Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-12-10

RADICALISM EXEMPLiFIED.

ton Commonwealth the following observations In
defence Of what it calls the extraordinary means
taken to procure the control OF the House OF f'e
presentatiyes in the Congress which is 10 meet on
Mopday next
The Thirty eighth Congress is about to assemble The
Senate will large Administration majority, and the
Hou.e one sufficiently large to elect the caucus nomna
tia Tor speaker, clerk, and other Offices We say TINS
without having carefully examined the tables, Tor We as
sumo that the Admlnstrau would not have resoted 10
ts ,oDewa ordlnary OF carrying elections III
the Border States unless had been that these means
successfully used, would give it working majority we
d. find fault with the mach cry used to carry Mary
land and Delaware Having nearly lost tue control OF the
House by It's plumbers III the conduct Of the war ir N
March 1851 to the fall Of 1862, the Administration owed
II to the country IT, recover that control somehow
recover it regularly impossible rreguarity mad 10
be resorted TO- Popular will not suffer, tor The
copps rhead element will have much larger NUMBER OF
members both braLches than 1t is entitled TO by It's Popu
lar Ohio with its ninety thousand Repuoncan ma
iory Nl be represented by five Republicans and dozen
or more copperheads 1t is fitting that this msreprese
ta"u Of popular sentiment IN the great State OF Inc West
shoula be Offset necessary by loyal delegation from
and Delaware at the expense OF nll
tary interference II aws silent amidst the cisns oil
arms lake that the aggregate puoc oPiou
oil the county obtains recognition, somehow or other
In giving this specimen of political efrontery
we would not have our readers suppose that we
impute to the Administration as a crime the charge
of which this Boston sheet makes itself the supple
apologist, on the assumption that the crime had
been actually committed. Whatever may have
been the motives of Gen Schenck in taking mill
tary surveillance of the elections in Maryland and
Delaware, (respecting which we have nothing more
to say than we have already said we feel bound
in candor to acqui the Administration of any COM
plicity in the meditsted purposes which are deemed
by The Common wealth to afford the only sufficient
explanation of the anomalous proceedings 1t justi-
fss. We know that Gen Schenck took his initia-
tive in this matter without Instructions from the
President, who interfered in the premises only for
the purpose of couutermanding that portion of the
orders which, whether so designed or not, would
most obviously lend itself to violent interference
with the right of suffrage. If the President had
medtated that rape Of the elective franchise which
the Boston paper ascribes to the Administration,
he would not have modified the orders originally
promulgated, for their greatest efficiency as dis
turning element resided in that clause which the
President annuled the instant it was brought to
his attention.
Nor, if the President had been accessory be-
fore the fact to this outrage the laws of loyal
State, would he have been prompt to pledge his
word to call to account all officers who night be
proved to have committed the excuses charged
against them. And it is within our knowledge
thatcharges Of the gravest character, supported by
afidavis, have been lodged with the President
against certain of the agents distributed throughout
MARYLAND for the purpose of carrying General
Schencks orders into effect In the preoccupa
tons incident to the impending opening Of Con-
gress We presume the President has not found
time to give these papers 4 proper examination,
but when he does so, we have the abiding conviction
that be will do his duty in The premises, as far as
he can repair what, in most of its aspects is un-
fortunately irreparable
But what shall be said of the political reckless
ness which does not scruple first to impute crime
to the Administration and then to apologize for it
Assuming that it was "the Administration" which
resortcd to " the somewhat extraordinary means Of
carrying the elections in the Border States" thi:
worthy exponent Of radicalism" does not hesitate
to say that it " finds no fault with the machinery
used" to secure an Administration majority in The
House of Representatives "large enough to cleo
the caucus HUlhluec loI SNIh, anu oLhel
officers" The Administration, it says, having
by its own blunders in the conduct Of the war from
March, 1861, to the fall of 1862 nearly lost the
control Of the House, &" owed it to the country tC
recover that control somehoU." Aud, as laws are
silent amid the clsnk of arms, it was most con
venieDt to restore the political balance b,
throwing the sword into the scale that was il
danger of kicking the beam 1t was fitting tina
the lo.s of political power last autumn in the Yves
should be redressed, off necessary" by loya
delegation from Maryland and Delaware, won thi
year, "even at the expense of military interior
encc." We must take care that the aggregat
public opinion Of the country finds recognitio
somehow or other"
We do not quote these avowals for the purpos
of controvertiug them. We spare ourselves thi
humiliation, and our readers the insult to their in
tegence which would be implied by supposin
there could be any necessity to argue again,
such monstrous assaults on public and politics
morality We set them before our readers as
simple illustration Of rodicolism, in its natura
efiorescence and fruits.
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