The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-02
MR.. LincoAn's Csbinss--Thc Bssinning CT
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the following distribution OF hio Executive de-
pGrfments, to wit
secretary o. state. VIM H. Seward Of N. Y.
recfetsry o. Treasury. Salmon z. Chase, O. Ohio
secretary OF war......... Simon Cameron OF Penn
secretary ot Navy. Montgomery Bair OF BID.
Secretary OF Interior. Caleb d. Smith, OF Ind
Postmaster General. Gideon w.lles Of coan.
Attorney General. Edward Bate, OF Mo.
And this Cabinet, we are tol', has been vir-
tualiy adopted as oompromise between tac
contestng sections, factions AID cliques Of the
republican party. This may be 90 but we fear
that this compromise foreshadows the predomi-
nance Of the radical anti-slavery interest and
lite dictatorship over the new administration.
Two such radicals as Chase and Blair, men Of
great energy, activity, tenacity and decision OF
character, will lead by the nose or ride over
host Of such excavated fossils as Smith, Welles
and Bates. Thus Seward and Cameron, with
the Cabinet turned against them, will have no
thing to do but to follow as Chase and Blair
may lead. There can hardly be doubt upon
this point when the history, the antecedents
and the latest expositions of Mr.. Lincoln him
self put him quite up to Chase and Blair in his
hostility to any concessions TO slavery.
Poor Pierce, ii was supposed, set out with
conservative Cabinet, Marcy, his Premier, be
ing host in himself. But Marcy's influence
and counsels in the general policy OF poor
Pierce, although backed in the beginning by
Cabinet majority, were soon borne down by
that resolute and persevering Southern revolu-
tionary radical Jefferson Davis. Hence the
repeal Of The Missouri compromise, which was
the opening OF landlords box upon tho
country. Next, the first Cabinet Of Mr.. Bucha-
nan was hailed by oil conservatives as qua
ranteeing calm, safe, steady and Union
Strengthening administration The name of
General Cass, in this view, was regarded as
tower of strength. But what has been the
sequels Cass, simply devotng himself to the
routine duties of his department, was soon re
duced to a cipher N the Cabinet and those
two ambitious and designing secessionists,
Cobb and Thompson, with Floyd as their ODE
dent tool, ruled the roast.
The results are too palpably before the eyes
Of all the world to need a repetition here.
When too late to be remedied, Mr.. Buchanan,
confding in the honesty of his sub climates,
discovers that they have been diveriing the
Treasury, the military defences and stores, the
powers and moral influence Of the government,
to the revolutionary purposes Of G Southern
confederacy. At this point, Northern anti
slavery President, running safely the gauntlet
of line of conspirators and Internal
machines from Harrisburg in quiet moon
light rice, and in bis Scotch can and long mill
tary cloak, pushes on to Washington. He is re
ceived as deliverer dropped from the clouds.
The conservatives of Congress clap their hands
The old gentlemen of the Peace Conference re
joice. "Old Abe is here. He will helpus. We
shall have compromise. That wise man, VIM
II. Seward, has him in charge, and Thurlow
Weed is at his elbow. The day breaks. Wall
street will soon hold jubilee. Allah ia Allah,
and Mahomet is his prophet"
But how stands the matter now? The Peace
Conference slip through compromise, under
as we are told George the Third slipped into
heaven, when the gate keeper was not watch.
ing. This compromise, such as it is, they try
in the Senate, #hen, lo the conservative
Seward reports against it. There is much
meaning in ibis. Mr.. Seward speaks by au-
thority. There is will, or there is power
behind him, in the republican camp, stronger
than his own He is at liberty to make fine
promises, but his action is another thing. Mr..
Corwin pushes his compromise of water Cruel,
without salt through the House. The poor
deluded people Of Washington are in costa
sies. The Union is saved, and thus one
tub after another is thrown to the whale, and
each is greedily snapped at by the whale of
public credulity at Washington, and by the
ravenous sharks of Wall street
Flatly and emphatically, we must say to all
concerned that there is no compromise, and
there is no intention to make compromise In
behalfo Of the incoming administration. Look
ing all the so-called compromise proceedings
at Washington Of the last few days fairly in
the face they vanish into thin air The forth
coming inaugural, like the late speeches of Mr..
Seward, will doubtless be as charming to be-
hold as the plains of the Promised Land, flow
ing with milk and honey But on a nearer ap-
proach Tie mirage will melt away into the
sends Of the desert. Acts and facts are what
We want, end by these President Lincoln must
be judged. Accepting the Cabinet at the head
Of this aSticle as substantial fact, what does
it signify as the initiative act Of the new adj
Eiinistration2 The control Of the administra-
ton by The anti-slsvery radicals Of the repub-
lican party, The subordination Of Seward or his
early removal from the Cabinet, aud no con-
cessions beyond the limits OF the constitution
as undcrstc cd in the North, to slavery or "the
slave power"
We naturally conclude that the events and
Developments Of this week at Washington will
give new impetus to the revolutionary spirit
and movements Of the South; that under this
new paroxysm several more States will go off
into the Southern confederacy; that the cen
forcement OF the laws by Mr. Lincoln will in
xnlve the coyernment at Washington in q war