Smyrna times., 1862-11-27

| WIFI inc ldIe 1NepuOllcan parry, 10 tnaC
bourne whence good men and true patriots
hope it may never return. The Govern
ment, as 1t Is at present constituted, is nei-
ther Republican, Democratic, or " anything
else i'll particular" The President was
elected as "a Republican, it is true, and u
large part of his Cabinet is composed of
men who once bore that name. Still Mr..
Stanton a member of Buchanan's Cabinet, is
his Secretry of War Mr.. Bates, one of
the ''Old Line" Wings (the distinctive
principles OF whom have been we'll defined
''as drinking fair and voting the Democratic
ticket }, is Attorney-Gcncral. Mr. Chase,
a lifelong Democrat and a Free Trader.
with Il tendency to AbolitioniSm, is Secrc-
tary of the Treasury. Mr.. Blair, son Of
JackSOn'S most efficient mouthpiece, with
Mr.. Seward (who belongs to the great
Seward party,) and Gideon Welles. belong
ing to the iOSSilIitcrous era, when Demo
cratic SeaSugS were the highest organisms.
In the army, just now the most important
as 1t Is the most powerful department of
the Government, we have Mcclellan, Buell.,
lIalleck, Butler, Burnside, Rosecrans.
Hooker and Porter, all Of the late Demo
cratic party, and most Of them supporters
of Mr.. Breckinridge, now General in the
rebel service.
That the result of the election has been,
and was intended to be, an admontion and
4 reproOt to the Government, civil, naval
and military, there can he no doubt In
this sense 1t has proved acceptable, even to
those who voted the Administration ticket.
We have yet to find the first man who does
not say that the caStigation was richly de-
served nor one who does not hope that
the severe lesson of the polls will prove
beneficial. All, however, regret that the
votes intended to excite the government toa
clearer policy, greater decision, and aug
mented energy, should be contaminated, as
they were, with the vile ballots of traitors
and sympathizers with treason. who natural
" enough threw the ntamy of their intlu-
emce into the opposition scale Some of
, them, it is to be regretted, obtained office,
and will represent the slumS of this CITY,
and the moral garbage of others, in the
National Congress. 1t is pity that the
word of reproof which goes up to the Govern
| ment at Washington should be infected with
the offensive breath of the reptiles 1t is a
pity that assatptida should be mixed with
the chloride Of lime which the people have
deemed best to strew around the White
House, in the halls of the Capitol, and
Q Al Ound the headquarters of the army.
a great mistake was made bv the organs
, of the Administration in the conduct of the
political campaign just closed. Did they ex-
= pect the people to endorse the wholesale
arrests and imprisonments Of the Depart
ments of State aud War, those most fla
grant, and i'll some instances most wanton
violations OF national and constitutional
rights, which have offended all our instincts
!, and traditions, and cast blot on the con-
duct OF this most holy war! Did thev ex-
9 pect chat the vacllation, forcible-feeble,
spasmodic and pointless administration OF
> OF the War Department was to secure the
e certlficaton of the people? Did they
4 expect that the imbecllity which permitted
+: Potomac to be blockade, the .lEe1Tinac to be
q built almost under the guns of Fortress
Monroe, and the Sumter and the AktJ1nn tC
range the ocean undisturbed, to pass with
e out reproOf! Did they expect that the ma
/ ton would endorse as Secretary of State :
=, man who declared, in an official document
but five days before Sumter was bombarled
that the Government would never resort t,
! force to maintain the National integrity
e and who has since acted as if the question
a OF the national life was only question o.
IS petty politics Did they expect the peopl,
to approve the conduct of President who
kept at the head of the armies of the natior
. a man of the Obtusest intellect, least energ,
2, and smallest capacity i'll it, well knowing hi
2 deficiencies Did they expect the countr,
v to applaud his support of Mcclellan in hi
: dlsgraceful pause in Washington, in his lily
conceived and disastrous campaign in TIN
II Peninsula? Did they expect the endorse
n ment OF the public for removing him whei
of he betrayed Pope at Alexandria, and for re
. lnstating him two days after? For thwart
ing lIalleck who recommended his removal
'' for permitting the loss of Harpers Ferry
D. and wasting the autumn which should hav
as terminated the war in inactivity, under falls
pretences, at IIarper's Ferry? Did the
10 expect the President to be applauded at tn
. polls for the disgrace of retaining the imbe
'e cile Buell. in command in the west, the MAJ
e who don't know what the war is about
n, or for permitting Young Napoleon" t
Tn retain III position shallow martinets like
Is Porter, to persecute true soldiers like Mar
y, tindalei
oh Ii the Administration press expected this
he they have found out their mistake W
IL, pQpuh pop Daj and the President had bette
u heed the admonition. 1t has already ha
os one good effect-a soldier is at last ian
e, Heaven grant it may not be too late y q
rs the head of the Army of the Potomac
ell Another is at the head of the Army of tn
ne West.
ii The elections inculcate: less trifing wit
g. the natural and guaranteed rights Of tn
he citizen ; a more vigorous and steady prosecu
lg ton of the war less reckessness in exper
he diture, and the prompt removal from tn
in Cabinet and from command in the fielC
u without hesitation and without fear, of a
rs, men proving incompetent or inefficient, c
he who have not, from any cause whateve
10, been successful in the undertakings assign
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