Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-01-14

rFrou III. Richmond wAix.

.Frcn The Richmond Wig
Surely the Yankee nation is the most impu-
dent nation that ever existed. No other would
venture 70 send emissaries to q hostile country.
with the purposes announced by The New York
Tribune, relative 70 the rnmore1 mission OF the
two Blzrs
This mission, IL appears. would succeed bet
ter, If directed to Raleigh instead OF Richmond
I et the confederate govern ment resides at Rich
mond The president, who alone, With the az
vice and consent Of the Senate. IS here. and the
Senate Is here The mission. therefore, is not
for a settlement Of term by the only parties Who
ctn settle them. Its great object is TO break up
the confederacy By alternating the states sepa
rately, else Why 90 to Raleight In other words
the Blars are spies. and come here, svowedly. to
SOW discussion. We wish iheY would 90 to Ra
leigh. They both richly deserve hanging. and IL
they will 70 there. upon such q mission as that,
without Frat obtaining the consent OF the militia
~ authorities. which they can never obtain, they
win get what they richly deserve to a certsiniy
The cool impotence OF the proposition is abso
lutely delightful. They tell "ali whom it NAV
concern" before hand. the presidcn. among
them, that they are coming here to SOW dissen
sion among us, and break up the confederacy If
they can; and they seek permission from the au-
thorities to prosecute their mission. Was there
ever any proposition so unblushingly Yankee?
The southern people are to be undeceived by
Blair They are 10 be taught that subjugation
and dominion over them, and that devastation
and spoiation no, intended. They are coolly
TO be asked 10 disbelieve the evidences OF their
own senses: and when Grant tells the world that
"a crow cannot fly over the valley without car
rying Its own rstions," he meant merely to per
petrate one of those grim jokes 10 which IAN
keedom SO much delights-that when Sheridan
says he has burned 1000 barns in the valley, he
Is deceiving his government-when Sherman cuts
road sixty miles long through Georgia burn
ing. numbering, Plundering as he goes, he is
merely letting on a little gas The Yankees do
not mean spoliaton The thousands of spoons
they have stolen-the en- OF thousands of horses
and cattle they have driven of or killed-the
pianos, pictures. table linen. women's dresses;
etc to the value OF millions, which they have
appropriated-are not objects of spolistion.
The kind, aiiectionate Yankees. who are so
anxious to bring to our duty that they murder
Us by the score whenever they pass through our
country, mean none of these things What they
do mean is abolition crusade. Permit them
to Sc; free all the negroes, let them strike dead
three thousand millions of property in the south.
and they will be satisfied.
The Tribune cOnfesses that tho object OF the
mission is. not to obtain peace. but political
advantage. Ii saw the fatal effects of the peace
negotiations last summer, and it hopes to derive
like advantages from a similar cause at present
lt knows that there are legislators and govern
ors of states always seeking to sssail the govern
ment on this side, and il wishes to foment this
disposition. We hope, being thus forewarned of
their object, the Blsirs will not be allowed 10
come within our lines.
BLAIR MISSION.
The Richmond Sentinel after giving Tie Trib
une's version of the Blair mission, continues
editoralIy: I'VE shall Notwithstanding the warn
ing of The Tribune. not pronounce upon the au
thority and the precise object of their mission un
Ill they shall have presented their credentials
and stated their errand We DO not suppose
that such embassy that OF Jacques and
Gilmore would be entered upon The Messrs.
Blair, if they expect to be received; will surely
come in frank character IL not upon a frank
errand. IL these citizens, high in position, aud
the confidence OF President Lincoln have come to
offer the olive branch of peace, and to de-
nounce. in behalf Of the Washington govern
ment that war which has been so malignant and
cruelty waGed against Us. nothing could be more
grateful. If they come. however. as mere will
and strategy hunters, as The Tribune bids us
understand. then they will but add fresh insult
and attemp. a treachery unworthy OF men of
honor We will stand on our guard and await
developments 9"