Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-03


struck out fearfuly and deposited a sockdolager
upon the black and sooty phiz of AbOlitionism
that will soon be forgotten. The fight has
already begun. Democracy is the army and the
restoration of the Union is the battle. cry upon
one side; emancipation and AbOlitionism are upon
the other, and disunion forever is the tocsin of
the ebony cOhort.
Continuation of the Attacks on General McCIei-
! lan-Whdt is 10 be done Nth the Southern
States The AboltioniSfs haze Determined
that the Southern States shall neuer again enter
the Union as States-The Campaign in Ten
nessee, &c, &c, DC
WASHINGTON, February %.
Everybody here is of course Jubilant over the
recent glorious victories at Fort Henry and Fort
| D0nelson, and everybody willingly admits that
the glory OF the affair belongs to the Western
soldiers.
The enemies of the General in Chief of the ar
my, although they have been rather more quiet
of late do not at all relax their efforts under
mine the foundations of his usefulness and drag
him down from that exalted pedestal on which he
so worthily stands. They dare not openly deny
that the recent victories the results of his
ders and of his plans. The facts on this head are
too well known to be disputed They swallow
bde the time when they again open their
batteries on the Oblsct OF their wrath. They have
not yet given up the hope of turning Fremont to
account, and still indulge the dream of seeing
him elected Lieutenant General. But although
the Abolition element is pretty strong in both
Houses of Congress. it is not strong enough to
accomplish that piece of supreme folly.
The question of providing provisional govern
ments for some of the Southern States may pos
Isih nm a
matter of actual necessity 1t is not probable
that the infamous scheme of Sumner. of botting
out all traces of the Southern States States,
will find much favor in the House, or will pass
the Senate. Sumner and his coterie, however,
declare their determination to call it up at
early day, 10 discuss it at length and to press it
to vote. / am satisfied from what have heard
these crazy fanatics say, that every one of the
radical Republicans in the Senate will vote for
Summers BILL But this will not give it major
ity of votes. 1t is only in case some of the more
moderate Republicans give it their support, which
is improbable. that it will pass. The language
of Sumner, Chandler. Wade, Loveioy, and Ste
yens, reported in their speeches, fails to con-
vey an idea of the intense bitterness with which
they hate the South and everything Southern,
and which they express in conversation with other
members Of Congress. They have determined
that the Southern States shall never again enter
the Union. That, after all, is the KEY to their
whole conduct If this object can be attained by
the subjugatiOn and conquest of the South, and
by the determination of all the white people,
they will willingly see every Southern city in
flames, every plantation made blackened desert,
and every rivulet in the South running red with
the blood of murdered white women and chill
dren. They do not hesitate to say that this war
must not terminate until slavery is wiped out,
even though it is wiped out in the blood of all
the white people in the Southern States. They
boast that there are officers who will do the work,
even if those now in command are too squeam-
ish TO undertake it; and they will soon demand
that Gen. Mcclellan and every other General
who happens to be Democrat shall be removed,
aud their places filled by men who have not "been
educated to worship the Constitution" And
they mention Fremont, and Phelps of Ship Island
notoriety, and Banks, as such men,
The idea of any kind of an amnesty, or act of
oblivion is particularly distasteful to them. They
argue that the whole of the Southern people, by
taking up arms against the Government, are
traitors and should onl receive traitors doom;
that il would be weakness to spare them, now
that we have them in power; that t e true policy
of the Government consists in pushing forward
our armies, taking possession of ashville, Knox
vile, Memphis and Richmond, and in treating
the country as the country of an enemy. They
scott at the idea of carrying on the war as Gen.
eral Dix did in Eastern Virginia, and insist that
ciples. And they demand that no peace shall be
made with the rebels until the terms of that peace
shall be dictated to them in their cities by
their conquerors. They would much rather wage
the war until the entire white race at the South
is exterminated whether in battle, or by dagger
and torch, it makes no difference with them. But
if they can not do that they will never consent to
peace until the South gives up all its peculiar
institutions and rights, and accepts submissively
from the Abolitionists whatever terms the latter
see fit to impose.
The members of Congress now here from Ten
nessee believe that Nashville either has beer or
will be surrendered to the Union forces without
resistance that Knoxville is in the power of the
Union forces whenever they choose to march
through the Cumberland Gap; that Memphis is
untenabe and must be Abandoned; and that the
C0nfederates will not atteGpt TO hold Columbus
now that the reason for holding it no longer ex
lists. They think that, with the Southern armies,
the last vestiges of secession will disappear from
Tennessee, and that that State will very soon, OF
its own free will and accord. resume its place in
the old Union The information that | have
from other sources however, indicates that the de-
fence of Knoxville enters into Beauregards plans.
Ii, however the Confederate armies are defeated
and compelled to evacuate the State, here is no
doubt that the Union sentiment will prevail there,
and will predominant in Tennessee as it does in
Kentucky In that case, the conservative and