Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-09
From Washington.
GRrELFY's Plan FOR z, ACE AND SEPARATION
SAID TO BE lNDORsED By THE PREsIDENT-CRI
Sis OF THE NATIONAL F.SANcEs-THE Four
BLu>DERs OF THE ADMINIsTRATIoS-How The
SeLDIERs FEEL.
Especial Correspondence of the Chicago Times ]

Especial Correspondence of the Chicago Times
WASHINGTON Fetrutry 3.
1t is said here that Gen Hllleck has plan for
the winter and spring campaign all marked out.
and that IL will be put in execution Immediately.
There are those here ver,lant enough To believe
This. | am not one of them The events of the
last six months have pro, ed that Gen. Halleck is
utterly incompetent OF forming any plan for a
campaign So extensive as this war requires. The
events OF tile last eight months have proved the
corsectuess OF what SAID eight weeks ago: that
winter famnafiiad Of the real Virginia winter
there remains eight weeks vet During the next
eight weeks no military operations can he under
taken in Virginia with any hope of success Be
sides. the Times said long ago that any cam
paignS planned by Gen. III .lleck in his closet
would be failures, and every one OF The cam
raigns undertaken under h~ orders has proved
the correctness of thi> remaik.
But. wheIher plans for subsequent campaigns
have been formed either by General Halleck.
" General Stanton. or -" General = Lincoln.
(and one member of the trumvrate j. quite A.
capable OF forming them as either of the others
events are 50 shaping, themselves that they cannot
I've carried into execution The war is approach
ia. IT. termination. This could rot be said two
months, perhaps one IN ,nthS. ago. Certainly
there was M indication that such was the f,ct
three months ago. But this revolution i hurry
iig Us along with fearful rapidity. The events
OF the past mouth 80 plainly point to speedy
term nation OF the war that no observant student
of story cin fail ~ see It
Prominent among the signs of the times is the
recent extraordinary action OF Horace Greeley
and the New York Tribune G.. eeley has been
in perfect accord with the President ever since
the Poi % September. On thir day Mr. Lincoln
threw himself into the arms of The white coated
philosopher. and ever since his been his oheiient.
"A 10 4. "A. q
been the master and le,sier fthe Administration
He has been more tl,sn that Since that dav.
Horice Greeley has been the master and leader
Oi the American people Their rights their hb
eriie~. the security ct their persons and property
have all been at hi- mercy. Whstevrr lIe has
commanded the President to do, that the Pre~i
deaf has dome The will of Horace Greeley has
been made the supreme law OF the laud. For the
President la- heen le,-ei TO do whatever Horace
wiliei him 10 do. aud the Attorney Geueral has
declared, - Whatever pieases the President, that
j. law .
Well. Horace now wills that war shall stop.
lie has been here 10 see tie President he and
h> friend and co !aborer. Wendell Phillips They
have become convinced that the South mnot be
Conquered. Fearful. therefore. IN Il the conserv-
ailve> will al-s' become convinced. and that the
lssteT. uniting with the conservatives of the
Suufh. aIll devise some measures 10 restore the
Union. they have determined - avert that calam
ify (as they eon~ider ~ 1t all hazards ami by
every means. Their followers here boast that
Mr. Lincolns ideas Ca the subject are the same
as those OF Mr. Gree ey. that he. too ! convinced
OF the nse.e>sie>s OF prosecuting the war any
longer and that he will faithfully carry out Mr.
Greeley~ programme IA Nav next. namely: n
separation OF the Nurih from the South and the
recognition of the independence of the Southern
ConIeieracy.
But the plots OF Greeley and the radicals are
not the only causes that IRE fastening the termi-
nation OF the saF. The national flsnceS will
not much longer bear the tremendous strain TO
which they have been ~ubiert Tar tile last twenty
months NJ min in his senses can rise from
candid examination ot the national finances
without benz convinced that the nation il on the