Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-22
From the New York World, Sept 10.
The Central Inn beciiity-A COnserva-
tive Republican and a Radical Re-
publican Paper Upon 1t.

Three months ago, after having, in common
with all loyal men, faithfully supported the Adj
mnstratiOn with all the vigOr and persistence of
which we were capable for long twelvemOnth,
sense of the higher loyalty due to the Govern
ment which President Lincoln and his Cabinet
were administering with such utter ineficiency
and feebleness constrained us to break the gen
era accord and to pronounce against them the
verdict: "Tried, ana found wanting" Since
then the imbecility of the Administration has
had new proofs, and the general orders dat ted
from the headquarters DeienSeS 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 prosttuted to base uses or welded with
fruitleSs impotence. Meanwhile a 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 invigorate the Administration, or to concen-
traie the energies of the people in a vigorous
prosecution OF the war. The freedom with which
we have animadv ered upon the usurpatiuns 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 al! that we have been con-
strained to say: the radicals who are willing to
see the country drift to the brink of ruin if there
by they may force their proclamation panacea
down the threats of the people; and the timid.
feeble souls who contound the Administration
with the Government. and are incapable OF per-
ceiving that fidelity to the one may be possible
only through an unsparing denuncaton 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 aud gather
ing strength which will give peaceful channels to
noble passions that might else break out in peril
Gus and unsafe violence, and will constrain results
to which it could not persuade-and that this de-
nuncia ion of central imbecility and iuelficiency
at Washington is becoming 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 s
IRdeDendeRt, and it is but lust 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 obliging
the world to say that ten slave States, with eight
million people. are more than match for twenty
free States, with twenty millions of peoplel We
have civilization, wealth. numbers, minerals. in
tellgence, moral prestige and liberty Oh our side.
They have slavery, barbarism, ignorance and rel
alive poverty. We can not even say that il is q
drawn camel At present the North is beaten
| at Is n supreme and extraordinary want OF eX
ecutive talent at the head of Government that is
bringing us to humiliation and setting this great
nation up as a false witness against liberty and
| Christian civilization
at is asked, what profit is there in such contin-
uous criticism? Admit that the facts are so, is il
not better to join hands and support the Govern
ment? Yes. Let that be done to the uttermost
But we must secure the existence of Govern
ment to be supported. Imbecty is a
national spendthrift. Central inefficiency is a
vortex that will swallow down the substance, the
spirit, and the men of "A nation. We are going
! from bad to worse. If there were signs of any
amendment, we could have patience though dis
aSter marked the hours, and blood dripped the
seconds. But there is For a long time
we waited the revelation of some deep plan OIL
shrewd policy. But so many parts of the doings
of last year have been finished into history, and
are now, upon knowledge of all the interior ee
ments. found to have been without policy, plan
sup,lvison, or any controlling force, save chance
drifting chance, that we can no longer console
ourselves that there is a hidden wisdom that viii
convert apparent folly into success. II is incon
trovertble that central deficiency is wasting The
life of the nation. 1t is not because this plan OF
that policy has not been adopted, but that nc
comprehensive plan of any kind, and no polio,
that gave unity and simplicity to the affairs of al
our armies and generals, has been pursued.
eff this exhausted nation shall at length give
up this conflict aud betray the most glorious trus
OF liberty that God ever put into mortal hands
and on so grand theatre as this western cont
neht let il not be said that il the fault of the
common people, nor of the institutions of liberty
Let il be known that the nation wasted away
by the ncurable consumption of central imbe
| cilIty."