Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-17

The shocking condition OF the country does no
prevent the men at Washington from busyiDs
thsmsel'es wish political inEigues. aud schemes
for mere personal Announcements mir LlscoIs
and d. CBAsE, -sts prominent abolition
paper. are both open candidates for tie sue
cessou Mr.. LINCOLN. says the came paper. ID
desirous to have this fact generally understood.
and says he desires all reports that be will not be
candidate. 10 be confradicted What con-
fession. in view OF the existing condition of the
country. Is this Nor Can the accuracy Of the
statement be questioned Mr. LINCOLN is writing
letters to partizan conventions, and by various
methods doing what be can to secure a continu-
ance in Office. IL is voted 10 the secret LOYAL
Leagues. so called. that he must be the next
Republican candidate. To bolster up its party.
the Administration has shown itself capable Of
interfering. in manner most unwarrantabe and
dishonest. with State elections; and this practice
like the tales in the newspapers. is Ito be contn
ued." In a speech at Portland, a few DAYS
since, Senator FEssrSpES one Of the speakers for
the administration in Maine. made this decara-
ton: 1.-The loss Of the election in Maine would
be a greater calamity than the loss OF battle .
He is stated TO be the mouthpiece OF Mr. Lincoln
and il thus appears that the President. who is an.
nounced 10 be ian open candidate" for the next
Presidency. regards it as Of less importance that
our armies should triumph in the field than to Sc
cure triumph for his stay -at-home party in TIE
eiectionsl According to this Senator il would Q
better to have the Confederates beat our armies
and the Union divided. than to LET the national
expression OF the popular will against Black Re-
publicanism obtain its legitimate expression at
the bsllot-box. IL is fact that the LINCOLN
Administration gives more attention to party
than to country. 1t is OF more importance to
carry Maine. Pennsylvania and Ohio than it is
to crush the rebellion. General MEADE cannot
move. His army is reduced. to the tune Of
10000, by soldiers Withdrawn from his command
AID kept needlessly in New York Another re-
duction is talked Of to carry the Pennsylvania
election. 1t is vile and guilty business, and in
resortng TO it. the men in power presume largely
on the patience of sorey tried and long suffer
ing people.
What motiues impel the men at Washington to
the course they take. may be judged in the light
OF these facts which are well stated by the New
York World
The Administration is attaching more import.
ance and giving more attention to it, political
campaigns in the North, than TO the military
campaigns in the South Ii the war should END
and the Union be restored in time for the South
ern states to take ptrt in the Presidential cleo
ton, there is no Republican sanguine enough 10
expect that his party would have any chance OF
success: peace therefore. lies in distant future
Foreign Vaccinations. which bode no good 10 "
have never been so busy ut this moment and
II will be little short OF miracle ii the war con
tnue- eighteen months longer without embroil
ing US with European powers. But the Admin
istr 'tion had rather this risk than permit the
war to close in such way as to endanger the
continuance of its own party in power. A OF
men Who deliberately drove the abolition wedge
which has cleft the Union a means of acquir
Ing Office, will not scruple to incur the hazird OF
giving European allies 20 the South and render
I'M the separation eternal, as means of keeping
what they have won