Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-03-07
Especial Correspondence of the Chicago Times
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special Correspondence OF the Chicago Times
WAsHiSeTcN. February %.
Old Abe is going in for re election on a most
remarkable and funny record. He wants to be
re elected MS Joker. He points to his expiring
term, with pride and pleasure. as great joke
The record is sorry joke to the country. AL
ready the newspapers in the interest of the Joking
aspirant are collecting his "litte anecdotes" and
spreading them before the people for political eff
feet. Is it possible that the great American ma
ton are to be wheedled into the support of n can
didate for the Chief Magistracy whose chief claim
to support, as urged both by himself and his
friends. is, that he is CLOWN
Lincoln may get little fictitious popularity by
his Jokes and stories, smutty and otherwise; but
wise men may discover. in bis disposition thus
to trihe with great and serious questions, dis
qualification for the very important position be
seeks to retain. .r. f,
Our army, on whose votes he largely relies,
has already made the discovery that he is the
wrong man in the right place, and the men are
not backward in showing their contempt for him.
They ridicule his pretensions.
If Old Abe wants to enter the contest on the
strength of his smutty stories. his jokes and wit
ticisms. fancy he will find the soldiers more
than match for him
In a former communication | pointed out the
three prominent factions that were contending in
the so-called republican Union ranks for the
succession. At the head of the list, Just at this
moment, is the Lincoln or Seward facti on
When compelled to define its position on poti-
cal questions, il points TO Old Abes record ex-
ultngly, and says, Are we not sound on the ab-
clifton question Nobody will dispute the alb
clifton tendencies OF the az ministration. The
proclamation of emancipation, now a year old and
over has settled that. Every act of the admin
istration has proven its loyalty 10 the doctrine of
abolitionism But both the Chase and Fremont
factions take issue with Lincoln, singular as it
may appear, on this very question. An
abolitionist all over, in every act OF his public
career, these rival candidates come forward and
denounce him. 1t may not be Improbable to
attempt discovery of the points in which they
disagree from the present incumbent of the
White House. 1t may at lesat expose to the gaze
of the great laboring masses OF the North west
| the poiut towards which we are rapidly drifting,
and from which we may only be saved by the
earnest efforts of every patriot in the land.
Mr.. Chase with his followers are advocates of
1 immediate and unconditional emancipation of the
blacks everywhere within the boundaries of the
United States. 1t will be remembered that Mr..
| Lincoln's edict only emancipates the slaves in
certain States in rebellion at fixed date. 1t
leaves the status of the negro in the border
States that had not rebelled unchanged. But, at
the same time, Lincoln shows his willingness
and desire TO free the negroes everywhere, by
pressing upon Congress and the border States his
schemes for gradual emancipation with compen-
| sation to loyal owners So there is question
ing his position as genuine out and out abOli-
zionist Chase avews his purpose to 90 further.
He would ignore the Constitution more com
pletely than Lincoln has done, and would exert
the might of the Executive in aid of universal
emancipation, and would support it by the army
now in existence and subject TO the orders of the
Executive He comes before the people as "A
candidate for the Presidency this ground. and
| on this issue he contends with Lincoln. If Lin
coin is an abOlitionist, he is a more perfect one
He would have no slave in bondage, but reeas-
ing them, would elevate them to the grade of the
white man. or rather. would degrade the white
man to the level OF the negro.
Fremont goes even further than either of these
loyal =" gentlemen. Having allied himself with
the German red republicans, he hats at no pros
peaI of anarchy and bloodshed, but rather gloat-
ing at the prospect as affOrding dim promise of
military renown. and educated by his other allies
of the Wendell Philips school, he would not only
at once free the negroes, but would also give
them the right of suffrage. with social equality
| in every respect with the whites, including the
right of intermarriage. On these latter points
he secures the most hearty support of the ex-
IRENE radical abolition'sts, with whom amalg
nation is an essential.
Each Of the aspirants for Presidential honors.
with their followers, claims for himself the most
perfect loyalty" 1t is most remarkable how
easily they manage to delude their adhereuts
with the idea that those who see the constitutions
al objections to their revolutionary schemes
saying nothing of objections of moral and so
cial nature-are disloyal, and how readily they
manage to convince them that the ground they
tread upon is concentrated to the purest loyalty
and patriotism. And vet each one of them
openly and clearly violates the fundamental law
of the land. the only difference between them be
ing in the extent to which they go in their dis
loyalty.
Is it possible, then, that the people of the Uni
ten States will extend the reign OF a class of men
whose only claim of support is their persistent
purpose to introduce an inferior race into the
workshops and upon the farms Of the North Ia
compete with the white workngmen, to their
great damage? Abolitionism has never before
in the history of our country, been so bold in the
avowal OF their designs. 1t is to be hoped that
this holiness will work It's overthrow now, rs all
wise men and true lovers of their country, lis
peace aud prosperity. unite in believing It will do
MoRRIs.