Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-30
whn, n. ,he ohieet OF the war,

week, each containing the same sentiments, but
coming from the two extremes of the social. If
not the intellectual scale. The one was by the
Rev. Dr.. Barnas Scare. President OF Brown Uni
versity, on the occasion of the departure of ne
gro regiment from Rhode Island; the other by
Frederick Douglass. the negro, on 1.-The Mission
of the War" at Rochester, in its largest hall,
filed by an audience whose applause was echoed
the day after by the Republican press.
President Sears asserted that this war is now a
war for the abolition of slavery. That we may
do him no possible injustice. we quote his Ian
eeage IN full, on this point, FROM ;ne Providence
Journal:
now IS cannot longer maintain its freedom without pro-
curing that of the coored race and you cannot obtain
freedom for your people without helping maintain
ours
The great contest in which we are all engaged is
whether human being is, such, to be free. This is
the practical issue. The whole civilized world is
watching the progress of the conflict king for
probable result With an interest more universal and
more intense than felt in such before.
The webeing and progress of mankind are in an i'm
porsnt respect committed to our keeping. Others
only be interested spectators. Our action alone WILL
for at least decide the grand question of human
liberty. Let the crisis. Let work together
on this battle ground Of freedom until the victory
achieved, and our liberty-the liberty Of all-is
taolished.
Deferring comment, we simply desire to place
this utterance by an ACCOMPLISHED scholar and
abe man, who is thought to fill not unworthily
the chair once occupied by a Messer and a WAY
land, alongside the ruder phrasng but identical
thought of the negro Fred. Douglass. Mr. Doug
lass has been abolitonist always of course; and
his speech, in such iuxtapOsiti0n, will serve to
show just to what point ne aud his co laborers-
Phillips, Greeley, and Garrison-have led the
Republican masses, to what degree they have sue
ceedeI in abolitionizng their best and a5lest
men, and what dogmas and principles propound-
ed by these colored and white abolitionists vet
remain 10 be accepted, indorsed and enunciated
by their disciples, among whom even the Presi-
dent OF one OF our first universities has not dis
dained to be reckoned.
The Rochester Democrat reports Mr.. Douglass
in the following language. We quote detached
sentences. but in no respect represent the speaker
otherwise than as he would wish himself TO be
| represented. The reader will discover that Mr.
Douglass recognizes the progress of his white
disciples and encourages them in their search for
light and wisdom by such words as these: al am
here to say, Go on, brethren, you'll come ont
right after awhile" And in the same breath he
commeHds the President not only for his political
principles, but also for his superfne breeding
Mr.. Douglass said:
The continuation Of the and its increasing hard
ships requisite to the purgaon of the political
timent of the people. lie alluded the insane rawlings
of the opposition in relation the character
war; averring that il had b. changed war for
the Union 10 an abolition war, and be deprecated the po-
son of the Republican of the country in dis
claiming that purl when the admitted
to be an abolition the earlier would be closed and
the Union restored.
The speaker rdcule the idea that we should ever have
the Union as it was" thing as mpracticable
undesirable. The North had business fighting for
the old Union, after having ougrown the revolving ideas
insted by the former mis- alliance. The war which
begun for the Union had become for cd and lib
erty, and the conscience Of Europe could not fight
against it,
| few he ida
was received with horror, the emancipation policy
termed fanatica-now the peope were in favor of BOTH
he was there to say Go on, brethren, you II come
Mr. Douglass facetoasly referred to personal inter-
view with Mr. Lincoln. who he said received him
gentleman should receive another. Laughter and ap
plause. And he impressed him patriot of the no.
bleSt pe-tO be known through all time Abraham
the Honest. II the country is saved, he believed il
would be under Mr.. Lincolns administration you may
write his anywhere beside George washin gtol,
without doing Washington any carnage.
Ii is the duty OF the peOpetO stand by the President.
No action Of the Governments eff cve unless the peo
pie sustain it. However slow he may be, is full
length beyond the people. The moment the people de-
mand that this shall be wide spread overwhelming
for the abolition Of slavery, that moment will become
! such
The rebellion has broken down every institution Of
the South, and the question what shall be it, future
institutions is open for discussion Mr.. Douglass
differed with Gerrt Smith, that the suppression of the
rebellion the only thing N be demanded First, we
whip the rebels the copperheads of much
account; Whip exteninate the rebels Second, abo
4
body potcake them not only citizens Of the South,
but voters
The abolitionsts the cause of the war; say the
Democratic party, and they are logical; II we were
logical shovlf say slavery in the of the war;
and mast perish. The true mission the was
TO put the enemy of the nations peace of ex-
/ stence
When the rebellion is put down the Government will
need Friends at the south The way to have them Was
to free the slave and give him the ballot Then he would
protect himself a the Gov rnment well Il would
shame to give the negro freedom and not the ability
! to protect il.
If the negro knew right from wrong-knew enough to
fight he knew enough TO vote; If be knew much when
sober the rishman does when drunk he knows enough
to vote. Give The black country, and the country
will lind in him nvincble defender against any foe,
domestic or foreign.
| This at least is outspoken. The frankness of
| this negro. who openly AYERS that 1.-The war has
been changed from for the Union to an
abolition war" and the ghtlorwardness of
/ Mr. Sears, who says the practical issue of our
great contest Is whether human being, such,
is to be free" will make il harder for more artful
politicians. like the Tribune, Times and Post, to
deny what their party has done and is striving to
do. Advocating abolition, applaudlng abolition,
praising nothing but what frees negroes ia the
| progress of the war, these journals still affect n
sentiment which they DO not feel, aud protest
that their party has not perverted the Tor the
| Union into abolition The Union which
they have spent their lives in deriding and be-
| W,
and they still ieiterate the sham aud the deceit
which Fred. Douglass is too manly and DR..
| Sears too honest to tolerate Tor an instant
Republicans perceive what their next step
is in the abolition programme. Mr.. Douglass
names it "the imitation of the live negro into the
body politic-uiake them not only citizens of the
| South, but vOets-iree the slave and give him
the ballot Well. the logic is good, from ADOLF
| ton premises President Sears says ''the race in
! who han fio ia
cannot lan-er naintain its freedom without pro-
| curing that of the colored race" and (unless he
means tO draw an Chronological distinction between
| Mr. Linc,,lnS administration and Democrats) If
twenty millions of white folks cannot maintain
their ireeiom without negrn help. then the ne
groes who help had better be freed and given the
ballot. Thtts fair But il had better then be
/ taken from the white nSn.
Good heAvenrl what iu>ufterable insults are
these which are heaped upon the Americ IN peo-
pie, the American army. the American cause! A
thousand thousands OF brave men hive enlisted TO
| fight for the Union. the Constitution and the
| laws. Listeni il is for the Union that you
must fight. but for the abolition OF negro slavery.
Congress has declai ed the sold object of the war
in memorable resolution. Listenl says Mr..
Douglass and all the abolitionized Republican
party-listen Americausl those records of your
sacred and lawful purpose were idle words! The
object of the war is TO free the negro and Insert
| the live negro into the body polite"
| For the Union, citizens, you were ready to
send almost generation to the field of deith,
but for tie negro it is worth while to spend more
money than the whole cash value OF the whole
slave population of the South, and to slaughter
of your SONS, man for man, Que adult white for
every adult black And the result. o Americans,
| is IA battle for God and Liberty" and an en-
trance upon 1.-The true mission of the war;"
The issues of the future are rapidly crystaliz-
| ing This will be the main one: "Shall the war