Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-07
&c Of the Chicago Times.l
w ARLINGTON. Feb D.

Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago Times.l
WAsHISGTox. Feb %
Some of the negro worsnpping papers are max
ing great fuss over the alleged fact that some
OF the Union soldiers on the coast have been plum
dering the cabins OF the negroes there. 1t the
fact Is rs alleged, the soldiers have done wrong,
aud deserve 70 be punished ard hope will be
punished, and that severely But these same pa
perS have not a word 10 say in condemnation OF
the thousands of outrageS OF Il far more atrOcOus
character that have been perpetrated BY Union
soldiers OH the property OF white people ever since
the war began In Virginia alone thousands of
families have been reduced from afluenee to pow
ertv by the ravages OF gangs of plunderers m the
uniform of Union troops our readers so
familiar with thousands of similar instances un-
/ der the rule OF Butler in New Orleans and in
Alabama under Turchin. that need only to al.
Jude to them But beyond all these are the hun
dreds OF instances where white females have been
subjected 10 the brutal lusts of wretches wearing
our uniform These some of the things that
/ have mace = restoration OF the Union hopeless.
/ u ct, for these things. the negro worshipping
! Journals have not a single word of condemnation
4 All these white people who have been thus bru-
tally TRACED and despoied Southern PEG
! pie AID the fiat has gone forth: the Southern
/ people must be exterminaied. That is probably
/ a. good . way a. any o her. to commence the
/ work of externinitiOn.
Detachments from the Confederate army at
! Frederick sburg continue TO the Rappahan
mock and q make ncurSiOns almost daily to
| points this city. The attachments,
posed always OF cavalry and light artillery, cross
at fOrds above Fredericksburg which are well
known 10 them and fall upon and capture small
i bodies of our troops
! The last affair of this kind occurred day or
two ago Chantilly this side of Centerville On
this occasion party of our men, including two
commits, Toned officers and four non commissions ed
| officers. captured bv party of over IA hun
dred Confederates
! These Reconnaissance on the part of the enemy
of course furnish General Lee with vast amount
| OF valuable ntOrmatIon; besides which he can
of course exact much more from the prisoners
Yet the n'is'ass-ssll'esisiss asre seem to think
nothing of IL
1t is rumored to-day that Gen jackson. with
strong force of cavalry and artillery in addition TO
| his usual infantry force, Is marching from War
rentOn TO Stra>burg. There is nothing nproba
bic in this rumor. Taken in connection with the
recent capture of one of our valuable wagon trains
near Romney, and the well known fact that there
i strong force OF Rebels in Hampshire and
Frederick counties, tins may MITIGATE that Jack
son again has his eve upon the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad
This WAS the scene OF Gen Jackson's labors
FIR long time The loss of this road is at all
times severe blow to the Government and f
Gen. Jackson has ia view the destruction Of any
part of it again. it becomes the Government -
beStir itself in time to prevent IT, Ii Is said that
| the force of troops along the line of road is
ample for its protection But this said three
| times before Yet three times before was this
| 'ampie force routed ana the 70 I'd DESTROYED. II
there Is not such force on the road now. and the
road is again destroyed, it will not be for the
want of warning.
My letter OF February 6 exposed fully the de
signs oil the radicals u change the whole form of
! our Government. to Subvert the Constitution. 10
deprive the people OF their constitutional rights.
20 abolish the hnoeas corpus, and TO m IKE Mr
/ Lincoln an absolute monarch in all excepting the
name. The progress OF events since then has
confirmed the truth of those statements, has dis
closed the plot in all it, atrocity. aud the world
| may now well stand amazed AT the revolution
that has been accomplished. The mask is now
thrown oft, even by those papers which support
the Administration most strongly The New
York Herald SAYS plainly: With the close of
the presen, session. President Lincoln will be in
vested with all the powers of Dictator Our
wsOle political system will be reversed. We
cReertully consent to this transform ton OF our
President into a temporary Dictator
That is more than the people will do. The
Constitutions and the laws OF Congress passed in
accordance with the Constitution are the supreme
law of the land. But these acts OF Congfe,s. by
which the very Constitution itself has been sub.
vered. by which the whole form of our Govern
ment has been changed, and converted from a
republic to despotism, these acts of Congress
are not ia accordance with the Constitution
They are. therefore, null and void. and the Su
preme Court will so decide IL may safely be
said hat the people will never submit TO them
The people will never submit 10 have their rights
and their liberties thus summary taken away.
an1 the form of their Government thus changed
Ia passing these acts. Congress has insugurated
a revolution
The people will n once see that If they submit
to these Unconstitutional acts there will be ONLY
one step more The President viii issue one
more proclamation. aud it will be the last Ii
will iecite that Congress has now conferred upon
him unlimited powers; the power to call forth the
whole mllIt,ry strength Of the nation; the power
% seize and use all the national and State funds
and all the money in the vaults OF the banks: aud
the power 10 arrest aud imprisOn for life all who
dare - question MS authority do these things:
and therefore. IN order that he may use these
powers eGfectsally. he proclaims him,el Dictator.
or King. for lite, with the power To nominate his
successor
Now does any man doubt that he will take
TINS >tep. Who would have believed. a wear ago,
that the Administration would dare 10 do what II
has done! See how, step by step, tue liberties of
the people have been taken away This j. the
only step that remains TO be taken and u will be
taken tie may not use the word King" at
first lie may not even use the wore" Dictator +"
Ii may be perhaps. At first. proclamation de
clarirg that under the present excited state of
public feeling, far Presidential election cannot
DE held. and therefore. that he will continue 10
exercise the Office OF President FOR some years 10
come. What = there 10 prevent him from doing
thsti Mr. Colsmer. Senator from Vermont
sober and PRACTICAL man that he Is. saw that
specier plainll enough Said he, IN his speech
on ore OF these oii"a> measures. 1t Secretary
o, the Treasury can be furnished with these DOW
ers, he must he very bunsiing politician il he
cannot make himself President any dav' How
much easier then. tor the President himself TO
assure himself of tire Succession, when such kingiy
powers are put into his hands.
On this point have no more TO say ~ present.
As faithful correspondent here. | could not saw
less do not yet despair of the Republic
believe there j. vet virtue intelligence aud power
enough among the people 10 save IL Y