Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-05-03


J. editors can be placed for little while p
They are in danger from fever on the brai
or something worse. If they can't be pu
through a course OF ice water baudages, au
saved that way, We wish they would enlis
IN the army. \ course Of sharp drill--sa
ten hours day with guard duty at night
would soon bring them to a steady bearing
10 take one instance of many,a day or tw,
since the y. !. inns having heard some 6y
ing report Of conversation between Presi
dent Lincoln and Mayor Brown of Baltimore
about the marching of men for the L. S
service through that city, blazes out in this
ridiculous style
. We will simply remark that the Presi-
dent runs no small risk OF be-
lng superseded in his office, If he undertakes
to thwart the clear and manifest detern ina
ton OF the people to maintain the authority
OF the government of the United States, and
to protect its honor We are in the mid It
CT 4 revolutlon, and in such emergencies the
| people are very apt to find some representative
leader, It the forms of law do not happen to
| give them one. 1t would be well for Mr..
Lincoln to bear in mind the possibility Of
! such an event"
Why don't the writer 20 to Washington
! and propose to President LINCOLN, Secretary
OF War Cameron, and Lieut.. Gen. WIN
FIELD ScoTT, to 7acate at once, ali of them,
In his favor, SO that under his experience,
wisdom, aud power armies may be raised,
disciplined, equipped ,provisioned, and trans
ported IN single weeks time to all places
where there is any need and on such 1 scale
OF magnitude rs = crush out IN dav
every spark ofrabollion il the ma ton ?
The quotation We haze made from tie y.
\. Times is not a solitary one, by any
means, Of such mischeyous tenor. In the
Tines of the 18th, direct implication Is
made that neither the President nor his
Cabinet are fit fer their respective places
and the question IS put for them to ask Of
themselves, whether or no they are dis
qualified from age, from ineApctiencc in Ez-
ecuti7e action, from constitutional timiditv,
or from innate reluctance to face the hrroors
OF war, to represent their people and country
IN this hour Of travail with the advice.
if the reply is not satisfactory, that they
should "carn the gratitude Of the people by
giving way to the exigencies OF the hour
and Fesisnins their places to bold, strong
and competent men" Who these
bold, strong and competent men are, #
course, J, not mentioned. Another almost
entire column Of the same paper is occupied
with charser Of gross Incompetency in the
President, md plain hints that Gen. Scott is
too old to be good for much, and, besides,
generally understood, not to enter into this,
struggle with much heartiness." D." True, all
the article is based on rrpori of conrersq-
ton, which report is found in Baltimore
paper, and at the close OF this column a hope
is expressed that tho report is not true
which qualifications, 50 far as the effect Of
the article on nineteen out of twenty read
ers ia concerned, amounts to nothing at all.
We do not suppose that the New York
Tanes really intends to weaken the hands Of
Government by such articles but if it were
to intend it, we hardly see how it could do it
more eGectuaIly.
There is rage just now in the larger city
papers, f1r spreading out plans in detail for
military action, which, according to them.
tac Government Dsusi and shall adopt, or be
set down as fools, bl0ckheads, or worse. we
attribute q good deal Of this mischicyous
flult-fnding, and even threatening, to the
Judicious and necessary policy on the part Of
the officers Of Government, Of keeping their
plans to themseyes. Open Discussion about
the best way TO manage Agricultural Societies
&c, Is ali well but when powerful rebel
lion Is ou hand and is - be looked out ior in
Army and Navy, in City and country, very
different practice IS necessary. Thus far the
Administration, though but few weeks old,
has shown "A breadth and f:mness Of purpose,
and s bolinoss and discretion in action,
which deserves 9 commcudaton of the high
est order. This rebellion is not going to be
ended in 4 month or two doubtful whether
it Will he n a year or two,-and it is wiser
to plan fJr large work thar for work in g
hurry. The accomplishment will he snrer,
and of a more lasting character