Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-07-23
THE FOURTH july.
an English Comparison Between
i7fG and 1864.
From the London Times, July 5.

From the London Times, July5
Again the Fourth OF July his cOr.Ie and gone
and the war betw cen Federals and Confesier tte-
fingers on with increasing but with still unayaii
ing slaughter No one from an Oh -ervation ni
what has been passing ON TINT wide field OF var
during the present telr can Say that the contest
appears any nearer the >sGe - | ne hnpsd Tor
bs he invaders The last Fourth of July was
an ausDicious day for them The event which
illustrated il changed for time the public opin-
ion al Europe. and elated the nOrtherners them
selves to poin; which made them ready To sub
init to all the lab0rs aud sacrifices OF new can
p,ign. Gen Grant Won his reputation by the
capture OF Vicksburg. piece of able strategy
and the greatest blow which hid been struck at
the independence of the seceied States
A. to prelicti of tie fu'ur,-lssurances
that the sun OF American free, ON j. only tenn
porlrily eclip>ed. and will soon shine cut "a
bright as ever and dazzle the tmd ewes of The
old country-1e are quite prepared for them. and
would not willingly see them lose their usual
place in the proceedings of the day But there
Is part of the Fourth of July ora;iOn which
certainly might he ibindoned-that which con
taius the historical "reminiscences of the Revou-
tionary war. and the invectiveS against poor old
George Ill and his unhappy Ministers and Gen
erals Tie people nf sense and good taste in the
world h IS heard enough about the stamp act and
the tea tax, the threatened Legislatures. the i'm
prisoned citizens. Lord North, the HeSsans, the
Indian allies. the devastated country, the orcu-
pied aud oppressed towns. aud the various ind
vidual Outrages which, with more less truth,
are laid To the charge of the British For seven
tv years these things have make the staple of
every American school history. and have taught
each child in the Union to feed and cherish
hatred towards the land Of his forefathers
On the great annual feStiv Il especially they
have been set forth with al the ex ,ggerntion=
which distinguish The eoqnence of mere display
But. with the history of the last three wears be-
fore them, can any Northern orator drag up
again these tyrlnnies Of the plst ana not feel
that, with a changed name, the fable is being
told OF himself?
George Ill with his Old World notions of
allegiance and of the duty oi Kings TO maintain
their authority, thought to coerce the colonies
intu obedience himself and the Parliament.
which. according to all the legal theores Of the
time. had general authority over them The
Federals have gone to war To cOerce the inhabit-
ants of number of the States of their Union To
keep under y government which thew have repu
diatei millions of men who conSiitutinnallv are
on equal terms with themselves, aud over whom
they have neither legally nor morally any just
control
This war has been c'rrei on with cruelty
that SURPRISES ANYTHING that can he laid 10 the
charge of England though he lapse of eighty
years has soifenel meas manners and has caus-
ed humanity TO he respected in the camp
| Towns have been burned in diahnlc,l w4nton-
ness. the inhabitants Of a captured CITY have been
| put work in ch ,in- whoies lie pInnder has i'm
Dpyeri>hei the chief people OF a conquered State
| Congress has passed acis cOnfscatng the prop
! ertv al AN entire community, aud the Executive
az Washington has allowed it to be Understood
/ that the armies will. ifSncc,s-ful. do what s IRA
cens and Tarters spared To- tIo-will uuseat the
| population generally and divide their lands
among the conquering suliery
But il the rods OF George III have become
the scorpions of President Lincoln, the failure
OF the former his not been more complete an an
/ that which contamination of the state of IF airs
! in the middle of 1864 shows ia To have attended
the effprts Of the Feieril Government The old
bDaSting about SlrIi0-a aud Yorktown ought Ia
be hears, no more among people which h -
seen miny armies deietted in h,ttles where
they have represente the invading English and
where the Confederates have taken their old part
OF men fighting for lie. libe,ty and honor There
! is a sad similarity between Pope and Hooker TO
day AMI some al the buckles ollic.,s of Kiue
George in the list century Burgoyne M, he
/ paralleled with inks and who knows that Corn
" dis anG his little array may not have been the
/ prototypes of some g .nder failure on the soil OF
virginia.