The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-11-19
The AssaiIants of the AdIninis-
tratiOn.

1
Destroying ITSELF" We lay this art
Gle before our readers, not because W
approve all that is said in it, or eve
its general scope and tenor; but tha
they may see with what abuse and viz
ulence the Republicans of yesterday.
Abolitionists of to-day-are assailin,
the Administration of their own choice
According to the Commercial, the Ad
ministration Of Abraham Lincoln has
not only the blindness, weakness ant
imbecility, which it and papers of lik,
politics have been in the constant habi
of charging upon the Administration
of James Buchanan, but it has gon,
further, it has "added an assumption
of powers" says the Commercial, mo
clearly delegated by the people, and
exercised so blindly and extraordina.
rily as to give the act the appearance
of despotism, which it's enemies openly
denounce as such, and which the peo>
pie are endeavoring to believe as such. -
Such language as this, coming from
a Democratic editor, would short
time since have probably caused the
suppression of his paper and his arrest
and confinement in a military prison.
Even a hint that the Administration
was not sagacioas, able and faithful in
all things to the solemn pledges of its
Chief to the country, was sufficient to
subject a Democrat or Conservative
man to wholesale denunciations, as a
sympathizer with rebels, traitor, but
ternut, copperhead, and such like cpl
thets, by those who seem to be desirous
of reserving to themselves the exclu-
sive monopoly ofassailing and abusing
the Administration they so recklessly
placed in power.
The Commercial is by no means
alone among the journals Of its party
in its assaults upon the Administration.
The fire is kept up by the more intense
Radicals until they brought out the
Emancipation proclamation, and the
result of the recent elections will doubt
less increase their chogrin and bitter
ness toward the Executive and his ad-
visers. Even the more moderate men
of the party will find it difficult to res
strain their feelings of chagrin and
and JON the radicals
in their denunciations of the President
and his Cabinet. They are unfortu-
nately linked with Il class of men who
cannot be pacifed short of the utter
ruin and destruction of the country
and its institutions. 1t was thought
the proclamation would satisfy these
that upon its issue they
would cease their assaults upon the
Administration: but the contrary has
proved to be the case-they have only
became more bold and malignant.
We shall content ourselves with
specimen or two out of a hundred that
might be easily produced of the ma
|ignant assaults upon the Administra-
ton by the radical press, to which we
have refereed. The New York Inde,
pendent {IIenry Ward Beecher's)
paper enriched by official patronage,
has often expressed the same opinion
rs the Cincinnati Commercial, that the
President is not equal to the task of
conducting the Government at the
present MON entous crisis. Like the
commercial, it thinks him honest, but
weak and incapable. A short time
since the Independent expressed the
following opinion of the President:
We have no doubt whatever that Mr..
Lincoln means we'll, and tasks himself to do
we'll for the country He is an overmatched
man. He cannot carry the Goue, nneat in its
yreat e1igency We are being worsted on
every side by an inferior foe. flow comes
that? Good materials make poor armies,
md poor materials make good ones. A bad
,ause with skillful managers is gaining
ground daily against good cause with well
wishers and golden dreamers 10 manage!-
How comrs that? Blume him? Does any
man believe MIR. Lincoln less than honesl?-
But affairs are too mighty for him. He wishes,
ne almost resolves, he turns back. He in~
.ugurates policy. Like snow, he mclts in
His advisers clash. His Generals
quarrel. He is half crazed with persuasions
IN this side and counter persuasions on that.
A statement also appeared recently
n the same paper, the Independent,
20 the effect that Governor Morton,
If Indiana, shortly before the election |
n that State, privately informed the
President that he expected a Demo-
'ratic victory at the polls. He was
asked the reason for such a change in
popular feeling, and replied promptly,
,he Independent says, as follows:
They believe that the Administration has
grossly misinanaged the war. They think
hat irresolution, imbeciiity and dishonesty
rave characterized its management, aud
whether the fact be so or not, they believe
I; and under such circu I'm stances it will be
Almost impossible TO carry the State for the
Administration. 4f