New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-09-19
Napoleon Ill.,, Mexico. and President
Lmcoix's Administration - Shnil We
HAVE n War 18th Frances

Es. nI.-PREsIDENT LINCoLNs ADMINISTRATION.
What is called Republican Government be-
Ing but a collection Of agencies the sovereignty resd
ing in the people public officers are not rulers pu'
servants Not ulhequently they forget this. and when
criticised with view TO their improvement or attacked
with the design of causing their removal when ren0v
Able at the pleasure Of the appointing power resort to
lbe hackneyed fallacy termed by Jeremy Bentham ihe
official malefaetors screen-attack attack Govern
nent" (See the expose of this iaoy in the Review Of
Benthams Book of Falacies contained in the Rev
Sidney Smiths Essays.
Let them do so if they 60 no more.
So far as tie public can judge, the collection o.
agencies known President Incon's Administrations
vas for the first three months Of its existence but
pontinuaton ofMr Buchanan's. To some extent th;
was necessarily the case Surrounded by treason. II
had 10 set to work slowly and with great caution
Since that time ii has both acted and omitted to act III
avery peculiar way, and without so much as The
sembance o. unity The Departments have been ear
ried on separately and independently without concert
Or consultation. At Cabinet meetings such OF the
Secretaries as chose may expressed their opinions
Is to the in hand but in general vote appears
Cot 10 have been taken.
That most of the departments have been managed
well. no candid and unpreiudiced observer can deny.
rational work with marked ability and with distin-
esished success. The Postmaster-General has shown
himself Ito say the LEAST fully equal his position. No
complaint has been made against the Attorney General
and the Secretary of the Interior 1t has been urged
that the Secretary Of the Navy slow; but our con-
tnued naval successes and the increase that has
been silently made in the number and strength Of our
warvesses shows the objection 10 be without fouDda
ton The Secretary Of War, though he has sometimes
done wrong rery wrong things is nevertheless regard
ed as rather an improvement upon his predecessor Tho
Secretary Of State alone appears 10 have proven fiat
failure.
The Administration Of President Lincoln Of the term
Administration can properly be applied to Govern
carried his has BEEN has been entirely de
partmentd-" each Secretary running lis own machine
he thought proper and the Secretary Of State having
undertaken in addition to the President. Hence
is that having no unity. President Lncolns Govern
uent as such has been and is without policy and In
stead Of heading has drfed along some six months or
year behind the loyal public sentiment OF the country
The fact that it could do and exist is new proof OF
Sbe excellence and inherent strength of Republican
krrn Of government Such state Of case could not
sccur for few weeks under limited monarchy with
sut causing either change in the ministry or reNolu
ton.
1t misfortune 10 our country 4's4NfHA LIN
coin lacks force Of character-frmness.
Tie Rebels and Rebel sympaihizers who charge that
there danger flat he may usurp al power and become
stvrant expose themselves 20 ridcule by the absurdy
Of tleig accusation.
By his refusal 10 sign deaih-waTrant. lie permitted
l25C0o 6eseitons from our army to accumulate What
smistaken and fatal tender heartedness lie could not
be induced 10 use black troops until months after the
p.l Jog h,.f nj Irdfara aud
then he seemed 10 hesitate for some time as TO whether
be would eziond them by reiaiatory the
prot,etioa every soldier lie tardy in coming
TO the resolve 70 remove Generals that might be
cess though his action in this respect has beef
cord Ally end fuy sustained by tie army and the nation
doe Kol .p,eaI able himself up to apply th'
SAM saiusg, rule 70 Cabinet officers He has, through
vaci,at,n dlog Cd the Conservative friends Of dis
affected Governor obtain stay Of the draft for some
wees and his done AID omitted TO do. other thing
which while they demonstrate that we are In no danger
Of losing liberties in consequence Of his assuming 10
become d dictator show that he has than once i'm
periled free institutions by his iIrosolution.
Hence j, Is the important that loyal should
support and strengthen him. But. whatever may have
been the errors and omissions OF President Lincoln it
is clear that he has meant well and that though tardy
he has done mnch, very much, toward bringing the
Rebellion close In the only way it ought TO be ter
unatedby crushing il out BY force Of arms and for
this he Is entitled to the gratitude Of the country
Besides what he has done shows that no one can sus
pect that he viii fall into the that State can
commit suicidethat traitors deprive loyal citizens
Of any Of the rights they possess citizens Of the State
In which they may be domiciled. and in which the
National Government had failed 70 give them protec-
ton OF course the reinstatement Of blacks that have
been emancipated matter Of military expediency
cannot be included among those rights. lie does not
assume that the Government has power TO reenslsve
The free is there reason to apprehend that he
will recommend anything alike faithless and 30 dis
honorable.
Having discussed Napoleon III. and Mexico in the
articles preceding this and having expressed the con-
yicton that our Government Is now entirely depart
mental" it follows that the position occupied by the
Secretary Of State and his action bearing upon Mexico
shoud next be considered Foreign affairs seem to have
been managed solely by him.
Mr.. Stewards friends doubtless with his approval de-
Eight to style him "the Preer" why 1t Is hard to dis
sover. II his influence the President be greater
Than that Of any other person. that does not make him
the Premier The Office Of Secretary Of State especially
since interior affairs have been taken away from It, pos
sesses intrinsic superiority over any other position
IN the Cabinet In England, "the First Lord OF the
Treasury" Is the Premier and In all Governments the
officer charged with the Department Of Finance which
has 10 sustain all the other Departments and in times
like the present TO supply extraordinary amount of
The sinews Of war TO the Military and Naval Bureaus
y the real Premier.
No one read the elaborated essays Of Mr. Seward
which be supposed to be speeches-can wade through
the mixture Of oracular twaddle Of patiude mistaken
Sbr generalization. and ofprophccies which make up
his diplomatic correspondence. and can calmly conem
plstA hs rolficaI career and como To the conclusion