Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-05
Abolition Philaush ropy put TO TIA
TEST.

Abolition Phi rOpy
Test.
For some time past the government has been
seriously embarrassed to know what to DO with
the large number of contrabands who are accu
muiating on its hands. At New Orleans Gen.
Butler has more negroes TO feed than he has sol
diers and at Hilton Head and other points occu-
pied by our troops, the difficulty OF providing for
them, If not quite as great i constantly on the
increase. Although some can be employed
in the construction Ut Notifications, or as ser.
wants or nurses. there Is limit to these occupa-
tions, and large number have nothing to do
but 10 live and iatten on the bounty of the
government. La addition to these able bodied
oilers, large proportion OF the contrabands
who come within our lines Is composed OF
and children, who cannot be put by
the military authorities To work of any kind
These have all TO be ted and clothed, and il NAV
readily be imagined what a source OF perplexity
and anxiety they prove to Government which
finds IT difficult through bad Management or 9th
erwiSe to provide tor the necessities of its own
soldiers And then what prospect il offers in
the future. Their number il increasing so rap
idly that it will surpass the aggregate of the
troops that We have In tine field Ii to feed aud
clothe army of one hundred thousand men il
takes, as is calculated 100000 900 annually,
We may have an idea OF what it will cost to sup.
port the enormous number of contrabands that
the Government will, by aud by, have on its
hands And a. we have Just shown. about two
thirds of them will be IA dead weight from the
impossibility OF finding them employment.
The problem involved in the question of their
support has, il may be supposed, preoccupied
the minds of all real friends of the negro, and
more particularly of the heads of the army. Ii
has been thought by some that in Massachusetts.
Vermont and other States, where so much sym
pathy has been lavished on him, and where Abo-
htion has found its most Jealous partsans, some
temporary disposition might be made of such of
these contrabsnds useless for military pur-
poses, until Congress could devise some perma-
nent provision for them Surely. it was argued,
the heads OF families in the States which had
distinguished themselves by their theoretical
philanthropy would embrace with eagerness this
opportunity of proving their sincerity to the
world by taking them in ne nurses as servants,
or even pensioners. until they could be other
wise disposed of Impressed with this belief.
Major Bolles. of General Dix's staff, wrote to
Governor Andrew. asking him to provide asy
lum for them in Massachusetts until the Govern
ment could colonze them. What do our readers
suppose the Governors replyg He prompt
" and decidedly declared his disapprobaton of
the whole scheme. adding that the c0ntrabauds
wanted in Massachusetts, and that they
soon Will oe wanted elsewhere This is in
structive, and should open the eyes. if anything
will, of those who support the radicals in the
belief that they represent and are fighting Tor
principle The moment that their phian.hropical
professions in behalf of the negro put 20 the
test, they show that they are nothing but rank
hypocrisy. and that they care for him only
stepping stone to power and as means OF ele-
waiting themselves at the expense of the coun-
try-Netc York Herald
4 Sold and indignant Protest Against
the Presidents iamation-PIca
for Free speech, Free Press and the
Habeas Corpus-EIegant Letter from
Charles O'Ccnnor OF New York.
The following is from the New York Express
of the LIST int:
LETTER Iron HON. CHARLES o'coNSoR INpoEsiyG
JAMES BROOKS.
NEW \ DIRK, October %. 1862
Ny DEAR SiR-I regret that it is not in INV
power To attend the meeting announced tor to
morrow in order To respond to the nomination OF
Mr.. james Brooks as Representative OF the 9Th
Congressional District.
Three unconstitutional and deSpotc acts have
been before the American people for about thirty
days receiving judgment One threatens to SUBJ
vert existing social relations in the. South: the
other two. by their purport, once and inmedi-
ately conSIgn TO bondage at the foo,stool of an
arbitrary and irresponsible military power, all the
inhabitants OF the North. Our whole community
men, women and chIldreu--are whemed in one
common doom. The calm speech aud mea sured
pace OF age, the gay converse and light step of
jocund youth. mustalike tail into accord with the
Provost Marshal'S notion OF loyalty or he may
apply the tyrants remedy-incarceration in a
dungeon.
4 he sarcasm. "catch your hare" NAV he ap-
plicabe q the first; perhaps Its intended victims
are not yet within reach OF tie power which me
naces. Besides, 1t i Only threat-a thing which
none but the week ard timld ever deal n But
tie people OF the Northern States are not merely
threatened They are already caught AMI con
sequenly the decree which cousigus them 10
honda, e i immediate abso u;e and unconditional
Nothing Is lett 20 the CIT zen OF Northern State
but that poor privilege enjoyed by the humolest
slave in The most despotic countries DE IS told
I'll YOU continHe 10 approve yourself a. loya! 10
the entire satisfaction OF tie Governments spy
ana jailor, YOU Will not be locked up
OF the liberties in 'I6 by three million he
role colonsts. of George Washuston's Constitu
ton. of the freedom OF saeech, OF the press, and
OF the person. secured by that palladium through
lis consecra'ed Wit OF kG5eaS corpus. its trial by
jury and immunity from military arrests-of all
that ever constituted the peoples pride and safety
or the nation : sirens th-but this remains Every
citizen o! the North may keep out OF Jail just as
long he can satisfy the town Marshal OF his
loyalty.
| speak not of disordrred trade. Of ruined
finances. of enormous and increasing debt, of
intolerable taxation. OF the thousands who have
fallen. OF amputatei limbs and shattered health.
OF tears II so many hresiies, OF gaunt desti
tniion sitting at so many hearths, without sin
gle promised result having been attained or even
approached by any OF all OF those sacrifices Let
these considerations pass. Some think that these
things were necessary and will ultimately work
out benign results. conhue myself 10 the civil
and political consequences glting from eighteen
months Of Abolition rule. To our once happy and
prosperous Northern people. Neither will |
dwell ulOn the tact that our great and glorious
Reguslic. which two tear> Az commanded the
worlds re-pect, wcula have deted the power of
all earth's monarchies. aHa in yiudicAiou of IL
oSn set. right or wrong" would have done -,
has eFed peoeari and Yielded up is Tour Fort
Warren eAPsives at the command OF single tor
een State let ~. fce. rsss nv 80 humiliating