Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-27


Disaster follows disaster. and no success has
vet come to-gild the gloom Fort Pillow. after
a month Of warning and opportunity for prepare
too. fell utterly unprepared Now Plymouth.
after sbnEdsnt notice that a fierce II not over
vhelming attack was intended, has fallen with
only the defense that could be made BY the troops
already there. No help was sent: none may have
been possible. Twenty-Five hundred men add
twenty or thirty guns are taken, and post deem
ed important enough 20 hold with such a force
has fallen. IL won't take many more instances
Of such cruel imbecility to make future calls for
troops az idle as Glendower's calls for spirits
from the Vastly deep" Gold goes up. not be
cause q few men are captured. or place OF I'm
poriance lost, but because such continued disas
tiers Indicate che want Of brains, energy and
honesty somewhere. If Plymouth could not be
reinforced. wby Was IL not abandonedr IL u
could be. why wssnt III We believe Gen But
Ter has this great crime 10 answer for. aud il be
has. he should be made TO answer it bitterly.-
Indianapolis Journal.
II the Sentinel bad uttered the foregoing cen
sure. severe but Just, upon the management Of
our public affairs. il would have been pronounced
By the Journal "disloyal"-an exhibition Of op
position. or enmity. TO the Government But the
central organ OF the Republican party of Indiana
only gives expression to the feelings and opinion
Of every sensible man. matter what may be
his party views. that not only the recent military
disasters bot the administration of the Govern
ment in every department indicate the want of
brains. energy and honesty somewhere" aud we
may add that everywhere would have been a
better expression.
We do not believe Il fair to saddle the disaster
81 Plymouth upon the shoulders Of Gen BuTLER
He is only subordinate. carrying out the plans
Of his superior officers. The President. the
Secretary of War. Gen. HALLEcK and Lieut..
Gen GRANT. were rs fully advised that Ply
mouth would be attacked by an overwhelming
force. and The only defence that could be made
was by the troops already there" unless REIN
forced. Gen. BUTLER. Why, then. is he
made the scspe goat of this disaster. while others
equally. il not mose responsible. go ireeI This
haview OF the question which the people should
carefully consider. Mr.. LINCOLN undertook the
management Of the war in the East from the be.
ginning The report OF Gen. McCLELLAS's CON
nection with the Army of the Potomac shows the
evil influences aud results of the Presidents in
termeddng in that military department. Ii
that army bad been sustained and reinforced az
ter the seven days battles before Richmond.
there can be 40 doubt but the rebel capital
would have fallen.
IL is charged by Republican papers that il has
never been the purpose OF this Administration to
close the war by vigorous and successful fight
ing. especially in advance of the pending Pres-
a.. all ha of In,
gnia confirms this suspicion. and be it remem-
bered that the campaigns in the East have been
controlled and directed by the authorities in
Washington
Taking the journals comments upon the de-
feats or reyerses at Fort Pillow and Plymouth
for a text, We ask the considerate people of the
country TO consider whittier We are drifting. We
are in the fourth year of the and the
rebel government exhibits as much vgor. energy.
determination and power $ il has during anv pc
riod OF the contest. We noticed in some Repub-
lean paper the other day the declaration that the
rebels we're terribly ia earnest, and unless diff
ferent policy was adopted by the Administration
we might look for defeat in every
quarter. III such be the case can the
war be prosecuted much longer as
IL has been without resulting in utter ruin to the
country! To use the language of the Journal.
can the Government be much longer maintained
without ''brains. energy and honesty" on the part
Of those who administer il?
There il moral in the Journals comments
which the country should consider. The present
Administration has been in power three years
It's history is briefly written: Disaster follows
disaster. aud no success has vet come TO gild the
gloom Do the people want "more of it,?
Yet this disastrous Administration asks for a
continuance Of power From the beginning it
has exhibited want Of brains. energy and
honesty" and If the people continue such party
in power, they may charge upon their own folly
the disasters which have occurred and the evils
which MAJ follow. There is no hope in the flu
tire unless the administration OF the Govern
rnent is confded to men of brains. honesty and
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