Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-01-28
~. SITUATION AT WASHINGTON

xxavernment ana the seat VI ""' ~
Happahannock ere Of the most uapfon-
character. The Cabinet ard the
Chine, makers are 10 wrsngle--'he
army is undergoing all sorts OF changes
81 tho conutry looks in vain for AZ.
presest help 10 is time Of tr'a'le 'fo'H
,bs, quarter. Ramors multiply 'hs' Tue
army there is 10 lemoral'zed ard ei'
organized condition. II IS stated 'H@
80 ,emov,l 10 tue West is IN eontem
u,a,iou-leaving only enough behind =
Guard Washington. The republican .
Senators ana wire, pulltrs seem 70 nave
taken possession q tie Pfes'deot-naNs
appointed themselves his polS'eai guar
,;sas and are about 10 make Inn W
sueh a Cabine, a. will suit thsmjeiYes'
There is Earring and confusion 10 every
branch OF the administrative machinery
There IA trouble on all hands. lhTee /
hundred thousand men within haAihs
distance. as it were, ct the national CAP.
j,al. are doing nothing = hsye done
nothing but Dig graves for 'peir COM
rades aud wal; Tor pay for mouths. The |
enemy is unmolested, aud the only exer-
ton our forces are required TO make Is
10 eat their. tough beef and hard biscuit.
and occasionally take LITTLE brush with
a squad OF adventurous rebel cavalry.
This is tho way the Union is being
restored. Millions Of dollars spent es-
cry day and nothing 70 show for il an
army Of monstroas dimensions becoming
worthless and dangerous through mac.
i!vliv and incompetent management.
They no longer talk Of taking Rich
mond. they have become dishear;ened.
They know not that their commander
lyetB they know for a certainty that
their hoaest intentions have been trfl
WITH. They sit down every day in the
face Of the enemy and wonder why taoy
have not been led forward. They hsye
waited and watched two. four, six, eight
months for the coming Of s.ctorg aud
the paymaster. They have looked 10
their generals, their generals have been
looking to the Cabinet, the Csbinc, to
the President, and the President all the
time has been in a quandary to know
whether the Lord is on bis side or not,
ont. Is this tho way TO restore the
Union Are the people satisfied with
tbs unparalleled inactivity and uuheard
of stupidity? Are the people passive
and compiacent with this prospec, be,
fore them /! Not so They are begin
Mug to feel that there ia something fol
them to do. They own this country
let them so on dcman ling change
not for the worse, AS the rule has teer
for months past, but for the better.
Ut u no longer war 10 the defenei
OF the Luion, the constitution aud til
enforcement Of the laws. IL is a WA
IL DO carried on no longer With tho an
o. re establishing the Union and tn
constitution With all their old comprs
mlses. God n4eans not to lie, us oil Wi
any halfway work am nov couylut
ed, and | CO. slider II the most human,
The most economical, aud the mos
statesmanllkc policy, now to take I'll
most radical ground possible, TO assam
that this Is war Tor the sutjugation, {
the erterhstnatson, Of all persons vii
wish 10 maintain the slave power-
war to get rid of slavery and slayehol,
ers, whether it is constitutional or not
-Pdrson Beilows.
The Parson hits the abolition-reDu
licsn cord fairly. There is not nier
Der OF that organization, not a symp
TIMER with It, no. an abolition speakt
writer or press that does not endor
the sentiment with all its pes.le
treason. They rejoice that the war
not prosecuted any longer for the RI
toration of the Union. The Union h
not, and never had, any charm Tor ,her
Iney look upon it as thing unworll
to exist, and therefore rejoice in
throes Of death. When this army "
first called into the field, ii was for |,
restoration of the Union but the pc
cy has been changed. 1t is vain
coeccal the fact that the President b
fallen into the hands Of just auch m
- Parson Bellows. They have ma
him believe that the radical plan is ,
only one that will win. They reio