Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-01-11

No official Communication TO be held
with GEN. Butier-Exposure OF more
OF the Plots OF the Adpsinistraaon-
Increased burdens oa Taxation 90
no Imposed Upon the PeoPie-The
Radicals Covct the Lands OF the
southern People.
WAsHIseroS, December 81.
THE government has received official in
formation from Richmond TO the effect that the
Southern authorities will not recognize the beasiy
Butter officer. and that they will hold no
communication with him on The subject of the
exchange Of prisoners, or on any other subject
You will remember that | stated in recent letter
that such would be the action of the Confederate
government. Buffers conduct at New Orleans
was so beSsty that the Confederate government
were compelled 10 pronounce decree of out
lswry against him. Ii by any chance he were 70
Gall into the hands of the Southern soldiers, he
would be hung on the nearest tree. This Is the
reason why be is not regarded like other officers
in our army by the Confederate authorities. Aud
this is the reason that Butler be of no use az
an agent for the exchange OF prisoners Ii the
subject ofthe exchange OF prisoners has been 10
trusted to him. the Union soldiers in the South
ern prisons will be a great deal worse OF than
before. And, IL 1.-THE government" is really de
sirous to effect the exchange of such prisoners
(which / doubt), they will have to take the
matter out of Buffers hands, and com nit it TO
some officer whom the Confederate government
will recognize as a gentleman. Above all things,
before regular exchange of prisoners is again
commenced, the Administration will have 70
retract their absurd dogma about negro troops
When that obstacle. and Butler. are both out Of
the way. the exchange Of prisoners will procssd
regularly.
Il is true that the eyes of the people were fully
opened to the vast extent, and TO the full depth,
of the strocious designs of the Administration. in
reference both TO the next Presidential election,
and to the manner in which they have determined
10 dispose Of the lands embraced within the terri
toriai limits of the Southern States. On both OF
these subjects new facts coming to light ever
few days. There was great zeal of meaning
in that speech OF Mr.. Seward made some time
ago, in which be spoke Of Mr. Lineons having
been elected President of all the States for four
years, and having been robbed of bis right TO act
as President in fifteen of them. Ii will be re-
mcmbered that Nr. Seward declared in that
speech that the people osced IL to Mr. Lincoln TO
re elect him. so that he could have his rightsl
One of the Republican representatives from IIIi-
nois advanced the same views IN public address
delivered here few evenings ago But he put
it upon the ground that Lincoln ought 70 be
allowed TO complete the great work of emancipa-
ton which he has so well commenced" Let the
readers Of the Times observe well the language
and sentiments of these men, and also those Of
ALI these men intimates of tie President
They have his ear daily. They are imbued with
his views. There is a perfect accord between
what they say snd what the President intends 20
do. And, ia all that thes say. there is nothing
about the constitutional obligations of the Fed
eFsl government toward the States nothing about
preserving the Union; nothing about winning
back the love Of the people Of the Southern
States by securing to them their rights by consti-
tutional guarantees nothing about restoring TO
the people of the North their Lost liberties;
nothing even about our dissatisfied fellow citi-
zens OF the South" as Mr. Lincoln at first called
them.
About all these things Mr. Lincoln and bis
advisers care nothing. What they care about Is
to enrich themselves by prolonging the and
retaining themselves in power. What they talk
about is the niger. Their war for the negro
will only result, far the latter Is Concerned
in the misery and starvation Of thousands Of that
unfortunate race. IL would result ia the ex,er-
minaion Of the whole race, but for the fact
that il will never reach one-ffth part Of them.
All their loud professions of phiianthropy for the
negro are only used to cover up their own selfish
purposes Wendell Phillips wants the estates Of
all the Southern people to be confscated and
divided among the negroes Of the South. Mis-
taken zeslot though he be, he, at least, is sin
cere. But il is not so with the Summers, the
Greeleys, the Beechers. and the Loveioys. who
direct and control the actions Of the President.
These men clamor for the same thing Blu. they
know that even it the Southern people are sub
jugated and extermnated, and their lands parcel
ed out to the blacks the latter could not retain
them long, and they trust that. ultimately, by
some legislative Republican jugglery, those lands
will revert to them. That is the secret motive
with all the men who clsmoring for this
wholesale robbery of our fellow citizens of the
South. and Tor the division of their estates among
the negroes. Y.