Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-27

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which can but receive the approval OF every
good citizen. That paper says; We re'prn
10 rather familiar subject IN these columns.
bat ssill one In which vast amount of
interest lives and will live 90 long As the war
lasss. From the time the presiden, started OF
On the most ssupendous campaign the world ever
saw by calling oat on the 18th Of April. 1861. .
rs 900 militia Tor the space Of three months We
have embraced every suitable occasion TO urge
and show that both he and his advisers have
never fully come up 20 true appreciation Of the
struggle In ~hIeh We are engaged. and conse
quently have never made adequate preparations
10 force the struggle To a successful issue. IL Is
useless TO recapituIate. and j, may be equally fu
tile 20 rel,erate bat duty takes the chances over
oil considerations.
Whatever may be the plumbers and short com
ipgs Of Mr.. LiScoLSs Administration In detail
and no Administration could have lived the time
Of his without committing -ome blunders and
having some short comings-and whatever may
be said Of the criticisms and censure heaped upon
IL. the one great tact stands out IN bold relief
tina, ], has failed to meet the most moderate ex-
pectstions Of the loyal people OF the country. and
that unless a radical change in management at
tho fountain head takes place hope that the next
two years will improve on the past is nttery dead
This every intelligent and candid mind throwing
all b'ss aide. must admit. Indeed we know OF
scarcely anything that puts the case more strongly
than the following extract from the report Of the
Committee on the Conduct Of the War. made up
os warm friends Of the President and Cabinet,
Sho have been engaged In investigation from
December. 1861, up to the spring of the present
year. Said they:
1.-The Admini TT ,tion called By the people to
the head o tie Government. in this the most
critical period of the nations history tcas more
promptly and fully supported Than that Of any 9th.
or Gopernmenf Of loiich history has preserped any
record The call of the President for money and
msn had been more than complied icith; no ieqis
istioa snhich he had deen,sd necessary had been
denied By Congress; aud the people had most
mob y and generously supported and sustained
what their Representatives had promised IN their
name. The slme Congress. fresh from their con
s:ituenis, had again met. and there could be no
doubt that they had before acted so would
they continue ~ act IL needs but TO refer 10 the
history of the Congress just closed. its prompt
and thorough action. clothing the Executive pih
The fullest porsr. placing al his disposal aH the
yesosyces Of men and rnoney which thi. nation
possessed. 10 prove that your Committee judged
rightly that Congress needed no prompting from
them To do IT. entire duty. Not upon those
whose duty IL was To provide the means necessa
~ On put down the rebellion, but upon those
rhose duty IL 10 riohffuily apply those means,
aad me agents thy employed for that purpose rests
Che blame. IL any. that the hopes of the nation
have not been realized. and its expectations have
been 80 long disappointed"
This Is from source not only friendly TO Mr.
Lincoln and his advisers but partisan, and we
quote il here with tho ferveut wish that even at
this late day IL may be needed, and that an effort
worthy OF the cause may now be made to profit
by past experience and retrieve past errors
Time after time has the Administrative been at
forlei opportunity by contingencies hat have
aroused the patriotic feeling of the country to re-
gain the confidence il has lost and to destroy the
grounds for that just popular indignation which
We hold to he the maniiestation of a virtue in the
people while its opposite of fusome and uuwar
ranted praise is crime. The present offers n
golden opening. and gladly would the loyal mil
lions see il entered. The great want al.
ways has been and is now-Men. The
federal army. although figured in huge
proportions paper. has at time been
a. large rs IL should be- AT every crisis
every scare there demands from all quarters
for reinfcrcements u matters little whether we
the road TO success returning in
treat the cry is always for reinforcements. either
to render triumph complete prevent disss-
ter Then the militia are called upon for thirty
days. or three months. or some other period.
There Is a furry and a rally. the crisis i over.
the militia return. AMI everything settles down
into the cid slough and sluggi.hly moves on in
the'old way. These repeated operations are try
ins the temper and patience of the people. and
they are drawing from such journals the New
Yosk Tribune aud New York Times threats that
many more repetitions will 1.-The President
superseded in has high Office" that "the people
very apt TO find some representative leader
II the forms of law do not happen to give them
one" that "they will longer tolerate tho
men in power" &c With such threarenings
We have no sympathy them the Con-
ssrvat.e people of the North. who form
the majority. have no sympathy. The
slscrty with which Governor SEYMOUR Of
New York and Gov PARKER Of New Jersey the
readiness with which Gen. MCCLELLAN and Gen.
FsASxLIS responded with every energ, of their
Offices aud minds TO the call for assistance. proves
that the Administration can rely for support
upon the maligned aud tradueed element of the
masses represented by those men. not only to
meet the invading enemy. but also TO frown
down the Jacobins in its own bosom who would
incite TO anarchy.
II should be borne in mind that this war has
nos progressed over two years and two months
that with the exception of ground IN the West
which Is still disputed. and few points around
the edges. the rebellion stares US fully in the
face at the East. aud esinees a. much power and
boldness at any previous time And this while
the relative numbers, wealth. aud advantages of
every kind. enormously disproportionate
in our favor The prospects are that with
the best management We can hope for under Mr.
LINCOLN he will not be able 10 close the war be-
fore the expiration OF has term The three month.
and nine months men have come and gone
the two years men are gone and going. aud how
many consider that ere long tae three years msn
ssiA 90. aud that in all human probability tie