Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-10
The DeviI of the Nat,on.


Secretary Stanton, feeling the indignity of be-
ing 'puffed" by the New York Tribune, at the
expense of the reputation of other men, has sent
a letter to that journal, which he expressly
says that the merit Of the recent victories in no
respect belongs to him, and administers a rebuke
to the "Red Republican" tendencies of Greeley.
He also stated, at the meeting of Railroad Di-
rectors at Washington, that he had the highest
confidence in General Mcclellan, "the result of
whose military schemes, gigantic and well ma
tured, is now exhibited to rejoicing country
In spite of this testimony, of the fact that all of
hcial orders emanate from General Mcclellan,
and all official reports are made to him, and that
Secretary Cameron has been out of Office so short
time that his successor has hardly mastered the
details of his department, the AbolitiOnists persist
in saying that Stanton is the ''organizer" of all
victories and that the General in Chief is n
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 as 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 are more intent TO make Presidents
than to finish the war. Hence their frantic ef-
forts to put Abolition Generals into the field, and
hence their sad disgust that every one of them
has so far been a fraud and failure. Conservative
Republicans and Democrats have won success
and made their marks. but no instance is on rec
ord of a radical doing any good for 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 by calling
Major Anderson a traitor, and is now daily exas-
peratiDg 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 enemy s
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 privi-
leges which are withheld from white men. They
are furious now against Sherman, and have COM
menced the siege of General Buell., whose mas
terly strategy has effected the evacuation of Bow
ling Green, because he not at Donelson,
when they know that that fort not in his dis
trict. but in General Halleck's, and that he has
confined himself to the field in which his official
superiors have put him.
This mean spirit of partisanship is astounding.
We style it partisanship because all the Generals
.assailed are Democrats. Never by any chance is
an Abolition General, even if he plunges his arms
up to the elbows into the public money, attacked.
AbolitioniSm holds that the end sanctiies the
means. 1t declares Washington, which is 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 to say against the
brOthels, gaming tables, and dens of debauchery
which cluster around their churches, pinks OF
apostolic piety. Ii embraces, as a cOngenal CO.
operator, the in6delty which holds that a man
dies like ratio rot. No personal infamy, no
public yenality, can disgustit. The cOwardice OF
Greeley and Lovejoy the petty sentmentalisms
of Sumner, the blatant folly of Chandler, are all
turned to Spartan virtues i'm its Ethiopian cruci-
BILE. Ii holds that, in all this broad land, by nc
possible chance can an honest man differ with il
in opinion-that the Abolition platform is the
true gospel. while all other creeds, political OF
religious, are the flesh and the devil.
We know that lately il has become fashona-
BILE to decry its influence, and to assert that its
insane rawlings can do 10 hurt So, for twenty
five years, vast majority of this people that nei.
ther it, nor its twin sister, Secession, were to be
feared. Men played with each of them as conve
nient political TOOLS thinking 20 east them away
at pleasure. The results civil war, and that will
always be the result where faction maintain that
no law binds their conscences, 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 factious blood
hounds in their assaults upon Mcclellan They
will hunt him to death if they can. They will
defame his name, they will misrepresent his mo-
tives, detract from his fame, and heap Ossa or
Pelion in immense masses of mendacity to over
whelm man who has deemed this white mar
war, and who will not put the ire-brand and
bowie knife into the hands of black savages, per
mitting them to burn, ravish and murder, with
out regard to sex or age. This is his crime
Abolition thlrsts for high carnival of blood
ltwishes not a restored Union, but an extermina
ted South, and General Mcclellan stands in it,
way. He and Buell. and Halleck and Grant and
Smith and Sherman, and all other chiefs whom il
daily assails, impossible barriers to its wick
ed cravings. Hence, it endeavors 10 set these
Generals at enmity with each other. Hence, toe
it sends chapters of defamation to every camp &c
excite mutiny among the soldiers against theil
officers. Hence, it has caused all Europe to be
lieve our armies mobs, our Generals fools, anC
has tempted the strong preiudices which exist
against ms in foreign nations. Hence its papers
have bought the knowledge of the destination o.
secret expeditions and published them in time tc
warn the enemy, and 10 thwart the designs of the
Government. And now IFS last greatest project
is to breed jealousies between Mcclellan, Lincoln
and Stanton. and to cause the people to lose con-
hdence in tho who have the conduct of the war
How long will this atrocious spirit be permitted
to exist in our midst? How long will the people
endure this fire in the rear upon these General:
and their soldiers now in the presence of the enc
myf-DefTou Free Press
Gen. WaiIacess CongratulatoryO order
HEADoUARlERs THIRD DrvTsroS,)
DISTRICT or WEST TENNESSEE.
February %, 1862.
Soldiers ofthe Third DiDisioR:
Ii was nv good fortune to command you Mt the