Year: 1861




mont is acting independently of the Govern
mept, or is believed to be so with common
approval, the Administration must either |
get rid of or prepare itself to give place to
him, whenever he shall find it convenient to
make the demand.
We are not yet morally prepared to accept
General Fremont, irregularly promoted, as a
substitute for Mr.. Lincoln, constitutionally
elected. Admitting the inadequacy of the
latter to fulfil the important obligations that
have devolved upon him; admitting that
we, the people of the North, are, in his
regard, the innocent victims of confidence
misplaced, we have yet to discover in Cen
eral Fremont the qualities which fit him to
step in and perform the work that will be
required of him in the same position-work
made still more difficult by the odium which
will attach to an act of usurpation. We can
not undergo violent change of Administra-
tions without the expense of considerable
human blood and therefore such changes
should not be lightly entered upon. We
should, if possible, know our man. His past
record, if not great should be right. He
should have proved himself emnently
worthy of confidence in the narrower, before
he is permitted to enter upon so broad field
of action. If we do not know that we have
such man, it is better-if human impa-
tience can be content to bear ito wait
until we find him.


That the point is intellectually being de
bated: Who is to come and administer upon
this great estste?-is fact. Men will think.
Ambitious men will cast their thoughts for
ward. We do not know-and, perhaps, it is
well that we do not-what passes in the
minds of men who find themselves suddenly
thrust into high Office, and invested with a
vast fictitious reputation. They grow giddy.
The universe seems within their grasp. They
feel as they had but to reach forward to pos
sess and, if they have the proper qualities,
they are in the right. The great prizes of
the world are just as easily gained as the
little ones by those who have the courage
and the opportunity. ..


What we are saying is not very Utopian.
The public mind is undergoing revolution.
The opinion of the utter inability of the Ad-
ministration to carry out the programme
which it has laid down is growing general;
and in proportion as this administrative i'm
potency becomes apparent and understood,
the demand that the programme shall be
carried ou::, and much more than carried out,
increases in vehemence. 1t will, ere long, be
confessed, either that the programme must
be cut down to more moderate dimensions,
or that somebody must be raised to the head
of the Government who is able to execute it
as it ie, or as IL will grow to be. We must
either reduce the work to the ability of the
Executive, or elevate the Executive to an
equality with the work.
e, The cry has been for q reorganization OF
the Government upon its present basis.
That cry has not been responded to; and ii
hes nearly ceased. Its cause has not been
removed; but it is found to be useless. The
Administration has determined to stand OF
fall together; and that determination seems
to be accepted by the people as a finality
The Administration and its organs are now
laboring to suppress opinion: teaching that
to oppose-that is to say, to expose-the
| 'OON6TumSAIi dS tuoJ CdiA IL; ID al OuonSS'
These little vigors are signs of conscious de-
bility. 1t is only great despotisms that COM
mand admiration-and that because they
feel strong in themselves.


We ought to return, before we close this
article, to "the coming mani" but we dc
not. To tell the truth, we dare not. We
tremble-not before the majesty OF the law
nor the indignation of the public, nor the
censure of the powers that be, but before tbs
magnitude of the subject. We, the people
of the North, are in state of intellectual
anarchy. How long it will be before thi
will be reflected in a state of political an
archy, who can tell ? or can predict who o.
what it is that is destined to reduce this un
happy condition to one of order and regu
,arity?


Pence Meeting in Russell County, KY


FeeIInR in the Mountains.


The Frankfort Commonwealth of Septembe
l3 has the following:


From q most reliable gentleman we learl
that, in obedience to a call issued by the Sc
J cession leaders of Russell County for peac
, meeting, about three hundred citizens assem-
bled at the Courthouse, in jamestown, an
as soon as the real character of the move
ment was evident from the attempt to pre-