Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-07

though It's trail will be bloody. The world win
regard il AZ a mastery stroke Of genius. The
army will 50 Tegard il, and will feel for is com
mander the admiration and gratitude that saviors
Of men ever enkindie in loyal hearts. Bot the
bril.iancy Of this movement will not for an in
slant dazzle the eyes of the wronged and wrath
ful men Of the army Of the Potomac, nor will il
dazzle the sight Of the angry people 80 as for a
moment TO obscure their perception Of the crime
against the nation, which has made this change Of
base and front imperiously necessary. This crime
is the refusal 70 reinforce Mcclellan. | don't
care about the question-which legislators, sol
diers and politicians, have debated--of this Gen
erals fitness TO command. The York and James
river peninsula not the place for that discus
sion. The hour of the junction Of Beauregard's
and Jackson's forces TO those Of Johnston is not
the time for ouch a debate. i care not for any
criticism Of Gen. McCleIlan's campaign on this
Peninsula or on the Potomac. ! have blows,
but not a word. for the untmely casuist, in or
out of administrative Office. who, under the
of rebel cannon sweeping our ranks with
shot and shell, meets the demand FOR aid to
this army with chronological measure of de-
laws at Fort Monroe, at Yorktown, at Will
liamsburgh, at Seven Pines. / don't care
whether there we're delays or no delays
whether they were NcClellan's delays, Quar-
termaster Generals delays. or the delays of the
elementsl No man, no party, no interest shall
with my assent my silence, be permitted to
mix up with the sacred right of an outnumbered
American army to demand help from their
countrymen and to promptly receive it, collateral
questions Of fitness, of yigor, OF fidelity in com
manders.
When loyal New York regiments, lifted from
their feet by the FIRE of rebel brgades, cry out of
their wounds and death, for help-when the
choicest of New England, Michigan and Penn
sylvania troops outnumbered in front and on
both TANKS by whole divisions of the enemy, beg
for reinforcements, say that the blacklist crime
that power can commit is to stalk upon the field
Of peril and say SOLDIERS, | have no faith in
your Commander, Let your martyrdom pro-
ceed." And so says this army OF the Potomac, and
il registers tonight vows of vengeance as il
marched in the dark from position which their
diminished numbers and disabled men prevented
them from holding, but which is consecrated to
them forever by their sufierings, their ibors and
their wrongs. The politicians and statesmen
who lett here To be outnumbered and cut off
from our supplies and the possibility of retreat
are doomed men
We here knew that the rebel army before
Richmond was being reinforced with the most
desperate energy. We knew that Jackson was
to come. We knew that the whole power of the
Confederate rebellion being put forth to &C
cumulate force here which just by its weight
should crush the Union army. Why were not
corresponding efforts put forth by the Admins
tration at Washington to strengthen army at
least to an equality with that OF the enemyy We
being superior to the rebels in population, wealth.
and all resources, the neglect to send into any
and every field prep0nderating advantage on
side is of itself crime. which, had we Ro-
man virtue would be iaexorably punished with
the axe. The pickets of both lines firing into
each others bosoms day and night for whole
month Of deadly luminosity, and ours feeling
every successive mig and each successive morn
ing that the enemy grew stronger while we grew
weaker-ofiicers, men. and civilians keenly con
scious that when the rival brigades divisions
locked together in combat, the enemy outnum-
bered Us in a constantly increasing ratio, and de
veloped their settled policy to be to- attack in
columnt in mass, because they had the troops to
do it with all of us demanding reiniorcements,
and demonstrating its necessity. we CRASHED our
teeth at receiving from President makers and
Convention engineers, instead of corps d'armee,
question for debate: Can civil engineer be a
good general? We had no time to debate wheth-
er Mcclellan was a good General or a bad
He uas our General. and the strong grip of the
strengthening foe was upon our Threats, and we
wanted help We did not care whether it came
to under Haleck, or Burnside, COM
mtted to Mcclellan. Not a single man of us
who is not fool or a slave, is fighting here for
the glorifcation of any commander. We fight
for successive fight to save the Republic, and
to squelch forever this continent organized
rebellion against the democratic principle.