The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-04-20
Some Practical Reasons for n
Change of Administration.

No one can candidly aver that the present
Administration has not been fairly tried, and
fairly found wanting. 1t is worse than folly
to pretend that Mr. Lincoln's failure the
! Executive Head of our government is owing
to any other cause than his personal iacom-
peteney. Whatever party lines rnay have
| been drawn in the North, they have IN no
wise contributed to the failures which have
signalized the conduct Of the war. Political
differences have not prevented the raising of
| large armies, nor the voting of enormous
supplies. Both men and money without stint
have been given the President and no depart
ure from the original purpose of the war has
abated one iota the physical strength which
Mr.. Lincoln, by virtue of his civil position,
and by virtue of his functions military
commander, has been allowed to WELD Those
people who try to account for the disasters
and delays of the war, upon any hypothesis Of
party divisions at home, wilfully and pidly
and dishonesty ignore the plain trufh. The
simple fact is, gigantic piece of machinery
has been put under the management of a cum
ming, but very weak and vacillating man, and
the result has been a ruinous waste OF life and
treasure. The Chase and Fremont opposition,
goaded to uncomfortable wrath at the specta.
Gle of such man having the effroptery to ask
for a second Presidential terms, have exposed
with wonderful bitterness and justice lis GRIM
inal imbecility. No Democrat need endeayor
to add anything to the pungent accusations
which are levelled at Mr.. Lincoln from his
former adherents, the people who made him
President, and now desert him in sheer dis
gust at his friyolity and unftness for his Office.
In England, Ministry which finds itself in
adequate to the exigencies which besct it, has
decency enough to resign. It is an example
to be followed here. Does any one imagine
that Louis Napoleon would BIZ sustained by
the French people, if his Crimean, Italian and
Mexican expeditions had failed Certainly
not A nation expects its ruler to prove equal
to great emergencies, and reflect lustre and
credit upon its public relations. The Ameri-
can people do not lack pride. They have in
deed been esteemed unduly sensitive as to
their standing at home and abroad. Moreover,
they are practical people, and do not see the
utility of blundering, vainglorous, spend
thrift policy, which entails upon them huge
debt, and gives nothing in equivalent Ths
people want military success as means of re-
gaining the Union. They are, tolerably sick
of bloody and hating war, which drags on
without definite results. Let lincoln retire
he has achieved substantially nothing during
his term of Office, Let him lave modesty
enough to go back to private life, and yield up
the Presidential functions to a man with higher
qualifications for them than faculty fer sto-
ry-telling. In Arabia the ,Shieh is accustom-
fessional narrator Of romantic tales, but it is not
the habit of the desert to make man Shiek \
because he has the inventive faculty. Meth
er is it the style in naval affairs to promote
the romancer of the forecastle to the captain
cy of vessel. Surely the chief Office of this
republic is sufficiently important to warrant
other considerations than the possession of a
mere jocose vein, as sole condition of its dis
tribution
The practical reason then for change in
the Administration is that the present incum-
bent has proven a failure, very expensive |
and very discreditable failure. AS he profess
es to be guided by the political tenets of his |
party, that party must share the penalty of
the faith misplaced in him. 1t must out of
sheer remorse give way, and let the old and
hoDored Democracy take the reins once more.
Our party does not underrate the immense
load of folly and damage which it will have
to carry, the work Of the negro faction, b1t
out of lore for the country, it will consent to
bear the burden. Some political organization |
must Intervene, before all is lost. The De- |
mocracy never Ainches from perilous work. |
1t can yet evoke order from chaos, and will |
do so, if it is the public will. It is magnan-
imous offer, and worthy of the great party to
which the country owes its hitherto greatness
and prosperity. Any other party would be
tempted to leave these Jewellers in the dismal
chasm which they have plunged into, but the
patriotism of the Democracy rises superior to |
all remembrance of personal wrongs, and the |
day will yet come when the few remaining Re- |
pubicans will confess with sincere penitence
and gratitude, that the nation which they had |
brought to the verge of destruction was res
cued in the last hour by their magnanimous /
political opponents.-Ftdin Dealer.