Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-06-06
lFOTHER ROLF FOR ALL.

pose the rebel army between Grant and the Pa
munkey and attack the latter in the rear. while
Beauregard will attack from the front. La this
case the fate of Grants army would depend upon
the numerical strength which Lee and Beaure-
gard can bring into the field. And it, III the en-
counter. Grant should be victorious, Richmond
would be saved; but where would our army be
DRUID.
a RePu biican estimate Of Gen. Bank
We copy the following from the New Orleans
correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial
ali administration Republican paper. The writer
gives Republican view of the military abilities
of Gen. BANKS and his official integrity. If .
Democratic paper had said the same thing. NJ
matter with how much justice. i. would have beer
pronounced copperhead prejudice and an attemp
to embarrass the government Says the Com
mercial's correspondent
INV 0ELEANs. May 20
You have, perhaps, seen a boy blow no one o
those little rubber balloons until the expansion
was wonderful as compared with its uninhated
size. There is more than one military reputa-
ton which has been manufactured in this way
/ Gen Banks came to this department with the
reputation of being something Of statesman
and the military prestige of good thrashing al
Cedar Mountain, together with the recollection
of his rapid evacuation Of the Shenandoah Val
lev to avoid the pressing attentions of his friend
/ Stvnewal Jackson
Gen. Banks succeeded Gen Butler-Ben But
ler-od cock eyed Butler-Butler the Beast-a.
he was denominated by his friends There had
been rumors of cotton and sugar in connection
with b. BIS name-outrageous abuses OF his
privilege of stealing, and offenses rank enough
and smelling to Heaven
Gen. Banks was to regulate all this sort of
thing. Profound craftsmanship, brilliant mill
! tary operations, unexampled honesty, and a con
ciliatory policy were to mark his administration
Hence Gen Banks and bis staff were denomi
mated by the satellites of the Beast" the moral
Reform Society"
He began the good work by crusade against
every thing that had been inaugurated by Butler
The forts and prisons were emptied of the scoun-
dres who had been there deposited by Gen But
Ter for safe keeping; and the city again flooded
with thugs and cut. tbrOats- many of whom
wormed themselves into influential and lucrative
positions under the Banks administration. Some
who had been tried for the commission of da
bolical crimes, we're not only turned loose. bat
rewarded with positions of honor and profit He
held consultations with the planting interests of
the country, and organized a system OF labor:
and finally he moved on Port Hudson Through
the efficiency of Gen. Grant, and in spite Of the
blunderng of Gea. Banks. Port Hudson fell and
the ''iron man" Immediately became hero full
blown. and crowned from stem to stern with lau-
rel. No man living is so fond of adulation as
Gen. Banks. 1t is meat and drink to him
The toades. finding that the Unsuitable appe.
tite of the Hero" for praise would tax their
powers to the utmost, opened upon him an inces
SAINT torrent OF the most disgusting hattery He
was the greatest, and wisest man that had lived
since Washington, and the ightinest man in the
world, not excepting Bonsparte or Gen. George
Washington Dixon, the hero of the Yucatec
war. The disenthralled people OF Louisiana re-
spected him, esteemed him, confded in him,
loved him, dotted and adored him The free
and wonder stricken citizens of the United
States, east, west, north and south were impa-
tent for the time TO roll around when, with one
united voice, they should should call the sage,
the patriot, the statesman. and the warrior to the
Presidential chair.
All this outcry deceived no one in this depart
ment. unless it was General Banks himself. as
every one knew him to be simply a politician
only that and nothing more In the meantime
il became apparent TO every close observer that
the Moral Reiormers had a queer way of re-
forming the speculative abuses of the Butler dy-
nasty. Men, innocent of other resources than
the pay of Lieutenant Captain, kept their
yellow mistresses in the finest of silks and laces,
with liberal show Of iewelry, in elegantly fur
nshed houses. and diurnaliy expended, in cham
payne, cigars, Shell Road, and sumptuous dinner
parties at Bondro'a an average of S25 or $50 per
day. But the work of regeneration went bravelv
on, notwithstanding. The down trodden African
having been freed. must be elevated. An educa-
tional scheme was devised by which the entire
soil of regenerate Louisiana is to be dotted with
school-houses two miles apart, and the painting
Ethiopian seeker after Heavens light to be sup
piled with books and teachers at the public ex-
pense Then a tree State Government was to be
organized. An election was held for Governor
and State officers Then Constitutional Con-
vention to amend the State Constitution
To return 10 the military career of General
Banks. After the tall OF Port Hudson, we have
the Bayou Teche campaign, of last fall and win
ter-a campaign apparently without an object,
(unleSs there was cotton at the bottom) and
which accomplished nothing except the almost
entire destruction of brigade. attacked in an
exposed situation by an overwhelming force of
rebels at Carrion Crow
Then the Texas expedition, equally aimless.
to ordinary minds. and equally barren of results.
Then the MAdisonviIle expedition, which no man
under heaven has vet been rash enough to pre-.
tend that he understood or suspected its object
Like the celebrated march of the King of France
With forty thousand men up the hill and down
again, all these various strategic expeditions came
back To the starting point. The toades of the
Iron maj" told us they were to bewilder the
enemy. II the justification of the enemy was
only half as great a that of the loya men here
abOuts. The strategy OF Banks was magnificent,
success.
But finally came the grand climacterc of
strategy in the Shreveport campaign, in which
our army was TO reap the rich fruition of all this
long course of rebel DewIlderment Gen Smith
having cracked the hard nut at Fort De Russey
the iron man moved lesurelyrup to Alexandra.
issued proclamation and held an election.
From there ne marched to Natchitoches. rested
awhile and held an election. On arriving in the
vicinity of Mansfield. and when just about hold
ing an election, the iron man learned that the
misguided and audacious rebels were prepared to
dispute his further progress into the bowels of the
land
With his usual brilliant sagacity, he sent A
cavalry force aud wagon train six miles long
to dislodge him The wagon train was loaded
with champagne. ice. jellies. potted meats, hair
cioth' chairs, sofas, spring mattresses and other
necessaries OF vigorous campaign.
With the sckening details of the slaughter the
the country Is already iamiliar-hOw regiment
after regiment OF the gallant 18th Army Corps
which never knew defeat until its evil DESTINY
sent II TO the Department of the Gulf was sent
up sngly. 20 be slaughtered and how Cedar
Mountain was repeated on = grapder and more
awful scale At first the toadies followed their
usual tactics, proclaimed a magnificent victory
IN which the iron man had covered himself all