Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-01-11


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| The RiehnoEd Enquirer of January 81. has
the following.
| All o. US are fast getting ourselves under.
5000. colonial vassalage is preferable thing
TO \ ankee slavery. This is the first outcropuins
oil ihls year OF our Lord, eighteen hundred and
sixty i've. We quote. at would be a eeod
bargain to secure the material aid of England and
France by formal sacrifice Of our institution Of
slavery says the Examiner, which is putting
liner point upon the proposition than we gave
to it, notwithstanding ours was pronounced panic
stricken. We did not propose to abolish slavery
| Tor any amount OF material aid, but upon the
| guarantee and actual accomplishment of our in
dependence, through a treaty offensive and de-
| fensve with England and France
We believe these states are fully able TO con-
quer their independence without formal act Of
abolition. but it will be the work Of years a war
OF many, many years, during which every state
may be overrun aud every able bodied man de-
ported, but that IN the end. il may be of another
| thirty years war. We shall triumph and gain our
Independence. We ask, shall we wage that
war, and preserve the germ of slavery or shall
We, recognizing the prejudices and opinions of
the world. abolish slavery for i'm mediate indepen-
dencef The Examiner does not regard theques
ton practicable. Very we'll. Then lie. us
ask. with the avowal that for the material aid
of France aad England, it would be good bar
gain 70 make formal sacrifice Of our institution
OF slavery. The opposition Is, therefore, only
20 the practicability and not to the essence of
the proposition All are agreed that indepen-
dence and peace would not be dearly purchased
with the sacrifice of slavery. The spirit of the
people of these states is that they will make any
sacrifice rather than accept any terms of reunion
with our enemy.
II we can convince our enemy and the world
that the people of these states are ready and
wiling TO impoyersh themselves, disrupt their
Institution, sacrifice the convictions of years
and obterate the very subject that occasioned
the war. in order that we may triumph in it,
great object-independence We shall have
made our conquest really impossible, and event
ually secured our liberty; for, though people
actuated by such spirit may be overpowered
and overrun, they never be conquered nor
conciliated into subsection. But If the preserva-
ton of slavery has been Of more Importance than
our Independence; If our people had shown a
willingness to save their negroes at the expense
of their liberty, the enemy would not have been
long in making the offer. Sherman may have
discovered some such weakness In his march
through Georgia. aud hence the remark attribIt-
ed to him, that slavery would not De destroyed
by reunion.
The enemy would stop the war to day, and
give US what remains of slavery. if we would re
turn to the Union aud obey it's laws and submit
to its authority. The enemy is fighting more
for power and the plumber of these states than for
abolition, which would diminish our power and
destroy the plumber Abolition preclamatlons
measures designed to frightened the
timid STAKEHOLDER back to the Union well TO
purchase support FROM the anti slavery party.
But they are defunct with the war, and the war
would cease if we would submit, aud what was
left of slavery would be preserved by the enemy.
il not under the name of slavery yet under some
other name.
Neither the abolition of slavery by our own
act, nor the change OF ts character by the act of
the enemy, will deport the negroes, or deprive
the white people OF the labor of these negroes.
They will remain among US, subject to law and
obedient to the will OF the dominant white. 1t
we were to yield the conflict and submit to the
enemy, the negroes would exchange the present
humane system of domesticity for the cruel and
harsh system of compensated labor. And If we
purchased immediate independence with the sac
rifce Of slavery the negroes ould remain among
US, free, it is true but kindly treated by their
old masters, and taken care of very much as at
present. the authorities can now understand and
know the extent to which the people Of these
states are willing that they should go in this mat
ter. Any sacrifice that secures independence will
be readily made.