
in all the mental and laborious services of the
camp and Notifications. But is likewise am 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
h~abitants of the South, and peopling il with a
new race. II is demonstrated by actual exper-
iment that the hardy sons % the North eau not
successfully. by their own labor, cultivate the
Southern soil; hard labor, then, according to the
testimony Governor WRIGHT furnishes, will break
telligent officer, connected with Gen. HALLEcK's
staff. told US a few weeks ago, that not a man in
that division of the army would agree TO take 300
acres OF land in the best county in Mississippi, and
agree to cultivate it with bis own and white labor
Beyond controversy il is the labor of the black
man alone which is adapted to the tropical sun.
And il is also another tact equally capable of
demonstration, that that labor ga be made
productive only by cOmpuIsion; that it can not
be made to add 10 the wealth and comfort Of the
nation and the world except by force. A ne
gro's idea OF liberty is freedom from labor. That
is his conception Of paradise. Free from con-
s%traint. necessity alone will induce the black race
TO raise from the soil barely sufficient for sub
sistence. The history OF Africa illustrates most
completely this position II has been only in a
state Of seryitude, and by the surrounding iniu-
J ences Of a civilized and superior race. that the