Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-12

an Administration, ever so patriotic and con-
ciliatory, which ends by finishing its own
party, will be called failure.
MIR. Lincoln's success depends chiefly on
his management of the official patronage.
1t is sad TO mention so gross and material
an end to the great contest for freedom. II
is sadder still 10 say that this is the part
of his Administration which requires the
greatest moral courage frmness, judgment
and executive ability, and in which he will
most likely fail. Suppose we take the hue
and cry Of advice which has opened upon
him since the election, from some Republican,
quasi-republican, quasi-independent aud
wholly mercenary journals, as a criterion of
his course. He is voluminously exhorted to
take a conservative course. The Philadel-
phia Press and the United States Gazette
have pronounced for a conservative Admin
istration, and large pack of the smaller
fry are also in full cry on the same note.
1t is peculiarly interesting, also, to see a
Journal like the Cincinnati Commercial,
which, before election, was filled with in-
flammatory appeals to "yote for freedom"
now declaring that the conservative senti-
ment of the country demands that the Ad-
ministration shall not be aggressive upon the
institutions Of any of the States. If jour
nal had political idea distinct enough to
make it competent to turn States evidence
in this way against its own party it might be
interesting, to inquire how Mr.. Lincolns
Administration could be aggressive upon the
institutions Of the States. Mr.. Corwin, also,
some time since resurrected from the tomb
Of the Fillmore Administration, and looking,
like Alexander, for more worlds to conquer,
has come forward as spokesman for the Lin
coin Administration, and promises that it
shall be conservative. Virtually placing it
in the criminals box, he pleads guilty for it,
and promises reformation.
If these would-be organs should stop to
get an idea in their heads before they give
tongue, how could they specify what they
call conservative course2 There is nothing
that can be done or left undone, for or
against the institutions of any States. No
policy can be laid down as conservative or
radical, for there is nothing that can be done
or proposed. But what the greater part of
these conservatives mean is, that Mr.. Lin
coin shall give the Offices to faction inside
the Republican party; and rather more hos
tile to it than the Democracy, who call
themselves conservatives; and shall take
them as his advisers, with such new converts
oc xr-il 4O
shall turn the cold shoulder to what these
conservatives call radical, that is active and
working Republicans. ....
This is what is meant by conservative
Administration; and this the common in
trinity of humanity will probably carry Mr..
Lincoln into. This kind of conservatism
will be to give the cold shoulder to such
men as Seward, Chase, Wade, G. NJ.
Clay and Trumbull and take into his
councils such men as Corwin and Ew-
ing, and other fossils from the North,
who have been recently revived into
an appearance of animation by the pros
pect that Republicsnism would have cakes
prophet to tell them the result of this con-
serVatsm. 1t would dissolve the Republican,
much quicker than John Tyler did the Wing
party. 1t would be the identical course
which Tyler and Fillmore pursued, and
would end the same way. Yet this is the
course that the journalistic wisdom of the
country is pointing out for Mr.. Lincoln, and
the one he will be most likely to pursue.
His Administration will probably be a slight
interregnum in Democratic rule; just long
enough to bury its feuds. An overwhelming
victory will bring back its ancient prestige;
and the fresh distribution of the whole pa
tronage of the Government, without any of
the disaffection which follows when one
Democratic Administration succeeds another
of the same party, will restore and establish |
its harmony for another long term. This is
the most probable result of this great "vic-
tory of freedom"