The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-10-21
OPINION AT THE NORTH.

we look 70 the result of the approaching cleo
tions in the North with considerable interest.
though venturing no calculations as to the result.
The community there is as tickle as q mob, and
acts according to the caprice of the moment. We
have reason to believe that the majority Of the
people are tired of the war, and wish it stopped.
But little good fortune, or even dispatch from
Mcclellan, is sufficient to elate them for the time
with hopes of triumph. If the elections come off
under these latter influences, we may expect tho
choice TO fall upon the most violent and blood.
thirsty of the candidates. In all probability lin.
coin will take care to give the Black Republicans
the benefit Of sueh rumers at the critical moment.
Even the telegraph will be made to blush, If such
thing were possible, at the fabrications which
1t Will probably carry out to enlighten the
people. st
That there is great deal of dissatisfaction at
the North in connection with the war and with
military proceedings there, is very evident A
large number of the papers 60 as far as they dare
IN the expression of their discomfort They will
praise Lincoln very elaborately for time, and
when their reputation for "loyalty' has thus been
increased sufficiently to save them harmless, they
condemn him 10 good round terms, as long as
their credit will last
The New York Herald, of the 9th inst, is very
plain spoken against the Lincoln Republican
rule. 1t eays:
1t is now universally conceded that the pres
cnt administration is failure The time for dis.
cussing that fact has therefore passed, and the
questions OF interest now are: who is responsible
for this failure, and how is the failure 70 BE-
remedied"
The Herald then proceeds to say that the Re-
pnblicans charge Seward with being the cause of
the failure, in connection with Mcclellan, whom
Seward favors. The Republicans are therefore
waging fierce war upon both Of these with
view to drive them from position. The war upon
Seward, the Herald describes as being very
teroclous. 1t is strange thing to see Seward
assailed for being conservative! Seward, who
gave form and consistency to the Black Repub-
lean party, built it up and made it what it is.
de is now assailed by those whom he trained.
Seward raised up party which destroyed his
country. He seems now, as his retribution, about
to reap the fate of Aclaeon, who was devoured by
his own dogs
The Herald, on its part, maintains that Chase
is the ruling spirit of the Cabinet and that the
ascendancy Of his counsels has brought affairs to
ruin. 1t accuses him of having both ruined tho
finances and brought disaster on the Federal arms
1t concludes as follows:
" If we join the radicals, therefore, in asking a
change of the Cabinet, it is to get rid of Mr.
Chase, and not of Mr. Seward The administra.
tion will always fail until the President, like Gen.
Jackson, rids his Cabinet Of all Presidential
aspirants and finds Secretaries whose ambition is
to do their duties each in his own department..
The country has yet to encounter greater perils
than any we have escaped, and only with con-
servative Cabinet can they be encountered sue
cessfuly. If the President retains his present
disunted inefficient and unpopular Cabinet, or re.
places it by still more radical, We tremble for
the result"
In another article in the same issue (the 6th)
the Herald attacks the Government for its usurpa-
tions. While unsuccessful and inefficient against
he Confederates, it is terrible to its own people.