Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-01-11
From :he New York World
Freed AfricaBs-mexicoo our warning.

III faith be PLACED in the averments of leading
Republican orators and newspapers, many men
must be satisfied TINT not only is political power
abandoned which is based on slave labor but the
legal relation heretofore existing between master
and slave must everywhere in the United States
speedily cease. Such consummation will. by a
very large proportion of the now ioyal States. be
hailed as public blessings blessin. alike TO
free and bond, TO white aud black
There are not fen honest and intelligent men
and women in the United States who believe that
slave labor has dictated and domineered over our
national policy, ever since we entered on the great
highway OF sovereignty, vino increasingly pro-
claim such TO be the fact, and demand that the
Tree labur States shall assert their rights and
seize the helm Of government. These very peo-
pc, however. have assembled together on each
returning Fourth of July. aud vexed all iudicious
listeners by the extravaganee OF their encomiums
tpon the successful career of the government OF
the United States, without thinking. apparently,
that. ii oar nation had become so great, had been
the instrument of so much good, and if slave
labor had dictated and controlled our Federal
government during sll that limo. then, slave
labor, rs a system, deserves the credit of having
made the best government the world ever saw.
Another class. large and potential, sincerely
believe slave labor to be the sole and exclusive
cause of all our present woes, and that destruc-
ton of that system of enforced labor will forever
close mp and forbid all chance of another rebel
lion between the people in the United States
dwelling north and those dwelling south OF a
given line of latitude IL is useless to point such
reasoners 10 the fact that the rebellion which was
nipped by the energy of jackson had not slave
labor for its proximite cause. Doubtless the
jealous men and women we describe, If they had
lived in England during our struggle for inde-
pendence, aud had never been cclonists, would
have ansthemaiiZed Pitt as a copperhead, and
would have insisted that, as right to tax wac the
cause of the rebellion, therefore all taxation
must be destroyed forever. So, il these men and
women had lived in the years Of the long Ger
man wars. and had believed the struggle con-
test to decide whether trans su5stantiation or
con substaniiation was the true faith. they would
have urged persstently that destruction of all
substantiation was the only way 10 permanent
peace.
And so Ii is that vast numbers of good and
patriotic Americans iejoice to-day. with JOY I'M
ceasiDg. at the assumed near approach of the day
when, in our republic. there shall be neither
slave TO flee nor master to pursne
Conservative lnen-they who seek to deal
with the main problem presented for solution. and
do not dwell Oh mere iaciden:s--stand confused
and doubling. They never have consented to be
ruled by negroes when held by Southern slave
holders, and do not believe they ever have been.
Neither, on the contrary. do they intend, if they
have power to prevent il. 10 be governed in the
future by negroes in the hands of Northern abo
litionists. Whether held slaves. mere
voting tools and puppets OF Black Republicans.
they do not believe that Africans cap carry on
the government of the United States for the bes,
interest of the white race
Ii would be supposed that the tidiDgs of want.
wretchedness, filth, d;sease-moral and physical
starvation. death in its most appalling shapes,
which come N ne from averv n0rfiou of the Ian
where our advancing armies have sundered the
relation OF master and slave; no obedience to
abolition passion and hate would attemper the
JOY of the emancipationists We cannot under
stand how Christian men and women can read
without a shudder the letter Of the commtte OF
the Ere reedmans Aid Societies, and the pitiabe,
sickeniDg confession OF President Lincoln, in bis
message. transmitting the same to Congress with
but paragraph OF notice, in which he says he
has not "the time to form mature judgment OF
his own thereon" And vet this letter of the
Freedman's Committee does but deal with the
physical condition of the houseless, homeless.
clothesless beings who have been thus pushed
out into what, 10 them, is an unknown sea.
All this is but as drop in comparison with the
greater question which rises portentous from the
recent convention in New Orleans, in which
freed Africans were, as we understand, permitted
to enter and deliberate equality with the white
of what In the future is TO be the political rela-
ton between US Of the European races and ther
of the African race, new freed. as We told, al
the rate of ten thousand for every mile advanced
BY General Grant into the enemys country.
President Lincoln has placed upon the record.
of his country his inability to grasp the mere
physical problem. Who will say that he or an,
other Of the men now in power can master The
political problemg We shall wait to see what q
Republican Congress propose Theirs is the
responsibility, and theirs mus! be the glory or ths
shame
1t has seemed to us that there is much of in
struction and warning in the history Of that neigh
boring nation upon this continent In which var
civil war--has come to be the chief industry o
the country What IS the key TO the abiect con
diiion of the Mexican repubci Had she no
vegetable, animal and mineral resources far sur
passing those of the United Statesf Reflect upoi
the enormous advantages we gained BY possession
of California. which but one OF her provinces
Why has not Mexico been proportonally as pros
porous ard powerful as these United States? No
because we were colonlzed chiefly by the Anglo
Saxon race, for Brazil is alike pesceful prosper
Gus. with us. and that powerful State Was foundes
by the Fortugese-sn IbefaE race. like, but no
superior to. the Spanisrds. Not because we ar
republic, for again. in Brazil. we have monarch
ical institutions and hereditary rulers. with
titled arissocracy. And Brazil is but an illustra
ton which comes, with many others. as we write
What. we repeat, Is the keY--what explains th
difference between the United States and Brazil
on the one hand. and Mexico. on the etheri