Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-01-04

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are but confr nations, no matter what the cause
Of purpose that the negro race was Intended TO
be subjective to the white
The professed philanthrophy and the present
schemes Of abolitiOnism also demonstrate PractI'
calIy the position we have taken. The mortali-
ty among the conlrabands from both neglect and
change of habits is most fearful. Since the war
began tens of thousands have been thus enamel
pated not only from seryitude but life. Massa.
chasstts, the hot-bed of abolitonism and in6dety,
was the first State to get permission to raise ne
gro troops and she put the whole country under
contribution to fill her quotas and let her white
citizens, who claim to be the peculiar friends of
the negro, escape the dangers and privations OF
var. 1t is stated by authority that soon we shall
have one hundred and fifty thousand negro troops
in the field. The teIegraphc reports revised BY
government censors, published to the country a
few days ago the information that JEEF
DAVIS also intended to put able-bodied
negroes into :he field If such be the
case the grand moral spectacle will be exhibited
to the world of negroes meeting negroes upon
slavery as the Republicans insist, and by the
casualties of war helping to abolish the race.
This may perhaps be the best way to exterminate
slavery, and it is Yankee notion, too. If the
negro. as the abot'onists contend is the disturb
ing element in American politics, then they might
very appropriately recommend the whites on both
sides to stand off. put the negroes into the field
and let the war be prolonged until like the Kill
kenny cats they may fight on until the combat
ants practically abolished In this way the
great problem in regard to African slavery aud
the future of the negro may be speedily solved.
A few years ago the exclamation of sympathy in
regard to another race was, "Lol the poor In
diani'' and it is not improbable that New Eng
land dogmas upon slavery and its philanthropy
for the black man may change il to, "Lo! the
poor negrol"
The Abolitionsts have peculiar fOndness for
ringing the changes upon the expression in the
Declaration of Independence that all men are
created free and equal. They contend that that
declaration includes the negro race But how do
they illustrate their theory of equality? They
deny it practically and prove they have no con-
confidence in the capacity of the negro, by
placing over the colorej soldiers white officers.
There are hundreds Of negroes in the North who
have been educated and had every advantage OF
reading and observation, yet even the cultivated
colored man is doomed by his own professcd
friends to position of inferiority. They must
do the drudgery, while white men reap the glory
and advantages.
| We allude to these matters to show that in
spite Of all fine spun abolition theories the SEN
timent prevails generally that the Higher Law has
made a distinction between the races, and the
history of the two demonstrates it. Slavery has
been u benefit to the negro. By coming in con
tact with the white race ia that condition he has
been vastly improved. Whatever of injury
slavery has caused the white race have been the
sufferers And in the mysterious workings OF
Providence it may be the purpose to abolish the
black race Oh thiscontinent to save the 6eteiora-
ton of the white. But the ways of Providence
We must leave for time to solve.