The New York herald., 1862-10-06
who is Responsible for the Failure or
the AGinftisfrntiOn.

1t is now uni, crsailv conceded that the pre-
sent administ stration is failure. The time Tor
discussing that fact has therefore passed and
the questions of interest now are: who i, re-
sponsblc for this failure, and how is Tie failure
to be icmedicd. These questions are being
used by the radicals for the purpose Of making
a concerted and combined attack upon Sccre
tare Seward III tie hope Of driving him from
the Cabinet. Dut the radicals fear whi,c they
hate Mr.. Seward and they attack bin :tem-
blingiy. i, it conscious Of ultimate defeat Ihcv
assert confidently and unanimously tbat the
Secretary OF State is responsible tof the failure
of the administration: but their PROOFS are Ec.tl,
and thcir arguments sophistical. Evidently
they accuse him in order 10 shield Themselves.
and his defence involves their conde nnaton
That the election Of Mr. Seward from The
Cabinet il the object OF the radicals is clear
from the articles of Greeley in the Tribune. OF
Beccher aud Wendell Phillips in The Hidepca-
dent. and Of DR.. Brownson in his Rccie,o and
from the plottings of Andrew, Sprague and the
other radical Governors in the recent conven-
tions at Providence and Altoona. All the radi-
cal abuse Of General Mcclellan is In
fact directed mainly at Secretary Sew
ard. who is understood to approve of
McClcllan's plans, and who is represented
as the author Of McClellan's policy of conduct
ing the war. This fact is openly confessed in
Brownsons Revie,o, which, in labored article
upon "The Seward Policy" excuses Halleck
and Mcclellan because they acted under the
orders of the President and his advisers; at
tributes our failures "not to incompetent gene
ralship, but to the policy Of the administra-
tion," and generating all the other members
Of the Cabinet, charges the responsibility of this
policy, and consequently Of all our failures,
upon the Secretary Of State. Of itself alone,
the opinion of such changeable chameleon as
DR.. Brownson, who Is
Everything by turns, and nothing long,
10 OF no Importance whatever; but just at pre-
sent Brownson's Reris,c Is the authorized and
recognized exponent of the radical abolition
party, and the variable Doctor himself is, for
the time being, leading member Of that party,
and intends becoming the radical republican
candidate for Congress from district in New
Jersey unless he shall change his politics or
bis principles before the nominating convention
assemblies. The sentiments of the Revie,o in
regard to Mr. Seward are, therefore, the senti-
mcnts Of the radicals, and Dr. Brownson ex-
presses the opinion Of the radical leaders when
he charges Secretary Seward with weakness
and moral cowardce;" with being "a compro-
missing man, with ''quailing before secession,
aud resisting it not moro firmly than Mr.. Bu-
chanan;" with ''ignominiously surrcndering the
national cause" and VIRTUALLY agreeing with
tho secession commissioners 10 q separation Of
the Union;" with shrinking from open, de-
cided, vigorous war;" with "snubbng OF re.
ieving of bis command every commanding OIL
fcor in the army who has shown that he
believed the government wished war to be
waged in earnest;' with "taking care TO
do the rebels no serious HARM" with
being "no friend OF the military" with