Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-18
FROM WARRINGTON.
HaiIeck,s HesignaTion-Old Abe's
Anxiety To XIII OFF Grant-Legisla-
ton for the Nigger-The Reign Of
social Equality with the Negro 10
be inaugurated.
Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago Times.l
II ..urN1r... E..l..,.r. IN

AeHiNSToN. + tDfuarl ~
Il j. stated positively that Gen Halleck has
resigned and that the President only waits the
positive and final action OF Congress Ia relation
to the Lieutenant General matter. IN order to az
cept the resignation. Some persons here doubt
the fact OF the re- ignaiion. because. they say,
Haleck has already put uD with 80 mtny sights
and pocketed many affronts that this Lieuten
ant General business will not fleet him any more
than former insults have But III, people who
talk thus do not know Gen Haleck. IL Is for
this very thing that he has borne with much
hitherto. Ii has been the hope OF one day being
made Lieutenant General that has led him ali
along to put up with the stupid Ignorance of Lin
coin and the vulgar bruttlity Of Stanton. and to
see his plans cOolly iuteriered with and set aside
by both. tie has endured all this and this to
HIM must have been peculiarly CALLING, for he Is
gentiemau,) hoping that, ia due time, ne would
receive ms reward ~ the shape of Lieutenant
Generals commission. He never tried to win
that position by the spieudor and success of plans
OF campaigns Ii he did. he quickly abandoned
that idea As hopeless for Lincoln a. Commander
in-Cbief always insisted knowing what his
plans were, and be and Stanton, together. al
ways took care that they should miscarry. III al
leck wrote his recent report AZ period when he
was particularly irritateJ at Lincoln and hence
il sharp tenuneatons Of the ex-Rnil-SplItter.
but, IN reading ais report in that ven, Halieck
simply butted his head against stone wall; Tor,
from that moment, his destiny fixed. The
Lieutenant General project was originally con-
eocted by tie radicals IN order prevent Grant
+ from nurrying the TO termination. IL was
eagerly embraced by Lincoln. who thinks that
he caI. IN tlis manner. get rid OF a formidable
/ rival Tor he Presidency. Bat Honest Old Abe"
Is dreadiully irritalei in regard TO the exposures
contained ia Halleck's report. That document
fastens him, and on him alone, the sole re-
t1. fIafl 10
fallen arms, and for the failure of the war
/ generally. Lincoln has just enough TO
know that he cannot shake of this responsibility;
! that he cannot suppress Halleck : report: that
the latter will 20 before the world authentic
| exposition Oi the war; and that he Lneolnl
viii then stand before the world in anything but
an envilble position. Hence he gladly avails
! himself of this pretext To get rid of Halleck
/ The action OF the Senate Military Committee.
/ in refusing TO recommend Gen. Grant iOf the 20
sition OF Lieutenant General, is only a move Of
the radicals 70 Kill him Oft. Tins action OF the
/ Senate Committee Is inspired by what j. known
/ To Sumner. Wilson Co, to be the President :
wishes on the subject. Aud this may kill the
bill altogether II is pretty certain that it will
not pass Congress ~ ALL fit does not pass in the
shape that il came from the House.
II IS positively scken.ug g. be IN Washington
now. AMI see how much "f the time at Congress
Is occupied in legislation for the niger. Il is a
positive fact that the fancie1 interests OF the ne
gro considered "a OF transcendent importance,
compared with the real interests OF the actual cit
liens Of the Republic. Every day MIR Sumner
gets w with long petition or resolution. grant
ing this, that anu the other privilege to negroes.
/ Now Il j. 20 ride ia the ears with white people;
then to have the same pay white soldiers f;
/ then 10 become officers in the negro regiments;
then To be equal before the law: and then 10 be
! allowed To vote, the same white men.
I The people OF Illinois may as well understand
it at once The hateful doctrines of amalgama-
ton and social equality with negroes are to he
forced upon by this administration,--bv the
action OF Congress il possible; it not then by
| the use Of the army. lt will be done AT least,
it will be attempted IL is part of the pro
gramme determined upon by the Republican
i leaders IL remains TO be seen whether the
| American people are such slaves TO submit TO
it; and. in submitting to it. To submit 10 re
enactment here OF the frightful scenes of San
Domingo.
do not believe they will. believe the peo-
pie, AZ the next Presidential election. will hurl
| Abraham Lincoln back - the obscurity from
| whence he sprang. and will elect George Is.
McClelan-the only man whom this war has
produced who combines the soldier aud the states
man--in his place | have spent some DAYS in
the interior OF Pean,y lvania recently. and am
amazed at toe depth and extent OF the feeling for
Mcclellan. 1t pervades all classes The people
are determined 20 elect him. y.