Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-09

verge of ruin We are staggering under load
OF nnsucial embarrassment. such n no nation
ever before experienced Al the scheme- OF
Mr Cht7e have been more than the Temporary
shift resorted Ia by speis' hrits. who put of the
evil day from tine Ia time hy raising loans un
exorhtant and compound inteTes aud who find
themselves az last bound hand and fopt, and IL
the mercg of their mel less creditors. l he crash
u approaching, surely, but not slowly. 1t may
come before the ides OF March are ovw. Aud
when Il does come. the war - over.
Another cause that j. fastening the termination
OF the war j. the disgust Of the people at the
hIdeous complexion which il has assumed. and
their Indignation at the revelation of the deceit
that has been praeticed upon them by their rulers
They never would have given their Sen~. Their
brothers. their husbands, 10 be bufchered On war
the sole object OF which Is HOW disclosed To be
the abolition of slavery and the exiermination ct
the Southern people. They were assured by the
Administration. when the war began, that II was
war t. restore the Union They see now that
it j. trsr 70 prerenf the Union from being re-
stored Mr. Lincoln a-sured them that lac had no
desire no intention. aud no power To interfere
with slavery in the States where Il exists. hey
now see him ''prOciainng" away twelve hundred
million dollars worth Of slave properly They
have seen all the good Generals whom the war
has produced smtten down, one after the other.
by the hand OF arbitrary power at Washington;
united to the hands of politicians, lawyers char
latans. f'nttics, aud upstairs. Such a war they
will not support
The conservative statesmen here are in favor of
bringing the e. an immediate termination
They see that in commencing the war AT all. the
Administration eommlttei four great binnder>:
L. In thinking th,t revolution Undertaken
by twelve millions of people could be crushed "a
ei>y, and BY the same means. ordinary '
nsurrection
la undertaking the powers and resources of
the Southern people
3 La thinking that The people of the Northern
States, when entupped into what they
would believe to be for the Union, would
be willing to continue it after it should become
evident that il was really n warto prevent the re
construction of the Union
la forgeltin that the internal tranquility OF
both France and England depends upon their full
and regular supply OF American cotton: and that
these Countries will not permit war TO continue
long which would deprive them of It.
The conservative statesmen here also see that
for reasons set forth at length in ms letter OF
January 81, the Union can never he restored a.
long a. The war continues; while. Oh he other
hlud. as soon as the war Is stopped and gulrin
tees tor their rights offered the South, the
Union will be restored Anxious. therefore. To
repair the bluHders OF the Administration and 10
restore the Union. the conservative statesmen
here will oppose the further continuance OF the
war.
Mr. Conway of Kansas. Republican member
of Congress. aud heretofore supporter OF the
Administration, nude sneech M the House OF
Representatives on the 9th alt-a most able
and eloquent effort in which he SET forth the
doctrine that the WAR ought TO be stopped once
Mr. Vallandgham OF Ohio, conservative mem
Der of Congress. aud opponent of the ruiu"u-
policy OF the Administration. had m 'de sDeech
in the SINE House on the 18th ult. even more
eloquent and logical. ia Whca he. too. set forth
the re isons why the war ought to be stopped AT
once The reasons for stopping the war. brought
forward by the member from Ohio md the mem
Der from Kansas, were widely different. But
when men of such Opposite views both agree that
the war must he stopped, il indicates that the
leaven of peace is 1t work
But that is not all. The soldiers want the war
to stop Our brave soldiers are covered with
glory. The wreath of victory has encrcel
their brows. AMI their names will long be
sounded with flames loude,t trump. But u
wicked and mb ,cle Administration has turned
their glory into dust, and made then
victories barren of any good results
They feel and know that they have been jug
gled and played with: that they have been made
the unconscious instruments in the hands of u
grinding deSpot~nc and that now they to be
made the tools OF the AboiOusts in lighting up
the flames of servile Instructions There is not
soldier TO night, shivering in his shelter tent,
or crouchiue over his fire. or pacing his lonely
round who does not sigh for peace. liz i idle to
think that the 3DO 900 troops whose time expite-
in May next will re enlist have cnnrersed
with hundreds of them. and | know what say
No offers of bounty will tempt them They 81 eli
for peace, and or the repose OF their quiet fire
sideS, and the Latter. at least. thes will have in
May-as many of them are alive And how
will their places be filled? Let the attem1t be
ing made in Congress to raise l5D 900 negro
troops answer Let the failure of the draft an
swer Let the public meetings now being every
where held answer. Let the resolutions offered
by Mr.. Walker in the Illinois Legislature answer.
The beginning of the end is at hand. y