Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-11-18

dividing their councels, pressing, with
force no ordinary human mind could re-
stat, the minds Of Mr.. Lincoln and ms
immediate advisers. They have dicta-
ted, and compelled the Admlnistr"''on
10 accept their dictation.
The Southern Confcderacy was organ
lied on q military foundation, ior war.
The United States Government was 10
the hands OF Q successful party, anu
that party persuaded the President &c
believe that their mad schemes, mao
plans. mad intentions were the schemes
the plans, and intentions OF twenty .'n.
lion. of people-tbe whole popuia''on
Of the North-and the result has pee"
that the war has been conducted on po'
litical instead of military principles
for political instead Of military results
war is always the appeal to force
not to settle principle, but to settle pow
er. When war is maraged by poii'i-
clans, as a political job, to produce pc
Ii,ical results, instead of as a method Of
es ablishlng the power and defending
the rights Of Government, 1t must al
saws be successful as to military enos.
Had this war been carried on az the
simple military ann of the United
States, suppressing insurrect'on-had
the war been com nit,ed to military men,
TO be conducted on military principles,
for military r. suits, it would not have
been the failure that the Administration
journals now charge it to be. 1t Con-
yress had voted appropriations and gone
home, leaving the President to WELD the
Executive power, and Mcclellan to d.
rect the military forces of the nation,
this terrible sacrifice OF blood and treas
ure would never have been made with
such results.
A radical Congress, and radical poll
ticans, interfering with the military for
ces, desiring to make political capital,
or to prevent others from making il, and
to produce political Effects here at the
NorM-n short mixing ny radicallsm
in politics with the prosecution Of the
war, have brought us to this pass.
The verdict of the entire world lie this
that we now state. The verdict of our
own citizens has been given. 1t is the
mcrest blindness, If it is not absolute
wickedness which nov leads the radical
papers to a'temp. the misrepresentation
of this verdict. The vote Of the people
is vote against the unconstitutional
Coniscatlon Act, against the Proclama.
ton, against the interference OF radical
politicians with the army, against the
iiuaucia policy of the Treasury Depart
ment, against the conduct Of the war
under radical advice, tor radical ends.
What, then, is the future? The
power is in the hands of the radical par
ty still. They have Congress till next
March. They surround the President
to day with their close array, pour out
on him their false interpretations Of the
voice Of the people, seek to deceive him
now into the false and ruinous position
OF continuing the war, in spite of the
fact that the loyal people have plainly
spoken their disapprovai.
Does any one doabt that the vast
army Of the United States desire Gen.
Mcclellan to command them and ap.
prove him as the man for the place !?
Does any one doubt that the vast ma.
jority of the people have in these cleo
tons expressed the same opinions as be.
tween Mcclellan and his radical enc
mics! Yet with this fact, in spite of
this majority Of half million of the
men of the North, at this moment these
radical managers of the war are urging
on the President that the real interpre.
tation Of the election lie, that he should
remove "shovellng and digging gene
rails" and go deeper into the abolition
slough OF de- pond :!
Will the President believe them
Kings never hear the truth from the
people is Mr.. Lincoln 80 surrounded
by courtiers and politicians ! We trust
not.
But if this same influence continues
to control the Administration hereafter,
the results will be the same as heretofo. e
until there shall DC a change. These
guides, connsclors, "pressing' friends OF
the Administration, are the incompetent
managers Of the war, and are no more
able t. conduct the nation through it
than they are 10 manage the course OF
the stars and planets. They are blind
theorists, fanatical fools. The world has
suffered long enough from their med
ding self admiration. 10 other countries
as In our own. They have demanded
"a vigorous prosecution Of the war to
preserve the life of the country" and
they have called folly vigor, rccklessness
spirit, vindictiveness force. They would
destroy their enemy, and sacrifice
our sons and brothers on the Southern
galows in retaliation, taking good care
to keep their own necks, and the necks
OF those they love, out of the rebel hal.
tiers.
They have sacrificed all respect for
the Constitution, forbidden submission
to It's provisions, counseled the Pres.
dent to assume, under the unconst,tu-
tional doctrine, the absolute control Of
the persons, property and lives of cti-
zens as We'll in the loyal as disloyal
States they have undermined the re-
spect of the citizens for the grand bend
of Union, and to-day, By their notions
OF "vIgor," We are in the position OF a
great nation fighting in vast contest,
IN which the will OF the one man Prcsi
dent ON enc tile controls the objects
and purposes of the war on that side
against the one man rebel on the other
slde-whils the people Of the country
are threatened with arrest. imnrisnn.