Year: 1861




Gus species of sedition nor can the Govern
ment, if it is factor even if it becomes a
generally prevalent belief-do otherwise,
consistently with its own safety, than remove
lis cause, whatever may be the temporary
expense to its popularity. If General FIRE.
mont is acting independently of the Govern
ment, or is believed to be so with common
approval, the Administration must either
get rid Of, or prepare itself to give place to
him. whenever he shall find it convenient to
make the demand.


We are not yet morally prepared TO accept
General Fremont, irregularly promoted, as a
substitute for Mr.. Lincoln, constitutionally
elected. Admitting the inadequscy Of the
latter to fulfil the important obligations that
have devolYed upon him; admitting that
we, the people of the North, are, in his
regard, the innocent victims of confidence
misplaced, we have yet to discover in Gen
eTal Fremont the qualities which fit him to
step in and perform the work that will be
required of him in the same position-work
made still more difficult by the odium which



not undergo violent change of Administra-
tions without the expense of considerable
human blood and therefore such changes
should not be lightly entered upon. We
should, if possible, know our man. His past
record, if not great, should be right. He
should have proved himself eminently
worthy of confidence in the narrower, before
he is permitted to enter upon so broad a field
of action. If we do not know that we have
such man, it is better-if human impa-
tience can be content to bear ito wait
until we find him.


That the point is intellectually being de
bated: Who is to come and administer upon
this great estate?-is a fact. Men will think.
Ambitious men will cast their thoughts for
ward. We do not know-and, perhaps, it is
well that we do not-what passes in the
minds of men who find themselves suddenly
thrust into high Office, and invested with a
vast fictitious reputation. They grow giddy.
The universe seems within their grasp. They
feel as they had but to reach forward to pos
sesS and, If they have the proper qualities,
they are in the right. The great prizes Of
the world are just as easily gained as the
little ones by those who have the courage
and the opportunity.


What we are saying is not very Utopian.
The public mind is undergoing revolution
The opinion of the utter inability of the Ad-
ministration to carry ou: the programme
! which it has laid down is growing general
and in proportion as this administrative i'm.
potency becomes apparent and understood
the demand that the programme shall bt
carried out, and much more than carried out
increases in vehemence. 1t will, ere long, bt
confessed, either that the programme mus
be cut down to more moderate dimensions
OF that somebody must be raised to the hea
of the Government who is able to execute
as it is, or as it will grow to be. We mus
either reduce the work to the ability of tn
Executive, or elevate the Executive to al
equality with the work.


The cry has been for a reorganization G
the Government upon its present basi:
That cry has not been responded to and
has nearly ceased. Its cause has not bee
removed; but it is found to be useless. Th
Administration has determined to stand @
fall together and that determination seem
to be accepted by the people as inality
The Administration and its organs are no1
laboring to suppress opinion; teaching this
to oppose-that is to say, to expose-th
Government" as they call it, is an offens'
These little vigors are signs of conscious de
bility. 1t is only great despotisms that com
mand admiration-and that because the
feel strong in themselves.


We ought to return, before we close thi
article, to "the coming man." but we d
not. To tell the truth, we dare not. W
tremble-not before the majesty OF the Law
nor the indignation of the public, nor ii
censure of the powers that be, but before tt
magnitude of the subject. We, the peop
of the North, are in state of intellectu
anarchy. How long it will be before tn
will be reflected in state of political al
archy, who can tell or can predict who
what it is that is destined to reduce this III
happy condition to one Of order and reg


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