Year: 1861

Never before in the history of our country
was there such a number of cabinet makers
turn off a handsome piece Of furniture, but
statesmanke fellows with pens in hand,
writing away, for their bread and butter, all
about how TO bring order out of chaos in
this unhappy country Of ours. The great
papers commence, and ali their letter writers
tell US Just 0 hat might be done TO insure the
euccess of the Government. They denounce
first one member Of the Cabinet and then
another, relating ~ positive f,cts, perhaps,
unreliable rumors which the foul vapors Of
slander have generated; aud the simpler
portion Of the people take it all for history.
Some half-siarved correspondent of news
paper, who failed perhaps in his efforts to
obtain a c.erkship in one Of the departments
at Washington, combines comfort with pleas
ure bv inserting in his letters some score or
two Of gratutous lies at the mutual expense
Of his employer and the funciouary. who
should have given him desk aud n bunch
Of red tape. Such scrub may actually in
fucnce the minds Of some who read his let
ters, and cause them to feel distrustful of the
men entrusted with the destinies Of the ma
ton. We see no such trash in the public
newspapers in Secessia The free-born sons
Of Cottondom-v no could not brook whole
some restraint in a good Government, and
who therefore sought TO establish anarchy
they are not treated TO any fr"thl denun


Citations of men high in the control Of reNel
affairs. The newspapers Of the South are In
structed that the truth is not to be spoken a
all times and they lend no encouragement tC
loyalists by predicting a total failure of the
rebellion because some Cabinet officer is in
competent or unfathful. The proceeding,
of the southern Confederate Congress are
had with closed ,loors, and the movements OF
the rebel Government whethe. Of financial
or military character, are not regarded rs
proper subjects for criticism in the South


In the North, thousands who can barely
write paragraph, are doing it, and lahorng
to show how wisely they would conduct af-
fairs were they only at the helm. some
prominent journals at the East have as
sailed the Cabinet with the utmost virulence.
They may tell some truths They doubtless
tell a great many lies But what good il ac


complished by attacking She Government
officers at every turn they make to battle
with the existing difficulties OF vhat bene-
fit can it he TO the cause Of the Union to re-
present the war for its preservation as a
grand game to sell poor goods for barge
prices? There is 10 decency in parading in
the public prints every statemena made 10y
anonymous letter writers, calling in question
the honesty Of men occupying high places
The most violent Of these accusers have no
specific charges TO make They should be
stopped The country is in the midst of an
awful war; and needs all its strength. The
wretches vino can End no better employment
than lahorng 10 show the people that the
Government is in the hands of thieves ought
TO be shut up or employed upon the public
works. II no other remedy will drive ava,
such newspaper gnats and fiics let the whole
coantry be put under military rule. The
nation cannot be preserved if every scrib-
bier and talker is to be tolerated in attempt
at destroying the conilcuce of the people in
the men at the head Of public affairs. No
doubt the Cabinet could be changed for the
better. But whether it is to be changed or
TO remain as it is, we want to put down the
rebellion Editors who talk or write about
"deposng the Administration ought to he
tIeated ms traitors. If the hateful spirit Of
party makes men unwilling to sec the nation
saved. lest another party than their Own
should reap glory from such n result, why do
they pretend to he Union men2 We hope
the Government will begin pretty soon to
deal with all shades of treason as all other
great nations do in times Of revolution, even
though as we s,id before. the whole country
be placed under military rule.