Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-24
From Warrington.

LAND CAMPAIGN AGAINST Recommendations
or PRoJEcrED ATTACK on WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence o. the Chicago Times.
WASHINGTON, April Is.
Day BY day. the results Of the lamentable fail
ure to take Charleston. become manifest. IL is |
now clear that all the operations of the summer
campaign. 80 far "a the Administration IS con l
cerned, depended on the taking OF Charleston
when Charleston wastaken," Richmond would
be evacuated. When Charleston was taken,
Savannah would be attacked When Charles
ton vas taken" the Americans of African de
scent were To be set loose 70 ravage the interior
of South Carolina. And 50 on to the end of the
chapter. But not only is Charleston not taken.
but. a. the New York Herald saws. "thsf is not
the worst of IL; IT CANNOT BE TAKEN. All the
preparations which have been making tor
eighteen months were demolished and brought to
naught in two hours. And here is tact that
shows precisely the mental cali5re of Abraham
Lincoln aud his advisers. They really believed
that the force sent against Charleston was amply
sufficient TO take it. They confidently looked for
that result And what was that forcef naval
armament of thirty SIX guns, aud land force of
thousand men Such the beggarly
force that Abraham Lincoln, Commander-in-
Chief of the Armv and Navy against Charles
ton, defended as it was, by $50 pieces of cannon
many of them English Whitworth guns, carry
ing the terrible steel pointed projectiles) and by
a land force of thirty thousand troops History
may we'll doubt that such stupidity could exist,
but the facts are beyond dispute.
Even now. Lincoln cannot comprehend that
the action resnlted in defeas, and that we are
utterly powerless to renew the combat he goes
about, haggard, downcast, bewildered look, I'M
shaven. with a Deckcloth all awry.-the very
picture Of a MN whose wits had left him. he
has even actually assured the foreign Ministers
that il his intention To repossess Charleston and
Fort Sumter at early day; and that declafa-
ton has been published BY his organ here as the
official determination of the Administrations
Ii is evident however. to the foreign Ministers
and to every one else. that the failure to take
Charleston and our absolute inability to renew
the attempt. have completely demolished the
plans which the Administration had formed for
the summer campaign. Everything depended on
the capture of Charleston. That having tailed,
they are all at sea- and literally do not know
which WAY TO turn.
1t will be necessary, however, for them to be
stir themselves soon The Confederates have
now gained two great victories The spring cam
paign on the Mississippi Is at an end, and aas
resulted in the complete success of Gen. Johnson s
plans The spring and summer campaign against
Charleston is at an end. aud it has resulted IN
the complete success of General Beuregard' :
plans The Coniederates will not be content to
repose on these aurels They will improve
these victories The troops no longer needed at
Vlcksburg aud Port Hudson, will be sent either
To help reeapture New Orleans else TO help
Bragg to defeat Rosecrans. There 30 600
troops at Charleston. Every man of them will
be sent up to Richmond; nay, they are doubtless
now on their way there.
The news from Richmond to dav is that the
Confederates there believe Hooker to he fool
enough to follow in Pope's footsteps, and think
that he Is moving his army up the Rappahannock
towards Warrenton Junction, with the intention
OF making a campaign against Richmond, by
way of Culpepperl A more silly idea never EN-
tered into the brain OF man to conceive. | know
not whether their information Is true or false;
and, if d d know it would he improper 10 tell.
What do know is they believe it at Richmond.
If it be true, il is just what might have been
pected from Hooker If it be true, / place the
prediction on record that his army will meet with
a defeat which will throw that of Pope into the
shade and the slaughter of which will exceed
that ut Fredericksburg. Ii is not to be expected
that Hooker will meet with anything more than
"a fegned resistance just enough To draw him on,
until his army has reached or even passed the
South Anna River, ten or twenty miles from
Richmond. There. however. hundred miles
from his base of operations, he viii lind his com
muncations cut of his line of retreat intercept
ed and his army surrounded and overwhelmed
by superior numbers Just surely as the night
follows the day will this result follow any at
tempt to reach Richmond overland
The affair at Charleston furnishes another
proof that the Administration has no grand plan
OF the campaign cut out, and also another IL
lTstration of the imbecility and ncompeency OF
the Administration Even if Hooker 5 army has
not moved yet, it must move soon. In twelve
DAYS more. the LIST of May will be upon us and
and then. whether he will or not, Hooker must
move. Now. in view OF that fact, what would a
wise Government have done at Charlestonl
Even If they had sent there an expedition 1t all
commensurate with the work TO be done-ves
sells, for instance, earring 800 guns, and a land
force of 100 600 men-a wise Government would
have caused Admiral Dupont to wait few DAYS
more, until Hooker should have not only moved.
but till he had moved so far that all concealmeni
as TAI his route was at an end. Then Dupont and
Hunter should have struck at Charleston. By
doing SO the 80 900 troops at Charleston could
have done more than to have defended that
city But Lincoln's Administration does not
constitutes wise Government, or any Government
at all. Admiral Dupont's letter IS now on file al
the Navy Department, written few weeks ago,
in which he laid before the President candid
statement of his own force and the force OF the
enemy, and assured the President OF The III
adequsncy of the means At hi- command To take
Charleston he even begged that the order com
handing him 10 attack the city might be recalled
him was, peg away, Dupont. Peg away al
Fort Sumter You are III wrong about the de
fences OF Charleston. They haven't cot 2OO
guns there ai0seih her and Their POW ders not hi
to use. The torleioes are all M yonr eve, and
You'll find the distractions nothing more than
cubW EDS.
The result of tins .'pegging" i. that 30 ,O0O oil
the best disciplined troops in the Confederate ar
my are now "peggiug away tow irds Richmond
where they will be ready to peg away, at Hook
when he reaches that vicinity
There are some rumors floating around OF At
attack ON the Capital. 20 be made ny Gen Lee rs
soon aS Hookers army moves away from Fal
mouth. but uu crelence j. attached To them. II
i said however, that Gen Lee has 100 0Ot
troops between Rlehmond and fredericksburg
organized ior that especial service: besides 80 O0t
to whom the task of falling back before Hooker
f in case ne moves overland. has been assigned A
few weeks ai decide
The Secretary of the Treasury lett here th
morning IN Il speciality chartered train Tor New
I York, on important financial business Mr
+ Chase Is now beginning to reap the bitter frui
OF the folly OF the Administration IN this . wal
for the negro. Joke over il as they may in pub
+ lie, the success of the Confederate loan in Eu
rope is bitter pill for them; aud from Mr.. Chas'
particularly II knocks the last prop that supported
him He, at least. is intellig gent enough to fore
see. from the success of that loan before the hes"
from Nicksburg reached Europe, what the efiec
there will he when the news from Charleston ar
rives Then. the Confederates modestiy aske'
only fifteen million dollars. and forty hve mil
/ lions were at once offered to them They vii