Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-04

tue COUOlllOl OF TIE States 10 carry out RADICAL.
revolutionary doctrines, and this has led neces-
sarily 10 resistance. We hope both parties in In
diana will! see the error which the late Congress
committed, postpone all party projects, and make
the preservation of the Union as IL was, and the
Constitution as it is, the great object.
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Special Correspondence Of the Chicago Times.
From Washington.
Gigantic Proportions Of The War-The Folly of
Calling for 300, 900 Troops lohen a Million are
needed-Ihe IndiseretiOn of The Recent Orders
Of the President and General Pope.
WASHINGTON, July %.
The conviction has forced itself upon the mind
of every public man here, who is not w~illlully
blind to the lessons of passing events, that the
call for 300 900 more troops was the most unwise
act of Mr.. Lincolh's whole administration He
has always been behindhand. Will he never
comprehend the magnitude of the proportions to
which this war has gomez He called first for
$4,000 men for three months, really believing that
the rebels would be scared into submission by that
proclamation. On the 4th of July, 1861, he ask
ed for authority to raise sou, 900 troops for three
years. A year has passed since then. VIVA;
have the 100000 troops accomplished towards
bringing the war to a terminatiOnf Let the Re-
publican papers alone, the organs of his admin
i~stration, answer. The New York World says:
1.-THE question now is, not hotc shall we save the
the nation? but rhefheT we can save it.. We are
not so near a settlement as we were a year ago.
The South is more united-has a larger army in
the field than she had a year ago. The South is
more formidable to-day than she was when she
beleagured Washington" The New York Inde-
pendent says: 1T is the second year of the war;
How long will it be before every nation IN En-
rope will have a right to say that the South has
shown itself able to maintain its Independence
Thu President has assumed the responsibility of
the campaign. The people will hold him to
that responsibility" And the New York Her-
aid, better authority than either OF these two,
says: 1.-The wal has already cost the country
six hundred millions of dollars. The bones Of
our dead soldiers would make a monument
higher than that ON Bunker Hill. And what
have we gained? Are the rebels snbdued?
They are stronger than ever. Is the rebellion
at its last grasp? 1t has to- day more soldiers in
the field than the Union. The South. so far, has
outstripped the North. Heretofore there has been
no Government and no policy"
SUCH havebeen the results of the war as brought
about by the operations of 500 900 men. And
will 300. 900 more men on our side change those
results? 1t is idle to suppose so. Even when
raised, organized and drilled, either by themselves
or as the filling up material for the old regiments,
they will not raise our armies to the numerical
strength of the armies of the rebels. Mr.. Lincoln
must know these facts. If he does not know
them, it is because he shuts his ewes w%illfully to
what is notorious to all the rest o: the world.
Mark the predictions: Before the first SHOWS of
winter it will become apparent that the Govern
ment must have in the field a mil ion of troops mt
once, and then the war will only have begun.
The rebels have now in the field an army of 100.
600 troops. The letters of your Memphis cor
respondent told you that, and how they were
raised. | knew it weeks ago. And that Is not
all. Gen. Lee, the Commander in Chief of the
rebel army. has devised a plan to keep the rebel
army up to that numerical point as long as the
war shall last. The plan is at once simple and
efiicacious. Two or three recruiting officers from
each regiment now IN the field are to be kept con
%siantly at home IN the parish where the regiment
was raised. They are to receive and drill all the
recruits that offer. and if none offer they are to
obtain recruits from the enrolled list of the con-
s~criptiOn There are in the South 500 no men
capable of bearing arms, so that there il plenty of
material for them. Every month the Colonel OF
the regiment is To inform them how MANY men
he wants to fill up his regiment to the full com
pliment. and every month the senior recruiting
officer is to march for the seat OF war with the re-
quired number of fresh men, his own place being
supplied by another officer.
How easy il would be for our War Department
to adopt this system. Let our army be at once
raised TO l 900 900 or l SOC, 0O0 men-a thousand
or fifteen hundred regiments, and let the regi-
ments be kept always full. in this way.
The recent order issued by Gen. Pope, forbid
ding guards to be placed around the houses OF
citizens of Virginia, and the recent order of the
President permitting our troops to seize and con-
vert to their use the private property OF the citi
zens of the South, will be the preiext and the
cause of such outraees a. viii make the cheek of
ax.ar Ao fp ffp.ln NTH ahapnn MI : N -
repealed. they alone will make a reconstruction
of the Union impossible. | have seen enough of
the movements of troops i'm the field 10 know ex-
actly what the effect of these two orders viii. be.
The bulk OF our army is composed of men OF
hUnor-of honest, honorable men. They would
not steal chickens or horses. or offer insults to an
unprotected lady in a lonelyhouse. But in every
brigade there arc some thieves and villains-meD
who have enlisted from the basest motives, a ID
are only restrained from the commission OF the
vilest crimes by the fear Of punishment j have
seen these wretches hanging around houses in
which were girls and young ladies entirely I'M
protected. except by the guard that had been
placed around the house. and have heard them
express their devilish wishes in the grosSeSt Ian.
gDage, and cursed the guard that banked their
hellish purpose. In the first house that | entered
in Brahamsville, on the Peninsula, a grey haired
lady was almost kneeiing before two great rough
fellows, begging them to 90 away, while the
tears ard flashing eyes and clenched hands of Il
beautiful girl OF sixteen, told plainly enough OF
the indignity that had been offered To her. | did
not leave that house ill | had placed in the old
lady's hands ii written safeguard with tue honored
name of George b. Mcclellan signed to it. That
lady, though a rebel, was a Christian. Never
shall | forget the prayer she offered that night.
She PRAYED for the success of the Confederate
arms. She prayed for the husband and the son
bearing those arms. But she also evoked bless
ings on the head of that good Union General who
had protected and saved the daughter from a fate
worse than death.
Now | aver that, in spite of all the articles of
war, the operation OF the two orders to which /
have alluded will be to cause a universal system
of rapine and plumber wherever our troops go.
1t is in vain to say that the offenders will be pun
ished. | say they will not be punished because
they can not be detected. There are thousands
of expedients that a reckless desperate can resort
to, by means of which he can commit the crime
and escape detection. / know this to be so. be-
cause | have seen il done on numberless trivial
occasions.
Let me say to the readers of the Times that
unless this war is conducted upon the principles
that have guided Mcclellan campaigns every
where-unless private property Is respected and
guards placed around private houses where de-
sired-we had better stop the war at once. We
may subdue and conquer the South. extcrminate
her people and cover her land with desolaton;
but il we forget for a moment that her people are
our fellow citizens-our erring fellow citizens
we can never, never restore the Union. l APP
peal to Mr.. Seward if am not right.
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EiKhart County Democratic
venti0n.
The Democracy of this county met in Conven-
ton on the 26th of July. The Goshen Demo