Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-15

condition Of public affairs. The war would have
been prosecuted energetically and for the single
purpose Of restoring the national authority and
unity; not to strengthen dominant party. re-
ward its members for partisan services and fatten
its treasury plunderers. Without parties free
Government cannot long exist. Opposing parties
are its health, its life. The result of no partyism
is despotism, and see it illustrated in France in
Austria, in Russia. Says JOE WRIGHT and the Re-
publican leaders: Every man who is not openlyfor
the Government (LouIs NAPoLEoN) richly merits
and should promptly meet traitors death" In
France the will of LOUIS NAPOLEON is the Gov
eminent, but in the United States we have been
taught that the Constitution, and the laws under
il, were the Government, not the Administration
who happen to be in power These issues must
be met and determined at the elections this fall
1t must be apparent to every candid mind that the
Republican administration of the Government is
a signal failure. If the people desire to maintain
a free Government, and restore purity and econo-
nv in its administration, there must be a change
The only hope of accomplishing these ends is
in the displacement of the party in power. And
such we believe will be the verdict OF the people.
But we started out merely to call attention TO
the following article, which we copy from the New
York World, a Republican paper, which ably
demonstrates the necessity of change in the adj
ministration of the Government, to save it from
utter destruction:
The demonstrated incapacty of the Admins
tratiOn now in power blunts the edge of all the
arguments heretofore used against party action
during the war. When, one year ago, the dispo
stiou was so general to give this Administration
the unanimous support of the loyal States, it was
on the assumption that, with such support, it
would conduct the war to successful, speedy,
honorable, and triumphant issue All the world
knows how disastrousy this hope has been dis
appointed Supplied with all the men it asked
/ for and all the money Il needed, unembarrassed
/ by even the shadow of party opposition in Con
/ greSs or the country there has never been an
/ Administration in this any other free country
which wieldes resources so great, possessed pow
er unlimited, or proved SO unequal to great
exigency. So notorious is its incompetency that
/ its own friends are deminding of Mr.. Lincoln
/ change of his Cabinet under the pressure of an
invasion which renders it doubtful whether he
will not within the next two weeks, be himself a
captive in the hands of the rebels A war com
mittee of the commercial metropolis propose
raising large army in opposition to the Presi
dent and putting it under the command of a
popular leader, the most prominent trait of whose
character is INSTRUMENTATION to constituted author
\ ity. The Governors of several States belonging
to the party which elected the President, hold in
New England city concave said to be in con
cert with the New York war committee; whose
proceedings, kept vailed from the public, are
well understood TO have been dictated by a spirit
of opposition, with a view to depose the present
Cabinet.
In this state of things. with the Government in
imminent danger either OF destruction by the re
bells or subverson by irregular and revolutionary
action at the North. only canting imbecity can
deprecate the formation OF organized, efficient
and patriotic opposition party in the loyal States
Such an opposition party is the great necessity OF
the times. 1t is mainly owing TO its non existence
that we are now on the brink of counter revolu-
ton and anarchy The people have cOnfdingly
surrendered to this administration such an excess
of power that it has assumed toward them the
bearing and enforced upon them the arbitrary
edicts of despotism, and large bodies of them
are beginning to mediate its overthrow by the
same irregular and revolutionary methods by
which desDotisms are subverted We protest, in
the name of free government and constitutional
liberty, against all such reasonable proceedings
against all such desperate and anarchcal resorts
Under free Constitution weak administration
can be deposed only by powerful opposition par
ty speaking through the balot-box and controll-
ing the elections
Without the safety valves of free press, un.
! trammeled discussion, and party opposition, the
pent up political passions generated by admins
| trative imbecility and acts of arbitrary power
gather fearful and explosive strength. The con
ditiOn of the country is such that these safe
ty-valves must be re-Opened, or there is danger
that our elaborated reconstructed and nicely bal
anced system of government will lie about US in
scattered and disjointed fragments.
But let the public voice be pronounced EN-
phaticaly against the present Administration in
the approaching fall elections, and change oil
measures, either with or without a change oil
men, is inevitable The only authentic express
ion of the public will, under Il free Governmen t
is through the ballot-box. Such party opposition
is the regular constitutional method, under oul
Government, of deposing incompetent rulers. We
seem 10 be close upon period when the country
will choose between changing the Administration
by party action through the elections, or by ftlul
and irresponsible action inspired by dangerous
revolutionary passions. II the opposition party
prevails in the State elections tins fall, change
OF Cabinet will follow of course, but it is absurd
to suppose that Mr. Lincoln will reconstruct his
administration If powerful majorties in all the
loyal States set the seal Of public appreciation on
his past course. Ii an opposition Con gress Is
elected, its arrogant buyingo of the Executive
which has been the source of nine tenths OF our
disasters, will cease. But if most of the present
members are reelected, their Endorsement by the
people will make them more arrogant, domneer.
ing. and absurd than ever.
The necessity, then, for an earnest, vigorous
patriotic and powerful opposition party, is toe
manifest to be reasonably questioned. That the
Democratic Convention at Albany will contribute
to the organization of such marty In their action
to-day would be hazardous prediction. The re
cent history OF that party affords slight guarantee
| of that elevation above mere party views and
ends, and of that liberal spirit of wise tolerance
toward other citzens-frends of constitutional
liberty, who love the Union and favor vigorous
prosecution of the war-whch could make it the
nucleus of a successful conservative opposition
But whatever doubts there may be on this point
the necessity of efficient opposition party i.
uuquestOnable, and nothing contributes more tC
such efficiency than thorough organization
whose ramiications already extend into ever,
ounty and township of the State.
Frequent elections and free party action are IN,
very essence of republican government; they ar,
its vital air and daily bread. Weak and incom
petent rulers can be displaced only by party Op
position, or revolutionary violence. AS the in
stitution of marriage is the worlds Safeguard
against brutal license of the sexual passions; a:
the institution of property protected by the law
Is the best restraint on the acquIstive instinct; AZ
pure religion IL the only antidote to wild fnati
cism and debasing superstitOn--so regular pOt
zeal parties in which opposition to the measure
Government can find efficient expression is III,
only alternative to revolutionary violence wher
TIM conviction that the public safety demand
change of rulers becomes deep aid universal
In the absence OF an opposition party the countr,
is drifting swiftly into the rapids above the revo