Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-04
Especial cen..poSa-oos ofshs Chicago Times.

Especial coTrespond-nce d the Chicago Tines
WASHINGTON. January %
Mr Seheuek of Ohio. made the astounding
statement in the House yesteri-y that the rebels
we're making a last despairius effort t. raise met
snoughtp bseak through tue Union line. aud to
transfer the seat Of war 20 Nouhern soil. Mr.
ScLenek = very much IN the dark. aud he has
very confused idea OF the real military strength
Of the rebels. OF OF their designs for the cam
paign- OF 1864 IL y curious too 10 contrast
the utterances Of Mr. Schenck 70 day. With what
he said. aud with what his fellow Republicans
said. two wears ago. Two wears ago Mr. Schenek
aud ms fellows declared that the backbone of
the rebellion was broken. and that the rebellion
was on is ast legs and that. ii tx months more.
every vestige Of rebellion would be crushed out
We'll, here we are. close % the end OF the third
year OF the war. and now What does Mr.. Schenck
styI Why. that the military power OF the rebels
il so great that they are going To invade the
North second time. next SUMNER Mr. Schenck
is right this time. but he has not told half the
truth The simple fact H. We will prove 10
cost when the spring Campaign opens. that
the COnfederates will have a FAR more effective
military force in the field by next Mareh than
they have ever had before have seen several
very intelligent men from the South. quite re-
Gently: aud | am convinced from their accounts
that the South will have 500 600 troops, actual
electives, for the spring campaigns Ny in
fOrmants all agree in This: that the operations of
the COnfederates will be divided, first TO the re-
covery of Chattanooga. Knoxville aud East Ten
nesSee. for which purpose Gen. Johnston will
have 100 600: that this will not be attempted bv
assuming the offensive at first but that General
Johnston will retire toward Atlanta, intending to
draw Gen Grant alter him into the interim, and
to defeat the latter there and then return aud
take possession OF the points named; second To
the invasion of the North To which task another
l50.OOO trooD. are assigned; third TO the defence
OF Richmond. Charleston. Wilmington. Savannah
and Mobile
Gen McCiellan's report is printed. and is
in the hands OF the binder Congress has ordered
the printing OF very mehgre number of copies
But was informed last week b, leading New
York publisher, that he intended to issue an edi
tiou OF % 900 copies, in and attractive
form. Immediately In this way the public
will at last get hold of this remarkable docu-
ment
/ need not say that its revelations are most
startling That your readers know already Ne
administration ia England could live a single
day after such damhing proof OF It's guilt towards
heroic army had been made public. That the
ARMY OF the Potomac and It's ncble commander
were deliberately sacrificed in order to CRAFTY the
Ralignisy 81 Lincoln. the obstinacy OF Stanton
aud the contemplate jealousy of Halleck no one
can doubt after reading, not This report merely
but the official dispatches which it contains
The publication OF this report ought TO be suii-
cIeut to make its llustrious author President of
the United States. and doubtless IL would do so.
il tree election were allowed next November.
For the people will contrast the wise statesman
ship of Gen Mcclellan a indicated in as letters.
with the shallow nonsense of the wretched rail
splitter whom tanaticism placed in a position for
which he i 30 utterly unified. In the Language
OF leading journal, which has hitherto sup
ported the Administrations: In this report we
see the we'll considered counsel of FAR sighted
soldier turned from its purpose by trashy little
epistes constructed upon the model first fur
nished 10y Jack Bunsby. If your plan is better
than my plan. then my plan is worse than Your
plan,' says the President chosen TO rule over
thirty millions of reople If so be thft this
ships gone down. SAYS Jack Bunsby, why SO:
but il SO be that this shin arn't gone down, why
so also. And Jack Runsby's nonsense is the
less nonsensical OF the two"
nice little plan for stealing the homes and
furniture of The Southern people, as we'll AS their
barns. granaries aud cattle, has been cunningly
introduced into the Senate by Mr. Wilson, of
Massachusetts, in the guse Of "A bill to secure
nOmesteads 10 persons in the military service =
This bill provides that all lands in the Southern
States, with certain unimpoltaut exceptions.
shal he deemed 'uuapprOpfinted public lands, -
under the operation ct the conti>cation act, aud
shall be subject Ia entry under the provision of
the homestead law. by any officer or soldier,
black or white, who shall have served two wears
during the present rebellion: the houses and
buildings erected the lands. with their con
tents TO 20 with the lands themselS es. The de
sign and purpose OF this till shows plainly the
object OF the Republican party in prolouging the
war. The leaders OF that party are already
provided for IA the way OF fat contracts. offices.
&c; and Tor more than year past they have
been promising the rank and fle of their party
tLa. At the end Of the war. each man should
have snug farm in Alabama, or Georgia, OF
VIRGINIA Ii j. IN order 20 fulfill this promise
that this asrocious bill Is now brought in hy
Senator Wilson. suppose Southern man
was President. ana that Southern men controlled
the action OF Congress. would not the whole
world ring with Indignation IL bill were passed
10 coniSc,te the estate of Northern men aud
confer them upon Southern soldiers2 Surely the
enormity j. none the less because the deed is to
be .ione hy the North
The exposition OF the uncOlstirutionalitv Of the
conf-c.iiou act. shica was made in the House
Oh the Doth int 10y Fernando W God. al
effort which reminded me more Of the consitu-
tionsl arguments OF Daniel Webster than any
thing ihat has been heard in Congress tor a long
time. IL was literally unsnswerhble. ami IL vii
remain unanswered Nor was that part OF Me
Woods speech. which enforced the expedenc,
of bringing the war to close less worthy o. al
miratiOu X.