The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-13

risen to the support of Mr.. Linco.a through
this war. They give him no shnted cs opera
ton; for all that they have and all 10Y
can do Is at the service of the Union. They
believe him sound, and faithful. and true; but
when things are going on in loose, slpshod
and disjoinred fashion, the people will demand
Q prompt reform. Indu'gent to excess in
STATE of peace, they will not tolerate what they
believe to be an inefficient Cabinet in this
trying ordeal Of civil war. There is nothing
Of party prejudice in this, for such are the SEN
time nts of many Of our leading republicans.
They furnish us the hint upon which we are
now epeakiDg-they tell us that there is ''some-
thing rotten in the State of Denmark"-that is,
in the Cabinet; tina contracts embracing miser.
able rags for the clothing, and loathsome beef
and pork for the subsistence of our soldiers;
ard that little plots and contrivances for the
control Of these contracts, and of regimenhal
organizations, would not embarrass the action
of the administration were there not some dead
timber in the Cabinet tree requiring the prun-
ing knife. We c'll the attention of the Presi-
dent to these things; we would respectfully
admoDish him that our Northern people are
terribly in earnest in this business of suppress.
ing this Southe, rebellion, aud that they expect
his active cooperation and the support Of q
competent and harmonious Cabinet, compre-
hending the issues at stake, the necessities Of
the day, and the just expectations Of the coun-
try.
Ali thirgs combine to lead us happily out Of
this war in grand and glorious triumph for
he Union. A million Of men and thousand
millions Of money can be had to maint Ain the
''integrity Of the Unon.' The administration
has promised to fulfil this high duty. All the
people Of the loyal States, and the loyal peo-
pie of the revolted States, are in earnest about
it, for they declare that "the Union must and
shall be preserved" At the same time all the
great Powers of Europe are heartily with us 10
this glorious cause except England, and England
is rapidly receding from the false and treache-
rous positions at first assumed by Lords Pal.
meistor and Russell. Thus with free oceaa
and free field before us, and with all the ele-
Iuents and resources OF war overwhelmingly
on OFT side, our Union people have the right
to expect and TO demand system of prompt and
overwhelming military operations by land and
sea.
But the party organs Of the administration
;ell us that the war in Eastern Virginia drags
Heavily; that from our numerous petty Skin
mishes with the enemy no material advantage
has been gained; that they are building up their
0etepces under the very noses of our ships of
war and army columns, and that when these
rebel detachments are assailed they are neither
captured nor dispersed. We are assured too,
chat these things must be remedied promptly.
CT that there viii be second uprising of the
indignant North sufficiently powerful to compel
Mr. Lincoln to reorganize his Cabinet accord
ing to the war standard Of public opinion, and
10 push the war vigorously into Africa, not
with divided columns of doubtful efficiency,
nut with an army 80 overwhelming in numbers,
equipments and management, that it will be
able to walk over the course.