Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-15

Certainly the Navy Department has net
given satisfaction. Whether it could have
done better we do not mean to intimatei
indeed we are of the opinion that Mr.. Mall
Tory has done about as we'll as could have
been expected. he has no navy because
he had no navy yards, no ships, no men,
and because foreign governments would |
not permit him to buy. He has lost nearly |
all his gunboats, because they could not |
be built, with the diminished resources of |
this country, of strength sufficient to en-
counter the vessels of the enemy. But,
Notwithstanding all these difficulties, there
does exist a strong desire on the part of
the people for change in the Navy De-
partment.
The State Department has not secured
US recognition; but that was more its mis-
fortune than its faith. Mr. Benjamin has
not left uutrie1 any expedient that would
have influenced foreign governments to
| give US justice and right. But he could
not make them act. Hence he has failed;
aud any other statesman would probably
have succeeded no better. One great
cause OF Mr.. BeDjamin's uupopulsrity has
been the fact that in o proclamation sign
ed by him as Secretary of State has ever
the existence of a triune Gcd been admit
ted. He has confined his State papers to
deistical belief, and stamped upon the re-
ligIous faith of the country a practical de-
NAL of a Trinitarian Jehovah. This was
his faith. but not the faith of that wide
spread religious sentiment that prevail
throughout this country. The people do
not like to be made to choose between Je4
sus Christ aud Judah P. Benjamin, and to
take the latter in preference. Twice the
Congress has endeavored to change this,
and has adopted resolutions designed to
preclude the exclusion ofour Saviour from
the prayers of a people asking the inter-
position of God in our behalf, but each
time the express resolution has been dis
regarded. This matter of religious faith
is no insignificant affair. 1t is the deepest
sentiment in the souls of this people-it is
the distinguishing trait in the character of
this reVolution-it has its influence
in the camp and at the hearthstone, in tenn
pie and legislative hall, and has its recog-
milton in confessions of thousands of our
army. When disregarded it has shocked
the whole fabric of religious faith. APP
pealiug to God and not recognizing the
Divinity of His Son is mocking Jehovah
with the vain repetition of words which
have no meaning. The country ask no
hypocrisy from Mr.. Benjamin.; his religiA
GUS belief is respected, but they desire
some other statesman, whose faith more
accords with the religious convictions of
the people.
We present the public sentiment of the
country as it appears to US, protesting no
wish or purpose to be.unfrieudly or unkind
either to the President or the Secretaries
Were We to misrepresent the sentiment of
our countrymen aud deceive the Execu.
tive into the belief that there was no com.
plant against his Secretaries, or withhold
! the honest expression of public opinion as
it presents itself to US, we should neither
be the friends of the President nor lover
of the country. Truth and candor are at
all times proper, aud should be at all times
acceptable to the President. If he would
retain the confidence and love of the PEG
pie, unite and strengthen the bonds of at
tachmeDt between himself and his country
men, reanimate the public heart and give
hope and the assurance of success to the
people, he will calmly consider the facts as
presented, and speedily give them recogui-
ton in the reformation of his Cabinet