Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-23
CONTINUED ACTIVITY IN EXPORTING COTTON.
The EXPORT of cotton from the mort of Whining



The Government" attended the opening of
tho Sanitary Fair at Baltimore, aud made
speech. He made an abolition stump speech
He made such speech as only "A Dawson Daw
die demagOgue could have summoned the impu-
deuce 10 make. and such an one no man with
sufficient common sense and delicacy Ia under
stand the prophecies imposed by the occasion
would have thought of utterng Gen Dix aud
Dir. ChOate, at the opening of the New York
Sanitary Fair, found it, object fruitful theme of
discourse In appropriate and eloquent terms
the, described the suferings of our soldiers. and
appealed TO the sympathies of their hearers: and
the response which the citizens of New York
are making to that appeal is evidence of the
policy "a well as the pr0priety OF dScarding par
rs tnshlp IN the prosecution OF charitable enter
pr se> which should receive cheerful assistance
from all
Dir. Lincoln was not more oblivious to or con-
temptuOus OF 1.-The fitness OF things" in asking
for lively negro melody when present 10 assist
in the obsequIes at Gettysburg, than in repeating
the stale. common places OF abOlitionism at the
opening of the fair at Baltimore. This much as
to the vulgarity and indecency of his exhibition.
One point in his speech, as having perhaps an
indirect relevancy to the object of the fair. is
worth consideration. He declared his intention
TO retallate upon the COnfederates the massacre
% the negro troops at Fort Pillow The method
of retaliation has not yet been determined.
The COniederates concede our right TO employ
free blacks soldiers. and acknowledge their
obligation to treat them rs prisoners of war, if.
they should capture them. They DENY our right,
under the laws of war, to proclaim emancipation
to their slaves. incite them TO instruction, and
arm them against their former masters The
question thus raised has been so frequently dis
cussed. since our employment of slaves or those
who were slaves, soldiers, that shall only
say, in this connection that the southern view is
sustain ed by precejents established by this Gov
eminent. in negotiations following both of her
wars with Great Britain Mr. Lincoln, there
fore, SO far from finding warrant in our history
for Incorporating freedmen" into our armies
was positively forbidden by laws of war which
we had asserted and enforced. to arm them AS a
part OF our forces. In his Baltimore speech he
said:
When the question OF employing colored men
a soldiers was LETT To the government, il rested
very much with himself whether he should make
soldiers of them or not He pOndered the matter
carefully. and, when he became convinced that it
was duty to employ them. he did not hest
tate - do He stool before the American
people responsible for the act-respOnsbe before
the Chrlatan world He was responsible for il.
and should stand 80 in the eve of the historian
Responsible for it he stood before God, and he
he believed he was right"
he is 80 far responsible as a weak, vacillatng
man. acting against his convictions of right and
policy. under pressure of ella mOrous partisan
ship and ianaticism, may be held accountable for
his assent TO measures which he condemns
Aside from the right to proclaim emancipation
aud arm the negroes. he thus considered the
policy of such action in his interviews with Pat
ten and Dempsey; his indul sence ot Dawdleism
D.1f a
vodes the reproduction Of large portion of the
small amount of common sense he has promul
ged within the past three years:
What good would proca maton Of enamel
PATTON from me do. especially We are now
siiuatedf | do not want 20 issue a document
which all the world will see must necessarily be f
imperative, like the Popes bull against the com
ct And suppose they (the slaves
could be induced by proclamation of freedom
from me TO throw themselves upon rs what shall
We do with them? How can we feed and care
for such a mutitudel Gen Butler wrote me a
few days since that he was issuing more rations
to slaves who have rushed to MIN than all the
white troops under his command. They eat and
that is all. >"
This was but n week or two before he issued +
the prOcla nation OF September % 1862 Is it
not conclusive against the policy OF Us is>uaucei
dis inaugural address Is equally conclusive
against lis authority 70 issue it, Ii is more so,
for he asserts positively. instead OF bv clubbing
interrogatories. that he had mo right to issue
It. and re repeated the declaration, after the war
had commenced. in his mess &c of July Sd. 1861
This l. the mar who now assumes the re<pon
Sihilty. plotting Tor re nomination; this imbe-
Gle. sell convicted double dealing. petty dema-
so-us. manipulated by Patterns and Dempseys. /
by political gamblers aud chirlatans. with less /
trains and less honesty than himself. trimmed. /
watered and cultured 10y fanatics, aud shaping
himself to their devices. would appeara Jackson
be holds himself accountable tor having. with /
out authority. and in opposition to a correct
being the wiIness-placei ne
groeS in position where he knew they would be
mastered: and now ne threatens retaliation, /
kno~ins Il will be revisited upon our own white !
soldiers = Chicago Times.