The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-23
NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ZY, 1861.

r'lory so as to permit planters TO settle in II
with their slaves-an act In accordance with
the decision of the Supreme Court I'm the case
of DreS Scott, which is tho law Of the land till
reversed by another decision of the sanf9 tribu-
nal, or bya change in the constitution, Effected
in the manner pointed ont in the constitution
itself. What then, is the suggestion of the 1st
banes 1t is that thc President ought to use his
position to revoluticnize the government Of the
country.
Finding that Mr.. Lircoln will mot play into
their hands, the abolitionsts and their satanic
organ, who instigated tho secessionists of the
South to revolt, are now laboring to render the
separation perpetual, and to have two govern
ments, ono consisting Of slave States
and the other of free. They are we'll aware
that unanimity at the North is necessary
to the restoration of the Union under the ex-
treme difficulties of the CASE But they are TO
menting division and doing all they can to
make the war unpopular. This is the object of
the forthcoming demonstration, and the Presi-
dent ought to put down his foot firmly and or
der the arrest Of every mutineer concerned in
getting up this disloyal and seditious move
ment against the government
Symptoms OF Faltering Among the
Rebels and Fright Among the Aboli-
tiOnists.
The abolition journals Of the city have been
thrown into considerable Torment, within the
last few days by declaration, attrib uta-
bic, on the authority of q correspond
cnt of the Journal Of Commerce, to Bishop
General Polk, that ''if President Lincoln would
come out and say that the bred Scott decision
is right, and that the South shall have equal
rights in the Territories, the rebels would lay
down their arms and return to their homes;
that the great question of difference would thus
be removed, and we all become brothers as of
old" Such incendiary newspapers as the
Tribune and the Evening Post have no idea of
settling matters in manner so conformable to
the constitution and the laws, and betray their
anxiety lest such result should be effected by
frantic ebullitions of passion, and indiscrimi-
nate Misrepresentation, which it is not to be
supposed can deceive the public.
~ 40 AMpOeolOlC W buy WHCblCT tu0 Quiet
leaders Of the Southern instruction coincide
with the view of General Polk; bat if Jefferson
Davis, General Beauregard and their associates
are prepared to lay down their arms and return
to the allegiance they have forsaken, on no
other conditions than such as are already pro-
and should make proposition to that
effect, it ought by all means to be enter
tanned. In fact, what General Polk de-
clares to be requisite for the restoration
of peace has been already provided for,
even by the present Congress. 1t adopted a
resolution at the last summers extra session,
in which it was distinctly set forth that the sole
and only object of the war Was to restore the
supremacy of the constitution and the laws.
The decision of the Supreme Court in the bred
Scott case, is one of those judicial landmarks
from which the President, whatever may have
been his private and individual tendencies in
times that are past, can have no disposition or
will to depart 1t is virtually incorporated as
an authentic exposition of the constitution which
he has solemnly sworn to cause to be obeyed,
and which will be the guide of his acts, just so
soon as the integrity of the Union shall have
been re-established. The laws, moreover, for
the organization Of the three or four last Terri
tories that have been organized, have all been
framed in accordance with the popular sove-
reignty programme of the late Senator Douglas,
and fully protect the rights of shareholders over
their property in the domain which belongs TO
the States in common. General Polk asks, there
fore, for no more than the constitution and the
laws fully guarantee to every citizen and section
and, if the desires of all those who are engaged
in the unholy rebellion have become restrained
within equally reasonable limits, there is no
reason why there may not be speedy return
to peace.
The Con6scation act, passed by the last
session of Congress, is nothing more nor less
than necessary supplement, adapted to exist
ing circumstances, of the laws that always have
prevailed, against treason. 1t provides for the
extraordinary necessities that have been created
by the wholesale instruction that has con-
vulsed the Southern States. Wehave no doubt,
however, that if General Jefferson Davis and
his fellows will send, under flag Of truce, such
q prOp0StttOA 10 ITcSIQcuG lIHCOlu Us Is lQCOr-
porated in the language Of General Polk, and if
the rebels will consent to lay down their arms,
it will be promptly considered by the admins
tration, and the period Of calamity that has re-
Gently visited the country will be brought to
an end. Our armies may then be united, and
the government of the United States will have
leisure to turn its attention to the aggressive
attitude assumed by foreign Powers, and
properly to punish those who have insulted u.s.
From his inauguration, up to the present
hour, President Lincoln has pursued precisely
the policy that General Polk has advocated in
his proposition. It is on this account that
he has been compelled to encounter the con-
tinually increasing hostility of the newspaper
organs Of the abolition party, and that they now
appear ready to attack him in advance, for any
cooperation he may undertake, tending to re-
store peace, on the basis Of the constitution and
the laws. The Post cannot conceive of an
ignominy 80 base" as laying down arms
on any other than abolition conditions. 1t