Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-01-04

NO more Negro Prisoners 10 be Ia
ken-Generai determination of the
Blacks by their Pretended Friends.
Especial Correspondence fthe Chicago Times.I
WASHINGTON, December 90.
Sufficient evidence has now reached here to
show how the Presidents proclamation OF pardon
and amnesty, aud his ..new and easy method of
restoring the Union, have been received in the
South. The people of the Southern States have
seen and read his last message. They have had
time to consider it deliberately and to make up
their minds aboutit, and thew have done so. The
result is now before the world, in the shape of
resolutions passed at public meetings and by the.
Legislatures of several of the States, editorial
articles in leading southern journals, and the
private accounts brought by persons direct from
the South All these agree: there is one tone
pervading them all. Ii is the tone indicated in
my letter of December 10, The people OF the
Southern States are not fools They are as in
telligent as their fellow citizens of the North.
They desire peace as much as we do. But they
want it on honorable terms, and on terms which
will secure them the rights which are guaranteed
to them by The Constitution of the United States.
Those rights Mr.. Lincoln deliberately proposes to
take away, and he offers to them peace on the
monstrous terms that they must acknowledge the
justice of this robbery on his partl These rights
are all they ask, and they are determined to fight
until those rights are acknowledged. This il the
great fact that stares us in the face, and only
fools and knaves will pretend to ignore it Look
at the resolutions that have been passed by the
Legislatures of the States of Virginia and Ala
bama, and at the mass meetings in Georgia and
North Carolina during the last ten days. IL is
idle to say, after this evidence that the people of
the Southern States not unanimous in their
determination; nor il be doubted that the
editorials in the Southern newspapers faithfully
reflect, this subject. the public sentiment of
the South
1t is sad to think how differently Democratic
Administration would deal with this existing
state of things There is no obstacle to an im-
mediate termination Of the war on terms honora-
BILE alike to both parties, except those obstacles
which are created aud fostered by Abraham Lin
coin and his radical advisers. Mr. Lincoln offers
peace to the South. But it is on terms so de-
grading that TO ACCEPT them would cover the
Southern people. and their posteritv forever with
lasting ign0my and disgrace Democratic
President lin Mr.. Lincoln's place) would offer
peace to the South; but he would offer it terms
so just and honorable (Ior it would be simply on
the basis OF the Constitution that the rebels
would throw down their arms instantly; the rebel
armies would melt away.like a summer morning s
mist; the Southern States would at once send
their Senators and Representatives to Congress,
and would return TO their allegiance; and the
unity the power and the glory OF the old RepGb-
! lie would at once be restored.
Visions of such cOnsummatiOn have fitted
across the minds of Mr.. Lincoln and his radical
advisers. 1t is just what they would avert. Mr..
Lincoln wants no votes for President To be east
in the Southern States in 1864 If the Southern
States take part in the next Presidential election.
Mr. Lincoln is lost. He will be buried so deep,
politically that the future historian will never be
able to find him He knows this. Ii is 4 real
zing sense of this fact that induced him 10 Issue
| his last proclamation. And il is fact whrh
ought to cause every American to hang his
head i'm shame that this cruel and unnecessary
war is to be continued q year Longer, that
thousands more lives are to be sacrificed, that
anguish and poverty are to be brought to
thousands more of our happy homes. merely
in ordor to serve the electioneering purposes OF
the Republican party.
The matter of the exchange of prisoners has
become greatly simplifed. The negro soldiers
are in the way, and they alone. They will not
be in the way any longer. Intelligence has been
received here to the effect that the Confederate
soldiers have received positive orders not to take
any more negro prisoners, but TO give no quarter
to any negro soldiers found in arms. or the white
officers commanding them Is Mr. Lincoln sat
isfied now with the calamties that he has brought
upon these poor. deluded peoplel Four year.
ago they were happy, contented, comfortable
| prosperous, increasing in numbers, adding rI-
lions every year TO the wealth OF the country.a nj
fectionate servants to kind masters. and all oil
them in the homes which theT loved Look al
them now See the thOusl nds OF them That are
wandering about, starving and freezing 20 death
| Thousands every week die of small pUx The
air here is almost infected by il Aud when they
die here at the North they are suffered to die
like cattle. The 80. 900 of them that ia the
army will never survive the war. In eight years
from now all the negroes who will be left aliv,
will be those who have been fortunate enough
not to have been enticed away from their home,
by their false and pretended friends, the abo-
litionists
| would like the readers of the the Times to OBJ
jerve that the abolitlOniss I'd beginning TO show
their hand in regard to the next Presidential
election. Their month piece, Greeley, SAYS, yer,
cautiously and guardejly, that he hopes we viii
have another Presidential election. hut he don
know whether will or not fhat Is a feeer. put
out to see how the idea win strike the people
The plain meaning is, that the republicans nrC
so shaping matters that, when the time cnmes 10
hold the next Presidential election, a proclaml
ton will appear declaring. "a military ueces-
sitv,' the election is postponed for The present
Let the p ople watch and pray, for assuIedly the,
will be led into temptation. Y.
AN sASTOUN DING PROPORTION