The weekly Butte record., 1863-01-31
Letter from the East.
IEDIrOHIAL coAEEsroxDExcE.l
THEE RIVERS, (siich-) Dec. 50

Another week Of suspense and inaction has
passed. The feverish state Of the public mind
has been greatly increased BY the details of
recent battles, and By the developments Of the
courts-martial. The bluuderincs Of the imbe-
Gle Administration are freely cauvassed, and
terrible retribution awaits the dominant par
ty from the war-riven and tax-ridden people.
The criminal blunders of the Administration
have resulted in nothing but defeat and disas-
ter. The Cabinet remains unchanged iu its
imbecility and pusillanimity. Burnside. who
honestly acknowledges himself incapable of
commanding the Army Of the Potomac, has
generously assumed all the responsibility CT the
recent defeat The committee on the conduct
of the war have generously ascertaned that no
one was responsible, whereupon, the Republi-
can Senators made an onslaught upon Seward,
who has no voice in the conduct of the war.
The President, however, has here shown bis
irmness and fitness for the proud position he
occupies. and has announced that, nothing that
Clay (Cassius VI can do, shall be allowed to
interfere with his Cabinet! There is nothing
Ike frmness in a President. Glorious old
Abe has got it. Nothing that Clay can do
shall interfere with his Cabinet Brave Un-
Gle Abe! How cheap Clay must feel. Banks
has superseded Butler. aud the latter is expect
ed in Washington during the present week Is
it not singular that the Administration could
not permit Banks to go up the James River
and assist in breaking the military power OF
the rebels, instead of supersedng Butler, TO
carry out political prOclamations The brutal
proclamation from the rebel chief, will, un-
doubtedly, call out retaliatOry one from the
radicals who control the Administration, and
then every decent American citizen might well
wish that the rebels and radicals were the only
ones who were liable to have their throats cut,
or their wind choked of. But the President
will not be permitted to notice Daviss proela-
nation until after the lst of January He is,
just now, being pressed " up to the sticking
point for his emancipation proclamation and
to this end he is daily waited upon by con-
glomerate delegations of political preachers
and blacklegs. Our noble President deigus
no reply to these numerous delegations except
the soulstirring one that nothing that Clay
can do shall be allowed to interfere with his
Cabinet The Executive back is evidently
M IN bo ~
A Resolution Mr.. Noell, of Missouri,
lately offered resolution in the House at
Washington, from which we extract;
That while the Government of the United
States is engaged in actual war to suppress
unlawful combinations of its own citizens in
open rebellion against the constitutional au-
thority, no person or persons owing allegiance
to it have a right by reason of the fact that
that war is not prosecuted for legitimate or
constitutional purposes, or by legitimate and
constitutional means, to withhold his or their
support to the efforts of the Government in the
prosecution Of the war;
This resolution asserts the right of the Ad-
ministration to conduct the war not only by
illegitimate and unconstitutional means, but
for illegitimate and unconstitutional purposes
1t is put ont to prepare the public mind for
the charges contemplated by the radicals who
control our noble President. They are fanati-
cal enough to suppose that the army is under
moral, legal aud military obligations to prose-
cute the war for unconstitutional purposes
They are fanatical enough to suppose that
they can set aside the Constitution, which
makes Mr.. Lincoln Commander in Chief, and
still maintain him as Commander-in Chief 1t
is thought that the army is about as intelli-
gent as the Administration, and knows that it
is under command of the President no longer
than the President remains true to the Consti-
tuition. Would to God that the President had
exhibited the frmness to kick the polIuing
atmosphere of the radicals from his presence.
and conducted the war as announced in the
Crittenden resolution. His Administration
would have thus gained place in history. as
having aided the loyal men of the nation in the
preservation of the Union. What pity that
his great frmness should be exhausted by the
Jacksonian declaration that, nothing that
Clay could do should interfere with his Cabi-
net :" C.
RADICALISM KICKS THE BEAM.-The man
who two wears aro would have predicted that