Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-07
Prom the Providence Post.
The Negro polfcy a Failure.

Ffesioent Llncolns m his letter 20 Governor
Seymour, used this language: volunteering
is palpably, in fact. 90 far exhausted as to be
We do not agree with the President. We
believe that enough men might have been OBJ
tanned TO I'll mp our armies, n the proper means
had been employed. without r~esOrtine to con-
s~cripiionl
We have once or twice pointed to the fact that
four hftbs Of those now being sent TO the army
are substitutes. An substitutes are volunteers.
Thus the v~oluntee- system asserts its superiority
even while the draft is being enforced with the
whole power Of the Government.
But we will admit that volunteering is
palpably, in fact" much less reliable and effec-
tive. as a means or filing the army, than il was
one year ago
Last year our owl little State raised three full
regiments, and men enough 10 oil an0tber, by
merely calling for them. and offering such bOun-
ties - would secure to the private soldier the
wages OF = common day laborer. Before we bad
raised oGr full number, a draft was ordered by
the Federal Government, but Governor Sprague
insisted upon the privilege of filing up the
States quota with volunteers, and il was con
ceded.
The Government called Cor six hundred thous-
and men-ihree hundred thousand volunteers,
aud three hundred thousand BY draft. In onlya
very few States was the draft resorted to, and
it did not need to be in any. Volunteers were
received as fast as they could be equipped and
disposed of. -
Now the case is different. Volunteering has
not been brisk since last October; il has been
very dull since last January Does Mr.. lincoln
know wbyI
Its well enough known that the emancipation
proclamation was issued by President Lincoln,
who believed il could accomplish nothing for the
negroes, as he himself declared only ten DAYS
before Il was published. 20 CRAFTY a Glass Of men
at the North RhO declared that in this way alone
could the President arouse a feeling which would
FIJI up the Union armies. Webeeded enthusiasm.
Emancipation, as a purpose of the war, would
furnish it; and so. il The President did not want
the Government to brelk down he must issue an
emancipation proclamation.
We remember the assurances which the Presi-
cent received on-Jhis subject. TIE Governor of
Illinois sold him that volunteers would "leap like
flaming giants irom the earth. IL he would only
proclaim freedom TO negroes, The Governor of
Massachusetts was only a very little more modest.
He said:
iii thePresident will sustain General Hunter,
recognize all men. even black men, as legally
capable of loyalty, which the blacks are waiting
to maniiest-And let them fight with God and
human nature on their side-tbe roads would
swarm. if need be, with q multitude whom New
ENGLAND would pour oGt 10 ober your call"
There can be no doubt that threats, as well as
premises. we're r~esortel to by some Of the North
ern supporters Of the President They declared
that he should not receive volunteers il he would
not issue an emancipation PROCLAMATION They
colled the Altoona meeting for Governors for no
other purpose than to force from him this conces-
sion. He could have men in abundance if he
would come 10 hem-not a man, il he persisted
in ignoring the negro.
Well. what we say is, that the proclamation
has had a trial, and has proved a complete failure.
Recruiting sensibly diminished from the moment
il was issued; and when. during the past winter,
it became certain that new armies would have 70
be raised; the Republicans themselves refused to
rely upon volunteers. and enarted the conserip-
ton law which i nov being enforced. Now the
President himself declares that volunteering is
~palpably, in fact. so far exhausted as TO be made
quate. Last year il raised upwards of six huhd-
red thousand men. This year. three hundred
thousand are wanted. and conscription is resorled
to-
Does il never 0ccur 10 the President that he
has been shamefully duped and humbugged by
those who have labored to change our struggle
from a war for the Union to a war for the eman-
cipation of the negro?
The Union Democratic Platform.
ARRANGED by Thomas Jefferson, March 4, lsol.1
Equal and exact Justice to All men, of whatever
state or persuasion, religions OF political: ca,
Peace, commerce, apd honest friendship with
all Datl0ns-entanglng alliance With none;
The support OF State governments IN all their
rights, a. the most complete administration for
our domestic concerns. and the suresf bulwarks
against anti republican tendencies;
The preservation of the General Government
IN it, whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet
anchor OF our peace at home, and safety abroad;
A jealous care of the right of election by the
people, mild and safe correction of the abuses
which are Topped of by the sword of revolution
where peaceable remedies are unprovided.
Absolute acquiesceuce in the decisions of the
maiority-the vital principles of Republication
which there is no appeal except to force, the vital
principle and immediate parent OF despotism.
a well disciplined miliiia-our best reliance in
peace and war, till regulars NAV relieve them;
The supremacy of the civil over the military
authority;
Economy IN the public expenses, that labor
may be lightly burtbened;
The honest payment of our debts and sacred
preservation of the public faith;
announcement of agriculture, and of com
merce - it, hantinfaid:
The diffusion OF Information aud the arraign-
meut of all abuses a. the bar Of public reason;
Freedom Of ~religi.n;
Freedom of Tie pfesS;
Preston of person under The protection Of the
habeas corpus: and 'rial by juries impartially Sc
lected.
From the Richmond Dispatch, Augusta y.
GeneraI Bcauregardss Retaliation.