Year: 1861

The Administration is destined to experience


considerable embarrassment in the management
of the war A careful scrutiny of the move
ments and intrigues of desperate politicians
show that there are two parties or factions,
who sympathize with the cause Of the rebels
miserable faction of the late Breckenridge
party in the North, and the ultra Abolition
Republicans headed by Greely. The former
are disposed to permit the rebels to secede, and
will exert their influence 10 that end. The
latter are not satisfied with the manner in
which the Government is conducting the war;
desiring the most furious onset, and the aboli-
ton of slavery wherever the army proceeds
They cannot abide the slow but certain and
safe policy of the gallant old veteran now at
the head of the army. The Abolltionists abuse
Lincoln, call Scott an old traitor who has sold
the Government to the South, and will cheat
the people out of the victory they gained over
slavery last year by the election of the present
Government Each of these factions have
few members in Congress, and unless choked
off, they will do considerable blowing, TO the
embarrassment Of the Government, the encou-
ragement of the rebels, and thus offer an in
ducement or excuse for the interference of
England, by the recognition of the Rebels
government.


The difficulties inseparable from war are
hoinor iporaacod frtvolou-
pretexts by Abolition fanatics, and the eunuchs
and time-servers who surrounded and sustained
the reasonable Administration of Buchanan.
Is it for the Government to offer peace to the
rebels other than that it is every day offering,
by permitting captured rebels to return to
their homes, after taking an obligation to sup
port the Constitution aud laws of the United
States, and by restoring order where the rebels
have sown anarchy, and rebuilding the public
property and railroads the rebels have destroy
ed? One Of these factions would permit the
rebels to dictate the terms of peace. The other
would subjugate the South, and violate the
Constitution of the States. But they are
powerless for evil, and Will remain so while
the Administration is sincere in its efforts to
consttutionally sustain the Union 1t is not
for the Government to make war on the institu-
tons of the States 1t is not for the Govern
ment TO accept terms from the rebels while
they are in arms against its authority. Since
the rebels have forced a war upon as, =" by
committing every robbery, outrage, aud indig-
nifty that they could invent and execute by
proclaiming their unalterable devotion to a
reasonable doctrine, which is utterly inconsis-
tent with the preservation of National Gov
ernment that could command respect, and by
threatening to capture our capitol, and to de-
grade US forever in the eyes of the whole civil
lied world, wisdom and justice alike require
that the punishment to be administered to
them shall be commensurate with the enormity
of their offences"


The great majority Of the people, however,
are united in sustaininining the Government
They do not ask the extermiDation of South
ern institutions, nor peace that is destructive
of the Government Of our forefathers. They
want the Government preserved, and its au-
thority extended and respected throughout its
boundaries. Until this shall be effected, they
desire to teach those who have unfurled the
black banner of treason so grave and terrible
a lesson that for centuries to come none will
dare to initiate their pernicious example. And
those among US who are ever ready to cavil, to
condemn, to criticse, and to weaken the Gov
ernment for the sake of indirectly benetitting
the Secession cause, are, in reality, the foes of
peace as they are the foes of the country be-
cause peace can only be re-establshed on
just, enduring, and honorable basis, and by
the complete reassertion of the authority of
the whole people of our country over its whole
territory"


Those who are compainining of the slow
movements of the army, of course, consider
themselves better Generals than Scott, and if
permitted, would rival Pierce and Schenck, in
their dsgraceful affairs at Great Bethel and
Vienna. They would have been repulsed from
iiarper's Ferry instead Of compelling the reb-
els to evacuate it or starve, as did Gen. Scott.
Every Black Republican editor, and pot-house
fanatic has suddenly become Lieutenant
General, and in his own estimation, at least. is
better qualified for Commander-in- Chief than
the war-worn veteran now at the head of the
army. 1t is hoped by all loyal citizens, that
they will be powerless in or out of Congress,
to seriously embarrass the Administration in
all constitutional measures Cor the preservation
of the Government. | believe | gave you, in
my last letter, what thought to be the policy
OF Gen. Scott. The demands of the ultra rab-
bic for battle every day. will not disturb the
calm movements Of the old veteran. The ef-
forts of the taiLend of the Breckenridge faction
Will be made in Congress, but will, believe,
be powerless for evil Scott is calmly and
surely carrying out his programme, and the
rebels are retreatirg from point to point never
to return. In doing this there has been no
general engagement, and will be none. if the
present wise policy be continued. The huge
coils OF the Union army are gradually thrown
around the rebels until they are comnelled 70