Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-01-18

sustain the government, ard support the army
everywhere without complaint. This endurance
this dissemination. We consider the main reason
Why the campaign in Virginia has been 30 glori-
Gus.
The progress OF our arms elsewhere has not
been % satisfactory Something Of our military
failures in Georgia ana Tennessee must be at
tributed TO the public discomfort in these states.
We NAV not vindica;e the removal Of the brave
and judicious Johnston-we nav not approve of
the course OF the president 10 other respects, but
are satisfied that the time and talents devoted
20 opposition and complaint il so much deducted
from the great duty Of resisting the enemy it is
the duty Of public men 20 cultivate the spirit of
resistance in people, TO teach them what they
must apprehend from the success OF the enemy
This spirit is the surest guarantee OF peace. 1t
will compel the enemy to respect a people who
oppose them. With submissive spirit what
have people TO expect? Why should the
enemy make even the concession of justice TO
a craven peopel They are already at the
mercy OF the enemy. They will be despised and
trampled under foot. What have the infa
nous Seventeen" in Savannah gained? Present
ease, perhaps, and the Temporary possession of
their Own goods. But how has IL been gained 7
By unspeakable degradation. BY submission
which the enemy will never respect They have
agreed to bury "by-gones. aud a contemporary
wretches, who have suffered nothing in the war.
will satisfy the wronged women. plundered
farms and mutated soldiers of Georgia. IL j.
the spirit of logged and ndomtable resistance
which must weary the enemy. teach them the
| folly OF their enterprise and secure Us just terms
| Of treaty While such j. the condition of the
portions Of the coniederacy referred to, il is graf
| flying 10 know that the country beyond the Mis-
sissippi has been rescued from hostile possession
i ~. A. Il.
army within that district The wave of war has
thus rolled over the land. but il has in most in
stances revived and refreshed the determination
OF the people 10 resist. Every war must make
its own strategy. The enemy commenced with
a strategy borrowed from other nations They
purpOsed 20 encrce and crush the infant confed-
eracy In the folds OF vast military and naval
force This theory failed signally Il was
next attempted TO transfK the confed
errcy by deadly thrusts with heavy
! columns marched through the land. cut
ting our communications and destroying III,
productive energies OF the people These thrustp
have not been mortal they have injured the
narrow tfacts traversed. hut the strength of the
| states il unimparcd We are organizing coun-
ter policy. Our roads are being rapidly repaired
our public stores are not 80 much exposed e.
raids congress has bestowed its care upon pre-
pairing the country 90 resist tlis system OF rob
bury, In "a snort uuln We thnll be enabled u
adapt our strategy TO that of the enemy In the
meantime, 20 balance the situation OF this and
the last year. we shall iind ourselves gamers In
the territory we shall find our armies relative
| ly as strong as before We shall sec that instead
OF fighting an nlrenched foe, We have improved
our engineer corps. and now provide the same
protection Tor our men that the enemy has here
toforo employed for his We have thus neutral
ized The cold booded calculation. of Grant, thai
no would give the lives OF i've Yankees for thai
OF u single confederate. aud thus terminate th,
war 10y The exhaustion OF QUE numbers Thu
far We have been enabled To countetact the STRAIT
egy ot tho enemy We still trust 1t will b.
vouchsalcd 10 out government 90 devise mean,
| OF foillng their schemes But. frat OF alt. Oh,
means necessary Ia maintain our cause, and 40
cure our success. must bo REGARDED the war apir
| OF tho people Let them be dismnyod by 10 &c
verses, discouraged by no disasters let them De-
tcrmno to endure and resist, aud terms OF peae,
and justice will bo extorcd from an enemy ox
hausicd of resources and dcspaifIug OF succcfs