Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-30

Wbe, Danont. eighteen months ago. electrified
- - rsith ~. bra isnt success nle csp
tine 80 pat ROYAL fau-IseeDring a. = pf1 Cafo
liz, hafisir for our -hg- - var sud Transports,
s,d :, tie me time q ttse of operations ~ inst
that State, the ness sounded like death kaell TO
the hopes Of rebellion. No doubt the insurgent
leaders felt that il would soon be the turn Of
Charleston AID Savannah 20 snare the same fate.
And who can lOubi that. II the blow then struck
had been followed -p Immediately by an assault
on Charleston bv fspd and water. that CITY would
have fallen, As certainly a. did Beaufort by the
capture Of the Notifications which protected II!
At that time Charleston was not FORMED 70 any
great extent NOW il i a stronghold greater
than Sebastopol and Cronstadt. But why ~as
no. the victory in Port Royal haroor taken al
vantage Of. and a feet collected there AZ once -
operate against Charleston Or why was not
sufficient army sent 10 secure base, and take u
IN the rear. "a il was taken by the British CON
manderZ Why were the erg ineers OF the rebel
army permitted deliberately to make tlmpregna
blel And. when that worse than crime
committed nv the authorities At Washington, WHY
were the works at Charleston attacked at allI
This was only TO heap blunder upon blunder. like
Pelipu upon Ossa.
But why was the first blunder perpetrated that
which the parent of 80 many othersE Why
was not Charleston, when .. vas weak, assaulted
Immediately after the capture of Port Royal
Ii vas because Mr. Chase aud the fanatics of
whom he is the Representative in the Cabinet,
conceived the idea of eevating the negro 10 a
social and political equality with the white races
of the United States, and determined that eIper
iments should be made the coast under the
guns of our war vessels and the fortifcatons at
Hilton Head The negroes. young and old i,
must be taught the alphabet and educated so a
10 read Minton Rowan Helpers hook and the
Tribune newspaper, before Charleston i attended
to- or any other navy or military operations un-
dertaken in South Carolina. To make white
men out of blacks Owed in the wool. some
thing far more important than the military and
naval results which would flow from the fall OF
the city where The Rebel banner was first raisei.
and the flag OF the Union trailed IN the dust
Teachers and preachers of both sexes, Gideonte>,
members of the Freedmen's Association. q hoe
genus omne from Boston, New Ork and Phila-
delphi, took the negroes in hand. under the an
specs Ut the War Department and the Secretary
OF the Treasury. The Generals OF the army
ami the army itself. were made subservient to
the grand dcsien-heps TO missionaries anu
vangelices-lnstead OF marching against the
enemy. Meantime the people have t" pay the
piper.
All this folly is cousummated at the expense
of Uncle Sam, and Sambo begins 70 think he Is not
only a. good "a white man, but Il great dea
better. Gentlemen of color, about whom the
Government and the army were making such a
fuss. surely could not be expected to work. Heuce
forth labor WAS to be TOR the white man and the
negro was To eat the bread OF ldeneSs. The
schools failed. the negro was neither willing "a
work nor 10 fight Attempts were made to or
ganize brigades OF blacks: but that device broke
down. Cotton raising was inaugurated out that
too. is failure Meantime small amount OF
private immortality and public plumber were car
ried on at Hilton Head by the ager Is of the pro
cess for whitewashing the negroes The expert
ment To change the laws of nature totally tailed
Bur meantime, while the army and its general:
were engaged in this business, or were resting
from inacton or demor1lized aud divided il
sentiment by the hrebraDd of the negro
question sent in among them. the Rebels wer,
working hard At their Notifications in Charleston
harbor, and the opportunity TO take the Cit,
passed away.
By the result Of the late futile attempt to cap
ture il, the army navy and country are disgracec
in the ewes of the civilized world Such some
of the bitter fruits of the fanaticism which from
first TO last has controlled the war, and rendered
l. history of continued disgrace and shame
IN Y Herald,