Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-20
Prom the New York World Sept 10.
The Central imbeciirty-A Conserya-
tive iscPUbiIcan and "a Radical Re
publican Paper Upon IL.

Three months ago, after having. in common
with all loyal men, faithfully supported the Adj
ministration with all the yigor and persistence OF
which we were capable for long twelvemouth,
a sense of the higher loyalty due to the Govern
ment which President Lincoln and his Cabinet
were administering with such utter inefficiency
aud feebleness, constrained us to break the gen.
er,l accord and to pronounce against them the
verdict Tried, and found wanting" Since
then the imbecity of the Administration has
had new proofs, and the general orders dated
from the Headquarters Detenses of Washing
ton are to-day the standing stigma which it has
newly added to the shameful record of the past.
Since then, too, new powers have been usurped
and either prostitued TO base uses or welded with
fruitess impotence. Meanwhile sense of our
wretched condition has spread among the people,
who. in increasing numbers. have come TO per
ceive that abstinence from criticism, unanimous
silence. and general praise were no way in which
to inyigorate the Administration. or TO concen-
trate the energies of the people in a vigorous
prosecution OF the war. The freedom with which
we have anmadverted upon the usurpations and
the impotence of the Administration called out
much virulent opposition. To-day, however.
there are but two classes of persons who do not
admit and re echo all that we have been con
strained to say: the radicals who are willing to
the country drift to the brink of ruin it there
by they may force their proclamation panacea
down the threats of the people; and the timd
feeble souls who confound the Administration
with the Government. and are incapable of per-
ceiving that fidelity to the one may be possible
only through an unsparing denunciation of the
other
1t is a hopeful sign of the times that the nation
is awaking TO its perils-that strong united con
sentative opposition party is forming and gather
Ing strength which will give peaceful channels to
noble passions that might else break out in peril
and unsafe violence, and will constran results
to which it could not persuade-and that this de-
nunciation of central imbeclity and ineiciency
at Washington is becoming so universal that
President Lincoln and his Cabinet can not long
refuse to hear and heed the general verdict
Tried, and found wanting"
The following extracts are from this week 5
Independent. and it is but just to say that they
only give better expression 20 the common
thoughts of the most loyal presses throughout
the land:
The conduct of affairs, thus far, is ob!igng
the world TO say that ten slave States with Ell ht
million people. arc more than a match for twenty
free States, with twenty millions of people. We
have civilization. wealth, numbers, minerals. in
telligeuce, moral prestige and liberty on our side
They have slavery. barbarism, ignorance and rel
alive poverty. We can not even say that il is a
drawn game AT present the North Is beaten.
1T l. a supreme and extraordinary want of ex
ecutiye talent at the head OF Government that is
bringing Us to humiliation and setting this great
nation up false witness against liberty and
Christian civilization.
"lt is asked what profit is there in such contn
nous criticism? Admit that the facts are so, is it
not better to join hands and support the Govern
mentg Yes Let that be done to the uttermost.
va tba nf
ment 10 be supported Imbecility i IA
rational spendthrift Central inefiiciency is a
vortex that will swallow down the substance. the
spirit. and the men of a nation. We are going
from bad 10 worse. Ii there were signs of any
amendment. We could have patience though dis
aster marked the hours, and blood dripped the
seconds. But there ! none. For a long time
We waited the revelation of some deep plan or
shrewd policy. But many parts OF the doings
OF last year have been finished into history, and
are now upon knowledge of all the interior ele
ments. found to have been without policy, plan,
sup, vision or any controlling force, save chance
drifting chance, that can no longer console
ourselves that there is a hidden wisdom that will
convert apparent folly into success. IL is incon
trovertbe that central deficiency i wasting the
lite of the nation IL i not because this plan or
that policy has not been adopted. but that no
comprehensive plan Of any kind. and no policy
that gave unity and simplicity to the affairs OF all
our armies and generals, has been pursued.
IF tins exhausted nation shall at length give
up this conflict. and belray the glorious trust
OF liberty that God ever put into mortal hands.
and on so grand a theatre as this western CONT
nent. let il not be said that il the fault of she
common people nor Of the institutions of liberty.
Let il be known that the nation wasted away
by the ineurable consumption of central imbe-
cihty"