Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-10-20

York Commercial Advertiser latter Of which
it would perhaps be more accurate to classify
among independent journal" than among nd.
ministraton" prints though in its genera lcourse il
sustains the Administration even to the extent Of
demanding the abolition Of slavery as condition
of peace.
On both the topics we have indicated the Spring
field Republican says:
"If Gen. Wallace has stated fully his reasons for sup
pressing the Baltimore Post the act without any ade
order. from The President but he s 70 order cor
recton Of the mistake he will be held responsible for it,
3d. ALSO in the Of Gov Andrew johnson. He has
more right to require an oath against the Chicago platform
than one against the Assemby's catechsn, condition
Of voting n Tennesee It'll to dsanchise every Demo
cratic voter in the State
It is impossible to say word 10 justification,
even in pastion of such acts IF they blunders
they Of the sort that In effect worse than
great fault Of Mr. Lincoln has been that he has trusted
too much to the discretion of subordnstes and has then
generously taken upon bis own broad shoulders the burden
of their But there il danger that he may 10 this
way take larger load than he stand under, and
from motives both Of justice and sound policy ne should
hasten to correct these last and most extraordinary mis-
takes OF Gen. Wallace and Gov. johnson. weeks dis
cusson of them will damage the Republican cause more
than all the stump speeches and campaign documents can
help IT between this and November" !"
The New York Commercial Advertiser, after
citing these just remarks Of the Springfield Repub
lioan, adds:
in Maryland by refusing to the newspaper pro-
pretor who to him with letter from Senator Rev
erd Johnson and he lacks the courage he had the
70 repudiae the conduct Of mis- associate on
The unscrupuous dishonesty of party and politicians s
such that any advantage matter how much in violation
Of law and sound policy is made to seem entirely jus6a
ble No party thrive upon such misdeeds and the
they epudiAted the bettAr for it and for the
country They feeble but significant limitations Of
The established despotisms Of Europe, and offer as little
prospect of free election that by which the present
French Emperor reached his throne"
And now we ask all dispassionate citizens what
they must think Of an Administration which tole.
rates such abuses of arbitrary power-abuses mani
fest, fagrant, and reiterated? Is it hoped by
'uch means to conciliate the support of wise and
good men who respect themselves and venerate
he Constitution Of their country? Or can the
Republican party, As at present constituted be the
proper home for such men, when, with here and there
In honorable exception, no man is found in its
ranks courageous enough to lift his voice in ami
nadversicn on such abuses and assumptions Of
PSWSAt <AS Wo hANC UCioAC SaACu OcSooion w
remark, there is among the Presidents supporters
no pubic sentiment which has sought to restrain
him within tho limits of the Constitution and the
laws. Every transgression he has made beyond
those bounds has been excused and pallated, where
Il has not been encouraged and defended by his
retaners, until at last Generals in our armies do
not scruple to go before intelligent audience in
Boston and openly hold the following slavish Ian
guage We quote from some remarks made at
Republican meetiog in that city on Monday last
by Brig Gen. TILToN He said:
"I don't want any peace except on such terms Abra
ham Lincoln will makeI won't say under the Constitu
on but under such terms he chooses to make, for
font kno~ 'ohere the Consultations u.s." [Cheers1
Well may Gen. Titon say, in view of the pro-
'eedings authorized by the present Administra-
lion, that he a. does not know where the Constitu-
lion is" 1t certainly is not installed in much
authority among US. At the South it is trampled
under foot by an armed sedition At the North
It is 80 cast out as an effete and worthless thing
hat derisive reference to its disappearance is
received with cheers" by men in Boston calling
themselves "loyal." There is much food for
thought and for profound solictude in such decla-
outgrowth of only three years of mill
tary rule under the forms Of . Republican Gov
ernment.