Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-17

strategical rules, let the President issue one of
bis dread proclamatiOns, declaring the rebel army
abolished IN case Il don't abolish itself BY the lst
of January next. OfcourSe that will annihiIate
the rebel hordes just As efFectually a. a similar
document vii secure al the same time the free
dom Of all the slaves. and / may add that the
profound good sense shown IN the one would be
exactly reflected in the other Bay0nets don't
seem TO stop these fellows; bayonets would not
free the negroes. We propose to ACCOMPLISH the
latter by that fearful engine known as Proclama-
ton; let apply is, in all it, terrible force, TO
accomplish the former. lie, Abraham take MS
paper engine. load IL 10 the very muzzle with or
biographical bullets, and FIRE il az these fellows
who so persistently continue TO violate the we'll
established precedents of correct military usages
They would disappear under It's tremendous in
fueDces snow before the scorching heat of
tropic sun. Here is our only salvation: let il at
once be adopted and the country saved.
Every hour that brings US fresh information of
the affair shows Us that 10 us a people, it is a
disgrace more singing than one which would
arse from defeat in a holly contested battle
"Who is to blameg" is the question asked by
conservatives. Mcclellan of counsel" is the
prompt reply Of the radicals Never was Adolf
tionism happier and more jubilant than to-day,
as each successive hour unfolds to US new fea-
lures Of our degradation. Never looked a man
streets, "a he informs himself of every add.
tional feature of the case and heaps it up in the
scale against Mcclellan. Antietam and South
MOutain are forgotten; there only remains 10 the
radicals the delicious belief that a squad of rag
ged horse thieves went into Pennsylvania, stole
all they could carry, and made good their escape,
and all in spite of Mcclellan. The hero of one
of the most gigantic battles Of the war, and the
only man in the nation who could have won it,
even according to the testimony of a bitterly hos
tile English press, Is cursed aud carped at and
barked at, and asked to resign, all because lot
of audacious r~gamuffins concocted and success
fully executed horse stealing expedition over
the borders
With all my faith IN our young Commanding
General, ! at times wish he would resign. The
radicals seem determined TO run the country to
the devil. and the quicker they.dO it the sooner
the agony OF our suspense will be over McCle.
ans position is peculiar,--hated by the Secretary
of War, involved in an imbrOglio with Halleck,
embarrassed by nearly all the Governors of the
loyal States, cursed, msrepresented. and denoun-
ced by the radical elements of the dominant par
ty, he has to contend with an opposition formd
able enough TO crush almost anv one man to the
earth The honest hearts of the conservative
masses never doubt him, and among military men
he IS the only one that possesses their entire con
hdence, yet, with even these gratifying Offsets,
his Is no position of pleasure. The Admnstra
ton and its supporters wage continued war
against him. and will never cease till they have
driven him into resignation; remove him they
dare not. They tried it before, and Manassas
gave back written in blood which
they dare not suffer 10 pass disregarded