Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-03
savage Republican Assaults ON the
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hatred of the Administration. 1t was for while
supposed that she TTibHHe's hostility Was all di
rected against 4lr. Seward But Is evident Thar
the malidy has spread until it embraces the Pres
ident, if not ali OF Mr. Seward's colleagues, as
well. Every day that journal contains matter
which the most expansive charity can hardly ac-
count for on any other hypothesis than that it is
dictated by a spirit of vindetveness. But the
worst exhibition of the kind we have ever seen is
a burlosque Washington dispatch in the Tribune
OF Saturday. We quote it as curiosity:
Correspondence If the y. Y. Tribune.
STRANGE INTELLIGENCE.
WASHINGTON, June 81, 1861.
/ have been here but a short time, yet have as
certained that the Administration is in earnest.
am authorized to announce that the following APP
pointments will soon be made:
Major Generals-Twiggs, Beauregard, Wigfall
and johnson.
Brigadier- Generals-Magruder, Fauntleroy,
Bright and Price.
The Hon. Dudley Mann will be appointed Min
lister to England, vice Adams, recalled.
The Hon. J. E. Harvey will be inyitedt to seat
in the Cabinet.
The Hon. John Slidell is earnestly pressed for
the French mission, though the impression pre-
walls that Governor Brown of Georgia, will be
nominated.
Our soldiers have been requested to FIRE blank
cartridges in all engagements with Southern
forces.
Commissions in the naval service have been
politely rendered to the officers and crew of the
privateer SaDdHndh.
The ladies of Washington have chartered
large steamer to convey supplies to Norfolk and
Richmond. A cabinet officer will sail in the
ship to attend to the distribution. More anon.
REPORTER.
Should a Democratic paper get up and publish
such malignant, it not such an humanity assault
upon the Administration, the whole Republican
press would cry shame, and they would not be
far wrong. For it does not comport with our
ideas of manly attack to insinuate a corrupt I'M
Outstanding with traitors; and the Tribune's
strange" dispatch means that if it has any
meaning.
We ought, perhaps, to assume that the Tribune
KNOWS the men who compose this Administration
much better than we Democrats possibly can;
and that it is hence more likely to understand the
notiueS by which they are actuated, as well as
the policy they will pursue. All this may be So
But we find it quite difficult to persuade ourselves
that the men charged with administering the
Government at such juncture, can be governed
bv other than patriotic motives. Possibly, how
ever, we are too charitable; and that the Repub
lcan journalists are right in the estimate they
place upon their leading statesmen.
While on this branch we quote from the Gin
publican paper of the whole West-a brief ex-
tract from its structures the Secretary of War:
mo one ever suspected Cameron of honesty,
but there were hopes that he had business
pacity, and that in the position of Secretary of
War, in these times, he would make reputation
for integrity. In truth, however, he is very in
competent. The greater portion of the really
important business of his department is perform
ed BY Gen. Scott and Secretary Chase. Cameron
attends to the stealing department He has
swarms of relatives about him, sons, brothers-in-
law, and ell that sort of thing. One of his sons
is said to have made TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars
on a single horse contract, and the details of the
transaction justify the opinion that there was the
most frightful dishonesty in the matter"
Mark that these savage articles are the produc-
ton of Republican brains. No Democrat we
venture to say, who has achieved any standing as
an editor, would be guilty of charging such scan
dalous conduct Cabinet officer on hearsay
evidence. Yet it may all be true-notwithstand
ing there is no proof nor specification. We call
upon the Republican press to clear up these
charges, or to annihate the parties making them.
For Cameron ought to be banished from the Cab
met in disgrace or his calumniator should be Sc
verely punished-one the other.-Rochester
Union.