Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-31

the only man who has military capacity enough
to conduct the campaign over the whole country
in such n manner as TO achieve success Is General
Mcclellan.
Although the Administration organs and the
members Of the Cabinet labor hard % conceal the
fact, It Is as certain a. any future event can be
that BY the l., Of January. If matters 60 on a.
they are now. every powerful European nation
viii recognize the Southern States an indie
pendent nation. and that England and France to-
gefher will raise the blockade of the Southern
ports Such at least i the assurance made by
persons abroad who have the means of knowing
the views Of the Governments alluded to.
IL is stated also on pretty good authority. that
il these changes are made Mr.. Stanton will re-
sign. wish could believe this to be true. But
know that all the Cabinet Ministers hold on TO
their portfolios with clutch that nothing but
peremptory mandate from the President can
loosen IL Is possible that, in the case Of the
War Department. this mandate will be issued.
And vet the indecision of the President is such
that, even If he had made up has mind TO do this
very thing yesterday. he may entirely change Il
to-day. Ii is owing TO this trait in Mr. Lineolns
character $50 startlingly exemphed IN bis issuing
the emancipation proclamation alter giving Mr..
Patton his reasons for hot dong so,) that the re-
port gained credence here. two days ago, that
the President had determined TO issue another
batch Of "War Orders" and himself assumed
second time the active functions OF military
COMMANDMENTS Chief, superseding Halleck, but
retaining Mcclellan in command of the Army of
the Potomac. The basis and foundation OF this
rumor unguardeG expression which Mr..
Lincoln had used In conversation; and IL was
strengthened By the fact that, when some matters
relating 20 General McCeans army had been
laid before the Secretary Of War few days ago,
that functionary had referred them to General
Halleck, and the latter had refused to decide or
even consider them, but had referred them to the
President, who had decided them. But l know
that, if at that time Mr.. Lincoln had determined
TO try to conduct the military operations of the
war himself, he has now abandoned that idea
He tried it once, and the experiment was such a
costly one. its results were 20 disastrous and so
humiliating, that IL will not be repeated.
There is authority for saving that, if the men
calling themselves "loyal Governors make any
such demands on the United States Government
as are indicated in telegraphic dispatch dated
Cincinnati, October "a, ;" with the conditions
therein attached TO them, they will be arrested
and sent to Fort Lafayette.
The radicals here have been Boosting, for
three or four days past. that the Governors
would meet and make these demands in
their collective capacity; and, as the radicals
boast OF having the President under their thumb,
and of being able to make him do whatever they
famous demands will be complied with. 1t may
/ be set down certain, however, that any Gov
ernor who refuses To furnish and forward the
troops drafted in his State, on any pretense what
ever. will be consigned to Fort Lafayette without
ceremony.
In regard TO an immediate advance of the Ar
my of the Potomac, which these frantic Govern
ors demand, such an advance may or may not be
judicious. in view of the other operations of the
campaign. The judge of that fact is the Com
mander.n Chief. Ii is certain that, il they should
be taken across the Potomac in their present con
diton and led against the enemy, they would be
| led to a certain and speedy, though not immedi
ate defeat. Thew might defeat Gen. Lee in one
battle or, rather, he would probably retreat be
fore them and draw them far from their base of
operations. But the up shot OF the campaign
would be that they would be surrounded, cut of,
and defeated, simply because they are not strong
enough, and have not the requisite appliances to
enable them to conduct successfully an offensive
campaign against Gen. Lees 1870 900 disciplined
and well supplied troops. The existence of this
state of facts is directly owing to the misman-
agement at Washington that the President can
not be blind to it, and this has probably led
him to determine the changes mentioned
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