The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-03-13
NUMBER AZ.

insufficient, and five hundred thousand
were called for. Six hundred thousand
responded, and it could be made mil
lion in month, if required. Then
the war commenced an edrnest--and
TINS great army has for months been
preparing for the great work it was de-
signed to perform, and it has COM
nnenced marchieg on" and victory
perches upon its banners at every step.
Mistakes have been made, and there
have been public abuses. Bulrs Run
is one oe the former; army frauds are
among the latter. But under the cir
cumstances of haste, confusion, and a
vast accumulation of work that had to
be dispatched Immediately, we only
wonder that there have not been great
er mistakes and more abuses of public
trust. The President is less RESPONSE
bic for all mismanagement, either in the
Government or in the army, than are
the dangerous politicians and corrupt
men who took advantage of his conf
dence and the nations caamities to-
promote their own sordid and selfish
ends. But all these dangers and abus-
es from pretended friends of the Gov
ernment have been almost entirely re-
moved and remedied, during this short
and exciting year of civil war, and now.
on the first anniversary of Mr.. Lin
coins Inauguration, we find that order
and system have been successfully
brought out of the late confusion and
chaos-the rebellion in the course of
sure suppression-th Government well
provided with all the men and monev.
1T desires for an effective and vigorous
prosecution of the war-the rebels
driven Southward by gradual but sure.
degrees-the Capital of the Nation i'm
pregnably secure-a wall of bayonets
and cannon established all along the
borders of the rebellion, wall of fire
that is now advancing like a terrible
avalanche upon the foes of the Union.
We may claim with safety that, vir-
tually, the Union is preserved already
and, considering the formidable pro-
portions of the dangers which menaced
it, and the degree of success that had
attended the schemes of the rebel con-
spirators, when Mr.. Lincoln assumed
the executive chair, it is years ac-
complishment that may well excite the
wonder Of the world. Never before
has there been such national trouble
as ours has been, and never before has
a nation been so successfully plotted
through great crisis.
And how nobly Mr.. Lincoln has con-
Quoted himself during this eventful
year! How fair his record stands
How successfully he has withstood the
thousand pressing influences to rash
ness and wrong policy! How like a
pillar of iron he has resisted the mur-
murs of the unwise, and the efforts of
the factious, the fanatical and the sell
fish to move him from the path of dis
cretion, patriotism and adherence to
the Constitution! He has, it is true,
been occasionally imposed upon bv
hypocritical friends whom he has
trusted; but where is the man who is
SO wise and discriminating as not to
have been even oitener and more dis
astrously imposed upon than he has
been, under similar circumstances.
where he was obliged to trust thous-
ands of men with important duties and
responsibilities a0
Rejecting upon what this Govern
ment was one year ago-its embarrass-
ments, dangers and perils--its army
and navy completely disorganized by
the traitors; its arms and ships stolen
or destroyed by the conspirators the
treasury empty; one-half of its terrific
rial domain in revolt; surrounded by
spies, traitors and yultures in its own
Capital; foreign nations frowning upon
1T; and many of its own loyal adhe-
rents timid distrustful and faithless; is
| it not wonderful-is it not the very
marvel of the age, that it stands to-day
as it does stand, and that its prospects
for the re-establishment of its authori-
ty are so flattering as they are? Let
him who could have done better or
done more than Mr.. Lincoln has done,
speak out, for we would see demi-god.
He, with the counsel and assistance of
his wise and faithful Cabinet Ministers,
has not only saved the Government
from the ruin into which, under his pre-
decessor, it was rapidly drifting, but
has also saved the nation from a most
untimely, and what might, at such a
time, have resulted in most a disastrous
war with the most powerful military
power in Europe. What man, in his
position, could have done more?
Truly there is reason to believe that
this modest and unpretending Man of
the People-this rail-splitter, lawyer,
and politician of the West-acds Sc
lected by an All-wise Providence as the
Savior of the Republic; and if, before
the next anniversary of his Inaugural
ton, he restores the Union to peace and
harmony, he will have earned the dis
tinguishing title, and his name, like that
!of Washington, will live forever in the
hearts of his grateful countrymen.-
Chicago Journal, March Sd.