Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-18

Somcrville. Lieutehsnt the Hon a Pennington,
and Ensign Lord Albert Cecil
The Monticello Ind ,aa3 Democrat If the
9Th Of January, publishes letter from Dr. W
s Raymond. dated 3ard<town Kentseky. De
cember % .ls5l DR.. Raymond vas prominent
Republican speaker and nIen.l,er Of he Repubi
can Cersral Committee OF White county. lie is
now Assistan; surgeon ofthe 46th Indiana- We
make the following extracts from the Distinguish
ed Doctors letter. which We suppose the Indian
apolis Journal will pronounce another forgery:
Our march though h entueky has been perfect
lyquiet and uninterrupted BY any evil manifesta-
tons of tie people ! have found il somewhat
difficult 70 determine he political character Of
the people concerning he great ssne that DOW
involves the country IN war / believe however,
wheE the question isrfairly prescnte'l-" The
Union for the sake Of the Union that large
majority Of them are loyal 10 the GovernDeRl.
Butt have noticed tlIat lingering doubt OF fear
haants the minds of many that tie Abolition
question j. uppermost N the 6ght Could this
idea be thoroughly eradicated from the minds of
the people Of Kentucky, and the legitimate OBJ
iect- OF the war clearly set before them, tens OF
thousands would rally around the stars and
stripes who are now Secessionists in their sympa-
tines nentrals.
Any attempt on the part of the Federal Gov
eminent, either by the Executive or Congress, to
emancipate the slaves, or otherwise interfere with
the institution, would iDfame the whole south
ern mind, and unite them against us in solid phal.
anx. This would evidently terminate in one
thing-a permanent dissolution of the Union and
n complete destruction of American nationality.
The must be conducted for the sole purpo
ofrestoring the authority of the Government, and
the battle cry must be 1.-The Constitution and the
- n
the contest. All the people in the South-Union
lists and Disunionists-are implacably and un-
changeably hostile to any intermeding with the
slave question, and will unite against any power
or authority that seeks to interfere with it.
| see some of the politicians have despaired of
the whites being able TO conquer this rebellion
and propose To put the blacks at doing what we
can't do. BY the way / see also that White
county has the distinguished honor % of con
tanning an individual who has originated form
OF petition to Congress praying that honorable
body to lesislate slavery out of existence-or, in
other words. To make the abolition of slavery
the object of tins war
The President, by authority of Congress. has
called into the service half million of men for
the expressed purpose Of quellng this rebellion
and re establishing peaceful reunion between
the Northern and Southern sections of our loved
country, first having assured that our services
were required ONLY for this and that we were
not to interfere with the local Institutions of any
State
This anne Congress also published the same
declaration TO US. And now, having fastened
coo 900 men to the army for at least three years
"a time sufficient in which to accomplish almost
ANYTHING with that number) 10y means of these
declarations there isa class Of men who would
have Congress and the President violate their
contract with u.s. and TO say to us We have you
now entirely under control, and We propose
to set YOU to work at that very thing which we
promised you YOU should never be called upon to
do-and an attempt at which would produce a
result directly opposite 10 that which we pro-
fessed to so much desire when we called on you
for aid
Let Congress or the President through the in
fluence of these politicians, or on any other ac-
count, ever inform us that the niger is the OBJ
lect of their affections and that this war is To he
prosecuted for his benefit and such demOralza-
ton will exist in the army of the United States
was never before seen. If the gentleman from
White wishes TO know the degree of contempt in
which he is held by Company X, he had better
make his appearance in their quartess, and con
fess that he ia the man. They'll ask no better
New Years gift. ~
The Burnside expedition had stormy wealth
er for starting. No intelligence is yet received
of its arrival, which is expected to he Pamllco
Sound.
- Speaking of the Secretary of War. a
Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press says:
NJ sess.,on - comparative stranger to the
old lobby and those who know him are but
ton holed and kindly treated by general gunma
T kers, bland beet contractors, and pursy payuas
tiers.
Nothing can equal the fever into which til,
army of contractors, jobbers aud hangers OH have
been thrown The greatest anxiety prevails
about unfinished contracts and half-completed op
erations.
- We subjoin the following spicy letter from
one of our volunteer friends in the 35th Indiana
Probably the editor Of the Journal will pronounc,
it n forgery. Ii he does, we venture to say thai
the writer, when he returns home, will kick tn,
seat of the aforesaid editors brains all over town
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