North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-06-08
The Lincoln Administration ae Phofo~
graphed by its Friends,

Mr. Lincoln is not the very modsi or purity
and honesty. For one, we have been very
much inclined to deny it, and not wishing to
incur the wratbful displeasure of few who
believe it to be treason to "oppose the ad-
minlstration," we have taken the trouble to
insert what may be regarded q most faithful
photograph, produced by ITS own friends
1t is true to life, but the half has not been
told. ...
The New Nation, a radica! paper just
started in New York, says;
+" After having rashly Y and prematurely
launched the country into the dissensions
inseparable from Presidential nomination,
the friends of Mr.. Lincoln, who believed that
by proceeding thus, they would gam the ad.
vantage of an early trial. and who IN this
hope have employed the immense patronage
at their disposal to draw the people in the
wake of certain over-complaisant Leeisla-
!ures, now perceive that they have taken the
wrong road"
The Commercial Advertiser, another New
York shcet, says:
"The original legal tender bill was a gross
and shameful violation Of justice and eau,ty.
as it interfered with the pre- existing con
tracts between individuals ; and il greatly
injured the industrial and commer ercal classes
by depriving them Of the only recognized
standard of value. For this act, no real nee
essty has ever been shown except the mere
naked assertion of ils partisanS that it was
necessary as a war measure"
The Harrisburg Telegraph, ore of the most
rabid and bloody Of that stripe, is entitled
to some credit for telling the truth con-
tanned IN an article q few days since
Among many things it says:
ave believe that the great crisis of the
war is now upon us. All things seem to
tend to this belief. And yet strange as it
may appear, those most Interested in the
business Of providing against :he worst that
may happen, are doing the least. Indeed, if
the ruin Of the public should come upon us
il the capitals Of the st ateA north ami oi the
nation, should fall into the hands Of the enc,
my, it will be while tie representatives of
the people are engaged in vain struggles pc
liti icalIy or projects concerning them selves
pecuniariiy while Congress is frittering
away its tiale in exhibitions OF b'ack-guard
ism, while Cne half Of its members are pur-
suing its own interests 10 the neglect Of the
public bGsine S. while the spectators
are depressing aud almost starving labor
and while iicientOusness and riot Fl the
land Rome to Fl 'dling Nero did not pre-
sent more frIghtful picinre, than do the
states that are loyal as we'll as the states
that are rebell'ous, EXHIBIT to the world
When all this will end or how it will end
God only knows, ard We can only say, God
save the Republic
The Now York Tribune, in Speaking of
Congress, says:
We are now in the grandest crisis Of our
National history we choose dwaIfs 10 DO
the work which may well employ angels.
There may he forty men in both Houses who
richly deserve to be there but there are at
least hundred who would be in business
fully up to their capacity if one half Of them
were trying twenty dollar suits as justices of
the peace, with the other half peLtifoggiug
before them"
DR.. Orestes Brownson, strong abolition
ist s9d very ab!e man, expresses the follow
ing opinions of President Lincoln:
"The Presidents measures are generally
wrong measures, or right measures at a
wrong time or in wrong place. HIS soul
seems NAL Of leather, aud In"apable u any
grand or noble emotion. You leave his pres
cnce with your enthusiasm damped, your
better feelings crushed and your hopes cast
to The winds. Every wisdom from him
ssems but folly.
1--WE believe him strong enough, with his
patronage and his demagogic and selfish sup
porters, to prevent any other man from get
ting the nomination. OF, If he gets it, To pre-
vent him from being elected, and We believe
HIN inst the man 20 do so
Can we doubt that all the patronage Of the
government will be welded il his favor, and
against the man who daces 10 oppose him 2
We have been imposed upon long. The
ruin which you have been unable to accom-
plish in four years would certainly be fully
consurnraated were yon to remain in power
four years longer. Your military Guyern-
ors and their Provost Marshals override the
avs, and the echo of the iron heel rings
forth as clearly now in America "a in France
or Rustria. You have enroached upon our
liberty without securing victory, and we
must have both"
Mr. Van Wyck, member of Consress fro IL
New York, said in a speech in the Ii use:
hltn single exception, Wnen mas one
Of these men (the plunderers of the treasury
been court-:nartialed OF punished ? To-day,
they have injured the Republic more than
the south in arms! Had they been arrested
and placed under the gaiiuws or in Fort La
fayette, our army would have been stronger,
and our people at home more united. No
wonder that our soldiers and their friends at
home are dissatisfied. They cannot appre-
cate the patriotism of stealing"
The New Haven Conn, Courier, devot-
cd Republican paper, says:
Contractors have carried on the war
Tie blood OF our men, the graves of our kill
ed, the tears Of our orphans and widows.
have been coined into money. They have
swindled the government out Of hundreds
of millions They have piled fortune upon
fortune. Asa distinguished officer at wash
ington said, All the operations of this war
are managed by political swlndlers."
The Indiana Free Press, German Repub-