Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-22
Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago Times.I

Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago Times
KAsBIxGroS. February 10.
1t is stated positively that Gen. Halleck has
resigned, and that the President only waits the
positive and inal action of Congress ia relation
to the Lieutenant General matter, 10 order to -ac-
cept the resignation. Some persons here doubt
the fact ut the resignation. because. they say,
Hileck has already put np with so many sights,
and Doc keIcd SO many affrOnts that this leuten-
art General business will not sffect him any more
than former insults have But the people who
talk thus do not know Gen Halleck. Ii is for
this very thing that lie has borne with so much
hitherto. Ii has been the hope Of one day being
made Lieutenant General that has led him all
along to put up with the stupid ignorance Of Lin
coin and the vulgar brutality of Stanton, and TO
see his plans coolly interfered with and set aside
by both. He has endured all this (and this to
him must have been peculiarly CALLING, for he Is
a gentleman,) hoping that, in due time, he would
receive his reward in the shape of a Lieutenant
Generals commission. He never tried to win
that position by the splendor and success OF plans
of campaigns If he did. he quickly abandoned
that idea as hopeless; for Lincoln. as Commander
in-Chef, always Insisted on knowing What his
plans were, and he and Stanton, together. al
ways took care that they should miscarry. Hal
leck wrote his recent report at period when he
particularly irritated at Lincoln. and hence
its sharp denunciations of the ex-Rail-Splitter.
But, in reading his report in that vein, Halleck
simply butted his head against a stone wall; for
from that moment, his destiny fixed. The
Lieutenant General project was originally con-
cocted by the radicals. in order to prevent Grant
from hurrying the to a termination. 1t was
eagerly embraced by Lincoln who thinks that
he can, in this manner. get rid Of formidable
rival for The Presidency. But Honest Old Abe
is dreadully irritated in regard to the exposures
contained in Hsleck's report. That document
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responsibility for all the disasters that have be-
fallen arms, and for the failure of the war
generally. Lincoln has just sense enough to
know that he cannot shake of this responsibility;
that he cannot suppress Halleck's report: that
the latter will go before the world an authentic
exposition OF the war; and that he (LDcolnl
will then stand before the world in anything but
enviabe position. Hence he gladly avaiIs
himself of this pretext to Get rid of Halleck.
The action of the Senate Military Committee,
in refusing to recommend Gen Grant for the po-
silion OF Lieutenant General, is only a move Of
the radicals 20 kill him off This action of the
Senate Committee is inspired by what is known
to Sumner, Wilson Co., to be the Presidents
wishes on the subject. And this may kill the
hill altogether. 1t is pretty certain that it will
not pass Congress at all, lift does not pass in the
shape that il came from the House.
1t is positively sickening to be in Washington
now, and see how much of the time of Congress
is occupied in legislation for the niger. Il is
positive fact that the fancied interests OF the
gro are considered as of transcendent importance,
compared with the real interests Of the actual cit
izens of the Republic. Every day Mr. Sumner
gets up with hong petition or resolution, grant
ing this, that, and the other privilege to negroes
Now il is TO ride in the with white people;
then to have the same pay white soldiers;
then to become officers in the negro regiments;
then to be equal before the law; and then TO be
allowed to vote, the same white men.
The people of Illinois may as well understand
il at once. The hateful doctrines of amaIgama-
ton and social equality with negroes are to be
forced upon Us by this administration,-by the
action of Congress If possible; If not. then by
the use of the army. IL will be done. AT least,
it will be attempted Ii is a part Of the pro-
gramme determined upon by the Republican
leaders. Ii remains TO be whether the
American people are such slaves as to submit to
it; and, in submitting to it, to submit to a re-
enactment here of the fnghtful scenes of San
Domingo.
do not believe they will believe sbe peO-
pie, at the next Presidential election. will hurl
Abraham Lincoln back 20 the obscurity from
whence he sprang, and will elect George b.
McCleilan-the only whom this has
produced who combines the soldier and the states
man--in his place. have spent some days in
the interior of Pennsylvania recently, and am
amazed at the depth aud extent OF the feeling for
Mcclellan. 1t pervades all classes The people
are determined to elect him. X