Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-02

be used by the officers commanding vessels to
continue the excellent sanitary condition of their
crews. The large number of persons known as
'contraband' hockng to the protection of the
United States affords an opportunity to provide
in every department of a ship, especially boats
crews, acclimated labor. The flag officers are
required to obtain the services of these persons
for the country by enlisting them freely in the
navy, with their consent, rating them as boys, at
eight, nine, Ort ten dollars per month, and one IA
ton. Let monthly return be made of the num-
Der OF this class of persons employed on each
vessel under your command.
l am, respectfully, your obedient serv't,
GIDEON WELLEs"
Under the plea of the approach of the sickly
season, Mr.. Weles issues this order; under the
same plea the negro may be called into any ser
vice in the South, though the sicky season, and
the terrible effect it might have upon our army
and navy was not thought of by any Republican
official until recently.
Having made this progressive step IN our navy.
las my colleague from the Bureau District Mr..
Lovejoy] would call it, it remains to be emula-
ted in our army. Not long does it await an imi-
tator; General d. NJ. Hunter, commanding in the
military department of South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida, issues an order to enroll companies,
regiments, and brigades of negroes in the militia
ry service of the United States.
Thus. in less than two years after the accession
to power of the Republican party, the negro is
made, as far as possible, the equal of the white
man a civilian, sailor, and a soldier Nay
more than this, the Constitution is violated that
white men may be bereft of guaranteed rights
White men stripped of the armor of American
citizenship in order that the negro may be clothed
therein. All this has been done against the earn
est protest OF all conservative men. And prop
ostions and amendments to bills, appropriatng
money for the suppression of the rebellion, which
provided that no moneys should be diverted
either to the freeing, the support, or the enlist
ment of negroes, have been invariably voted
down by the Republican party in this House
Worse than this. even. General Hunter, in his
zeal for the negro, withdraws the protection of
his army from the loyal citizens of jacksonville,
Florida in order to perfect his great negro board
ing house and African military academy at the
mouth of the Savannah river. This is undoubt
edlv in harmony with his brilliant discovery that
African slavery and martial law are incompat-
ible. Common minds have heretofore considered
martial law and slavery, either for whites or
blacks, among the most concordant institutions
upon earth. This proclamatory commander, who
vies in-profundty with the immortal Gen. Phelps,
undoubtedly considers martial law the very casket
jewel of American liberty.
NV mind, Mr.. Chairman. revolts at the idea of
degrading the citizen sOldery of my country to
the level of the negro. Sir, the American vol
unteer has always been our reliance in peace,
and our vindication in war. | am opposed, and
you will find the volunteer army of the Union
opposed, to the equalization in the ranks of citi
zens and slaves. Having made such efforts for
the negroes of the United States, it would seem
that your zeal in their behalf would lag and Ian
guish. But no; you go wandering the
islands of the sea, and over the continents of the
globe in pursuit of negro principatieS and repub-
lies which you may recognize among the powers
of the earth. Hayti and Liberia furnish further
matter for your infatuation to fatten upon, and
you at once proceed to establish diplomatic rela-
tons between the United States and these be-
nighted and half made parodies upon human gov
eminent.
At an annual expense of thousands of dollars,
you propose to receive negro diplomatsts from
them and send United States ministers to them:
indeed are you the champions of negro equality,
without regard to cost, place, propriety, or dig
nifty.
This Congress has been in session nearly eight
months, and all that | have reviewed you have
done, and more you would do if you could, for
the negro. What have you accomplished for the
white man? Have you provided for the payment
of pensions to the soldiers who have been dis
abled while fighting the battles of your country?
Have you appropriated money to relieve the
wants and necessities of the widows and orphans
of white men who have persisted upon the battle
fields defending the Constitution and the flag of
the country? All, no; your time has been too
much engrOssed with the negro to think of these
things. You have not appropriated one dollar
for these prrposes-purposes which should enlist
the ability and the sympathy of every patriot in
the land.
If this statement is incorrect; if this Republi-
can party or its Administration have ever made a
single effort in behalf of the manned soldiers, a
Sirs 10 fha of fha
phans and widows of slain soldiers, hope some
gentleman upon the other side Of the House will
correct me. There is no response, and am re-
assured in the correctness of my assertion by
your silence. The alienation of the sufierings
of white men or the protection of their rights is
not in your line OF philanthropy. Like your i'll
ustrOus prototypes, Mrs. Jellaby, of the Bori-bo
la ga mission, or the Rev. Aminidab Sleek, in the
play of the Serious Family, to the political
branch of which you AbOlitonists will soon be-
long, your sympathies are never active in behalf
of practical and genuine benevolence.
Mr.. Chairman, | am opposed to all these sick
ly schemes for eQuazing the races. God made
the white man superior to the black, and no leg
islation will undo change the DEGREES of heav
EN-. They are as unalterable as the laws of la
ture, eternal as divinity itself, and to legislate
against them leads to infidelity and ruin.
Since creation dawned the white race has i'm
as the negro was then so he is now. But"
say the AbotiOnsts, "the African has been
blessed with no opportunity for improvement ="
Who gave the white man opportunity God,
in his infinite Justice, placed the two races upon
the earth at the beginning of time to work out
their respective destnes History has faithfully
recorded their achievements To that impartial
tribunal | confidently appeal for the verihcatOn
of the white mans superiority. As God made
them hav they remained and mike the Alb
clifton equalizationists l find no fault and utter
no complaint against the wisdom and justice of
our Creator
The evils of the attempted equalization of the
races is illustrated by the history of Mexico
That country was settled by the intelligent Span
lard, a race not inferior to our own ancestors.
They developed the resources of the country by
building roads, highways and canals. All along
their line of march the church and the school
house we're erected as landmarks of their progress.
But finally the idea of the equalizng of the races
became popular; the attempt was made, the races
were commingled, and thenceforward the deteri-
Grafton of the people was rapid and fearful. This
holds true not only in Mexico and throughout
Central and Southern America, but in all sec
tons of the globe wherever the white race has
commineled with the black the Indian. This
system of equalization has failed to elevate the
inferior, but has always degraded the superior
race. On the other hand, wherever the purity of
the white race has been preserved its superiority
has continued, and its development, both mental
and physical, progressed. Neither soil nor ell
mate, upon this continent or elsewhere, has ever
lowered the standard of the governing race
For three quarters of a century the United
States have led the van in all that was great or
useful in inventions. We have made an GRAND
boy of the lightning: we have applied steam as a
propelling power. In single year we have dem