Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-10
Who Established, admtnsstered and
Maintained the Goyernmcnt.

At he extra session Of Congress held in July,
lr6i, President Llnco!n s1d:
Our popular government his ofen iee1s cslsd
m exeeiiaent Two points 40 itour pesp have
alfead, sfttied-the successful establishing aud
the successful administering Of II. One still
mains-its sacce~sf0l ln.iataiRaBee against FOR
midab.e internal attempt to overthrow il IL Is
now foe them dernonsrraie the world that
those who can fairly carry an election. can also
suppress a rebellion: that ballots are the righiful
anfpescefui Successors OF buliet-. and thai ~isea
ballots have fairly and copstigutionaly decided
there can be successful sppeal back 10 bullets:
rhft there can be no successful appeal cXcept 20
ballots themselves at succeeding elections. Such
will be a great lesson Of peace-teaching men
that what they csaBot take by an election. ne'tuer
can they take by sar-teaehing all the folly -
being the beginners OF a war.
The above extract furnishes much food for re
Election, well a. some speculation as TO It's real
meaning The two points which President Lin
coin says have beer settled. namely. the succes.
ful establishing aud administering the Govern
ment have both been settled by the party not in
power Had the radicals or extreme men ofI1s7
had their own way, the present Government
would never have been successfully established
They opposed IL strenuously IN the Convention n,
and after iis adoption by the Convention. they
opposed its adoption by the States but the rhdi
established VIII Mr. Lincoln. or any considera-
BILE number of bis partisaus contend chat. IL the
question was TO day whether the present COnsfi
tuition should be accepted. they wonid vote in
favor o III We think not. The point may be
as well admitted that the Government was not
established by persons holding opinions akin TO
the present Republican party
The next proposition that il has been success
fully administered is also true; but il is equal '
81 81.
from which il inherited its principles and prac-
tices.never were. in the past able successfully
adminisierit, and from present appearances never
will be in the future. At four different periods
before the election of Mr.. Lincoln. that party ri-
umphe'l First, in the election of John Adams
in 1877; Second. in the election of John O
Adams, in 1924: Third. in the election of Gen.
Harrison, in 1870 aud fourth, in the election OF
Gen. Taylor. in 1e4S
By referring to the history Of the Government.
il will be found that during these sixteen wears
in which the party opposed to the Democracy
held the reihs. IL was not successfully admins
tered. The unconstitutional acts of the Admin
isiration of ohm Adams, especially the alien and
seditiOn laws, make IT so unpopular that the
power was wrested from its hands ut the end OF
fouryers So badly were the affairs of the Gov
eminent administered that civil war was immi
nent The Administration of John @. Adams
was not more fortunate He elected to the
Presidency by Congress and not the people II
during his Administration that notification
took It's rise. and so badly were the affairs of the
nation administered. that Mr.. Adams was de
feated by overwhelming bv Andrew
Jackson. IL was only through the able admin
istrative ability OF Gen Jackson that the country
saved from civil war. the seeds of which had
been deeply planted under Mr. Adams.
The Administration of General Harrison and
General Taylor were each of too brief duration to
even mention them AS having any policy Gen
eral Harrison i'm office only about month
anu General TAYLOR only "a little over year, and
upon the succession of Mr. Tyler in the one case
aud Mr. Fillmore in the other. the policy OF the
Republican party was abandoned. This brings
us down To the fifth and last trial Of the Republi
party, and the advent of il the com
mencement of the rebellion. If il is that the
point has been established that the Government
has been successfully administered under and in
accordance with the Constitution, it Is equally
tire that the Republican party have uniformly
tailed to administer it successfully whenever
placed in power.
We come now to the remarkable portion of thi:
extract-..It is for them to demonstrate {,
the world that those who fairly carry nm cleo
ton can also suppress rebellion" Whit die
President mean? Was il his opinion that the
Republican party unaided could suppress the re
bellion? We confess the sentence is an enigma
All we can say u.s. that if he intended to put forth
such a doctrine, time has proved that he wa:
utterly mistaken. He had the warm and united
support of the Democracy of the North so long
as he adhered to the Constitution in endeavorina
to put down the rebellion, and to-day there would
not be dissenting voice against the vigorou.
prosecution of the war, if the safeguards to pub
lie liberty were not iramped upon and set at de
hance. II he does not have it he alone is NJ ault
IL we Judge of the future by the past. we car
safely say that if the Government is maintained
it must be through the aid which the Democratic
party can render. and not BY the men who carried
the election in favor of Mr.. Lincoln. at the ballot
box Detroit Free Press.