Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-30
WEEKLY SENTINEL.
oNDAY, I1a-LI. JUNE 20.
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which can but receive the approval Of every
good citizen. That paper says: We return
to a rather familiar subject in these columns.
but still one in which a vast amount of
interest lives and will live SO long as the war
lasts. From the time the President started of
on the most stupendous campaign the world ever
saw by calling out on the 18th Of April. 1861
$4,000 militia for the space Of three months. we
have embraced every suitable occasion to urge
and show that both he and bis advisers have
never fully come up to a true appreciation of the
struggle in which we are engaged, and conse
quently have never made adequate preparations
to force the struggle to a successful issue. 1t is
useless to recapitulate, and it may be equally fu-
tile to reiterate, but duty takes the chances over
all considerations
Whatever may be the blunders and short com
ings Of-Mr. LIScoLS's Administration ia detail
and no Administration could have lived the time
of his without committing some blunders and
having some short eomings-and whatever may
be said of the criticisms and censure heaped upon
il, the one great fact stands out in bold relief
that il has failed to meet the most moderate ex-
pectations of the loyal people of the country. and
that unless a radical change in management at
the fountain head takes place hope that the next
two years will improve on the past is utterly dead.
This every intelligent and candid mind. throwing
all bias aside. must admit. Indeed we know Of
scarcely anything that puts the case more strongly
than the following extract from TIE report Of the
Committee on the Conduct of the War. made up
OF warm friends of the President and Cabinet,
who have been engaged in investigation from
December, 1861, up to the spring of the present
year. Said they;
"The administration called BY the people to
the head o. Il Government, in this the most
critical period of the nations history. ,cas more
promptly and fully supported than that of any 9th
er Government of trhich history has preserved any
record The call of the President for money aud
men had been more than complied nth; no legis
lati0n rhich he had deemed necessary hsd been
denied BIZ Congress; and the people had most
nObly and generously supported and sustained
what their Representatives had promised in their
name. The same Congress, fresh from their con
stituenis. had again met. and there could be no
doubt that as they had before acted, so would
they continue to act. IL needs but to refer to the
history of the Congress just closed. its prompt
and thorough action, clothing the Erecufiue ictfk
bec fnactA pOuCfFS DtHttN4 ~ Ao utoDDoUt Ua u
resources Of men and money which this nation
possessed. to prove that your Committee judged
rightly that Congress needed no prompting from
them to do its entire duty. Not upon those
whose duty it was 10 provide the means necessa
~ to put down the rebellion, bat upon those
schose duty it ,cas to rightfaIly apply those means,
and the agents tkry emPLo yed for that purpose, rests
the blame, if any. that the hopes of the nation
have not been realized. and its expectations have
been so long disappointed"
This is from a source not only friendly to Mr..
Lincoln and his advisers but partisan, and we
quote it here with the fervent wish that even at
this late day it 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 Administration been af
forded opportunity by contingencies that have
aroused the patriotic feeling of the country to re-
gain the confidence it has lost. and to destroy the
grounds for that just popular indignation which
we hold to be the manifestation of a virtue in the
people while its opposite of fulsome and unwaT
ranted praise is crime. The present offers a
golden opening. and gladly would the loyal mil
lions see it entered. The great want al
ways has been aud is now-Men. The
federal army. although figured in huge
proportions on paper, has at no time been
as large as it should be. At every crisis
every scare. there are demands from all quarters
for endorsements. II matters little whether we
are on the road to success or returning in re-
treat. the cry is always for reinforcements, either
to render a triumph complete or prevent disas-
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 is over,
the militia return. and everything settles down
into the old slough and sluggishly moves on in
the old way. These repeated operations are try
ing the temper and patience of the people, and
they are drawing from such journals as the New
York Tribune and New York Tunes threats that
many more repetitions will see "the President
superseded in his high Office" that 1.-The people
are very apt to find some representative leader
if the forms of law do not happen to give them
one" that "they will no longer tolerate the
men in power" &c. With such threatenings
we have no sympathy-with them the Con-
sentative people Of the North. who form
the majority, have no sympathy. The
a~lacrity with which Governor SEYMOUR Of
New York and Gov. PARKER of New Jersey. the
readiness with which Gen MCCLELLAN and Gen.
FRASKLIS responded with every energy Of their
Offices and minds to the calf assistance. proves
that the Administration can rely for support
upon the m~aligned and traduced 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 70 anarchy.
IL 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 a few points around
the edges, the rebellion stares US as fully in the
face at the East, and evinces as much power and
boldness as at any previous time. And this while
the relative numbers. wealth and. advantages OF
every kind, are so enormously disproportionate
in our favor. The prospects are that with
the best management we can hope for under Mr.
LIxcoLS he will not be able TO close the war be
fore the expiration Of his term. The three month
and nine months men have come and gone
the two years men are gone and going. and how
many consider that-ere long he three gears mer
oil go, and that in all human probability th'
term OF service of nearly every soldier in TN
Federal army will have expired before the re
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