Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-02-01
ResponsibiIity for Failure in the War

The Aboltionis.s are playing their last card
on the negro. II is desperate trick, and they
are beginning to have awful premonitions OF
terrible failure. To save Themselves from the
public odium and indignation which they appre-
bend ID. about to be fixed on them for their
management Of the war, they seek to shirK
the responsibility and shove II OF upon Demo-
crass. They say that If the war has been In
auy sense . failure, It is owing to the Demo-
cratic asneraisby whom the army has been in
the main commanded, .
This will not answer their purpose. Ii the
Administration has put In the field incompetent
cficefs, u is no excuse to say they were Demo-
crsts. Nor does II place the responsibility OF
their failure upon Democratic, since the Admin
istra.ion, net they, had the selection OF the
COMMANDER. II bad choice was made, the
blame clearly falls upon the appointing power
which vaa 10 the hands of the Aboitionis
and not In those Of Democrats or Conserva-
tives. t
Many General officers 10 the army, who have
bssn called Democratic, are net and never were
entitled to that honorable distinction Others'
who had once acted With Democrats, the mo
men. they obtained oftlce and place under On
Abolition Administration, became the oittereit
Of reuegades against their old party friends,
and sold themselves to do the bidding OF the
rankost disunion radicals. Those who re-
NAMED true t, the principles Of the Con.tisu-
tion and the Union as held eacred by Demo
Gratis, have been hunted aud peisecuted, their
plans thyarted, their loyalty impeached, and
many Of them dismissed from actual service
Abolition hate and Jealousy follow the fe"
that remain In the army, witba seeming de-
termination TO be rid Of every prominent officer
, inthe army who does not swear feslty to the
disunion creed of Abolitionism.
The Administration and the party that placed
ID In power and has sustained 1t, are alone re-
sponsible for any failure there has beeu,or may
be 10 the conduct Of the war, They had the rails
Ing and Offering Of the army. They could and
ana appoint and remove officers at pleasure. Il
the Generals have proved incompetent, It was be-
csuse the appointing power lacked the sense
and Judgment to make good selections.
The Administration and its party have hat
everything their own way. They have had al
the executive oficers-all the power and pat
,onaee of the National Government In theil
own hsuds. A large majority in both branches
Of Congress has been obseqaious to do the bid
ding and register In the forms Of Law the de
erses Of lie party. Besides. they have had thu
coutrol Of the executive and legislative depart
msnss Of all the Northern States, who have moi
been behind Congress and the Executive In
ready ;ebedlence to party dlctation.
Men and money, the sinews Of war, have
been furnished with liberal.-a prodigal hand
II the Administration and its party had the
capacity to bring the war to successful ter
minasiou, Il would seem rational to suppose
that such result should have been at ieas
nearly or quite reached With million OF th'
best soldiers ever called into the field, snt
with the eIpenditufe of over thousand mil
Hon dollars, and the almost inexhausible re
sources Of great country at command
Democrats have not had 1t in their power
even had they been 50 disposed, to hinder O.
materially obstruct the Administration and 1T
party In osrrying on the war in their own way
They have had full swing-have managed I
a. they are now managing II. to their own liz
ing, and they alone are responsible for any fall
ure In the past, or any defeat In the future IN
regard to the objects for which they ostensibly
engaged the country In the war. The people
viii hold them fast to this responsibility, ant
not allow them by any sham plea, trick or de
vice, to evsde 10.