Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-24

WIN ota nakvk kSp PATRIOTIC WITS sotCs
rEFns. AND THr FAMILIES 90 SroHo sotDirss
raovibsn foa ~ ria oovfnSaESr. WHILE
wIvr' sSD cuiLpars 90 ouR WHrr sotniEhs
Ahr trsr TO rar cuaarf 90 rms womb
The administration began by employing ne
gfOes 90 act &c pioneers. teamslefs. cooks aud
servants Thea they employed them in doing
garIisou duty FINALLY. when u was supposed
that TIE publls miud vas educated up 20 the
proper polni. we were Informed that they we're
81 be made soldiers OF aud placed upon an equal.
iy with ouf white soldiers You wlil remember
iha, until recently the law permitted person
who bed becn drafted 20 furnish a substitute o.
pay three hundred dollars The senate pss-ed
bill repeating tie three hundred dollar commu-
taiion clause The bill was sent Ia the House
OF Representatives and was defeated there by the
votes Of New England Republicans Why did
they vote against the repeal Because they had,
by ''shoddy contacts, been making money al
home and could veil afford 10 pay the three hun
dfed dolarr Therefore they opposed the fe
peal. Tor " that was repealed they would have
To go Into the army or furnish substitute, aud
the price OF substitutes would be greatly increased
by the repeal
Something had "a be done 10 Seep these men
out Of the army They had forgotten the pledge
OF Gov Andrews that all the roads from tie
New England States 20 Washington would swarm
with soldiers. II Mr. Lincoln would issue ala
emancipation proclamation. Their ingenuity was
equal 10 the emergency. An amendment was
offered % authorize the Governors OF the adhe
ring States 10 appoint agents to go into certain
rebel States aud recruit negroes. When this
amendment was adopted the three hundred dol
lar clause was repealed. aud soon thereafter the
roads leading 10 the South were swarming with
these agents, loaded down with greenbacks TO
| purchase negroes To hl up their qnotas.
! One ct these agents went 10 Chattanooga and
wrote To Gen sherman, informing him OF his
mission and asking Tor pass. Although Gen.
/ sherman i strong anti slavery man he Is not
In favor of employing negro soldiers, and being
utterly dsgusted with the conduct OF the New
England States wrote the following letter. To
which We ask the careful attention OF the Teople
aud especially of the soldiers themselves and
their friends
HKAncl ARrERs MILITARY DIVISION OF rnFl
MISSISSIPPI. ~ THE FirLD, NEAR
ATLANTA. Ga. July 80. 1864 y
John A SpOoner. Esq, Agent for the Common
irsaih Of Massdehuseifs. Nashville. Tenn:
sra: Yours from Chattanooga. July 2Sih, is
received notifying me OF your appointment by
your State rs Lieutenant Colonel and Provost
Marshal of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi
under the act of Congress approved July 4, 1861
To- recruit volunteers be credited To the States
respectively
On applying TO Gen. Webster. at Nashville. h,
will grant you pass through our lines TO thos,
states, and as have had considerable experienc,
ia those States, would suggest recruiting depot
To- be established at Macon and Columbia
NJ IS ssippi Selma aud Mobile. Alabama
; aud Columbus, Milledgeville and Savannah
; Georgia
do not see that the law restricts YOU 10 black
recruits. but you at liberty to collect white
recruits also. IL is waste OF time and money &
open a rendezvous in Northwest Georgia, for
assure you have not seen an able bodied mar
there, black or white, fit for soldier, who Wal
not ia this army or the one opposed to IL,
You speak OF the impression going abroad tina
am opposed to the organization OF colored regi
ments:
Ny opinions nre usually very positive, an,
there is no reason why you should not know
them
Though entertaining profound reverence TO
our Congress, | do doubt. their wisdom in tn,
passage Of this law.
/ Because civilian agents about an army ar,
a nuisance
, The duty OF citizens TO iigh, for their coun
try Is too sacred "a one To be peddled of by buy
ing up the refuse of other States
; 8 IL Is unjust to the brave soldiers aud volun
teers who are fighting, as those who compost
this army do. to place them a par with th'
class OF recruits you are after.
4 The negro is in transition state, and IL NO
! the equal OF the white man
D lie j. liberated from his bondage by act o
war; and the armies In the field are entitled L
all his assistance in labor and fighting. in add
! ton to the proper quotas OF the States
q This bidding and bartering for recruits
white and black, has delayed the reinforcement
of armies at the times when such reinforcement
} would have enabled Us 90 make our success per
manent
, / The law Is an experiment which, pendin;
war. Is unwise and unsafe. and has delayed thu
universal draft which believe will become nee
} essiry 10 overcome the widespread resistance of
tered Us; and also believe the universal draf
: will be wise aud beneficial; for under the Proyi
denee OF God il will separate the sheep from the
goats, aud demonstrate what citizens will fgh
for their country, and what will only talk
No one will infer from this that | not
friend OF the negro as well as the white race
contend that the treason and rebellion OF III,
master freed the slave, and the armies | have
commanded have conducted To safe points NOR,
negroes than those OF any Geaeral officer in the
army but | prefer negroes for pioneers, team
sters, cooks and servants, Others gradually 10 ex
pertinent III the art of the soldier. beginning will
the duties of local garrisons such had a
: Memphis, NiCksburg, Matches, Nashville an,
| Chattanooga. but l would not draw on the poo
race fer too large proportion of its active, ath
letle young men, for some must remain to seei
new homes and provide for the old and young
the feeble aud helpless
These are some OF my peculiar notions, but
E assure you they are shared bv a large proportion
D OF our fighting men. am etc.
: (Signedl ". L. SHERMAN.
Major General. "
: The Republicans claim TO be the especia
friend OF the soldier. We deny IT, They vote,
= in Congress against increasing the pay of th,
: white soldier They voted against making an
e provision for the family of the white soldier. bu
= they passed law giving to the family of tin
negro soldier eight dollars per month.
{ In proof and in further explanation whereo
e would make the following quotation from
speech made recently at New Albany by Gen
D james y. Cravens, gallant soldier ani membe
of Congress from the Second District:
{ Bat have not the time TO dsy to extend M
{ remarks to "A full discussion OF the great issue
b fore the people. Senator Hendricks. who Ia
e Just addressed you has shown YOU how tn
country j. arfting under the imbecility and dis
e honesty of it, present rulers. But there Is on
e point would touch The Republican orator
e and press now enga ged in charging the Dem
ocratic party with being hostile TO the soldiers
! need not say the charge Is monstrors false
hood. concocted for the vilest. the meanest o
party purposes | would ask YOU whether o