Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-16
MARCH l6, 1863.
From washington.
MOVEMENTS OF THE CoNFEDERArEs TOWARD
WAsHISeroS--LEGIsLArIoS FOR THE NEGLo-
NEGROES TO BE ALLOWED TO VorE AND HoLp
OFEcE-A WARNING FROM POLAND
Especial Correspondence of the Chicago Times.
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New evidence comes to light every day of the
designs of the Confederates against Washington,
and still the authorities here ignore that fact or
make light of it. Because the Rebel armies are
not seen marching in force, because their artillery
is not actsaly laundering at the gates Of the cap
ital, the President and Secretary of War think
there is no danger Ii is now ascertained, in ad-
dition to the facts mentioned III former letters,
that there is large Confederate force in the
neighborhood of Aldie, Leesburg, Centerv;lle
ana Warrenton their headquarters being at pres
ent at Alde, thirty miles from this city. That
part OF the detachment which is at Aldie has been
ostensibly engaged for some days past in foraging
and in collecting and tbreshing grain They have
only been moderately successful in doing this.
All the country in that neighborhood, particularly
west of Ade and north of Goose Creek. was
pretty thoroughly drained of its grain and forage
In the latter part of September and in October
last while Gen. Lee had his headquarters at Win
chester. All that time Gen Lee kept hundreds
OF wagons employed in collecting grain and
forage, and in transporting il to Richmond.
There some left near Aldie and south of
Goose Greek, and that is what the Confederates
have now found
But this foraging of theirs, after all, is Only a
ruse; at least it is not the main object of their
presence there. Gen. Lee is accommodating the
approaches to Washington; that after all, is the
secret OF the movoment.
Half way between this CITY and Fredericksburg
also the Confederates are very active Instead
of moving one of HooKers divisions back from
the Rappahannock to the country between Deco
quan and Stafford, as suggested wmonth ago,
and thus holding open the communication be
tween Hooker's army and this ctv, nothing of
the kind has been done, and the only safe medns
of communication between that army and the
Capital is by the Potomac river from here to the
Aqua Creek landing. and thence by the railroad.
Our cavalry scouts still 90 out on the road from
Alexandria to Occoquan, and large parties have
gone far south as Aqua Creek. But il is
stated here 20 day that the War Department has
received intelligence that nearly whole regiment
of cavalry 600 TO SEQ strong. has been captured
by the Coniederates near Stafford, forty miles
south of this city, and only twenty miles north of
Hooker's army. All these things show that Gen.
Lee has the means of ascertaining the exact con-
ditlor Of affairs here, and that he is near enough
To strike blow little expected by the North, in
case he finds Washington defenseless.
What contemplate figure in history the pres
ent Congress will make Neglecting the inter-
ests OF the country blind to the dreadful respons
bities that rest upon them. the Republican ma
jority have devoted their entire energies to the
lormation and prosecution of impracticabe and
chimerical plans for the negro. The emancipa-
ton of four millions OF slaves forms only part
of the visionary projects of the AbotIonsts, and
constitutes only the first step in their programme
They have determined to raise the negro to an
equality with white people IN all things. They
have succeeded in making them the equals OF
our brothers and sons who are fighting the bat
ties of The country. Laws have been passed
which effect this. The eonScriptiOn law. as
passed by both houses OF Congress, and now be-
fore the President for his signature, which it will
surely receive, makes not the slightest distinction
between white men and negroes All are to be
enrolled in one promiscuous list, and all to be
drafted alike. Ii the law is executed at all, the
man of education and refinement will find himself
standing in the ranks, touching elbows with his
black servant. who the day before BACKED his
boots stood behind his chair at the dinner table
Both will be dressed and armed alike.
Laws have been passed, too. by this vile Con-
gress for the endowment of colleges and acade
mics for the education o blacks in the District of
Columbia and for the transportation of tie dirty,
filthy creatures in the street cars, the same as
white people. Surely, this is enough for be-
ginning.
What next? The next step will be to confer
upon the blacks the right to vote Does any man
doubt that this will be long delayed? As truly
as the sun will Iise to moraow this will be done,
if the Republicans can effect 1t by legislation
And it is not at all impossible that such pres
sure will be brought to bear upon our honest
proclamation comforting upon them that price
less boon. He can do that with the same pro-
priety and with the same right and with the same
authority that he has issued any of his previous
proclamations. Perhaps some of your readers
will think that such a thing can never come to
pass. But who would have believed. two years
ago, that Abraham Lincoln and Republican
Congress would dare to violate the Constitution
in the hundred ways in which it has been done?
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dare TO proclaim all the slaves free, after his
solemn assurance that he had no power and no
intention to do sol Who would have believed
that Mr.. Lincoln would place the knife and the
torch IN the hauds of infurtated blacks, and send
thousands of them so armed into the interior OF
South Carolina to burn their masters in their
beds, to cut their throats, to burn their houses,
and to ravish their wives and daughters-as
Greeley boasts he has done? Ii Mr. Lincoln and
his Republican Administration have not hestated
to do these things. surely they will not hesitate
empower the negroes to vote
The next thing will be marriages between ne
groes and white women, which will be legalzed
by act of Congress. If there is no other way of
getting such act passed some of the countless
millions OF money at the disposal of the President
will be used to secure the election of black mem
bers of Congress. May we not look forward, in
deed, to the spectacle of Congress of mixed
three members will be negroes, and to negro
President? 1t is true enough that the American
people will never elect negro President. But
demonstrated in a recent letter that the passage
of the measures then before Congress, measures
which have now become laws, would place in the
power of the President the means of making
whom he pleased his successor. And who would
Mr.. Lincoln be 81 likely TO choose as his success
sor an American of African descent" or, in
plain words, negro?
A distinguished member of the Administration
remarked TO day that it was very unfortunate for
us that the revolution in Poland should have
broken out just now. The reason why the mem
bers of the Administration, and the Admnstra-
ton organs, say so little about Poland is very
evident. Poland is example of an intelligent
people ground down beneath the iron heel OF a
military despotism. The Polanders rebelled be
cause their rulers were tyrants. They would
have submitted to their rulers if those rulers had
given them the guarantees Of their rights which
were their rightful inheritance Their rebellion
was suppressed, and they were subugated by
military force But was Poland conquered?
Were the Polanders subdued? II has been neces-
sary to keep strong. military garrisons in every
city of Poland ever since. And now the hres
that have been smouldering so long have burst
out So it will be with the Southern States.
Even If we should succeed in defeating their ar
mics, in destroying their cities, and in making
desert of their country. all this would not restore
the Union. We might suppress this rebellion;
we might subjugate the South; we might exter
inmate the Southern people. But it would only
be to SOW eternal hate in the bosoms of the
Southern children. Years hence. after having
kept up all the time an immense standing army
another generation Of Southern people, the chill
dren of those we had exterminated would rise
in rebellion, and the scenes now being enacted
in Poland would be enacted here. No, the Union