Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-11-08


'ha Democratic leaders against the response
billy taken By President Lincoln in order 70
crush out the rebellion is Instructive, because
i, is 80 sublimely inconsistent"
TIE Chreaicie argues that the Pre- sident IA,
much precedent for " taking the responsibility"
and refers TO acts OF Jackson, Polk, Pierce and
others.
NONE so BLIND As THOSE WHO WILL NOT
SEE.
The New York Times, Tribune and Post In
their anxiety to clear their own skirts Of re-
spt visibility for the disasters accruins TO their
party organization in the recent election, have
united in endeavoring to throw the blame upon
President Lincoln apolicy IS unjust, a. ungen.
erous, on their part.
They proclaim that the conservatives have
been victorious because the war has not been
prose- Ut d with sufficient energy; after having
IN listed, up to the hour of the election, that the
conservative candidates and their supporters
almost unanimously favored the abandonment
Of oil efforts 10 restore the Union by force OF
arms. How clear ron ss4uiter their present
argument is, 10 their recent one, all surely re-
aiize who are capable of comprehending the
simplest common sense proposition Blu: the
a1imss and tone of their ferocious assaults upon
President Lincoln arr, rather, the subject mat
ter we have in hand just now.
IN proSlaiming tn6t the people nave preferred
trust the future legislation TO ure the proper
Prosecution OF tn war, to those they denounce
as traitors in secret alliance with the oligarchy,
iecause OF the inefficirncy OF its prosecution up
to this time, they denounce the President with
cutstint, as having been signaily unequal 10 his
tax; and argue, in effect, that had he more com
pieteiy placed himself and the war under tie
direction Of the radicals the elections would
have resulted differently
We by no means appreciate the force of -uch
Reasoning; holding that the radicals wer- beaten
simply because the country is determined that
they shall no longer bring disasters on our arms
aad procrastinate the hour of final triumph.
Who but they precpitated the first disastrous
battle o: Bull RIM, over the plans and counsel
o. General Scott2
Did rot that disaster cost the country millions
o. money and thousands of lives, and by losing
our cause pre>tiSH, serve greatly to procr,s-
t.nata the war.
Did they not bring shout the interference " it'll
htCleilan's peninsula plan of campaign, and
thus Gefeat it, success; costing the nation I'm.
Necessarily the loss of other hundreds of mill
o"s of dollars, more thousands of lives, and
n.c-e prestige Of its arms
bad they no. al so doing, again grievousIy
pTolorg the war,
Have the, not still further procrastinat.,i tn.
a. the South with the impression TINT the con-
t - is icing carried on by the Governnen.
V holy for alb clifton ends-thus uniting them a,
one man, for the time beng, in resistance to
arms?
Again have they 20. prolonged the war by
enaftinS IN Congress the policy Of ceasing 10
Obtain rtihfOrCements-Of stopping recruit
ing" rs it has been improperly termed,
Still again: are they not the virtual authors
OF the Presidents experimental universal
emancipation proclamation!
lid not the appearance of that proclamation
sill closer unite the South against the success
o. our arms,
Did il not render lukcwarm in the cause
hLnireds Of thousands in the ioyal States who
had previously sustained the measures of TIE :
Government with all their hearts and souls
Did 1t not depreciate the yalre Of Treasury
notes and other Government securities enor
houeIy, and thus grieyously crippled our
means OF properly prosecuting the war!
In bringing about these results has IL no,
plainly prolonged the war!
Dld not radical influences, and radical in
fiuences only, bring about the memorable in
reference in the plans OF the military officers
OF the Government, which eliminated in the
disasters Oh ropes campaign, and thus again
rrOlong the war.
points IN illustration of the fact that the conn
Try owe,, directly TO the radicals most of The
enormous Waste OF loyal life in the war nearly
all OF lis unnecessary cost IN money, It's pro- /
iongaton time and again, and any danger of
Its further prolonsation by European interfer-
ance, that may exist. !
Under such circumstances The efforts of the !
fsdical journals named above 10 throw on the
President the blame the people have racantiv
Soted to b. justly their due, must be futile in
de-d.
In marked contraoistinction from their pre- !
sent course towards. the President, is that OF
every journal in the country that supportad
III the recent elections the policy of Kidding the
Government OF thu inf uence of their I'M furious
ocu 1seis. Not one of The latter, from Maine 70
the District of Columbia, and from New York
I" ~. Louis, fails 20 strengthen the Presidents
sfn Tor the future prosecution of the war by
Promptly giving Ass urances that he will anioy
u e hearty cooperation to that end, of nearly
f'ery Democrat and other conservative in the
iand, IN enforcing The restoration of the Union
.ahd restoring the supremacy OF the Con>iitu-
ton BY i;ree OF arm. 80 we'll known to D.. his
o"n var policy.