Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-08


trate and form them into divisions. He has had /
bid roads and bsd weather: but | speak know
inrly. when declare 20 tbs congress and the
people, that 10 delsy Of GENITAL Buell. move
meass arc attributable % any ordsrs frous Nc
SleFan- On the conirsry. he has or-ierel airl b
hasten Fsth ali dispatch: Dot = lose a day or an
hour ii'the accomp lishment Of the design % SEIZE
the Tennessee railroad, In the end that not only
shall Eastern Tennessee be opened TO the army
Of tie Union; not only 70 give relief to the Union
men Of Tennessee. about whom nv colleague
mekes fofnjndhols jerenaid. bet to the grad
aim, ~ cut of this rebel arfnv Of the Potomac,
not alone from the line of their supplies but from
tTe tire ~ thrir resreets .e.aasasss1s7-z
In kentucky se have more than one hundred
thousand soldiers, ready, eager, active. and tri
umphant whenever they have had any chance in
battle MeClelan's orders are ior the speediest
movement there possible
Ny colleague praises the recent victory OF our
troops at Mil Spring / share with bim. AS my
constituents did with his, the pride of that hard
fought encounter; but viii not shame my State.
which called Mcclellan to her service. by pluck
ING the laurels from his brow, when there is not
soldier IN that battle who will not rejoice To see
him wear them, as we'll for his conduct West
ern Virginia as for the strategy by which even
the Mill Spring battle was directed. though at
distance. Ii was. as said. part of his design
upon the Tennessee railroad; and there Is no i'm
pediment, but every encouragement from him,
for Gen. Buell. to forward the movement to that
desired end -
in Eastern Kentucky Humphrey Marshall has
proved that while his spirit was willing, his flesh
was weak laughter before the Ohio soldiers
under Garfield Zollicoffer has been killed. and
his forces routed; aud nothing but the impedi
meEts OF nature prevent our soldiers from lifting
our ensign upon the mountains of Tennessee.
IA .lsra Al.4.. In, 4
fate of Memphis, Beauregard is hurried out to
Columbus. Kentucky, to avert the Northern ava
lanche which impends there; while Buell. with
cOnsummate skill, is drawing his fatal lines
around the Cenfederates, as the lines have been
drawn in Virginia.
But il is said that the Potomac is bloekaded
So il Is; hut it is of no practical disadvantage
For all the purposes of supply we are in commu-
nication with every part of=the north There
compensations. perhaps unknown to my col
league, for this seeming disadvantage. Would
that he would exercise his faith in some things
inscrutable to him.
But is there no credit TO be given for the rcten
ton of Maryland the rescue of the Virginia east
ern shore; the constant preparation and dscip-
line of army Of one hundred thousand men
here! And all this with the Secretary of War
dabbling in slavery questions and traiicking in
contracts.
Western Virginia we have held against the
hostility of the disloyal Floyd has been
compelled to decamp. and from the noun
tains to the Ohio outright there is none to dis
pute.
But sir, although General Mcclellan has had
charge OF all these matters aud is entitled to
share their merit, it was not my purpose to paint
picture of ouI successes. We have gained as
yet great bloody battle commensurate with
the armies in the field Indeed, sir. would pre-
fer that the war should be carried on and ended
by bloodess tactics than BY bloody carnage. il it
were possible. | would leave as little hate as
possible as the legacy of this conflict. If il
were possible 10 close this war by the melting
away or the capitulation Of the Confederate
army. the country would prefer it; Geaeral
Mcclellan is not making this a of ven
geance, but war for the restoration OF the
Unionl
To this end he has, by his comprehensive
energy, seized the coast from Snip Island 10
Fortress Monroe. There is no example in his
tory of sea-coast so extensive, and country
of such area, surrounded and closed in by such
a superior force IS the rebellious part of oul
land.
As the curtain lifts and this procession of fact
transpire, we shall see the Union element of th'
South dilating and emerging from its deSpOnd
ency. We shall see the loyal men coming for,l
and gladly Selling the musket to rally to tn,
old flag.
The great mistake on the part of these mill
tary fe lslings, no critcise the conduct of th'
war, is. that they habitually underrate the exten
and strength of lha rebellion. just rs they under
rated and condemned the alleged or fancied eriev
ances OF the South and their hold on the south
ern mind. venture to say that is the capital de
linquency of the Administration if they hav,
been delinquent. Had they realized the fact
"that considerable body OF insurgents had riser
against the sovereign" which Nattel alleges i
the test of a civil war; with all its appurtenance
of humane code of warfare, the exchange o
prisoners, &c. might have had less difficult
and more honor in the conduct of this immens'
ordeal by battle Those who do not recognize
the fact OF the immensely of this rebellion vii
find at every step difficulties about belgeren
rights on sea and hnd, and inhumanities whicl
would sicken the heart of savage. We mus
learn by experience, if not priori
Even my colleague, with his Bull Run retreat
is vet in his homage. He must resort 20 the Ba
CONAN system of induction, and by experience
to learn, and begin to learn by being 'child il
arms" Laughter. In surveying this grant
field of action, from this capital to Sante Fe h
makes the mistake which the savan made whel
he supposed the moon annihilated because al
animalcue h.l crept over the disc OF his tee
scope and obscured the view. Let him tax
another glass and clear his vision.
This assumptions dictation TO our Generals i
only a small illustration of what see here in
larger measure, when gentlemen undertake to in
terpret the inscrutabe designs of Providence T.
sustain their finite views. These political ''cuck
COS. who breed in the nest of another trade
these civilians. who 20 chipping about war a
If they were trained to it, when, in truth, they ar
only trained in the political convention and tn
talk of Congressional Globes not apprehen'
that this revolution, which is the work of year
and the movement Of millions. IS anything NOR
than little arrangement of the political ma
chine, which will regulate itself by some politi
cal compensation. or some act oil rerengeful con
hscation; when, i'm truth. IL can hardly be cor
rec;ed without breaking the machine, or at leas
retardng its motion. 1t is so stupendous, sir
that it can only be likened TO the ocean. which
lifts itself up under darkened sky and roln,
thunder and resists the exercise of anything shor
of Supreme power with an elemental force tina
/ dehes all the little expedients OF carping man.
These complaints about the are getting a
common in the press and the House az they wer
before they produced the Bull Run disaster.
few of these impatient people then learned les
son from their incautous impulsiveue>s; but here
we have it again They belong to that class o
skeptics who take everything ncoInprehensibl
to Their feeble siehtas unknown and non existent
They can not see Mcclellan dong ANYTHING
therefore he does nothing. They are not part
nerS in MS confidence; therefore he does wrong
] He has not rushed about in wild theltric style