New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-19

REPUBLICAN FAILURE.
There has been any amount OF grumbling
and fault-fuding for a year past on the part OF
Republicans, as to alleged failures Of the
President or the Cabinet to act with becom-
ing earnestness and energy. Some of these
complaints were well founded, others, utterly
unreasonable. An Administration barely warm
in Office, and unapprehensiye of any such
struggle as has been forced upon it, was sud-
denly assailed by the most gigantic and power
full Rebellion the world has ever seen-a Re
belion in which tw0-thirds Of the Whites lv-
ing within o hundred miles Of the Capitol, and
one-third of the whole people, were active par
Elephants. IRE ablest and strongest govern
ment ever known would have been sOrey tried
bv such an onset--sudden, treacherOus fcrO-
oous-as was made upon President Lincolns
within SIX weeks after his Inauguration, and
while he had no considerable force wherewith 10
resist it. OF course the Administration has made
mistakes, and betrayed weaknesses, and neg
lected opportunities, and excited needless en-
mites. and aenated friends, when We could
heartily wish it had acted very differently.
But every one Of its failngs have been err
rors not Of the heart, but of The head. The Pres.
ident and bis chief advisers have borne up under
excessive labOrsaud crushing responsibilities, each
anxiousto 90 bis best. They hayed one some things
badly, and these every one notes and empha-
sizes; they have done many things admirably,
and these pass as matters oi course, and are
soon forgotten. As a whole. the Adminstra-
ton has been harshly judged, even BY those
who should have been its friends.
But you, Republicans Of the entire Union
who are so apt to find fault with the rulers OF
your own choice, have come far short Of your
duty to your country and to them-haye failed
not in judgment nor in ability, but in industry,
energy, and fidelity. You ought, as simple
duty when this great struggle Was forced upon
them BY the Rebel shareholders, to have sys-
tematcaliy and universally laborcd TO place in
the hands Of every voter, every citizen, some
periodical which would have truly informed
him Of the origin, nature and purposes Of tits
execrable Reb,liiou--its essentially ari 'ocratic
character, its hostility to the Rights Of Labor,
its ready welcome 70 the sympathies Of all that
IL hostile to the masses in the Institutions and
class interests Of the Old World, and is ineyi
table tendency, il triumphant. TO degrade the
Laboring Glass here 10 common level viii
the down-troddcn millions oil Asla aud tbs least
favored portions OF Europe.
Had you done tnis Republicans had Won
taken care ,ha, every poor man was provided
with some god newspaper, fal iros ed with
the deeply interesting Intelligence whereof each
week has lbs surlcif-wc might have cent our
hundreds Of thousands Of patriot Volunteers to
The field OF combat for our National existence.
and s,lll have maintained ~ Overwhelming
asceulency at home. II isyour failure 10 per.
form this imperative duty that has mh.cctel
your country 10 the disaster aud yourselves h.
tie modification OF the late reycrses in the
Elections OF the Middle States. Had you al!
done what you OUGHT, no such reyerses would
have been encountered.
The Newspaper is the chief buwark Of the
Republican cause, n the Grogshop u Che nat
ural citadel OF our adyersar!cs. The poor who
take o newspaper aud read il are mainly with
us; waiic those who get their politics with
their liquor are nearly all against MS. Let good
newspaper be regularly taken in its every house
hold and New York would be as firm a Repub-
iican State rs Massachusetts, Ncw-Jersey q.
Vermont. BI. ct TIE Poor read bat G.iully,
and rcaliz, of the War little but is inconye-
h.cbee-, its hardsLips, its burlens-i.s high
prices aud it. many trials and bereayements-
and they viii easily soon be persuaded to .up.
port Whichever party prJners t1em, howeyc.
deceitiully, n short and easy road to peacc.
Republcansi wc speak frankly: viii you
hear patiently and heed practically You have
slept and the enemy have sowed tre'. They
have assiGuousiy pushed their documents aud
Journals while you have done little or nothing
to counterfeit them. We pay You 10 awake
from this letharey-awakc universally and how
and resolve that, Tor the year Just before Ms
the year tlat is 10 seq the National cause
triumphant or utterly rulned-you will take
care that every man whom you can reach or
persuade shall be provided with some good
newspaper that earnestly upholds The cause Of
'reedom and our Country
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CENTRAL POLITICS.