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


womcn-A Crisis Approaching
ReIributiOn for the Authors OF the
KeyOlution-DOom of the Black
Race.
Especial Correspondence OF the Chicago TImes.l
WAsHINeroN. March "a.
The country has made gigantic strides towards
the doctrine of the social and political equality
with negroes, during the last two years. and
particularly during the last few months Filthy
buck nggers, greasy, sweating and disgusting,
now jostle white people and even ladies. every
where even at the Presidents eVees. The mig
ger, the Republican idol. now crowds by your
side in the street car; swaggers into the cafe
where you are taking your breakfast, and takes
his seat at the next table; Ogles and leers at
every modest woman in the street; and mo-
nopolizes all the best seats in the galleries of
both Houses of Congress. The American citi-
zen of African descent now that he has
been made fully the equal with the two mil
lions of white men who. under the falsest of
all false pretenses, have been lured into a cruel
and wicked war. He hears bis social equality
with the whites proclaimed daily i'm the Senate
by Sumner and Lane, and in the House by
Arnold Lovejoy and Stevens he chuckles
and yahl yahsi over the attempt that he sees
being made in Congress to give him the cleo
tive franchise. And to cap the climax, he now
sees the beastly doctrine Of the intermarriage
of black men with white women openly and
publicly avowed and indorsed and encouraged
by the President of the United States.
Ii is curious and instructive to note the steps
by which this disgraceful state of things has been
brought about. There were, first, the emancipa-
ton of the slaves in the District of Columbia;
second, the emancipation proclamation, in which
Mr.. Lincoln violated the solemn pledges Of bis
inaugural address; third, the unlawful expendi-
IL,
the establishment and support Of negro schools;
fourth, the adoption Of the policy of raising negro
soldiers for the Union armies: fifth, the practice
OF enticing able bodied negro men TO leave their
comfortable homes on the farms of Kentucky
and Maryland, in order to induce them to enlist ;
sixth, the practice Of forcing the same class of
negroes away for the same purpose; seventh, leg
islation by Congress giving CosDegro soldiers the
same pay and emoluments as white soldiers;
eighth the action of Congress in compelling the
street cars here to carry blacks as well as white
people; ninth, the efforts in Congress to cOnfs-
cate all the Southern estates and confer them on
negroes and Yankee dventurers indiscriminately;
tenth, the efforts in Congress to give TO negroes
the same right to vote as is enjoyed by white
people.
1t was reserved for Honest Old Abe to take
the last step in this revolutionary programme
When a delegation of self styled workingmen
called to see him a recent occasion, he re-
gaed them with a rehash OF his stale campaign
speeches of 1858, about the equality of all men,
and his desire TO see all men free and equal with
out distinction of color; and wound up ba silly
but earnest rhapsody about the beauties and the
beneficial results of the mingling of the two
races. The negroes and the negro worshipers are
in extacies over this new stand taken by the Pres
ident. Thelatter think they have "watered" him
to some purpose; aud the former are indulging in
dreams of vista of future bliss, in which they
will enjoy the estates, the wives and the daugh-
ters of their former masters, without limit and
without stint.
1t is amazing that the American people have
permitted these successive steps to be taken,
without anything more than a feeble protest
against them. But there are only two more
steps TO be taken, and these (fOr they will be
taken) may arouse the people to assert their
rights and protect themselves and those dearest
to them, from outrage. The negroes will be
taken TO the polls aud allowed to vote, and this
will be done in the presence and under the terror
of Federal bayonets And the doctrine of the in
termarTiage of black men with white women will
be carried into operation here soon any white
women can be found degraded enough 10 submit
to it. or as soon as some black desperate can
carry off from some southern plantation, and
bring here, some innocent victim of the devilish
teachings of Greeley and WeUdell Phillips.
Scenes like these (and they will occur) will fill
American people have beer fools and slaves for
three years: for during these three wears they
have seen their dedr-bought liberties one by one
taken away: and they have been brought beneath
the iron heel of a despotic tyranny compared
with which the yoke of George III. was perfect
freedom. When they do come to their senses,
the retribution which they will exact from their
oppressors will be terrible, and only psralleled
by the bloody scenes of the French Revolution.
III .l, -
boodsbed which the nation has suffered, are
known, and they cannot escape. And then, too,
the doom of the unfortunate negro race will be
fixed They will not be extermiBated. lndi-
yidual acts of atrocty on their part will be
swiftly and terribly punished. But the race Of
American negroes will be once more consigu ed
to that condition of servitude which the wisdom
of the Almighty has designated as their proper
sphere in which, and in which alone they can
be both comfortable aud happy themselves. and
be, at the same time, useful members of society
Such will be the result of the war as re-
CARDS negro slavery; such its result regards
| the attempt of the Republican party to bring
! about social and political equality with negroes
such its result as regards the attempt OF Mr.
Lincoln to deprive the nation of its liberties il
order to confer freedom on the blacks Parsor
Beecher himself with all bis idiosyncracies, see:
that this must be so. In his very last sermon hs
said:
"Slavery is dead. say some, say many. Is j
dead2 We know that in the lines of the frontier
army there are three million slaves As yet we
learn they are docile, amenabe to the will o.
their masters, patient and subservient. Thii
state of things exists where war and its desola
/ tions surround them. where inducements, civil
and military are held out to them; what, then
will be the fact when peace is come and war is al
an endf Do you suppose there is less of lust
less of Iazness, less of avarice in the South thar
there was before The war? Lust, avarice and
laziness are the basis on which slavery has eve
rested. Will not the value of the slave be al
great as ever as an article of commercei Car
he not pick cotton and sugar cane and grow
corn as we'll as ever2 Don't be deceived. Sla
very is not dead"
An Incident.