Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-05-16
The EmbarrassmentsO Of she Ad.
minist ration.

Wegiye an article from the Albany Jour.
nal that turns another leaf in the history of
the crime Of secession, and in that article
those who have been disposed to criticise
the management Of affairs at Norfolk, re-
sulting in the immense destruction of gov
ernment property at the Navy Yard, can
find wonder that even one ship was saved
from the hands of the traitors.
1t should not surprise US that so little
has been done since March 4th, but that
SO much has been accomplished by this
Administration. 1t would seem that men
innoculated with secession are fit for any
treaehery. Hence officers, filling the high
est posts in the Army and Navy, are found
capable of concealing their sympathy for
secession, until their resignation, or more
overt treason, will strike the greatest blow
against the government. The Albany
Journal says:
No one can realize the amount of en-
barrassment which the Government has en-
countered from the necessity of entrusting
the execution of its orders to an Army and
Navy, almost half demoralized by officers
of reasonable sympathies.
When it was decided to employ Troops
for the defence of the Capital, Staff Off
GERS, after remaining long enough in the
War Department to acquire all the knowl-
edge possible of the details, resigned, to
carry that knowledge into the Camp Of the
Enemy!
When the Norfolk Navy Yard was found
to be in danger, orders were dispatched
from the Navy Department to have all the
vessels taken out. Officers Of the Yard,
secretly spmpathising with secession, first
prevented the execution of the orders, on
the ground that it was not necessary, and
then resigned. The Navy Department when
apprized of this, instantly sent Com. Paul
ding down to save the property. But it
was then too late. All that could then be
done was to destroy it, to prevent its fall
ing into the hands of the secessionists, and
that he did effeetually. '''-' - :
When the 7th Regiment and the Massa-
chusetts troops arrived at Annapolis, the
Capital was almost defenceless. A Quar-
termaster was ordered to 60 to Annapolis
from Washington, to hasten their march
He went as was supposed to execute his
mission, but instead Of bringing in the de-
sired reinforcements, coolly at bis leisure
brought in his resignation.
When the river steamboats, were seized
at Washington for Government use, they
were sent around to the Navy Yard TO be
armed for service. Immediately on their
arrival, every officer in the Yard but one
resigned, in order to stop the work!
These are but few pages out of the
whole volume of unwritten history. At
every step, for while, the Government
was clogged and clipped by traitors, who
drew their pay and affected loyolty SO long
as nothing was required of them, but who,
at the critical moment when their services
we're wanted, deserted to the enemy.
But the active operations of the past
few weeks, and the ihexorable sternness
with which every officer is stricken from
the roll who has qualms about his duty,
have purged the service. The Army and
the Navy, at last, are differed by men who
are loyal to the flag, and who, when they
receive orders, will execute them. The
whole Of this experience on the part of the
Administration, gives additional illustra-
tion of the utter lack of common honesty
among those who would split the Union
on '.point of honor"