Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-23
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, MONDAY,


de reserve alone saved his overland campaign /
from sharing the fate of Pope's and Hooker's,
and Burnsde's IL was the presence OF that
corps alone which enabled Gen. Grant 70 assume
the offensive on Friday. Having commenced the
movement on Richmond. Gen Grant could not
now draw back. But it was the presence of
Burnside's corps alone that made him strong
enough to. make the attack which he did on the
9Th This fact. among 9th rs. viii be concealed
as long as possible, but it viii come out at last.
GENERAL LEE LEARNS WHAT GENERAL GRANT IN
TENDS TO DO ON THE PENINSULA.
On the morning OF the 9th. General Lee re
ceived definite intelligence of the movements on
the Peninsula. All the troops and Union ves-
sells on the York river bad been Withdrawn down
that stream, and had sailed up the James river.
and on the afternoon of the 9th bad been landed,
not on the left but on the right bank of the
James river above City Point. 1t must have
been with a sigh of relief-hat General Lee read
the dispatch that conveyed to him these tidinrs,
for it much saying that Grant had |
buDdered in his strategy, and had taken false,
and TO him fatal step. For upon that landing
depends the fate of the campaign Gen. Grants |
plan for the campaign on the Peninsula was pow
fully developed. Ii vas the plan which Gen. I
Lee hoped, but hardly dared to believe ESQ high /
is his respect for General Grant,) that the latter
would adopt; and it relieved the former al once |
from all anxiety. Buffers troops mighG safely |
now be left to the care of General Beauregard; |
and all that General Lee need do on this day |
was to hold General Grants army in check, and |
prevent them, for twenty-four hours more, from |
advancing any further southwark. There was
no danger now of junction between the
Union troops on the Rapdan and those south of
the James river.
LEES ARMY on THE DEFENSIVE.
On the 9th, therefore. Gen Lee gave his men
tla
oil the dsy before) of simply repelling the attacks
made upon their intrenched lines by the Union
troops The immense extent and great strength |
Of these intrenchments enabled them TO do this |
with comparatively little loss, while the Union |
army again suffered severely Here again. when |
the full accounts come in, the country will be
appalled, at the long lists of killed and wounded
in irutless attempts to force the enemy from his |
position, for at night Gen. Lee held his position
unshaken.
LEES STRATEGIC MOVEMENT.
That night, however his preparations having
been all made beforehand. he moved with his |
whole army, in silence aud in perfect order, to |
his second defensive line, on the right bank of |
the North Anna river. There his army is Mt |
present eutrenched. and there Gen. Grant will |
have to advance to fight him. This, as YOU will |
see by my letter of April %. is what Gen. Lee
intended from the first. And here Gen Grants
be TOO far from Washington to receive them
overland; and TO mike Aqua creek his base will
be open TO the sameobjection he will be forced
TO use the York river and one of its branches,
and 70 do this with absolute security will require
the presence OF nearly all the gunboats now in
the James river.
GENERAL LEES ARMY WILL NOT RRTREAT TO
RICHMOND.
| Thus it is evident that so Far from being near
its end, the campaign against Richmond has Just
begun, and that all the advantages. thus far. re
mains with the rebels Geu Lee has succeeded
| in his original design os drawing Gen. Grants
main army Tar away from its base. where it must
/ fight TO disadvantage; and of preventing its
junction with its important auxiliary column of
Gen Butler
| In conclusion / may add that in no event will
Gen. Lees army retire within the defenses of
Richmond The defense Of that city was, from
the beginning of this campaign, entrusted to the
troops under Gen. Beauregard. Gen Lee is
believed to have in view movement in an en-
trely different direction. DRUID.
WENDELL PHILLIPS New SENSATION Wen
dell Phillips maze very extraordinary speech
on Tuesday, az the Church of the Purians. be
fore the AnIi-Slavery Society II he continues
in the same strain through his future speeches,
| he will speedily be denounced by the Admins
/
He commenced by the remarkable admission
that there were broader interests affecting the
country than those which concern merely the alb
clifton of slavery. He admitted that one great
danger of the country was in the bunted vg
lance as to individual rights and the sacredness
Of personal liberty, which resulted from the
despotism of He rs eriei that there
no other such despotsm this side Of the wall Of
/ China that which Mr.. Seward. in his fa-
nous dispatch to Lord Lyons, indicated vas
practiced by this Government Valsndighsm
could not have said more than that. Mr.. Phil
! liIs then proceeded to argue from the Constitu-
ton, the whilOm covenant with death" and
"Ielgue with hell" saying that he had consti-
tutiona right to criticse the Government. to ex-
press preference every four years for new ad-
mnstraton, to stand by the existing adminstra
ton only as far as the Constitution allows and
finally, that he was constitutional American
citizen. treiding in the footsteps Of the fathers,
and denying that Abraham Lincoln had life
long right to office Mr. Phillips went further,
and adopted the principal plank of the peace plat
| form. As white American citizen he dep
recaied the war, seeing in it the seeds
Of debt, military ambition, and despotism, and
| stated his belief that the settlement OF the
question involved would not be by battles, but
by statesminship, which he insinuated was not
possessed in any remarkable degree by the pres
| ent administration. IL somewhat surprising
to hear him say that he had never felt so hu-
inflated in his life as when twenty millions Of
| white people were obliged TO get down on their
knees and ask the colored people to help them
fight their battles His audience had supposed
from his previous teachings that this had been
the most glorious act Of the the Govern
ment aud people since the commencement
of the war. He was very harsh against
Mr. Lincoln and his advisers. He hrs,
| intimated that the administration had no
head, and Afterwards stated that it was
blind on account of having no heart to give il a
! desire to see OF Mr. Lincoln's speech on the
Fort Pillow massacre, he said that it was the
fouleSt insult to the black race ever uttered Oil
this continent Some of Mr. Phillips most SEN
sible remarks became quite unpalatabe to the
audience, and the great apostle of abolition,
speaking in DR. Cheever's church. on the ami
versary of the Anti Slavery Society, was
actually hissed on one or two occasion during
his speech.
But why did not this wreched fanatic think OF
all these things before urging on this fratrcidal
conflict? If he and such as he had not planted
the seeds of bitterness and hatred batween the
North aud the South, the country would never
have seen this bloody fruit mature into the fear
| ful conflicts of the last three years. New
York Tribune.
TREASON IN SPRlseFIELp-The German paper
Of this city, the Staais Anzeiger, has hoised the
name of John O Fremont as its candidate for
the Presidency, and in doing employs the fol-
lowing highly reasonable language ....... Il
! "Reviewing thus the history of past years.