Year: 1861

The Chicago Post which the Sentinel
wishes all Democratic papers to initiate,
contains the following truthful picture
which we trust that paper will transfer to
it's columns:


Ore of the most remarkable evidences
Of the tota. unfitness of men Of ultra sem
timents to 1ule and govern free people,
is furnished by the failure of the govern
ment, at its very first efforts to suppress
rebellion. When the war commenced the
entire people of the north rallied to the
support of the Administration. All the
men and all the money it stood in need of,
could be had. The war was popular be-
cause it was to preserve the Constitution
and the Union. Democrats We'd with re-
publicans in supporting the war, and in
putting down the unholy rebellion. When
Mr.. Lincoln had an army of 1SO, 900 men
at his command, and the entire navy SUBJ
Ject to his order, the red hot, crazy anti
slavery fanatics confident of success, de-
manded that the war should be perverted
from its original design, and directed to
the foreibe emancipation of the slaves.
Cabinet officers, through their friends,
used the war. not to put down the rebel
lion, but to protract it, by the means of
swindling, contracts, which left the SOL
diers without proper food or clothing, and
made the contractors rich. The war, in>
stead of being directed solely to the sup.
preston of rebellion, and the preservation
of the Union, and the enforcement of its
authority, was suffered to fall into the
hands Of swindling spectators and crazy
aboitionists. The consequence was that
an ill-fed, starving army was precipitated
into action on the way to Richmond, and
defeat and disaster followed the error.
The Administration cannot say that it has
not had hearty support from the Democ>
racy of the North. In Congress and in the
field they have shown themselves earnest
and devoted in their patriotism. How
bage they been treated! We speak no
more than the truth when we say that
generally, the Administration has swept
them from federal Offices with far more
vigor than has been displayed in my mil,
itary operations directed against the
rebels.


To this wholesale prescription, there
are, we know, many instances of honora-
bic exception, but we speak not Of this
city but of the policy pursued throughout
the country generally. This prescription
on account ofpast political opinions, how
ever, has not been pleaded, ought not, and
never can be justly pleaded as an excuse
for not rendering hearty support of the
war by the prescribed, as we'll as by those
who were considered better qualified to
fill the civil offices in time of war.


But the constant and the incessant cla-
NOR to violate the Constitution We are en-
deavoring to preserve by pervertlng the
war for the forcible abolition Of slavery,
and the senseless denunciations of all those
who protest against that policy, as traitors
and secessiorists, has had the effect of de-
stroying confidence in the Administration,
and consequently has had the effect of
making thousands lukewarm in cause in
which under other circumstances, they
would be most Jealous.


Nor has the conduct Of the war been
such as to inspire confidence either in the
capacity or integrity of those having its
conduct in charge. The cry of "fraud"
has been raised flom the beginning, and
has been persisted in by Administration
papers up to this time. The most lament
able result has been that in the north there
has been created large party of men who
are opposa1 to further prosecution Of
the war by men how having it in charge
party that refuses to support war when
the Cabinet officer at the head of the War
Department is publicly accused of swind'
ling. and Of lining his own pockets by
enormous profits. They say also that the
Administration has had nearly six months
in office, and this day the tents Of the en-
emy are pitched within cannon shot of the
Potomac, and instead of rebellion being
crushed it is Haunting its banners within
sight Of the executive mansion.


There is no use in denying or attempt
ing to conceal the fact that the country il
not satisfied with the manner in which
the affairs of the war have been admins
tered, and between the lack of confidence
in the War Department, aud disgust anc
hostility towards the blatant demagogue
who seek to prostitute the war to politica
and party ends, there is a party at tb'
north who do not support the war, anc


who are anxiouslv looking for peace t.