Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-11
Inefficiency and Incompetency of the
ministratiOn--ssPOP demand
for a Change in the Cabinet.o

for n Change in the Cabinet.'
We copy from the Cincinnati Gazette and
Press two significant articles upon the nefficiency
of the Administration and its incompetency to
properly meet and manage the great crisis upon
the country. The reader will recollect that these
structures are from radical Republican papers, and
that the necessity of the case facts which can
not be successfully contradicted, alone prompt
them. If we had criticised and censured the acts
of the Administration with the same justice and
severity that our Cincinnati contemporaries have
done, we should have been threatened, at least,
with mob-law by our Republican friends; but
coming from Republican source we presume the
same individuals will regard these expressions as
the promptings of patriotism We have repeat
edly charged that the Republican party are inca
pable of successfully administering the Govern.
ment, and we can best illustrate the correctness
of this position from the evidence furnished by
Republicans themselves. And why is it that the
Republican Administration has thus far failed in
dischargng its duty in the great contest in which
country is involved? Is not but be evident
to all that the President and his Cabinet have no
issues at stake as statesmen ard patriots should
VacillatiOn has characterized the action of the
Administration from the beginning Its manage
ment of public affairs has been like ship at sea
without rudder compass, driven hither and
thither as the prevailing wind directs. Instead
of making the contest national one
it has been limited TO one thoroughly sectional
and partisan. III the object of the President and
his advisers had been solely to put down rebellion
and to assert the supremacy of the Constitution
and the laws, party should have been discarded
and the patriotism of the nation appealed to by
Just and liberal action. Instead of this the Chi
caeO Platform, in place of the Constitution, has
been the chart which has guided the policy of the
Administration, and partisans only called into its
councils. When the destiny Of the nation is
trembling in the balance. should the President
be the chief OF party instead of the representa-
tive of the whole peoplel Except in a very few
instances all the Offices of honor and profit. civil
and military, have been conferred upon Republi-
partiSans. and only such Democrats have
been hOnored With place whose services could not
be dispensed with, and in that regard it was a
matter of necessity with those in power not of
choice The Government has been administered
with view to advance the pecuniary interests of
Republicans and the dogmas of the Republican
party. regardless of constitutional obligations.
the perpetuty Of the Union and the general we'll
being Who can tell this day the pslicy of the
Administration and the objects for which il is
prosecuting the war; We doubt whether the
President himself has any very definite or satis-
factory ideas upon the subject. Is it to maintain
the Constitution and the Union as framed
by the Fathers of the Republic-or is
il 10 subjugate the seeded States and
abolish slavery make the domestic institutions of
the different States depend upon the will of Con
gress instead of their own peopel All is uncer-
tainty and doubt We want policy-patrictic
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to the Constitution.
and Invested Of all partyism. which will commend
itself to the judgment and approval of the people,
and which will make the entire North and those
ia the South who desire to maintain the Union. a
unit in preserving it, But now the public have
no confidence in the individual utterances of the
Cabinet in favor of limiting the war to the resto-
ration of the Union without any interference with
the constitutional rights of the people and States
so long tn President is dumb oracle Let
there be frank and earnest avowaI By the Pres
dent, the Csbinet and the Republican party that
the war is waged for Il e restoration of the Union
alone. Eith intention of interfering with slave
ry, or the domestic institutions Of ans of the
States, then there would be but one sentiment al
the North, and the Union men at the South would
rain. zealonsIy under the flag of the Union. But
What CAP We expect from the inefficient and in.
conpetent Administration now in possession OF
the Government? IL is not for us 70 develop il.
shortcomings. when its own political friends fee
sopstrained to denounce is. We can only regre
that the Government is in such incompetent hand,
daring the fery ordeal through which it IS pass
ing, and that we are constrained to reproduce the