Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-01-02


Cerresposcsnos II TIE Chicago Zines.
WAsHINGTos. December 30
The re assembling OF Congress after the boli-
days vii mark an imooEtant era ia the history
Of the var Hitherto i has been conducted
with some sshallo- pre;ense OF having for ne
object the restoration OF the union The pretext
ia now laid aside The mask has been worn al
ready too long, IA the opinion OF Mr. Lincoln
and bis advisers. Now that be Is finally seated
upon the throne for four years more. With power
TAR exceeding those Of 4 constitutional monarch.
IL y feit that any further coucealment of the real
objects and purposes OF the war would be the
sheerest af0ctatiOn
That object Was pretty plainly Swallowed forth
in the recent speech Of Gen. Butler in New York.
and he resolutions offered By Mr. Rollins. Of
New Hampshire, in Congress. IL -, in plain
words. no longer 10 treat the inhabitants OF the
southern states as II there vas any possibility
that they might a. any time. again be our fellow
citireUs: but To treat them she ehildren of Is
rsel were ordered to treat the Canaanites. the
Hittites. the JeDusites, the Amenities. the Hiy-
ties. and the Perizitss and all the other inhabit
ants of the land which was TO be their possess
sion-nsmely' to utterly destroy them and their
cities and root them out, they and their wives and
their little ones. and to take their possessions for
their spoil Their eye was not TO pity, nor their
hand 10 spare
In like manner our generals are now 10 be in
structed that, the rebels having refused 10 sub
NIT TO the authority of the govern ment. having
refused the promised amnesty. and having re-
fused 10 abolish slavery, the tine has come. IN
the language of the presidents last message, TO
withdraw sll offers of amnesty that have ever
been made to them to consider them as incOrri
gible rebels, and TO wage against them n of
determination and conquest. Such a war will
now be commenced. aud will be waged with the
whole power of the government.
IL will not be. however, any worse Ia IFS fea
lures of barbarity than the last campaign of
Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley, nor will its
excuses exceed those already practiced by Tur-
chin, Milroy aud Mcneil The atrocities per
mitted ~ these generals have never been re-
buked. They were spplauded at the time, aud
every one OF the four have since been munificent-
ly revnrded by the government The only
change which the new order of things will make
will be that the manner in which Sheridan, and
MrOy, and Mcneil, and Turchin made war will
be the rule, and not tue exception. Our armies,
henceforth will not make war on the rebel armies
alone. They will be ordered to make war on the
country, snd on all lis inhabitants, without dis
tnction. Their eyeis not 20 pity, nor their hand
to spare. They are to drive out the inhabitants
OF the land before them. for they are % possess
the land. they and their children.
Let me assure the readers of The Times that
| attn combining myself To simple. literal facts
| The administration now agrees with Gen Sher-
man, that the war, conducted as il has been
may last for twenty years. and the south still be
unconquered, because the population. snd the
means OF the natural increase OF population will
I still exist The administration Is determined to
/ prevent this. Do yOGr readers remember Mr.
/ Lincoln's homey illustration OF slavery com
pairing Il to rattlesnake in bed with your child
! an WOull a All SaId tn
about il, but would strike and kill it, Well M
( Lincoln and bis advisers regard each rebel as
| rattesnake and each rebel family "a \ nest ol
| young rattlesnakes. Their hatred of the south
aud of Shareholders has brough; them TO that de
! gree of malignant feeling.
A war of extermination mas THEREFORE been re-
solved on, and will be undertaken The meas
ures adopted by Sherman and TGrchin will be
quite sufficient to effect il The present moment
when victory is crowuing our arms in every d.
rection. would be most auspcious one for a
! grand display of magnanimity on the part of the
administration, 10 Offering 10 the people OF the
! south such terms as We could well afford TO give
and which foreign nations would consider liberal
/ that is, simply the old constitution and the old
union.
But the administration have always been de-
termined. as was stated in nv letters three wears
| ago. that the old Union shall never be restored
| people of the South any terms which they could
accept What they are determined to do is to
keep them out OF the Union. not to bring them
! In.
1t requires no prophet 10 foretell the result OF
such policy as has been determined on by the
administration The work of ermiuating ten
millions of people be accomplished.
| The system adopted of such policy will only
strengthen the southern armies There is reason
to believe, too, that il will be the signal for that
active Intervention in favor OF the south, on the
part OF England and France. which has long
been i'm ninent. The grave blunder OF Messrs
| Lincoln and Seward, in refusing Ia allow the
SIS 600 in gold contributed by charitable peo-
! pie in England. TO be distributed among the con.
iederate prisoners at the NORTH will inflame more
than ever before the luminosity of the people of
England against the government and people Of
the United States.
Let the intelligent readers of The Times look
back for three years, and contemplate the mo
tives and incentives which during that period
we have furnished TO both France and England
to engage in a war with us in favor of the south,
and they will agree with me that the wonder is
that such a war has not been preciptated before
There Is only one cause of the DELAY. 1t is
that England and France. who are in perfect
accord on this subject. have only been waiting
until both the north and the south shall have be
come sufficiently exhausted the north, in order
that we may be the easier conquered the south.
in order that. feeling their extreme weakness and
the desperation of their cause. they would be
more willing TO make terms highly sdvants
geous 10 their European allies
All the signs indicate that that period is fast
approaching, and that we will soon have on our
hands war with France and England, az we'll
with the south X