Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-16

Government ought to raise 800 900 negro soldiers
Other reasons we're advanced by other members
such as th.t there was no more white soldiers TO
be had, ant that the draft had proved to be
failure, &c. But this remarkable settlement Of
one of the great leaders of the Republican party
man who is known TO enjoy the entire conf
dence OF the President. will give more aid and
comfort to the enemy than a victory gained in the
ieId.
The census of 1860 shows that there are in all
Of the free States together only 235. 62l blacks;
men, women and children. OF these the able
bodied men amount to only $1,000. Say, how
ever, that there are SO, 00O How MANY of these
can be prevailed on to enlistl 1t will be found
that not one in FIVE, or 10000 out of the whole
lot. They understand very well that they will
not be regarded by the Southern troops as sol
diers, but as slaves fighting against their masters
in other words, as slaves in insurrection-and that
all who are taken prisoners will be hung on the
first tree Now, the negro is not as brave as the
Write man. Yet how many white soldiers could
we have procured for this war il every one OF
them knew that death by the cord would be his
portion when taken prisoner Brave as our white
soldiers are. they are not brave enough to face
death IN that shape.
So far as regards the raising of nego soldiers
from the ranks OF runaway slaves, the attempt
will be greater failure still. If regiment Of
fugitive slaves should be raised, the enemy would
not fight them with guns and swords. A dozen
ferocious looking Yankee overseers, with their
long whips, would so frighten the platoons of
Cufees, SambOes and Johnsings, that they would
drop their guns in an agony of terror, and seek
safety in flight. The attempt to raise the negro
race to equality with the white soldiers will
fail, because il is an attempt to subvert tine fun
damental laws of a wise Providence. Those laws
have assigned TO the negro a particular sphere,
and out of that sphere the negro cannot exist.
In spite of its ridiculous features, there is a Sc
rious side also to the negro soldier business. Let
but 10 900 negro soldiers be raised and our army
is gone. Our soldiers will not endure the degra-
dation of fighting side by side with blacks. From
our cradles told that nature, and human
and divine laws, have decreed the eternal separa-
ton of the two races, except in the relation oil
master and slave. Black children are not al
lowed to attend the same schools as white child
rem Negroes are not allowed to settle or to
come into our State, and in many other States
the same laws exist. White men will not permit
negroes to set down at the same table with them
and with good reason 1t is felt to be degrading
to be compelled to associate, in any manner, with
negroes. Now. at one step. all these barriers are
to be overleaped, and negroes are at once to be
placed Oh the same level, TO be on perfect
equality, with brothers, our fathers and our
SOUS, who have been for months fighting the bat
ties of the country. human nature will not stand
tight with negroes
There is another point worthy of notice The
border States have remained in the Union up to
this time. because their citizens love the Union.
and have chung to the hope that Congress would
have some respect for their feelings and their
interests. This hope has been growing weaker
every day, and it is now entirely extinct. The
debate in Congress on this bill has shown that il
is regarded with such detestaton in Kentucky
that its passage will lose that State and Tennes
see to the Union. This bill passed, the people OF
those two States will be compelled, in seli-de-
Tense, to join the Southern Confederacy. If that
great misfortune should take place, it will bring
the war directly into Illinois.
My forebodines in regard to Gen. Franklin
have proved to De correct He did not ask to be
relieved from his command, but was ordered here
To he tried 10y court martial. His ofiense is that
he is friend to Gen. Mcclellan, and that he will
not crawl in the dust before the hand that smote
down his chief. Y.