Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-04
,ul.,ripped The North. Here,olore ,here ha. been

outsiripped the North Heretofore there has been
no Government and no policy
Such havebeen the results OF the war a brought
about By the operations of 500 900 men. And
will 800 600 more men on our side change those
result-g Il i idle to suppose 80 Even when
raisei. organized aud drilled, either by themselves
or as the filing up material tor 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 Ii be does not know
them, il is because be shuts his eyes willfully to
what Is notorious TO all the rest o: the world.
Mark the prediction Before the first SHOWS of
winter it will become apparent that the Govern
ment must have in the field a million of troops at
once, aud then the war viii only have begun.
The rebels have now in the field an army of 700,
O0O troops. The letters OF your Memphis cor
respondent told you that, and how they were
raised. / knew IL weeks ago. And that l. not
all. Gen. Lee, the Commander in Chief of the
rebel army. has devised plan TO keep the rebel
army up to that numerical point as long the
war shall last. The plan is at once simple and
efhcaciOus. Two or three recruiting officers from
each regiment in the field are to be kept con
stanty at home IN the parish where the regiment
raised They are to receive and drill all the
recruits that offer, snd if none offer they to
obtain recruits from the enrolled list of the cot
scriptiOn. There are ia the South 507 40 meT
capable of bearing arms, that there il plenty OF
material for them Every month the Colonel OF
the regiment Is 10 inform them how many men
he wants to fill up his regiment 70 the full com
piment, and every month the senior recruiting
officer is To march for the seat of with the re
qured 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 ,0OG 900 or 500 900 men--a thousand
or fifteen hundred regiments, and let the regi-
menis 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 cti
zens of the South, will be the pretext and the
cause of such outrages as will make the cheek OF
every American Jingle with shame, aud, it not
repealed. they alone will make reconstruction
of the Union impossible. have seen enough OF
the movements OF troops in the field to know ex-
actly what the effect OF these two orders vii. be
The bulk OF our army Is composed of men OF
h0nOr-Of honest, honorable men. They would
not steal chickens horses. offer insults 20 AN
unprotected lady in lonely house. But in every
brigade there arc some thieves and villains-men
wp have enlisted from the basest motives, sd
are only restrained from the commission of the
seen these wretches hanging around houses in
which were girls and young ladies entirely un-
protected except by the guard that had been
placed around the house. and have heard them
express their devilish wishes in the grOssest Ian
guage and cursed the guard that banked their
hellsh purpose In the first house that entered
in Braha msville. on the Peninsula, grey haired
lady was almost kneeling before two great rough
fellows, begging them to go away, while the
tears ard flashing ewes and clenched hands of a
beautiful girl of sixteen, told plainly enough OF
the indignity that had been offered to her | did
not leave that house till had placed in the old
lady's hands written safeguard with the honored
name of George B. Mcclellan signed to il. That
lady. though reoe, 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 sol
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 fate
worse than death
Now aver that in spite of all the articles oil
war, the operation OF the two orders to which
have alluded will be to cause a universal system
of rapne and plumber wherever our troops 20
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 reckless desperate can resort
to, Icy means of which he commit the crime
AMI escape detection. ! know this TO be 50. he
cause have seen it 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 McCelans campaigns every
where-unless private property respected and
guards placed around private houses where de-
sred-we had better stop the war at once We
may subdue ana conquer the South, extcrmnate
her people and cover her land with desolatOn
but if we forget for "A moment that her people are
our fellow citizens-Our erring fellow citizens
we can never, never restore the Union. APP
peal to Mr.. Seward if am not right.