Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-15
From the London Times, August 90
The Recognition OF the United states
by England an Example for the

i ne continual tale OF defeat and calamity viii
not tend to excite enthusiasm in the new recrlits
who are to fill the ranks so terribly thinned by
the war. A second advance southwark, it may
be predicted, will not be undertaken wit the same
spirit of the first. All the circumstances of the
war are changed. The troops are not volunteers;
the conflict has no NINETY DAYS" limit; the enemy
is in terrible earnest, and fights with skill and dis
erection as well courage. 1t is more serious
business altogether than was at first believed.
No delusIOns are possible now. The part of the
population that furnishes the successive armies
has begun to see that conquest of the South is
impossible. They refuse to enlist for the work,
and are forced into the ranks by the threats of a
conscrpton
The part of the people who can fight by deputy
will begin, perhaps, to recognize something of the
difficulty when they are forced to paw the bill the
war has already run up and to calculate what even
another year of conquest" must cost. They
will begin to recover from the intoxication of the
revel when they arrive at the SOLDERING moment
of the reckoningl And it is well for mankind
that the passion for conquest is sure to be checked
at some point by its cost, both in blood and gold.
period arrives when national pride must yield
and make the best terms; and way is sure TO he
found by which the national honor can be recon
ced with peace
Ii seeks consolation in the very bravery and
obstinacy of tae resistance, affects to discover
that it was only beaten by the powers of nature,
by climate, by distance, by mountains and rivers,
or by disease, or in fact, by anything that palli-
ates the failure. IL matters little how the con-
viction of the impossbtv of an enterprise is ar
rived at, provided it is abandoned with good "A
grace as may be. 1t would be better. of course,
that the madness of hopeless undertaking
should be recognized at the outset. This appears
to he prescience beyond humanity. Yet when
an invasion has consumed large armies wasted
g l,,f
year of war leaves the invading power in doubt
whether it is not really in danger of attack, the
future of such conflict may be calculated from
the past.
The time has arrived for a compromise of
some kind; the worst settlement of the dispute
can not be so fatal the war. This the
conclusion forced on the British Government at a
period the history OF which is taught in every
American school, The North might add its pre-
sent experience to the lesson of its schOolbooks
with infinite advantage. The American colo
nists were rebels in the belief OF England, as
the Southern citizens are "rebels" to the Govern
ment of Washington. We thought our national
interest and our national pride were involved in
suppressing the revolt by arms. We were stiff
necked in the matter as people, and the Gov
eminent was under the influence of the most OBJ
stinate of Kings.
We kept up the war for years. and we are still
England had to yield ALL TO acknowledge the in
pendence of America, aud to let the British
Crown sustain ms tcould the loss of its brightest
jewel" To our surprise. we soon found that the
Jewel was not so much missed; that as for our
material interests, they were rather improved by
the change-that we gained more by good
friends than bad subjects. We now look on the
issue of the conflict with satisfaction. But Eng
land then. unlike America now, had few wise
and moderate men who saw the impossibility of
conouerng the rebellious colonies, and courage
ousy opposed the popular clamor, fLreseeing the
inevitable end.
Lord Chatham called on the House of Lords
"to instruct the Throne in the language of TRUTH )"
to which people might now listen with advaL-
tage. IL was at one of the worst periods OF the
war; our Popes and our McClellans had failed.
| The army was in a desperate condition. THAT
army" said Chatham, "can achieve anything but
impossibilities: and know that the conquest of
British America is an impossibility. You can
not conquer Americal What is your present sit
uation therel We do not know the worst; but
we do know that in three campaigns we have
done nothing and suffered much"-words that ex
actly describe the North at the present moment.
! Our, King Government and people had to yield to
the force of circumstances. These say most dis
| tincty to the Umonists, "You can not conquer
the South" And the Americans will have to
obey their stern monitor, we did before them.