Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-10

THK CoxscEsPrloS BnL Fair At W AsHIS GToS-
How BurLEn DivuIeKD rms Stcnrrs % Tue
ADHNisrEArios--HoRsE GrARDs ToR THE
PREsIDENT-HIsroRiosL PARALLILs. &c.
= Especial ceUrssPOadehcc o. Tie Chicago Tmss.l
WAsHISGToS, April ,.
Not only are the Confederate troops within
twenty five miles Of Washington, but thes are
a-o in such force that they have actually de
fested portion OF our army. in a battle which
took place last Wednesday. with the loss on our
side Of seventy five men Killed. wounded and
prisoners. The batiletook place At Dsainesvle
the force engaged on our side being portion Of
General Stalls CORPS IL wa known that the
enemy were p0siei behind wood, and our troops
ordered o. dislodge them The attempt
WAS gallantly made. but troops we're re
pulsed. The fight ended by the disorderly re
treat OF our men. who were closely pursued by
the Confederate cavalry for miier, the latter Civ
ing no quarter. but cutting ard slashing orr
cavalrymen dreadfully. Some of The gashes we're
awful. Let II be remembered that this took place
only twenty miles from this city
There j. some reason to doubt whether the
Administration will venture TO enforce the con-
scripti0n act at all in some of the States. The
opposition which has been manifested to il IN
Illinois New jersey and New York has been of
40 determined a character and so evideutls ex
presses the will Of the people Of those States that
the guilty servants of the people here are psusing
To calculate the chances, before they take the
fatal final steps Your readers may be assured
that their voice, as expressed in the resolutions
passed nv their county meetings. has been heard
in the White House. and that tine weak and
irreSOlute man who lives there Is troubled as he
hears it echoing to the voice from Mozart Hall
The consumption bill Is unconstitutional act.
and will be so pronounced by the Supreme Court.
This f,ct is believed by the Democratic States Of
New York and New jersey rnd it is not probable
that the citizens Of those States will submit to
any unconstitutional enactment Of Congress
whose powers are gone, and whose unconstItu
tional measures will he repealed by the Congress
which assemblies in December next
The President and his intimate friends here arc
greatly worried and dspleasel about Buffers re
cent speech in New York 1t will be remember
ell that on being dismissed from his command in
New Orleans, Butler came ere and remained
for several days. closely closeted with the Presi
dent and Seward and Stanton. and was fully in
formed in regard to ali the future plans aud Sc
cret designs of the Administration. That he
should 90 and divulge these secret plans at a
public meeting. not for a moment expected !;
vet this is Just what Butler has gone and done
In this speech. il is not Butler that speaks. but
the President and his Administration. And
what do they say?
In this speech the President SAYS (usng But
Ter as his mouth piece) Il IN not for the Union
as il was / not in favor of the reconstruc-
ton of the Union as il was | ain in favor of
the sufiugation and conquest of the rebel States
reducing them to the condition of Territories.
abolishing slavery wherever it exists, couiscatng
the real estate of all the Rebels and then re
admitting the Southern States into the Union. if
thew desire II. but without slavery" Such was
the substance. and nearly the very woris, Of
what Butler said II is the plan of the Admins
tration for the conduct of the war; and these are
the principles upon which the Administration is
conducting the war. No good citizen can read
the revelation of these atrocious purposes. with
out horror: and it is Consciousness of this fact
that has m ,de the President so angry with Butler
Is Il not time though. now that the hideous
purposes Of the Administration are openly avOw
ed that the people should demand that the war
should stop? 1t is avowed that the war is not a
war for the Union not for reconstruction of the
Union, but for the emancipation of the slaves
the con6scation of the real estate of all the
Southern people, and the humiliation of all the
Southern States.
Mr. Lincoln has not yet assumed the title of
King. Perhaps he will not do so at all. What
does it matter to him, so long as he has the pow
ers Of an absolute monarch. by what title he is
called? Already he has assumed some of the
state of King. He has his Horse Guards
around the White House and around his state
carriage and measures on foot TO give him a
Court tOo.-a Court composed of military and
civic dignitares of high rank, to be constantly
around his person, to advise him in the exercise
of his kinglv functions. His hatterers tell him
that he is the Commander in Chief of the army
but that lie has no staff. So a staff is To be ap
pointed for the COMMANDMENT Chief On this staff
to be- Gems Fremont. Cassius NJ CLAY. But
Ter (if he will put "A bride on his tongue Hitch
cock, Banks, Schenck. and n dozon other heroes
of that iIk. You may we'll imagine this new
arrangement is not pleasing to Halleck and Stan
ton, who are doing their best 10 defeat il But
It will he carried through. And other knighty
forms will follow.
it will not be long before the people will real
ize that actually enjoy less liberty under the
Administration of Abe Lincoln than our fore
fathers did under TIE rnle of George Ill They
did not rebel against the Constitution of Erg
land. which secures 10 those who live under it all
the liberty they could desire Their rebellion
was against weak and wicked King and cor
rspt Administration, who had violated that Con
stitution in order that thew might Cypress the
Colonies. History is repeating itself nov The
same names were then applied to those who stood
up for liberty and independence as are now an
Piled to Democrats of the present day They
were called 'diSloyal," TRAITORS" &c Let the
present Administration beware les, the parallel
he carried out to its full extent The President
has usurned the powers Of other Depart nenis Of
the Government to an extent totally SuhverSive
of liberty; and this will not be borne by free
people x