Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-13

ADNfNfsTRATIoS-HoRSE GUARDS FOR TIE
PRKsIDESr-HIsroRIcAL PARALL4Ls. &C.
Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago TImes.l
WASHINGTON, April 5.
Not only are the Confederate troops within
twenty-five miles of Washington, but they are
also in such force that they have actually de
feated a portion OF our army, in a battle whicii
took place last Wednesday, with the loss on our
side Of seventy five men in killed, wounded and
prisoners. The battle took place at Drainesville.
the force engaged on our side being a portion of
General Stahl's corps. 1t was known that the
enemy we're posted behind Il wood, and our troops
were ordered to disiodge them. The attempt
was calamity made, but our troops we're re-
pulsed. The fight ended by the disOrjerly re
treat of oar men. who were closely pursued by
the Confederate cavalry for miles. the latter Civ
ing no quarter. but cutting and slashing our
cavalry men dreadfully. Some of the gashes were
awful. Let il be remembered that this took place
only tweuty miles from this city.
There is some reason to doubt whether the
Administration will venture to enforce the con-
s~cription act ut MI in some OF the States. The
opposition which has been manifested to it in
Illinois, New jersey and New York has been Of
80 determined a character. and so evidentlF ex-
presses the will OF the people Of those States, that
the guilty servants of the people here are pausing
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 by their county meeting>. has been heard
in the VIII House. and that tine weak and
irresolute man who lives there is troubled as he
hears il echoing to the voice from Mozart Hall
The CONSUMPTION bill is an demonstrations act.
aud will be so pronounced by the Supreme Court.
This fact is believed by the Democratic States of
New York and New Jersey; and it is not PROBABLE
that the citizens of those States will submit to
any unconstitutional enactment of a Congress
whose powers are gone. and whose unconstitu
tional measures will he repealed by the Congress
which assemblies in December next
The President and bis intimate friends here are
greatly worried and displeasei about Buffers re
cent speech in New York. 1t viii be remember
ed 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 all the future plans and Sc
cret designs of the Administration. That he
should go and diyulge these secret plans at a
public meeting. was not for a moment expected;
vet this is just what Butler has gore and done
In this speech, il is not Butler that speaks. but
the President aud his administration And
what do they say?
In this speech. the President says using But
Ter as his mouth piece II am not for the Union
as it was am not ia favor of the reconstruc-
ton of the Union as it was. am in favor OF
the subjugation aud conquest Of the rebel States,
reducing them to the condition of Territories,
abolishing slavery wherever it exists, confscating
the real estate of all the Rebels, and then re
admitting the Southern States into the Union, il
they desire it, but without slavery" Such was
the substance, and nearly the very words, oil
what Butler said. 1t is the plan of the Admins
tration for the conduct of the war; and these are
the principles upon which the Administrator is
conducting the war. No good citizen can read
the revelation of these atrocious purposes. with
out horror; and it i a Consciousness of this fact
that has made the President so angry with Butler
Is it 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 confiscation 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 be is
called7 Already he has assumed some of the
state of "a King. He has his Horse Guard.
around the White House and around his state
carriage and measures are on foot to give him d
Court toO.-a Court composed of military anC
civic dignitaries of hieh rank, to be constantly
around his person, to advise him in the exercise
of his kingly functions. His hatferers tell hin
that he is the Commander in Chief of the army
bur that he has no staff. So a staff is to be ap
pointed for the Commander-in Chief. On this staff
are to be Gems. Fremont. CAssius NJ. Clay, But
Ter (if he will put n bride on|his tongue,) Hitch
cock, Banks, Schenck. and II dOzon other heroes
of that ilk. You may well imagine this new
arrangement is not pleasing to Halleck and Stan
ton, who are doing their best to defeat it. But
it will he carried through. Aud other knightly
forms will follow.
it viii not be long before the peopt viii real
ize that we actually enjoy less liberty under the
Administration of Abe Lincoln than our fore
fathers lid under the rule OF George III. They
did not rebel agains; the Constitution of ELg
land. which secures to those who live under it al
the liberty they could desire. Their rebellion
was against "A weak and wicked King and a cor
ruDt administration who had violated that Con
s~titution in order that they might Cypress th'
Colonies. History is repeating itself now. Thu
same names were then applied 10 those who stoo,
up for liberty and independence as are now up
Piled to Democrats Of the present day. The
were called dislayai." TRAITORS" &c. Let thl
present Administration beware lest the parable
be Carried out to It's full extent. The Psesiden
has usurped the powers of other Departments o.
the Government to an extent totally subversiv'
of liberty; and this will not be borne BY a FREE
people. K.