Year: 1864

We copy the following from the New York
German American, newspaper which represents
the radical German sentiment of the country,
and although decidedly anti Administration. il is
radical Republican in its political sentiments.
With this explanation the significance of the fol
lowing structures upon the policy and character
of the men in power will be duly appreciated:


One of our contemporaries, Wilkes Spirit,
few days ago, published an alarming article on
new outbreak of the secession sympathizers in
this city. AS indication of the threatening
condition of affairs, it quoted a paragraph from
the Metropolitan Record, a Catholic weekly,
which enjoys the patronage of the city govern
ment to the fullest extent, and may be consider
ed, therefore. as the representative paper of the
Common Council and the Mayor. The Spirit
insists the importance of knowing the city
and its temper thoroughly" and il "warDs the
President now, if he do not vndcate the loyal
conscience of this city, that the hopes of the
Confederates may yet be verified by wholesale
Northern anarchy"


We do not know, and we do not pretend to
know, to what extent this sounding of an alarm
may be justified by facts but we firmly believe
that vast amount of dissatisfaction exists here
at present in regard to the conduct of the war, or
rather the mismanagement fit This, however
is not so much a consequence of sympathy with
the Southern rebels, as reaction on the part of
the working classes against the almost insupporta-
BILE pressure OF high prices of all commodities
Not only have the working classes to furnish all
the food for the Confederate cannons by the op-
Grafton of this ceaseless draft-for the present
system of volunteering is nothing but drafting
under a new name-but the constantly increasing
prices of all provisions and necessares of life
weigh heaviest upon them A working man who
makes now fifteen dollars a week is worse off
than he who had only seven dollars three years
| ago. As to laying any thing by, no working
man can think of such thing at present, for
almost every one of them is living from hand to
mouth. and besides, who guarantees them the
continued value of Mr.. Chase's greenbacksf


1t is a settled conviction with every clear
sighted man, that this war is prolonged only for
the benefit of the contractors and the shoddy-
men, that the money interest has formed an i'm
meuse "ring" all over the United States, the re-
suit of whose operations will be to appropriate
the working classes IN the North, and reduce
them to the level of Russian serfs, state in
which they must be satisfied to be merely allowed
to work, while the rich contractors and bankers
roll by in their splendid turnouts, ornamented
with liveried bite trash" Should it not excite
a man who has to work from morning till night
| to keep bis family from starvation, TO read that
one of these Administration blood-suckers''
buys palace for one hundred thousand dollars,
and has t torn down to build a still costlier one
or that a newly enriched shoddy man builds a
marble stable for eighty thousand dollars, while
another spends eight thousand dollars for a pair
Of horses; shall this not act like firebrand upon
an already dissatisfied and overburdened commu-
nityf


These men may have earned even their money
in an honest way but il nevertheless excites the
auger of every who is not participant in
the administration ring" Ii anything is calcu-
lated 10 bring about outbreak, il is especially
the uDiusriied protraction Of tie war; the corrup-
| ton of the administration the recklessness of
the .shoddy men, and the appropriation of the
working classes by set of INSCRIPTIONS specula
tors; and not satisfied even with this. the harpies
who are already sucking out the liie-blood of
the nation endeavor TO have the homestead
law revoked. and the millions of brave volun
teers and OF immigrants deprived of their last
hope of possessing home upon Gods earth and
an independent living.


These things are thousand times more likely
to arouse the people Of the North to demonstra-
ton of hostility against the Administration, but
not against the Republican form or government,
than any sympathy with the rebels. The un-
paraleled and almost insupportable increase in
the prices of all commodities. the enormous pre-
MUM gold. which the Lincoln Administration
seems incapable OF counteracting, make people
think, and Mr.. Lincoln as well as his Cabinet will
learn, what the European Cabinets know already
well enough, that this state of things is the sure
forerunner of a crisis which may justly arouse
the fears of those who alone responsible for it.