Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-13
From TIE London Times, August 90
The Recognition OF the United states
by England an Example for the
NOrfh

The continual tale of defeat and calamity will
not tend TO excite enthusiasm in the rev recrlits
who are To fill the ranks so terribly thinned BY
the WAT. A second advance SOuthward, il may
be predicted, will not be undertaken W the same
spirit of the first. All the circumstances of the
war are changed. The troops are not volunteers;
the conflict has 'ninety DAYS" limit; the enemy
is in terrible earnest. and fights wthsk Il and dis
erection well as courage. 1t is more serious
business altogether than ar first believed
No deuSIons are possible now. The part OF the
population that furnishes the su .cessiye armies
has begun % Zee that conquest of The South is
impossible. They refuse enlist for the work,
and are orced into the ranks by tie threats OF a
conscription
The part of the people who con fight by deputy
viii begin, perhaps. to recognize something OF The
difficulty when they are forced TO pay the bl the
war hiss already run up and Ia calculate what evea
another year OF conquest must cost. They
will begin to recover from the intOxication OF the
reyel when they arrive ut the SOLDERING moment
OF the reckoning! And it is-weii for mankind
that the passion iOr conquest is to he checked
at some point by its cost, b1th I'M blood and gold
A period arrives when national pride must Weld
AMI make the best terms; and n way is sure TO he
found b, which the national honor can DC recon
eiled with peace
IL seeks consolation in the very bravery and
0bStnacy of the resistance. or affects 10 discov ef
that it only beaten by the powers of nature.
by climate sby distance. by mountains and rivers,
OF by disease, or in fact. by anything that Ial
ates the failure. 1t matters little how the con
yiction of the impOssbllity of an enterprise is ar
rived at provided il is abandoned with as good a
grace rs may be-. IL would be better. of course
that the madness OF hopeless undertaking
should be recognized at the outset. This appears
to he prescience beyond humanity. Yet when
an invasion has consumes! large armies, wasted
millions of treasure, and at the end of the first
year Of war leaves the invading power in doubt
whether IL is not really IN danger of attack. the
future of such a conflict may be calculated from
the past
The time has arrived for IA compromise OF
some kind; the worst settlement OF the dispute
can not be so fatal as the war This was the
conclusion forced on the British Government at a
period the history of which is taught in every
American school The North might add its pre-
sent experience TO the lesson al its schoobooks
with infinite advantage. The American colo
nists were rebels in the belief OF England rs
the Southern citizens are ''rebels" 20 the Govern
ment OF Washington. We thought our national
interest and our national pride were involved in
SURPRISING the revolt by arms. We were stiff
necked in the matter "A people. and the Gnv
erGment under the influence of the most OBJ
stnaie of Kings.
We KEEP, up the war for years, and we are still
paving for the blindness OF our grandfaihers. l ct
England had to yield all. TO acknowledge the in
pendence of America, and 10 let the British
Crown sustain It coud the loss of lis Brightest
jewel" To our surprise. we soon found that the
jewel was not so much missed; that for our
material interests, they were rather improved by
the change-that gained more by good
friends than bad subjects. We now look ON the
issue OF the conflict with satisfaction But Eng
land then, unlike America now, had a few wise
and moderate men who saw the impossiblits of
conquering the rebellious colonies, and courage
ously opposed the popular clamor, fcreseeing the
inevitable end.
Lord Chatham called ON the House of Lords
ito instruct the Throne in the language OF truth,
to which people might now listen with adyah-
tage. It was at one of the worst periods of the
war; our Popes aud our McCellans had failed
The army in desperate condition THAT
army, said Chatham. "caa achieve anything but
imposSbitieS: and know that the conquest OF
British America is an impossibiiity You can
not conquer Ancrics, What Is your present sit
uation there. We 40 not know the worst: but
we 90 know that in three campaigns We have
done nothing and suffered much words that ex
actly describe The North at the present moment.
Our. King Government and people had 10 Weld 10
the force of circumstances. These saw most dis
tint%ly TO the Umonsts, you not conquer
the South" Aud the Americans will have to
obey their stem monitor, rs We did before them.