Year: 1863

The Congressional Committee on the Conduct
of the War state in their published report that
"the Administration called by the people to the


head oftthe Government, in this the most critical


period of the nations history, has been more
promptly and fully supported than that Of any
other Government Of which history has preserved
any record The call of the President for money
and men has been more than complied with; no
| legislation which he has deemed necessary had
{ been denied by Congress-; and the people have
most nobly and generously supported and sus-
tanned what their representatives had promised
in their name"


This statement is entirely just aud its justice
is not essentially diminished by any thing that
has occurred since it was originally made. The
people to-day, though we believe large majority
of them dissent from some of the measures of the
Administration, are not willing to say or do any
thing that embarrass its operations or detract
from its efficiency Many see Cor honestly think
they see) that the Administration makes mistakes,
and if they give expression to this belief in par


cular instances, it is because they desire to guard
it against errors injurious to the cause of the
Union, and not because Of any factious opposi-
ton" waged on purely political grounds. That
there are others who do oppose the men and mea-
sures Of the Administration for partisan reasons
or objects, is undoubted; but they make little
impression on public opinion, and do more damage
to themselves than to the Administration. And
yet, if we were to judge from the tone of certain
Administration papers, we should be constrained
to believe that there never was an Administration
which had much to fear from the people as this,
and if we should take them at their word, we
should be compelled to infer, from the frequency
of their appeals to "support the Administration"
that never was an Administration SO badly sup
ported. We are glad to see that that intelligent
Administration paper, the New York Evening
Post, does not concur in this view, or initiate
these parrot cries. In its number of the Oath in
slant it says:


"The Government has made mistakes; it has at times
pursued illogical weak, and tmid policy; it has done
things calculated to al enate popular sympathy but
outside Of that really uDmportant class which have made
ends paramount to the public good it has always
been able to rely upon cordial unconditional, and eff
cient support No moral power in this country has
been stronger n times past than party feeling it has
sembled the canship Of earlier states of society;
have fortune reputation and ceaseess and unspar


ing efforts to the of their political party neverthe-


ess the popular attachment to the Union has been stron
ger than party and confidence in it's stability in
times Of almost partisan madness has risen above all
sderanns of interest all social and domestic affections,
all political claims and influences, until it has reached the
dignity Of an undyng virtue There who forget
ting the strength of this instinct Of nationality have at
intervals in tine dismsly prophesied defeat be-
Of party rancors and discussions. There
Others traitors at heart who have abored TO stimulate
organized resistaace to the constituted authorities
using all the arts of the demagogue to Dhsme local and


actona prejudice, and of the great parties of


the country in open hostility to the war and the Govern
ment But in every instance, in every State where this
has been attempted, temporary success only has
warded the effort and honest disclosure Of the designs
Of the engaged the sober second thought Of the
people has always brought gnomnou failure upon their
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