Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-30
From the Lonfon Times
The North aud the Soufh.


There = not an EngBshmsn who does not long
to End IN each batch Of Americas news some IN
dication OF NJ end--amicable, II possible, but
anyhos. an enc-to this horrible war. How
that end NAV come, people imagine for them
selves. IL may be by a relenting of mutual ant
no-isiez. OF by an exhaustion of men on either
side, or bv bankruptcy at means and credit. or
bv some tremendous blow which shall place ose
side a. the mercy of tlts other. or il may be oy
the appearance of new and unexpected perils.
such dangerous consplracies, fresh seces-
sion in another quarter; or By the apprehension
of interference: or. In the quietest way Of all,
BY the accession of new Government, more
EkeIy 20 gsin repntationby puttiBg an end TO the
war than by carving IL on As vet We cannot
perceive the smallest sign of peace by any OF
these WAYS: and even though some OF these cir
cumstances matters of act. they have no
other effect than TO increase the obstinacy OF
both antagonists We have 10 day tvo letters.
one from New York, and the other from Rich
mond, both faithfully representing the feelings at
the spot. and they both put off the conclusion to
an indefinite future. 1t is not that the writers
do not realize what il passing, but that through
a confused and sasgninary foreground they show
peace receding still further and further in the
dark horizon.
But thi. war. which is without any example for
cost OF life and treasure during the two years It
of the still destructive contest now approach
ing The grand armies must now advance u
conquest destruction; the forces on either SIDE
mast be concentrated and massed tor efforts on
the Napoleonic scale; nothing but victory viii
defeat treason at home render consumption pos
sbe and sustain the value of paper money; faith
in the Government. and faith IN the cause, must
be revived at any price; two years experience ana
more than hundred battles have produced sol
a; 10 chs
can turn a position and follow up a victory; IN a
word the United States are now warllke people.
who can and will fight They familiar with
carnage and will not count the cost of victory.
The motives Of the are now stronger than
ever The North fights not so much TO recover
the South as to retain the Northwest and the Dor
der States IL fights against that tremendous re
pudiation which is to throw all the costs ami all
the future consequences of the war on.New York
and the great cities Ii fights to rid itself of the
enormous obligation it has contracted on behalf
of the African Ii fights to sustain It's credit with
the emigrants from the Old World. whom 1t has
invited TO do the work and divide the spoil Sue
ceed il never can, but to confess AS much is some
thing impossible to- American nature IL has
vet to learn that lesson. But the lesson, so ab
borrent To all its feelings and habits will he in il
self the hardest ever thrust on repugnant pupil
The Northern States will one day have to sign
remuneration which will be only the beginning of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and ruin. This is the horror
they ay from. though the further they fly the
more surely do they entail it. Like him who will
not turn round to see. because having once done
so, his eve caught that which he wished not to
again, they refuse to face the calamity which
they know to be approaching. Neither statesmen
nor soldiers know how to deal With it-not even
statesmen of the Stanton class soldiers like
Hooker
Both sides in this extremity look to US and
nurse a quarrel with US. They do this while
each draws from The means Of carrying on the
war. The North has drawn. and continues to
draw those supplies of men that cannot 80 easily
be obtained from its own exhausted cities. Ii
draws from all the materials OF war. let 1t
assures us that rs soon rs three months OF de-
cided measures have put an end 10 the rebellion
it will Immediately hurl its ornaments against
England. against hold upon Ireland, against
our dominion in America. against our commerce
all over the world Whether we interfere or not,
this is the fate in store for US, and meanwhile
we are expected to express the warmeSt hopes
for the success of the Federal arms. From the
South there comes, in somewhat mder accents,
a scarcely less unreasonable complaint. France
and England, we are told, have only to recog
nze the independence of the South. and the war
will be over at once Would. indeed. that it
were so, and that we could persuade the North to
save the wreck of its fortunes But no recogni-
ton or mediation would have the smallest weight
unless it were backed up by the probability of
more forcible arguments, and those arguments
weare not inclined to apply. Dreadful as this
war is, we have no desire To substitute another
for it, to take ourselves the place of one of the
combatsnts, and. perhaps, engross the hatred of
both We have nothing to do but TO wait and
hope that these two unhappy maniacs may soon
come To themselves. and see what they are about
IL is not for our interest that either should con-
quer the other, that both~hould he irreparably
injured This is civil war, not indeed, in our
own borders. but within our own race--that race
which but the other day We were proud to reflect
was fast peopling a continent and surrounding
the world