Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-05-07
3. The general couduc, ofthe present Ad.

tie outSet auu Ns Ipiau W couuuctinH tnc
war against the rebellion gives no excuse
for disloyaliy The rebellion was fully inau
purated when it came into power, and ev-
cry effort was put forth by it, not to precip-
irate the war, but tn concilate the rebellious
leoplc. And no solitary act Of the'Adminis-
tration has ever yet been shown asa cause
! of their insurrection. Indeed the leaders
have never claimed that they had been in.
jured In any single constitutional right or
privilege The utmost they ever claimed
was the anticipation Of some such violation.
JEFF. Davis himself, ina speech delivered
in the Senate Of the United States, Dec.
1 10th, 1850, says: '.'Our fathers made the
best Government that has been instituted
by man; and no evil can arise under tn
Government, for which it has not an appro.
pirate remedy" While we do not set our
selves up to be the champion of the Admin.
istration, and do not intend at present to
discuss the right or wrong ofany act it has
promulgated or enacted yet we propose TO
show that all the measures about which
there is any controversy, have been advoca.
ted and defended by men of all parties, and
consequently that all parties are more or
less responsible for them. 1t is conceded
by the bitterest enemies Of the national Ad.
ministration, that large majority of the
leading departments Of the government
were never more ably anl successfully con.
Quoted. The departments Of State, of the
Treasury, Attorney General, fthe Interior,
aud Post Office, exhibit skill in their man.
agement Of the very highest character; es-
pecially may we say Of Mr.. Seward and
Chase, that they have never, as yet appears,
made single mistake in the management
Of their individual trusts All the com.
plants lie against the War and Navy de-
p,rtments Ofthe latter, it may be said, that
apparently slow at first, in the end it has
accomplished about all that could have been
/ done considering all the circumstances ol
the case. In reference to the conduct OF
the war department, if the complaints
against it are just, lift has failed in the
achievement of that success that the coun
try has demanded, it is susceptible of proof
most positive, that there can possibly be nc
room for acrimonious or partizan censure
from the simple consideration that partie
opposed to the Administration in the elcc
tion canvass Of 1860. have had the leading
and controlling management Of the war. -
| When the rebellion was fully begun, with I
e magnanimity worthy of the occasion, ant
8 the cause, all partizan predictions wer'
cast aside, and many Of the most prominen
men of tbs oppositio n were called to thu
aid Of the Government in the suppression
of the rebellion. General Scott, supper
ter Of Bel and Everett, as commander il
G chief Of the army, controlled the forces call
ed for by the Government, and advised il
all things in reference to their tqu p nent
G. distribution and management in the field
After him came Mcclellan, aud when h.
t took the field General Hnllcck was called Il
the command of the army, both belonging
n to the Democratic party. Still further t
d meet the wants of the hour Stanton, anoth
Q er Democrat, was called to the war depart
). mcnt. Fully three -fDufths of the chic
y Generals in the field, aud large proportio
of other officers are men who formerly OF
g posed the Administration. So that we ma
say if there is any cause at all for complaint
9 the party that elected the Administratio
g is the one that has the best right to com
!. plain. five refer to the special acts {
s Congress or the proclamation Of freedom
# the slaves of rebels, we hold that they wer
!. as much caused by the opposition, both d
b. rectly g. indirectly, as by any predictions
f the party in power. -Ahost Of the lcadiu
!. democrats and Bell mon in every loyal Sta,
Il and many in the disloyal, boldly proposed uu
, advocated freedom to tho slaves in the IT
A. bellious States as a necessity Of the war.
,s Thus we find Daniel 5. Dickinson and Joh
W Cochran. in New York, Forney in Pennsy
in vunia, Gov, Sprague OF Rhode Islam
ia und Bon Batter, the noblsst r ,man OF the
m all, in Massachusetts,, aud hundreds Of tt
~ most eminent men Of oil parties urgent
in pressed upon the Administration the ado
10 ton Of its present policy. Indeed We ma
say that every man in the opposition pa
at ties, whose talents raise him above Il
in grade Of fourth rate statesman, arc hea
co and hand with the government in evcl
o means employed to suppress the rebellio
Q. Others, who did not directly press upt
IN the Government the adoption of such mea
be ures admitted their necessity and forcto
is. their accomplishment. Andrew Johnso
ii Parson Brownlow, and Horace Maynard
in Tennessee; Joseph Holt and General Rou
ly seau of Kentucky; Charles Anderson
to Texas, and Others too numerous to mentio
Ye all admitted the necessity and predicted t
%. final adoption Of the fact Not only W
o. the present policy thus urged upon the A
IN ministration by loyal men Of all parties, b
o. the semi disloyal aud tho openly treache
he GUS sympathiscrs with tho rebellion,
70 their apathy in support OF the Governmer
o. their open hostility to tho war, and the
es ceaseless efforts to cripple and destroy 4
= power Of the Government, compelled 4