Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-07
The A.sni,unss of tho Administration

The AssatiaDes OF tho oAaminis"
We copy elsewhere from the Cincinnati Com
mereiai an article with the suggestive title
"The Administration Destroying Itself" We
Law tbis article before our readers, not because
re approve sll that is said In it, or even ita
general scope and tenor; but that they may sec
with What abuse aud virulonce the Republicans
of yesterday-Abolitionis Of to-day-are az
sailing the Administration Of their own choice
According 10 the COMMERCIAL, the Administra-
tion OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN has, not only the
blindness, weakness and imbecility, which 1t
aud papers Of like politics have been ~ the
constant habit of charging upon the Admins
tra,ion Of JAMES BUCHANAN, but 1t has gone
further, it has "added an assumption ofpowers'
saws the Commercial, mot clearly delegated oy
che people, and exercised so blindly and extra
ordinarily as to give the act the appearance oil
despollsm, which its enemies openly denounce
as such, and which the people are In danger oi
coming to believe as SUCH"
Such language as this, coming from Demo
cratic editor, would short time since have
probably caused the suppression of his paper
and hia arrest and confinement In military
prison. Even hint that the Administration
WAs not sagacious, able, and faithful in all
things to the solemn pledges Of its Chief to the
country, was sufficient to subject Democrat OF
Conservative man TO Wholesale denunciations,
as a sympathizer with rebels, traitor, butternut'
copperhesd, and such like epithets, by those
who seem TO be desirous of reserving to them
selves the exclusive monopoly of assailing and
abusing the Administration they 30 recklessly
placed In power.
The Commercial is by no means alone among
the journals of its party in its assaults upon the
Administration. The ERE was kept up BY the
more intense Radicals until they brought out
the Emancipation proclamation, and the reeult
of the recent elections will doubtless increase
their chagrin and bitterness toward the Execu-
tive and his advisers. Even the more moderate
men Of the party will find It difficult. to restrain
their feelings of chsgrin and disappointment,
aud Join the radicals in their denunciations OF
the President and his Cabinet. They are un-
fortunately linked with q class Of men who
cannot be paciRed short Of the utter ruin and
destruction of the country and its institutions.
It was thought the proclamation would satisfy
these fsctionisls; that upon its issue they would
cease their assaults upon the Administration;
but the contrary has proved to be the Case
shey have only became more bold and ma
llgnant.
We shall content ourselves with specimen
or two ont of hundred that might be easily
produced of the malignant assaults upon the
Administration by the radical press, to which
We have referred. The New York iadependenf
(HrNRY wARD BERcHER's), q paper enriched by
official patronage, has often expressed the same
opinion 90 the Cincinnati Commercial, that the
President is not equal 10 the tack Of conducting
the Government at the present momentous
crisis. Like the Commercial, IL thinks him hon.
est, but weak and incapable. A short time
since the Indepeadent expressed the following
opinion of the President:
We have no doubt whatever that Mr.. Lin.
coin means we'll, and tasks himself to do veil
for the country. But he is an overmatched
man. He cannot carry The Government in us
9yeat exioeaev. We are being worsted on every
side by an inferior foo. How comes that
Good materials make poor armies, and
moor materials make good ones. A bad
cause With skillful managers 10 gaining ground
dslIv aeainet good cause with well wishers
and Golden dreamers to manage! How comes
thati Blame hint Does any man believe Mr..
Lincoln less than honess7 But ofairs are too
rnichtv for him. He wishes, he almost resolves,
he tarns back. He inaugurstes Q policy
Like snow, he meIts in handling. His advisers
clash. His Generals quarrel. He IL half crazed
with persuasions on this side and counter per
suasions on that.
A statement also appeared recently In the
same paper, the Independent, to the effect that
Goyernor MoRroN, Of Indiana, shortly before
the election in that State. privately informed
the President that be expected Democratic
victory at the polls. He was ssked the reason
for such a change in popular feeling. and re-
oiled promptly, the Independent says. as fol-
lows: }A&
Thsy believe that tho Administration has
greaaly mismanagsd the war. They SUNK tnas
irresoiution, imbecility. and dishonesy nave
its management; and Whetner the
fact be go or not, they believe u; and under
such circumstances 1t will be almost impossible
10 carry the State for the Administration.
The Cincinnati Gazette. soon after our State
slsc.ion. charged that President LINCOLN had
made Z q terrible failute" In the management
of the war. The New York Tines. which Inl
iormsr dayshad gained, like.thesC Cincinnati o.
ssits, some reputation for sober and modsrass
visvs, not long ainoe expressed lie opinion Of
the Administration and threatened its displacs-
msnt ~ tcIlowS'