Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-11-12
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From the disclosures which the military ~
thorities At Camp Douglas have made OF their
Investigations into the alleged projected attack
upon tha, camp by rebel raiders, il is impossible
to determine just how much ground for their ap
prehensions did actually exist. Ii seems probA
BILE, however. from facts already in possession Of
the public. that the plan of attack was on foot
and that the parties OF mysterious people vino
arrived here on Sunday and Monday were the
forces which were t. execute the attack. What
other designs were contemplated does not ap
pear We dismiss too horrible for belief the
superstition that there was any purpose to burn
the city. but we do not dismiss readily the
suggestion that banks, stores. stables. graneries
bakeries &c. would have been assailed If the At
tack upon the camp had been successful No
doub. the city would have been Quilted OF every
valuable thing which could be carried away. and
no doubt the country which would have been
traversed by the rebel hordes would have been
similarly relieved
Ii is startling that Chicago, 90 many hundred
miles from the seat of war. should be subject To
such visitation. Ii is startling that such plan
ss IS believed 10 have been on foot could have
been so close upon successful execution. Here
the country is. IN The fourth yer OF the war, anc
here the war Is. a very doorsi
We are Dot sure, however. that the plan WAS
so near unto execution AS j; appears to have been
We have hitherto shown thai the raiders might
have been arrested before they reached Chicago.
They came in a most extraordinary manner
They came in bodies OF fifty or sixty, by the
public railway trains. 10 open day And such
Was their dress and general appearance that they
were recognized b, tyery body who saw them
They Travelled IN this manner the whole length OF
the State The military authorities here were
apprised Of their coming by telegraph dispatches
from points hundred and FIFTY miles distant
And yet the raiders landed in Chicago aud dis
persed about the city without mOleslation some
fifty or sixty Of them going in hody TO the vi
cinity of the Sherman House without separating.
We say that the military authorities here either
purposely permitted al! this to be doue. or were
crimnails neglected. Of their duty in not pre-
venting IL from being done.
We are sorry that from all the circumstances
in the case, We are compelled 70 believe that the
military authorities purposely pernntted all this
to be done; not. We are willing TO think of their
own vOlilOn. bat at the instance and entreaty OF
Republican politicians in Chicago. who conceiy ei
tie idea that partisan advantages might be gain
81 by IL: who conceived tie idea that the respon-
sibility o. the Coming OF the raiders might Tor
the tine being cast upon the Democratic party.
aud. under the public feeling occasioned thereby
the election be carried Overwhelmingly against il
ia Chicago and greatly influenced agans, it else
where. We are sorry, We say that we are CON
! PEELED to believe this
more tisgrsceful thing was never done than
the attempt 70 cast the responsibility Of the com
ing Of the raiders upon the Democratic party.
The public has seen that this attempt made
We deliberately charge that il WAS 10 give
strength 10 this attempt that the raiders were al
lowed TO come into The CITY. creating fear alarm
and CONSERVATION. --Chicsro Times