Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-04

Secretary Stanton, feeling the indignity OF be-
Dg ''puhei" by The New York Tribune n the
expense Of the reputation OF other men, has sent
letter TO that Journal, N Which he expressly
SAYS that the merit OF the recent victories In no
respect belongs To him ami adm listers a rebuke
IN the Red Republican" tendencies OF Greeley.
tie also stated. the meeting of Railroad ID /
rectOrs at " Washington. that he had the highest
confidence in General Mcclellan. 'the result Of
whose military schemes, gigantic and well ma
tured, J. nov exhibited % a rejoicing country.
In spite OF this testimony Of the fact that all OF
fetal orders emanate from General Mcclellan.
and all official reports are made t. him and that
Secretary Cameron has been out OF office so short
tune that his successor has hardly mastered the
details OF his department. the Ab0tiOni-ts persist
IN saying that Stanton j. the organizer" OF all
our victories. and that the General in Chief IS
mere cipher. We do not expect that they will
abandon this lie They fear Mcclellan may be
successful, and that. though neither he nor his
friends for him. have exhibited the least political
ambition, he will be so popular Is to be able to
KICK their dish OF Treasury pap and shOddy con
tracts into the dirt, and leave them out in the
cold. They more intent 10 make Presidents
than To finish the war. Hence their frantic ef
forts to put Abolition Generals into the field. aud
hence their sad disgust that every one of them
has 80 far been fraud and failure Conservative
Republicans and Democrats have won success
ami made their marks. but no instance Is on rec
ord OF a radical doing ans good tor the cause of
the country. This spirit has actuated the Sum
ner Chandler Greeley school from the beginning
OF the war We have an instance OF it in this
city, where an obscure paper began 10y calling
MHjOr Anderson traitor, and i now daily exas-
Vera,ing loyal men by its attacks upon General
Mcclellan. Papers of the same class have been
IN full cry after General Smith, the hero of Don
elson, the first man Who entered the enemys
works, and whose bravery and skill saved the
field to the Federal forces. They assailed Grant
after the battle of Belmont. They abused Hal
leck because he would not give negroes priv-
leges which are withheld from white men. They
are furious against Sherman, and have com
menced the siege of General Buell., whose mas
teri strategy has effected the evacuation of Bow
ling Green. because he was not at DonelsOn,
when they know that that fort not in his dis
trlct, but in General Halleck's, and that he has
confined himself to the field in which his official
superiors have put him
his mean spirit of partisanship is astounding.
We style it craftsmanship. because all the Generals
. assaulted are Democrats. Never by any chance i
an Abolition General, even il he plunges his arms
up to the elbows into the public money, attacked.
AbolitiOnism holds that the end sanctifies the
means. 1t declares Washington, which l. now
one huge abiding place of lust, gambling and in
temperance, improved by Northern influences.
1t holds those ministers of the GOSPEL who spend
their entire time in long range shots at slavery,
while they have not word 10 say against the
brOthels, gaming tables, and dens of debluchery
which cluster around their churches. pinkS of
apostolic piety Ii embraces. as a congenial CO
operator. the infdeity which holds that man
dies like ratio rot. No personal iniamy, no
public 'enality, can disgust it, The cowardice of
Greeley and LOVeOy, the petty sentImentaliSms
OF Sumner, the blatant folly OF Chandler, all
turned to Spartan virtues in its Ethiopian cruel
BILE. IL holds that, ia all this broad land, by
possible chance can honest man differ with il
in opinion-that the Abolition platform i the
true gospel. while all other creeds political
religious, are the flesh and the devil
We know that lately il has become fashlona-
bic to decry its influence, and TO assert that it,
insane rawlings can do 10 hurt. So for twenty
five years, vast majority of this people that mel
Their II, nor its twin sister, SeceSslOn were to be
feared. Men PLAYED with each of them rs cOnve-
nent political tools, thinking 10 cast them away
at pleasure The result is civil war, and that will
always be the result where "A faction maintain that
no law binds their consciences, no rules of decen-
cy restrain their tongues no sense of honor guides
their action in the attainment of their ends. Such
an element Is always revolutionary. 1t is found
ed upon treason. Its informing spirit is disobe-
dence
We have no expectation that the frank avOwal
OF Mr.. Stanton will check these iactiOuS blood
hounds i'm their assaults upon Mcclellan They
will hHnt him TO death if they can. They will
deiame his name. they will mIsrepresent his mo
tives, detmct from his fame, and heap Ossa on
PeliOn in immense masses of mendacity 10 over
whelm man whG has deemed this white man
war, and who will not put the fre-brand and
bowie knife into the hands of black savages, per
hitting them TO burn, ravish and murder, with
out regard to age. This is his crime
Abolition thirsts for a high carnival OF blood
Ii wishes not "A restored Union, but extermna-
ted South, and General Mcclellan stands in It's
way He and Buell. and Halleck and Grant aud
Smith and Sherman, and all other chiefs whom it
daily assailS, are impossible barriers 10 its wick
ed cravings. Hence, it endeavors to set these
Generals at enmity with each other. Hence, too
il sends chapters of defamation to every camp 10
excite mutiny among the soldiers against their
officers Hence, il has caused ali Europe TO he
heve our armies mobs our Generals fools, and
has tempted the strong prejudices which exist
against us in foreign nations Hence Its papers
have bought the knowledge of the destination of
secret expeditions and published them in time to
warn the enemy and to thwart the designs of the
Government. And now it, last greatest project
Is to breed jealousies betw cen Mcclellan. Lincoln
and Stanton and to cause the people to lose con
fidence in tho who have the conduct of the
How long will this atrocious spirit be permitted
to exist in our md>tY How long will the people
endure this fire in the rear" upon these Generals
and their soldiers now in the presence of the enc
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