The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-07-30
Attack On the Pres
ident from Rev. Henry Ward
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Ans Abolition Attack on the Pres
ident from Rev. Henry Ward
Bcecher.
IFrom The Ne York lndedendenll
There is no need Of rousing the patriotism
Of The people. 1t is an inexhaustible qusliiy.
1t underlies their very hfe: The Govern
ment itself is buoyed up by it, and rides
upon it like ship upon the athomiess
ocean. @-
No. 1t is the Government that needs
rousing. We do not need meetings ou the
Hudson, but motion on the Potomoc. 1t is
not in Boston or Buffalo, or Cincinnati, or
New York, that this case is to be settled, but
in Washington. There is no use Of conceal
ing it. The people are beginning to distrust
their rulers; not their good nature, their pat.
riotism, their honesty, but their capacity for
the exigency OF military affairs. They know
that in war an hour often carries a campaign
in Its hand. A day is year. The President
seems to be man without any sense OF the
value Of time. The people admire his disin-
terestedDess. They believe him firm, when
he reaches decisions. BIT they perceive how
long period he requires to form judgements;
how wide circuit he takes of uncertainty
and va ,illaton before he determines. In
civil affairs that can bear to wait, the people
deem among the best of our long line OF
Presidents But, it is war! Armies are per.
ishiug. Months are warting. We are in the
second year OF the rebellion. We have been
Just on the eve Of doing something for six
teen months.
The people can not but see that the success
OF our arms has been in the ratio Of their
distance from the seat OF Government. In
all the great West, where the Government
could not meddle on the seaboard. in North
Carolina, at Beaufort South Carolina, at New
Orleans. we have had success. But in Virgi
mia, within reach of the influence OF Wash
,ngton, we have had all our delays and al
our misortunes. Do not the people consider
these things!
| Wd walked from stand to stand in tht
great meeting of Tuesday with sadness
that we could not Disguise. The necessit,
| for such meeting was a modification. -
What President was ever so royalty backed
| What resources, what enthusiasm, wha
unity Of feeling, what eagerness OF men t
be enrolled, what confidence in the Admin
1 istration And one year has so nearly wastet
all this that the Government is resorting 4
unusual influences to secure eplistments. |:
patriotism dead? Is the love Of nationa
unity quelched? Why are such meeting
needed to drum up recruits? We are oblige
to say to Mr.. Lincoln, the fault is not wit
the people. o."
They have been true and generous. The
are determined and undiscouraged. The
wait, but it is because they are intelligent
They are used TO the management Of affair
They are not disposed to throw away thci
power.
The nation rose up in its majesty to pur
ish rebellion. 1t put magnificent arm
into the Presidents hand. For one year tn;
army was besieged in the Capital!
At length, this past spring, began the can
paign in Virginia. The people gloried in tt
belief that the majesty Of the Governmer
would be asserted. After four months can
paign, the armies Of the United States are q
the defenSivel Not less than 100000 me
have been lost by death, wounds, sickne
and captivity. Mcclellan is cooped up {
James River; Pope is collecting an arm
and the country is today actually debatir
{ whether the enemy can not strike a blow
, Washington? Is this such management
will confirm the confidence Of the country
Mr.. Li1cCln's conduct of the, war? Do v
| need to ask why men are slow TO volun' ee
\ Does any man need to be told what the Ell
' OF such things must be? This is not punis
ing REBEL on; it is helping it.
r long will il be before every nation in Euro
n will have a right to say, the South h
shown itself able to maintain its lndepe
dcnce.
d The vacillation and hesitation Of the G
9 ernment are taking away from liberty h
y moral pre- eminence. The loyal State
G whom liberty and religion have made
e strong, and which are ineffabiy superior
e the revolving slave Ststcs. are made to stal
e before the whole world as even less strol
c than they. The manner Of crushing rebt
. lion was almost as important as the act itse
. The energy, the directnesS, the stern sevsl
ty, and the suddenness of the stroke shou
have put honor on loyalty and intamy on |
bebellon. But we are making rebellion ho
orable. A few months more, and we sh
u have neither moral nor political righ, to sti
iDatize the Southern movement. Then C
l. ergy and valor will have extortcd from o
, never ready Generals and vacillating Gu
o' ernment success that will crown slave
: and dishonor liberty. t-a
The President is understood to have
"a sumed the whole responsibility of the ca
II paign in the East. The people will be
'e him to that responsibility. The Gener
are oil his selection. All things are in
70 hands. ar
nc But one thing is sure; unless there is mt
- purpose and vigor at Washington, all
or public meetings in the land will not save t
=, country from shame and disaster!