Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-08-19

The Northern Eiection-Peace ana
ArmistIce Question DiScussed-The
Richmond Press on the situation
Lincoln the Rest FRIEND OF the
South-Thc Proposal for am Armis-
nee.
From the Richmond Examiner, lsth.

From the Richmond Examiner, 18th
Whatever may turn out to be the meaning of
the fact the fact itself begins 10 shine out clear
that Abraham Lincoln is lost; that he will never
be President again-Dot even President OF the
Yankee remnant of States, to say nothing of the
whole six and thirty-0r, how many are there,
counting Colorado" and Idaho" and other
Yahoe commonweal,hs lately inventedT The
obscene ape of Illinois is about 10 be deposed
from the Washington purple. and the White
House will echo 10 his little Jokes no more. IL
j. in no spirit of exultatiOn we contemplate this
coming event. for Abraham has been a good
Emperor for ~: he has served our turn: his pol
icy has settled. established, and made irrevoca
BILE the separation of the old Union into nations
essentially foreign, and We may be almost sorry
to part with him. He was, ia the eyes of all
mankind. an nans~erable argument for our sc
cession for he stood there living justification,
seven feet high, of the steadiast resolution OF
these States To hold no more political union with
race capable not only OF producing such be
ing, but of making il ruler and king.
Certainly his elevation to that position aston.
ished the world. but il amazed nobody so much
rs the creature himself. he knew he was neither
rich nor rare aud wondered how the devil he got
there or. as he expressed it himself the other
day, 20 Canadian editor. ut seems 10 he strange
that /. u boy born. IL were, ia the woods,
should have drfted into the apex OF this great
event" Why strange One NAV be driited
into any apex il he only embarks upon chain
of circumstances; and those who sheer at Abra-
Ina 5 figures are desired 10 observe that Noah 5
ark did actually drift To an apex; and 1t con-
tanned. with every other beast of his kind. pair
of balloons. II they drifted to All apex. 80 may
81. L.. ha. at..fss
about to come down, and even TO be dragged or
kicked down. The representations OF last
spring were iniallbe. that the rebellion" must
be- crushed this year-at least very signal and
decided successes must he gained over IL. or else
the war would no longer be carried on under
Lncolns government: let what might come OF
the war and the Union. he would get no more
armies TO fling into the red pit of Virginia for
slaughter.
Now to put aside for the present the total loss
of what Yankees fondly believe 10 be their con-
quests in the trans Mississippi; preermittng also
the dead lock To which Sherman's army has been
brought. with all Kentucky, Tennessee. and half
OF Georgia lying between him and bis own coun-
try, and looking only to this most colossal inva-
sion of Virginia with three large armies all bound
for Rchmond-the thing is over. Grants army
is rapidly going away from our front at Peters
-
OF course Grant will not put up notice on the
shore OF the Appomattox that he hereby aban-
dons his enterprise; neither will Stanton officially
notify that the armies OF 1.-The Union are found
wholly unable TO advance one yard out OF the pro
lection of their ships, and therefore they discon
tinue the campaign with loss OF one hundred
and fifty thousand killed, wounded and missing
This would be unreasonable to expect, neverthe-
less the enterprise is abandoned. Richmond Is
no more 10 hear the roar of Yankee siege guns
under that pCtentate reign
One cannot but arrive at this conclusion from
several indIcations-from the greatly increasing
excitement at the North touching the Chicago
Convention. which is to nominate Democratic
President from the daring violence with which
some newspapers counsel resistance in arms
against the draft OF half a million OF men, and
from the singular movement OF some OF LIN
coins own Black Republican supporters in the
Washington Congress They waited for the mo
ment when their sovereign's fortunes were de-
cning from their "apex" 10 give him treach-
erous shove down the hill. Two of his most We
hement aud efficient allies, Wade, OF ONO, and
" inter Davis of MARYLAND. gave him his blow
under the fifth rio. They present, in their 9th
cial capacity. what almost amounts TO legal
impeachment. save in matter of form, against
their fond and too indulgent master. now totter'
tering 20 his fall: charge him with arrogance,
usurpation. knavery. in Withholding his assent to
n bill touching the status OF these Confederate
States-a matter which. though of small impor
tancc to Us. is OF the deepest moment, It seems,
in that country; inasmuch as he has plan oil ms
own for readmittng States to the Uniou on the
application OF one-tenth of their population; and
this would thew say, give him the control OF the
presidential election. So they inform him that an
election carried bv this .riifce must be resisted.
and that he is inaugursiing civil war for the
Presidency
If Grant had only taken Richmond would
they have dared to set their names 10 such dos
ument as this. All the world suddenly, within
one week. in short, since the blow up oil the
at Petersburg. seems 10 feel instinct
lvely that Abrahams game IL played; ana the
New ork Herald at once calls Tor a new VA
iional convention AZ Buffalo to nominate some
other men instead of the baboon OF ILLINOIS ana
the tailor of Tennessee. and finds out that the
very winds have been whispering II iOr weeks
that is for two weeks. since The Petersburg
blow up Abe. the Emperor, is fallen tree no
bird Of the air will ever again leather iss nest
under MS branches; DYING gorilla against "hom
the smallet cur eau lilt up It's leg
The most Interesting matter to u. is the keen
and active agitation in the two branches OF the
ID Democratic party" The peace Democrats
openly avow that they will labor in the Chicago
of this month to get platform OF
instant and absolute peace.
We learn that the War democrats favor al
irmlstce Leaving the mlhtaf,
ines of each party where they now are, the
Confederate States should be invited TO send
delegates To meet the Yankee States In conven-
ion Let there be not only An ar
nstice. but formal Remuneration OF all right
md prelense 10 coerce these States and oil course
Al entire wiihdra~l OF all land and sea forces
which occupy aux portion OF our soil. or blockade
INV OF our ports: aud then the Northern States
viii be IN position to propose 10 u reconstrne-
ion of the Union or a convention OF states Tor
he purpose OF negotiating that.
With such change in the existing rel'nons' no
ioubt there may come also great change over
men, minds We do not answer for
favorable result OF this policy. bur the Chicago
Democrats will hnd 10 worth while TO try u,
seeing that Is the only chance they have