Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-05-29
Communications.
For the Charles City rnteiligencer.
vINDICATION OF THE PRESIDENT.

Somewhere, / have read the follow
ing fable That upon certain time,
a spider, secluded deeply within the
crevice of stately edifce, was ac-
costed by a fly that was soaring
around the outside, viewing, and ad-
miring the beauty and grandeur of
the building. "Pray, Mr. SPIDER
she exclaimed, "do look and see this
noble church how cxquisitely beau
tiful are its spires and its architectural
Where" asks the spider, r,"I don't
see any such thing he continues.
"Why, here,' the fly responds, "all
about and above u.s." 81 can't see
anything of it, quoth the spider, and
if there be any such wonderful things
why shouldn't | see them as we'll
as your "Why," exclaims the fly,
"you can't see them in your position,
you have only one small avenue to
look cut at /; and it is impossible for
you to see them unless you change
your position. Come out of that mar
row dark crcvice, and take a position
where you can see in every direction,
and then they will be visible to your
view as we'll as mine" Pshaw What
arrogance !" cries the spider, "iou
think YOU are much sharper sighted
than l am, don't you? I'll let you
know that am just as sharp sighted
as yourself, MAIN, and my position,
too, is fally as good, if not better
than yours and to be plain with you,
I believe you are humbuging-for l
don t believe there is any such fine,
stately edifce as you tell of.
The fly, impatient and disgusted at
the stupid ignorance and conceit of
the spider, left him to amuse himself
in his own opinions, without further
molestation. .... a...
How strikingly illustrative is this
of the course Of many persons! And
how aptly does it illustrate, too, the
position that some have taken in re-
spect to the Presidents course in re-
gard to the present Rebellion. Two
ultra parties, it should be remembered,
have figured on the arena, from the
commence mcnt of the Rebellion. The
one is the Pro-slavery party, or those
who are working to end the war and
save, unharmed, slavery, the cause oil
the Rebellion and the other is the
Abolition party who have been desi-
rous that slavery should be made an
end of, as the speediest method to end
the war. And assuming that the
President had power in himself to set
the slaves free by proclamation and,
seeing that he neither did the work
himself, nor suffered the military
commanders to do it, they were dis
appointed and rallied at the President
for imbccility, or, a want of requisite
energy in the management of the war.
Thus, SANDERS and abuse have been
dealt out to him without Nor
has it indeed come from those alone
reputcd as Ultraists; but from those
who should have stood unhinchingly
by him, in every place, knowing him
too well, to suppose for a moment
that he would favor treason, or slarery
in the least, unless driven to spare
the latter for the time being in order
to gain greater advantages Of the
enemy.
The Chicago Tribune, and other kim
dred prints, were too precipitous in
condemning the President for his mod
ification of Fremont's proclamation in
Missouri whereas, Fremont had ac-
tually superseded the law OF Congress
in his proclamation, and it therefore
became the duty of the President to
do as he did. Aud this tho Tribune
knew, or ought to have known, as
we'll as the President himself. The
Tribune's course therein, has always
seemed very inexplicable to me.
The inactivity of the Potomac ar
my has always been the cause Of mucl