Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-08
Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago Times.l
WASHINGTON. February

Especial correspondence OF the chicago llmee.
WAsHISGroS. February /.
This continual cry OF the Administration for
more men-mOre human lives-m0re widows and
orphsns-more suffering and anguish, and de-
spair, ought to make the American people realize
their true condition. The cry for more men will
not stop here These 500 900 lives will be Sac
ri6ced ,as three times 500 900 have been before
them. And then Mr. Lincoln will call for
other draft. and another, and another. The war
is interminable How long will the people stand
this draft upon their fe-bloodl How can they
permit this thing to continue, when they see that
the ar has been entirely diverted from original
purposeI The Administration longer pre-
tends that the war is for the restoration OF the
Union Every man can see for himself now that
he is prosecuted solely for the negro. for the
abolition OF slavery in the Southern States, for
the enrichug of contractors. and in order to
able the Republican party TO retain themselves
in power
The unceasing and still recurring demands of
Mr.. Lincoln for more human lives is absolutely
appalling Where are the million and half Of
human beings which the war has already swat
lowed upy At least one million of them have
been sacrificed to crafty the mahgnty of the
radicals towards the South Are the ghosts of
this million to be followed 10 the gloomy shades
bv the ghosts of another million OF victim.l IL
will certainly be So unless the people rise at the
next election and declare otherwise
So far as the Southern States are concerned,
they not only unconquered. but. under the
present policies, uncOnquerabe. This Is the
truth: and Is IL not wiser to recognize il 20 day
than recognize IL four years hence? Mr..
Nesmith, Republican Senator from Oregon in
a recent speech took this very ground con-
GLIDING his argument thus: With their present
resources. they have the ability to resist our
military policy for the next ten years. and in
deed to protract the wal indefinitely" Can YOU
find room for some paragraphs from the Western
Senator's eloquent speech How etiectuaily
he demolished the administration theory That
because the rebel currency is deprecated there
fore the armed resistance OF the rebels must soon
cease"
In the facts that have alluded to above lies
the KEY to the conduct which England and
France have pursued towards Us during the war
IL is for the interest OF both those countries that
our civil war should tie protracted until the
transferring population il 40 greatly depleted
as to be able to afford no barrier whatever to
their ambitious designs That period ia not far
distant now When the war began. we were
about % 900 900 people. not counting the ne
froes; about IL .0O0 600 in the North and 5000.
900 in the South OF these the transferring
population WINS about 8, 500. 900 in the North
1000 900 in the South. Mr. Lincoln has used
up about SOC. 600 of his men A simple state
ment in the rule of three will show how much
longer it will require TO use up the remaining
1000 200. JEFF Davis. on his part. has used up
million of his men, and he has only million
left England and France would both have in
terfered long ago: but they saw that. If they
held alOOf. in n few years would be
so exhausted and so helpless that we
would be powerless TO resist any European ag-
erosion. Therefore they have pretended neu-
trality. but all the time have been furnishing to
both parties arms, ammunition, and the means of
destroying each other. In two or three years
more. perhaps in two more. England
and France will both step in and while France
occupies not Mexico alone. but Texas and Cali
fornia also. aud extends her imperial sceptre over
all the ancient province OF Louisiana. extending
even TO the Mississippi river, England will seize
upon Oregon and Washington Territories, and
upon Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and
Northern New York And who shall prevent
their aggressionsy We are already poweIless 10
resent the hlgrant violation of the Monroe doc
trine: We have had to sub NIT already TO the most
shameful national insults Such are the fruits OF
Republican administration.