Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-29

rnrssHD" ~ rHK MIDDLE DEPARTMENT.
Special Corrsspondeuce Of the chlaogo Times.
WAsHINGroS, June "a
Year readers will smile when they learn that
the Chicago Times has been suppressed" in the
Middle Department. commanded by the dough
" Schenck, the yanquished hero of Vienna.
The Middle Department now consists only Of the
State Of Maryl land and the notthern part Of Vr
ginia. Pennsylvania l. fortunate enough to be
now relieved from the military management OF
mere politician. Her military concerns will be
managed now by her own Governor. and by two
excellent soldiers. Gen. Couch and Gen. Brooks
Hebceforth she will rely on herself for protec.
ton; and, far a State emasculated "a she
has been can do so. she will protect herself IL
is humliating position that she finds herself In,
in Consequence of yielding up one of her rights
after another. and, last Of all. her State SOW.
ereiguty; and the affords example that
Illioois may we'll profit by. Pennsylvania now
finds herself invaded by the Confederate army
The movement of n week or ten days ago, to
wards Chambersburg and Carlisle, was only a
reconnaissance. To day there Is scarcely room
to doubt, however. that two very large bodies OF
Confederate troops are moving the one towards
Pittsburg and the other towards Harrisburg. If
the facts alleged in regard 10 the strength Of
these two bodies of troops are correct there is
will be captured before ten days In this emer-
gency the Governor of Pennsy lvania makes the
most earnest and urgent appeals 10 1.-The Govern
ment" for protection. And If any State has
claims on "the Government" for protection, it is
PENNSYLVANIA. Pennsylvania has furnished 300
$50 soldiers for the war. The draft was prompt
ly enforced in Pennsylvania last fall, and the
drafted soldiers were all sent to the national
my. How many other States can say mnchI
And, besides all. the enrolment for the con
scription proceeding rapidly in that State,
and was nearly completed.
Yet what was the reply Of ''the Government"
to Pennsylv urgent appeal for help-ior
help to preserve herself from invasionI Section
Of article Of the Constitution SAYS: " The
United States shall guarantee To every State in
this Union Republican form OF government, and
shall protect euch of them against invasion" Did
the United States Government, as administered
by Mr.. Lincoln. comply with this constitutional
obligaiion1 By no means. This was substan
tuly the reply of "the Government" to the ear
nest appeal of Pennsy vania for protection against
invasion:
1--WE see very plainly that you will certainly
be invaded by the Rebel army. We are aware
that your farms are to be ravaged, your horses
carried off, your fields threatened with wars des-
oation, and your cities beseged. and perhaps
captured and occupied for months by the Rebel
forces. We know that you have furnished 300
regiments, Of | .OOh men each, for our national
army. But we can't help you. No, we're afraid
we can't Wewant your 300 900 troops and as
many more to defend our capital with. Hooker
has rctreated here. and Lee Is watching for an
opportunity of bouncing upon the capital and car
rying off the Government Under these agree
able circumstances. we can't help you. We can't
help YOU defend your State. We can't protect
your State against invasion. although it is our
sworn duty to do so. Therefore. help yourselves
Defend your own State. Protect your own State
against INVASION.
Such is, in sober earnestness, the reply of "the
Government" to PENNSYLVANIA. And now mark
the result. That State had been literally drained
of all her fighting men OF the proper age. 81
scarce were men of the proper fighting age, that
urgent appeals were made by the local author
ties to young men between the ages of 10 and 20
and TO old men between 40 and 65, to rush "tC
defend their State from invasion and their home:
from pollution" Ii was the absolute failure oil
the people of the State to respond TO these call:
that caused Governor Curtin to become nearly
worn out with grief and anxiety. Then, in th,
eleventh hour, when the invasion had actually
commenced, when 1.-The Rebel hordes" were cross
ing his southern border then it was that Governor
Curtin bethought himself of applying to the two
States Of New York and New Jersey. Fortu
nately for Pennsy lvania these two States had no
| vet surrendered all their rights aud their Stat,
i
They have responded freely to the call for ma
| tional troops, as the history of the whole wal
shows But they still retain "State sovereignty
and the power to protect their citizens, either
from unlawful arrest or from invasion. Conse
| quently these two States rushed Mt once to th,
aid of Pennsylvania. And il was well they did
| Had it not been for the prompt arrival of the
| New York and New jersey troops in Harrisburg
Governor Curtin would have felt that regard fo
his personal safety" would have required him tC
leave that city. And even now, ii the \ ew Y orb
| and New JERSEY troops were to return home
| there would be literally nothing TO oppose tn,
march OF the Rebel egions to Philadelphia Ii
| the hastily erected Qualifications Harrisburg are
| pointed To as an obstacle, it neei only be said
that there is not a Brigadier General in the Con
federate army WHO would consider them an ob
stace if he were ordered to march from Cham
bersburg to Philadelphia, and were allowed to Sc
| lect his own line of march And now to return
| to Schenck and muttons
The people in the Middle Department" have
been ground down by the iron heel of military
| despotism so long that it was supposed thai
they would submit to anything. And 80 in
| deed they would But it is only because that
iron heel il upon them. Their chains gall them
but they have no power to break them. Al
their elections conducted under military sur
velllance. To denOunce man as traitor OF
/ disloyal, and that denuncaton made by per
sonal enemy. Is sufficient TO exclude that man ;.
vote. The Middle Department, too, is the para
disc of Royal Leaguers. There they flourish il
I immortal bloom. They are there. too, armed
with United States muskets, and this almins
took place only last week, and at Schenck 5 re
| quest. When your readers are informed that the
elections for members of Congress take place il
the Middle Department" this fall. and that the
Royal Leaguers are all Republicans and radca
Ab0litonists YOU will understand why they ar,
armed The promise of Schenck, that these arm:
| are TO be taken away from them when the danger
of a Rebel Invasion has passed away will be ob
served rcligiously. Mr.. Lincolns promis,
has been that he would not interfere with SLAYER,
/ in the States where il exists.
Such the condition of affairs when Schenck
issued his order of the Goth inst, suppressing th,
| Chicago Times, Cincinnati Enquirer and New
| York World But the order like that OF Burn
sides, was revoke ed by direction OF the President
and modified so to permit the free circulation
! OF the papers named in the Middle Department
but forbidding editors there from extracting from
| them The modification of the order l. even SC
much more absurd than the order itself that il
Is likely that. too, will be re>cinded. At al
events, after having withstood the heavy artiller,
OF Burnside. | reckon your rest will not he dis
turbed 10y the little pop guns of Sehenck
Y.
From the New YORK Journal Of Commerce.
Barbarous Fruits of Abolitiouism