Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-01
Especial Correspondence ofths Chicago Time-.l

Especial Correspondence Ofthe Chicago Times.l
WASHINGTON. January %
Gen. Butler is here again with flea in his ear
of extraordinary dimensions The big promises
of 1.-The government" and the vaporing boasts of
the bloodless hero Of Big Bethel himself, have
alike come to naught The country has been
shamefully deceived in this whole matter of the
exchange of prisoners to be effected by the tyrant
of Baltimore and New Orleans. More than that,
the hearts of thousands of families all over the
North, whose fathers, sons. and brothers are
languishing, starving, and freezing at Richmond,
will now be wrung with fresh anguish And all
this to crafty the pride Of Lincoln and Stanton,
and the magnaninity of Butler himself. The
whole matter of the exchange of prisoners under
Buffers authority, has resulted precisely as
have stated il would result The Confederate
authorities will have nothing TO do with the mat.
ter so long as it remains i'm the hands Of man
who is a disgrace TO human nature, as well as to
the uniform he wears. After exhausting all the
expedients in his power, and still finding this to
he the case,-and finding, too, that his personal
safety is greatly compromised Notwithstanding
/ his shirt Of mail armor, whenever he ventures
outside the massive walls Of Fortress Monroe
Butler is here again. TO pour his grievances into
the sympathzing ear of his master. For Lincoln
can sympathze with him He can listen to his
tale Of woe, and console him with promises of
enlarged powers, a thicker Soat-os mail, and
stronger body guard. But to the sufferings Of
our brave soldiers at Richmond. to the fact
that they are dying there every day, of hunger,
of cold. OF wretchedness, OF hope deferred-dying
with delirious dreams of home. dreams never to
be realized, Ito the fact that the hearts Of old
men, of tender mothers, OF loving wives. of deli
cate sisters, are breaking, day after day, as they
read that the idol Of their hearts has died last
in a southern dungeon. after months of hopeless
captivity-to all these facts, Mr.. Lincoln is Sc
reney oblivious.
And there is another parsonage here whose po-
| tent influence Is never exerted in behalf OF the
poor prisoners whom her own brother used to
torment. Amid life of utter frivolity she
never casts thought towards the wretched OBJ
iects who were once as happy as she is now and
who left all that makes life happy to battle for
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of her husband and her hus
bands party Dress. diamonds. dinners. routs,
parties. balls. trips to New York, shopping in the
metropolis, the adOrnment of her person (for
picture of which see Mrs. GreenhOw's faithful
description, } occupy all her thoughts. Were she
worthy Of her high station,-f she had one tenth
of the qualities of mind and heart that animate
the breast of "A certain widow Lady whose nnob
trusive charities call down blessings her head
from thousands Of the poor and destitute,-she
might, by the exercise OF the influence of her
high position. dispace the hideous squnter. and
effect the restoration to their homes of all those
afflicted men.
Among the other complaints which Butler has
brought here this time is, that "the government"
has broken faith with him, in sending to Rich
mond another agent OF exchange, to wit: Mr..
Harry Warfeld of Baltimore. | enclose here
with the administration account of Mr. War
fields mission, from which you will see that, if
that account is true Buffers complaint is we'll
founded For the satisfaction of the readers of
hou | will efa To hiatt .f.
while true in the main, does not contain the whole
truth. Mr. Wariield will. no doubt, succeed in
eifecting the exchange of Mr.. White, of Penn.
sylvania for Gen Trimbe But ih.t is not
what Mr. Warfed sent Richmond for
That object could have been effected by simple
note between Stanton and the rebel Secretary Of
War The Confederates value Gen Trimble
too highly and an Insignificant member ola State
Legislature too little. not to be eager to close
with "A proposal for such exchange Indeed,
il the proposal to exchange Gen. Trimble or Mr..
White had been made through Butler himself,
the COnfederates would have sent Mr. White
down to CITY Point in charge of Gen. Trimble' )
negro servant, who would have waited there for
his master; and thus the exchange would have
been effected through Gen. Butler. yet with no
other intermediary on the rebel side except what
they considered Boilers equal in the socia scale
namely: negro. Butler had some dim percep-
ception that he could have effected the exchange
OF Mr. White in this manner. and hence his
wrath
Mr. Warfield is a Union man. of the school oil
Reyerdy johnson and Daniel W ebsler, but noI
of the school of Charles Sumner aud Owen
Loveioy. He has uniformly opposed the war
because he believed with Senator Douglas, that
war would be disunion. he has uniformly re
nounced the Administration for the policy it has
| adopted ia the conduct of the war. because
he saw, in common with all intelligent Demo
Gratis that such policy would only prOtract the
war, exasperate the Southern people eternal
resistance, and finally prevent reunion FOI
entertaining these views, he has been freely de
nounced IA rebel and a traitor. Yet the
Administration takes this rebel and trtitOr by the
hand, and sends him on confidential mission to
Richmond.
The real object of this mission is known ia
very few persons for it has been better kept than
most of the secrets of the Administration. II
will startle the North when it is known. and il
will show the utter baseness OF the men who are
at the head of the Republican party.
The object of that party in causing the wal
was to compel the Southern States to abolish
slavery For the Union they did not care straw
Indeed, the Union. AS it made by the found
ers Vt our Government. and the Constitution
which is the foundation OF our Government. were
both hateful To them
Mr.. Lincoln's declaration that the Union could
not endure part iree part slave Was no iule Jnglt
of words. Ii was terrible threat which The
leaders of the Republican party put INTO hi:
mouth, and which they were determined To ex.
ecnte.
The feud between Chase and Lincoln has be
come so bitter as tO split their party completely
in two, and they fear. and with good ground too
that the fate of the Democratic party la lc60 viii
be the fate of their party in lo6i So far as
Lincoln himself Is concerned he ut'ely Jespairs
oil re election. He is haggard. lislle-s, without
energy, and without hope. Sometimes think
he is already becoming what he will surely be in
ten years-the victim Of remorse But he is en-
tirely ia the hands of those wicked men whose
chains have bOund him for two years past. IL j:
they who made him issue the emancipation proc
lamation and compelled him TO abolish the habeas
corpus, and they have now persuaded him to send
this mission to Richmond. X.
THE "wARFIELD MISSION" TO RIcHMoSD.
The mission of Mr. IL NJ Wsraeld, of thi-
city. TO Richmond, has occasioned much
mark and is alike so strongly criticised by our
loyal citizens and Southern So pathizers--nelhel
of whom are satisfied with the arrangement
that we hare taken the trouble TO get ut the
actual facts in regard to the subject Our read
ers already know that Major White. a member
elect Of the Pennsylvania Senate. is prisoner
nc Richmond and that his absence has given the
Democrats the power TO prevent the regular or.
ganizltion of the Senate and embarrass the whole
proceedings Of the Legislature. Ii has, there
fore, become an object Of importance 70 secure
the release of Major White. and some time ago
measures toward this result were initiated They
resulted 10 an understanding. said 70 have been
sanctioned by Jefferson Davis himself. that Maj