Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-11
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, MONDAY MORNING

| But during the war OF 1912, England attempt-
ed to exercise the power to proclaim" freedom
to slaves; and in the discussions growing out of
such act. John Quincy Adams, on the 18th of
October, 1920, as Secretary of State. in insiruc-
ton 70 our Minister to Russia said
The British have broadly asserted the right Of emanc
paiing slaves-prvate properiy-as legitimate right II
war No such right is acknowledged a law Of war by
writers who admit any limitation The right Of putting
10 death a prisoners cold blood. and without special
cau-e might a well be pretended 90 be law Of war or
the night poisoned weapons, sssassnate.''
Nevertheless the claim of right under the war
power to make freemen of slaves was again
abandoned by Great Britain, in the lst Article OF
the treaty of peace of oath of December, 1914
in which it is provided that slaves or other pri-
vate property" taken should be restored. L. ).
Stat al Large, vol 8, 2ls. This was signed by
John Quincy Adams, J. A. Bayard, Henry Claw.
John Russell and Albert Galatin. The slaves
not being returned another treaty was made bv
which the matter to be referred. L s. Stat
| s, ESQ II was so referred 10 the Emperor of
Russia I'D 2s2 who decided tha; England must
/ pay for all slaves carried away. Id. 2s2
! Upon this reference, Adams wrote the above let.
| ter.
SO, in view of these settled rules of interna-
tional laws of war, Bonaparte refused to so act
| in his Russian campaign, although he says: Il
could have armed against her part of her popu-
laton by 'proclaiming the liberty of the serfs !"
Ii the Governor insists upon not being con-
trolled by the rules of the lars of nations on
these war powers a. promulgated often by our
own governments still, if he would be taught by
the experience of others, he would see the bad
policy of such "proclamations and indiscrimi-
nate destruction of private property. Ii is said
by an lndianian, a friend and eulogist of the
Governor of a campaign in Virginia
General Pope had issued order requiring roops
10 ,ubsi,t of the cOun ~. But Ike all such
orders spread into indi>crmina,e punder Every
thing taken. The last Toe last LOAF of bread
The helped themeive> and tar ed every
an active enemy. We securtd tie hatred of ev-
cry man, woman and child whom we mad robbed This
may be one reason why the enemy were kept 50 we'll
Informed of all our movements" Indiana Roll of Hon
or, vol. ], p -9l.
But, as before stated, the Governor assumes
this position to show our right to abolish slavery,
because slaves produce something TO eat and
something to wear Upon like logic he might
say, women produce soldiers, aud, therefore, we
will destroy all the women of rebels; or if the
rebels should invade Indiana, they could as well
say, six hundred women in Indianapolis have
been manufacturing cartridges to shoot at Us, and
therefore we will destroy these six hundred wo-
men. We suppose the Governor, in reference to
this matter, proceeds upon the same theory with
the AbolltioniSt in Congress, who sold his vote,
and when reproached Herewith and asked how
his constituents would view such conduct re-
Piled" Oh! so vote right on the nigger ques-
ton, my constituents will overlook everything
else. So if Morton is in favor of abolishing
slavery, it Is no odds whether he can give a good
reason, or indeed any reason at all therefor.
The Governor further says in regard to
PRocRAsTINATING THE WAR.
Lingering aud protracted are the most terrible
calamiiies that can befal nations Not only do they n
: al # a a q
attended with decentralization and dissolution of the
frame work of society dreadful than the loss Of
even blood and treasure"
The Governor never uttered rruer sentence
than this. And vet, strange as it may appear
he was one of the ticrcest men for the before
II was inaugurated-before the South had taken
one step towards it yea, before a single State
had seeded. When the question was being dis
cusScd IN public prints whether Mr.. Lincoln
who had few days before received a plurality of
votes, should give to the South some informal
assurance that their State rights and Institutions
should not be interfered with by his admnstra-
ton; we say about this time, to-wit, the third
week in November, 1860, Oliver p. Morton, who
had then lately been elected Lieutenant Gov
ernor made speech at the Court House in In
dianapoliS. See Indianapolis journal of that
date for a synopsis thereof. Ii was the fortune
of many to hear that effort, and truly no dung
hill rooster ever strutted on one side of fence
and crowed and bantcrcd belligercnt inclined
cock on the other side, with more hourishes and
more gusto than he deted the South TO attempt
resistance 10 Abraham Lincoln. He was stir
ring up our people TO the war heat, as savages
do by reciting deeds Of blood and carnage in
their painted dances around the war post. He
was for Snoring the worm-eaten State of South
Carolina into the occdD II II Uds possible" At the
same time. without doubt. demagogues of like
degree, in Southern communities, were urging
the people to the battles dread array, by pictur-
inc TO them their real or fancied wrongs Now.
after three lingering wears of hoYTors-years in
which the armies of the republic have swallowed
more lives than any have in u like period since
the days of CYRUS. of XerXeS and of Alexan-
der, he comes forward again, in the same citv,
and in a whining tone eXclaims, these are ter
rbe calamities, this loss of blood and treasure !:
but still more dreadful than this loss is the
dissolution of the framework of society,"" and
the decentralization" of the citizens. Well he
might say This, when the obligations of law have
come 10 be regarded aS but a rope of sand. by
private citizens and why because they are to-
tally disregarded by public officers. Look at the
letter of the Attorney General. Look az the in
augural of President Lincoln. in which Re saws.
have no purpose nor LIicf right to interfere
with slavery, nor inclination TO do so :" and his
reply TO the Chicago clergymcn, in which he
AYERS like sentiments, and saws ii would be i'm
polite; and vet nine davs afterwards. he did. at
the bidding of Abolitionists, that very unlawful
and impOlitic act" Look at the Government
bastiles all over the land filled with private citi-
zens of the loyal States, imprisoned without a
charge or authority of law, and discharged with
out a hearing. Look at the official stealing and
public plumber all through the country. from
cabinet officers down TO drummer bows" (see
/ speech of chairman of Investigating Committee
IN House of Representatives in Congress, Feb
ruary :. 1862 until more is stolen yearly than
/ Democrats used in carrying on the Government.
Look al the suspension of the great writ of right
Look AT the acts of the Governor himself pro-
/ ceedng in total disregard of all law as we have
shown and yet have the effrontery to stand mp and
talk about Decentralization, after having ayowed
/ that whatever the law might be he had deter.
mined 10 do so and So But lingering war is a
"feriiie calamity" Why did he advise war al
all Why did he. and other Governors of north
ern States, rush on 10 Washington and advise
war Why was the assembly at Altoona Per-
haps that night in November, like the war
horse, "he smelleth the battle afar off the thun-
der of the captains, and the shoutings," Job SO:
25,) and that he saw away down the vista OF
time. as if Through a glass darkly," (Cor. l3:
r. the public plumber in store for high officials
| Be that a ii may, his voice was for war-no
compromise. When Virginia, that mother OF
/ States and of statesmen following her own ex-
ample of 1892. when she had appointed commits
.iopers 10 confer with other States-( Mansf Iifc