The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-03-18
From The Me,o York Herald.
The Question at Issue in the Next Presis
Dental Election.

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Dental Election.
Never in any of our Presidential cleo
tons, have the people been called to de-
tcrmine upon all issue so clear and dis
tinct as that which they must determine
this year. Events have decided or put
out OF the way all merely political points
Even the niger is done with, and would
have been as certainly done with without
the Presidents proclamation. Our poll
teal questions were questions of opinion,
and war always settles such questions
quickly. Great struggles brush away the
minor divisions that are between people,,
and put in their places grand and often
unmanageable facts. So positively are po-
litical questions dead, that there are even
no parties for the democratic party was
annihilated in the last election, and the
republican party in the one before. But
III place of these little party questions we
have now only great national question,
and that is upon the war and the ueces-
sity that we should end it. 81
Though a great deal has been said
about divided North, nations have sell
dom shown greater unanimity than the
Northern people have shown in this war.
Men have offered themselves with devo-
ton paralleled only in the annals Of the
French Revolution, and money has been
given with readiness and to an extent
never before seen; and all that the peo-
pie have required in return has been that
the administration. would put down the
rebellion--put an honorable end to the
war, and give the country peace. But
the administration cannot do it. Sur
rounded on all hands by contractors, with
the very reins of government in the hands
of men eager only for personal aggrandize-
ment, the administration Of Honest Abe
is miracle of corruption. Through the
Treasury, the Navy, the War and the
Revenue departments, the wealth of the
country is poured into the pockets of shar-
pers, and the army Of fellows who are
thus fed by the war have determined that
it shall not end if they can help it. In
this way whatever good intention there
may be on. the part of the Executive is
embarrassed by corruption and when
corruption has not been the difficulty
imbecility has. Through one or the other
of these influences the plans by which the
war would have been euded ere this have
been set aside, and the administration
has given us, in their place, its advances
on Richmond by way Of Bull Run, Fred
ericksburg and Charlottesville. Half of
the money SO far spent in the war has
been squandered in this way one hun
bred thousand citizens of the United
States have been murdered in this way;
and in this way the war has been dragged
into its third year, and will be kept up
until the debt will equal half the value
of all the property in the country. At
tempts enough have been made to show
beyond all question that Mr.. Lincoln can
not end the war, and what the country
wants is man who can. Such is the is
sue of the next Presidency. And upon
this simple and distinct issue there is TO
be this year one of the graudest revolu-
tions that the world ever saw. Appa-
rently the people are now somewhat in
different upon these points; but it will
be found that this apparent apathy is only
the usual ominous quiet that precedes
great uphearal. 1t is always so. Only
the week before the tremendous excite
ment in which the country rushed to arms
when Sumter was fred upon, the cores
pondents of the London papers wrote that
the Northern people had no interest in the
questions at stake. So it will be in the
present case, and the apparent indiffer-
ence with which the people now comtem-
plate the political maneuvres of the par
ty in power will tighten into revolution
that will sweep away the last vestige Of
that party.
There is, therefore, but one question
for the people to decide in this matter,
and that is, who is the man that will end
the war? General Grant and General
Mcclellan are the only men of any prom
Use in that way. Unfortunately, the
radicals have caballed and intrigued 50
successfully against General Mcclellan
that they have arrayed against him the
minds Of great many good men in the
country; and his comparative want of
success-though also the result of the
Vaccinations of the radicals--wil weak
en- him in the popular view. And thus
the field is left to General Grant, who is
prominently the man for the occasion.-
Never before had people on opportu-
nifty to place, by their own will, so grand
conqueror at the national helm. Ger
tainly it would be the last evidence that
we were a besotted and blinded people if,
with man like General Grant within our
reach, we should coldly pass him by to
re-eleot the imbecile joker who had drag
ged the country into the slough of slaugh-
ter and corruption that it has been in for
the past two years.
MARYLAND CONSTITUTIONAL Con-