The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-30

AUGUST BELMONl, OualTuan.
IS FREDERICK O. PEARcE, Secretary.
Gov. Boreman's Mode of Sup
porting the Government.
Gov. FOREMAN is understood to nave
said, in his speech inaugurating the cere'
monies Of the Wheeling Sanitary Far,
Tuesday evening g..
uThen let us say that President Lincoln
has done we'll, and shall have our support
until every armed rebel shall have been
subdued. By so doing we will sustain that
Government which stood among the hrst
nations of the earth"
Let US examine this position q moment !:
The Republican party has had the full
MANAGEMENT of the war. 1t has had the
President, Cabinet, and Congress, and the
cooperation Of the State Governments.-
Extraordinary powers have been given to
the Administration, and Others have been
tolerated not delegated by any authority.
Yet three years and three months have
elapsed and the termination OF the bloody
and costly strife has not been witnessed
The rebellion still preserves solid and de-
FAINT front. Our people have responded to
every call They have patiently endured
reyerses in the field and borne the iucrsas
inc pressure of distress among themselves.
Our troops have fought gallantly, and con-
tested everywhere most nobly the
claims to superior valor and heroism
set up by the rebels. In population, the
North is to the South as three to one; and
in wealth, manufacturing facilities and skill,
perhaps the same disparity exists. We
have one of the finest Navies in::the world;
thew have none. Our ports are all open
and free to tho commerce of the entire
world; theirs are closed. We have all the
nations of the earth from which to draw
our arms, munit ions aud other supplies
thew are restricted to their own shops and
fields. Where, then, rests the responsibility
ity that at this day the cause Is not more
advanced2 Is there any other way to &C
count for it than that those in authority
have not comprehended the work before
them-that they have gone on from blum
der to blunder, while half the time they
have been lost in perplesity-that they
have squandered the means freely given
them-that they have changed united
North and divided South, to divided
North and united South, by malignant leg
islation and unwise proclamations--in
word, that they have been grossly incompe-
tent?
If this be so, should this Admininistra
zion be given new lease Of that power
which it has 80 terribly abused ? Dc
we really "s,lstain that government which
stood among the first nations Of the earth,
by committing its destinies again into the
hands of man who has proven himself ut.
terly unfit for the high position he now
holds2 Are we doing our duty to our
country in this terrible crisis of her fate, il
we permithim to be President again, who,
with all the resources of mighty and war;
like nation in his hands, has failed, after
three years of bloody strife, to subdue an
enemy whose ability to make war is less
than one half of ours 2 Rather, is he not a
foe to his county who seeks to subject her
TO the control of weak, dishonest and in
incompetent officer?
If this he not so-if the war has been
managed at Washington with skill, pru-
dence, energy and economy-theu We must
contemplate long continuance of the con-
flict, infinitely greater hardships than we
have suffered hitherto, still further enor-
NOUS depletions of the wealth of the coun.
try, the loss of hundreds Of thousands of
lives, and other misfortunes now scarcely
Imaginable, to end with an exhausted
North and an independent South, For, in
that case, we must conclude tina the South
erners are a class of people peculiarly en-
lowed with military qualities, whose re-
sources are not inferior to our own, whose
means of equipping and supplying armies
are at least as good as ours, and who can
not be subjugated by our arms nor worried
into submission by Presidential edicts and
Congressional enactnents.
Either ABRAHAM LINCOLN has squander>
ed the resources of the nation and his re4
election would be crime against our coun-
try, or the Southern States are superior to
the North in power and military spirit
Which horn of the dilemma will Governor
FOREMAN take? '
THERE was time when some letters
were considered private" and to "pick one
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