Year: 1862

efficient use of the means of victory, still more
lavish use of every instrument which God. nature
and the nation had placed in their power--they
would only swear with fresh adjuratons, the re-
qelon must and shall be put down.


The people have denied their servants nothing
They have led: il is their rulers who have fol-
lowed. Nothing which they have done has been
grumhled at unless it has crippled the efficiency
of our army and navy. Money and men they
have had to their hearts content, till they them
selves pronounced tie untimely word. No more
are needed. And now what is the result of the
yearl What has been achieved since the last
anniversary of our independence2


How have our blood and treasure been spentf
We are twenty millions of people-the South has
less than ten. Has the contrast shownf Where
have we outnumbered the enemy two to one?
Except those advantages which our superior mar
itme power gave Us, or which the direction of
our great water courses led us to, and almost
compelled us to seize, what have to show for
our superior numbers2 what for our superior
powerI Where have Northern sinews and North
ern endurance been made by our leaders to shine
pre- eminent to win the victories which we ached
TO win. Let Shenandoah, Shiloh, Stono, and the
Malvern Hills reply. Let all the uureafed yicto
ries which one year ago We promised ourselves to
gather in the Gulf States before this summer was
past make answer.





putably the peoples voice that the President must
give them new men and new measures. They
demand that the very best brains to be found in
the nation shall be had for his advsers-that
those who have been tried and found wanting
shall make way for those whose nerves are
strong and whose hands are steady and skllful TO
help him pilot the ship of State through the He'll
Gate which environs her. The people demand,
and the press can only re echo their thunder
II duetO Of no wa
will bear all cost and loss with willing, even with
thankful hearts. But they demand imperously
that not one dollar, not one life shall be wasted
that what is spent and who are slain shall pur
chase 10 laundering delays no wretched exodus
from valleys fought over and conquered, no cot
ly defeats. They demand energy-everywhere
energy; they demand economy and wisdom in
our finance, an advance over the territory which
remains conquered-everywhere energy and
everywhere the victories which we know our
selves able and determined to win.


The shifting of General here and there will
not satisfy the people Nor the displacement of
mere war minister. The mismanagement of
our finances has cost the nation more than our
war expenses; the incompetency and slowness of
the head of the Naval Department lost US Nor
folk, and has inconceivably delayed the energetic
prosecution of the war. The alternate faulty
and frenzy of the war minister have cost us many
thousand lives and months more hard fighting.
What strength from the nation, what wisdom in
council. does the President get from the two or
three who should be his tower OF strength?
"Tried and found wanting" is the damning ver
diet which the nation pronouuces against most of
the men to whom the President has intrused for
them the administration of the war-through
whose arms they expected their own vigor and
unfatering will to flow and strikc--to the de-
structon of traitors and the crushing out of their
mOnStrous rebellion


Better men-the best in the natien; more Wig
orous measures-the most vigorous which they
plan and twenty millions can execute-this
is Today the nations voice. 1t is for the Pres-
dent to hear and obey.