Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-09-25
THE CENTRAL InrBECILIrx.
n Conservative EgepHbE3cass and a Radical
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From the New York world, September l5.l
Three months ego, after having, in common
with ell loyal men, faithfully supported the ad
ministration with all the vigor and persistence
of which we were capable for long twelve
month, sense of the higher loyalty due to the
government which President Lincoln and bis
Cabinet were administering with such utter IN
efficiency and feebleness, constrained US to
break the general accord and to pronounce
against them the verdict: . Tried snd found
wanting" Since then the imbecilty OF the ad-
ministration has had new proofs, and the general
orders dated from the Headquarters DJeascs
OF Washington" are to-day the standing stigma
which il has newly added to the shameful record
of the past. Since then, too, new powers have
been usurped, and either prostituted TO base
uses or welded with fruitless impotence Mean
while sense Of cur wreRhed condition has
spread among the people, who, in increasing
numbers, have come to perceive that abstinence
from criticism, unanimous silence, and general
praise, were no way IN which to inWgOrate the
administration, or to concentrate the energies OF
the people in vigorous prosecution OF the war.
The freedom with which we have animadverted
upon the usuTpaticns aud the impotence of the
administration, called out much virulent opposl-
ton. To-day, however, there are but two classes
of persons who do not admit aud re echo all that
we have been constrained to say the radicals
who are willing to see the country drift to the
brink of ruin, if thereby they may force their
procIamahon-panacea down the throa's of the
people; and the timid, feeble souls, who con-
found the administration with the government,
and are incapable Of perceiving that fidelity to
the one may be possible only through an IN
sparing denunciadon of the other.
It is hopeful sign of the times that the nation
is awaking to its perils-that a strong united
conservative opposition party Is forming and
gathering strength which will give peaceful
channels to neble passions that might else bresa
out in perilous and unsafe violence and vii
constrain results to which it could not persuade
and that this denuueiation of central imbe
cility and inefficiency at Washington is becom
ing so unive sal that President Lincoln and bis
Cabinet cannot long refuse to hear and heed the
general verdict" Tried, and found wanting.
The following extracts are from this week {
Independent, and it is but just to say that they
only give better expression to the common
thoughts Of the most loyal presses throughout
the land:
The conduct Of affairs, thus far, is oblgine
the world TO say that ten slave States, with eigh
million people, are more than match for twenty
free States, with twenty millions of people! W.
have civilization, wealth, numbers, material, in
telligence, moral prestige, and liberty on ou
side They have slavery, barbarism, ignorance
and relative poverty. We cannot even say tha
it isa drawn game at present the North i
beaten.
Il is supreme and extraordinary want 0
| executive talent at the head Of government tina
| is bringing us to humiliation, and setting thu
great nation up as false witness against liberty
| and Christian civilization
e. = Al rroHn
/ tinuous criticisml Admit that the facts are so
is it not better to join hands and support tn
government Yes Let that be done to th
| utternost. But we must secure the existene
| of q government to be supported. lmoe
! cility is national spendthrift Central ineth
cheney is vortex that will swallow down Ia
substance, the spirit, and the men of nation
We are going from bad to worse 1t there wer
SIGNS of sny amendment, we could have patlenc
though disaster marked the hours, and bloc
driuped the seconds. But there Is none for
long time we waited the revelation OF some SUI
posed deep plan OF shrewd policy. Butso man
parts of the doings of the last year have pee
finished into history, and are now, upon know
edge of all the interior elements, found to Aav
been without policy, plan, supervision,
any controlling force save chancs driftln
chance that we can no longer console ourselvt
that there is hidden wisdom that viii conve
apparent folly into success. l. is incOnirovert
bic that central ineficiencY is wasting the life
the nation. It is not because this plan or polio
has not been adopted, but that no compreheI
sve plan of any kind, and no policy that gay
unity and simplicity to the affairs of sll our a
mics and generals, has been pursued.
If this exhausted nation shall at length gl'
up this conflict, and betray the most glouoJ
trust of liberty that God ever put into mort
hands, and on 80 grand thester as this Eestel
continent, let it not be said that it was the tau
of the common people, nor Of the institutions
liberty. Let it be known that the nation vast
away by ths incurablo consumption of cent?
imbecility.