The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1864-04-20

n Ricixety aud Intellectual MA,
chine % Is.
The New York Times, q leading
Administration organ, thus describe;
the MoDUs oPERANDI in which Mr.,
Lincoln runs the machine at Washing
ton which, by courtesy, is called q
Cabinet:
The mode in which Mr. Lincoln conduct,
tho Administration is quite singular. HI
put each man at the head OF a department
and then lett him TO run hi. machine" By
himself, being accountable for his W de-
. rtment. II is believed that he has neve,
called the Cabinet together more than on q
half a dozen occasions As this ia directly
contrary to the practice OF his predecessors
one is tempted to ask. why not? The rea
son is probi bly, 8 very simple one. Wher
Mr.. Lincoln appointed his Cabinet officer.
they we're from the composition of the Re
publican ~party-men who had acted In diff
ierent parties, and different sections OF q
party. Mr.. Lincoln was in the condition q
Lord Chatham, whose administration was ~
piece of mosaic work" that il they sat down
together at a dinner table, each man would
be disposed to ask Of his opposite neighbor
"who are you, sir?' To avoid ihi. question
Mr.. Lincoln takes care not to set them to
gether. The several machines thus runrine
on separate grooves, Mr.. Lincoln goes from
one 10 the other in succession. to regulate
their speed and oil their machinery. Is il
certain hat this is not as good a mode o
proceeding as the old wsyr
Judging ftom results we should say
it is quite certain that the new mode
is not as good as the old one. Add
to this EXPOSE the declaration of Mr.
Seward that "the Administration has
no policy, but is guided by the devel
opment of events," and the people neet
not be at a loss to account for the fac,
that the affairs. of the nation are al
SKIES and sevens.
We have a graphic and faithful de.
scription ofthe process by which "Un.
Gle Abraham" engineers the Govern.
ment machine in the following article
from the New York World, to which
it prefxes the slightly comical' title
of MIR. Lincoln AND HIS CABINET:
Few Of our readers are aware, probably
that Mr.. Lincoln has no Cabinet. Such i.
the fact. Doubtless Mr.. Seward is the See
rotary OF State; true, Mr. Chase is Secretary
OF the Treasury; it is not TO be denied tina
Mr.. Stanton is the Secretary Of War, anG
without doubt Messrs. Welles, Blair, Usher
and Bates are the heads Of their respective
departments; but as Tor a Cabinet, consisting
o., working daily as a BODY Of enlightened
able men. the appointed and acting c%onstitu
tionsl advisers OF the President, there is nj
such thing in all Washington. If"Csbinet'
our American system Of Government, mean;
a hall dozen head clerks charged with thc
portfolios Of the principal departments OF the
public business, then there is a Cabinet a
Washington. But il, as the Constitution
provides. and the uniiorm practice Of the
Government has been. q Cabinet means
body ofmen by the skilled Judgment Of whom
each in his spere, and by whose united judg
ment in the larger affairs of state, the Pres
ident constantly assistssand strengthens and
guides his own judgment, then, as VIC have
said, there is no Cabinet in Washington.
There has been no Crbinet meeting ior
several months. Now and then two or three
Of the Secretaries may got together IN de,
partment. or in the White House, and Mr..
Lincoln may or may not be in their company;
but there are no regular meetings Of the
whole Cabinet. to consult upon the business
OF the nation with which the Executive il
charged; and in the knots of two or three
which sometimes gather. Mr.. Lincoln's sto
rles quite IS often occupy the time as the
momentous interests OF a great nation, diyi
ded by traitors, ridden by fanatics. and ours
ed with an imbecility in the Administration
Of imperial fortunes, only less criminal than
the treason against which such feeble war is
wagea.
England is at peace to day. Yet we hear
OF her ministry In almost daily consultation
The ordinary concerns OF the nation are SUI
fc entity important to assemble the Queens
advisers in frequent and protrac;ed sessions
We Americans are waging war over the sur
face Of a continent, and our armed ships are
in every sea. Vhe nation is rocking in the
throes OF its mortal struggle; its IN is
Slaughtered or the seas; ITS homes are emp
tied Of the young men who go away by the
hundreds Of thousands to fight our battles;
we count by thousands Of millions the heaped
up debt which is to burden the industry oil
this and future generations; fresh millions
are daily added to this mountain Of debt
which it has taken Us fewer months to create
than 1t took groaning, debt ridden England
years to accumulate; the very trade and in.
dustries upon viii h we rely TO carry the
load are being steadily paralyzed by the
headlong financiering Of the head Of the trea
sury, and the watered currency with which
he is gotging oil the distended arteries and
veins OF trade; q new monarchy. is rising into
power on our southern border. born ont O
our weakness, hostile to us in its inception,
our foreordained antagonist in the future; our
enemies abroad are only hiding their time;
yet at this very crisis, when every hour is big
with the fate Of thirty millions of people, the
Congress elected and charged to care for these
supreme interests can hardly get together a
quorum to do its daily ~dawdling, and the
chief magistrate thinks it wise to. discontinue
the assembling OF his selected advisers, to
stroll from the Navy Department across to
the War OH &c. and from the War Office 10
the Treasury Department, and run the ma.
chine myself" as he terms it, lubricatine it's
huge wheels with stories picked up in "San
canon county, lllinois;' and for the remain
der OF the day, to spin plots and ~contrive
schemes, as the secretaries too are Spinning
and contriving to secure the spoils and pluD
der OF The next Presidency.
These are the men. 0 citizens Of the Uni
ted States, hat you have chosen to rule the
nation; these are the men whom you are
asked to re elect nexs November, to enable
them TO perfect its ruin.
CouNrERFErr MONEY! On Monday morn.
ing last a lot OF Counterfeit money, consist
ing OF fifty cent shinplasters and five and
two dollar bills on various b,nks. to the a.
mount of two hundred and iorty dollars,
was found in the stable OF Mr.. James Virtue