Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-12-02
OR Army Correspondencc-Fro the
Army OF the Gum he rIand.


- 0sxP OF THE 2grH INDIANA lsFASrRYl
-N@ BRIDeEPoRr, Ala, Nov. 90.
Ep SENTINEL Our Generals in East Tennes.
&c Who have been coming to Chattanooga since
she euly part Of September last to reinforce
Rosecrans. have been so much captivated with
he s2oils of Jonesbo-o that they have fixed their
habits,ions there indefinitely Whilst the loyal
psople OF Knoxville. ia their innocent enthusiasm.
have really captivated the balance Of that army,
and there they are spell bound. storm-staid.
and. the papers say, in great security from the
menaeing evils which surround them. The ia.
nous parson will havo the opportunity now of
developing his pent up feelings to the anxious
crowds which surround him and fiatter the vani-
ties of the great modern martyr. He will doubt
less embrace this favorable opportunity 10 ex-
plain. by AT addenda in his book Of holy horrors,
how he has acquired abe wealth and Injuries In
which he swius. Since but 20 recently all his
lands. tenemsnts aud serls we're swallowed ny by
Southern oppre-sor- and himself made an outcast
and beggar.
There is a work before US ~ be accomplished
which will eventually have great influence in the
scales 10 decide the fate OF the Coniedsracy.
From the immense powers already gone forward
but little nothing has been accomplished in our
favor. The prospects OF the future. judging from
the past. anything but encouraging tn our
cause. The cost OF this great work will never be
AveJed 20 your numerous readers until ii is de.
ve,oped in suits OF solemn black among your
fair daughters, or recorded in dull. cold marble
beneath the weeping willow in Northern cemete-
res. The records of the dead Of our brave men
Ono have been aud are falling in sickening num-
bers from exposure. privation and disease every
day, cannot be heralded through the land; the
catalogue il far too voluminnus, and the most
bloody tyrsnt ever known to would recoil
mt the idea OF compiling its saddening details
Nv blood chills 20 think over the past and
ahrills INV soul at horrors which await
us here. The deifening cannon belching hourly
death amid our serted ranks, does not foretell
more surely the lives extngnshed than the never
tagging fount of time upon the dial hourly those
stricken by disease How sorely will these sad
dening thoughts penetrate the abodes of the once
Joyous nhsbitants of all the States. The deep,
dark forests. the mountains, the hills and the
valleys OF his fair but stricken land must Join in
the doeful vail that rises from broken hearts and
re echoes throughout the length anu breadth of
our country. Here, there, everywhere, FROM the
mansion % the hovel. the Implying terms of
uesth krG Dnstaid. r Far more horrd is the
thought that no hope of cessation of hos,ilities
isyetapparent Revenge malice and enmity chafes
one of the contendng powers for more blood.
ne cries OF starving innOcents ana neipless
aged the protection of all the dearest ties of life.
hearts. homes, lands and honor are the constitu-
ents of the opposing forces against the invaders.
nerved to the contest by all the grievances to
which human passions are most sensible and
which death alone crush.
These are now the causes of this deplorable
strife without one shadow Of concession mti-
Cation on either point Then who can foresee
the gloomy endf IL will not be the teemng ex
chcquer of a foreign nation that will reimburse
our exhausted treasury when this war is over.
The destruction Of the Southern States will prove
a sorry recompense to the weakened and almost
bankrupt people of the Union. To destroy that
which already own. and by feastinS upon
its smouldeIing fragments that so recently con
tributed to power and glory, is philosophy
not yet dreamed Of Every succeeding battle
drags our country down. crumbes another of the
pillars of her firmness, strength and Union, but
at the same time ministers to the mirthful jests
of the crowned heads of Europe. TO whose van-
ties the decaying elements of the very power they
ever held in dread now freely ministers
WiSDEN.