The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-12

is the duty of all the States, If there
were no fugitive law of Congress, to surrender
runaway slaves to their masters on demand,
and the STAKEHOLDER has right to travel every
where throughout this Union with his slaves,
and even to sojourn with them unmolested in
the city of Boston. He has right to enter the
common territory with his slaves to settle, and
his property in their labor, which is plainly
recognized in the constitution, according to the
decision of the Supreme Court, which is the
supreme law of the land, is entitled to the
same protection as any other property. These
rights were never questioned in the
early days of the confederacy. II is
denied Their denial nowis plunging the coun-
try into revolution, and it may be into frutsess
civil war, which could have no other effect
than running the whole country, North and
South.
And yet all this s against the will Of the people
of the North. Nine-tenths of them would yoteto-
morrow for the propositions of Mr.. Crittenden
if they had an opportunity; but the politi-
clans who have the control of their political
organization will not afford it to them. The
republican party in Congress will not do it,
and all hope Of reconciliation now seems
lost. If before the lapse of the next week
measures of compromise arc not initiated by
the republican members, any overtures to save
the Union will be too late, and its doom, we
fear, will be eternally sealed.
GENERAL CAMERoSs NOSE Der OF JOINT
Our Springfield correspondent, in his letter
which we publish to-day, disposes of General
Cameron. 1t thus appears that the General
has not been appointed as a member of Honest
Abe Lincoln's Cabinet has not been offered
any such appointment and that the President
elect has never seriously entertained the idea Of
making any such offer. 1t appears, too, that if
the President elect had entertained any favo-
rable inclinations touching the claims of Gene
raj Cameron, they would have been dissipated
on receipt Of the mail bags full of remon-
strances which poured into Springfield from
the republican camp in consequence OF
the news that the General had been select
ed for Cabinet position. The reasons
assigned are somewhat in the vein of vir-
turned upon the General may be summed up in
five words-his lobby antecedents and proclivi-
ties.
Now it strikes us there is such a thing as
straining at gate and swallowing sawmill.
The republican counsellers of Mr.. Lincoln are
dreadfully shocked at General Cameron S lobby
proclivities, are theys But who is considered
as the most liberal of all our states
men and Legislators in regard to the
jobs of the lobby? Who but William H.
Seward? Yet he is appointed as the head and
front of Mr.. Lncoln's Cabinet proper, and
Thurlow Weed, the field marshal of the lobby
at Albany and at Washington, is made the
chief of the Kitchen Cabinet, while Simon
Cameron, forsooth, has been too much mixed
up in political finmciering to be trusted under
the new administration. That General Came
ron, as man Of business, is not the man to
lose an opportunity for turning an honest
penny, we are ready to admit; that his Came
roman ancestors of the Scotch Highlands were
not over nice concerning the loose cattle,
sheep and poultry Of the lowland Saxons, is
matter of history. The organ of acquisitive
ness runs in the breed. The peculiar charac-
teristics Of race, clan and family transmitted.
more or less, from generation to generation.
Thus some philosophers trace back the passion
of the Hebrews for the jewelry business to the
transactions of their ancestors in Egypt under
the instructions of Moses. But time, intermix-
ture and civilization produce great changes,
physically and mentally, in the same race.
tbu rf
the English stock of the present day; and the
Industrious law and order loving Scots of our
epoch are drawn from horde of border ruff
fans.
Thus in General Cameron the original pc
culiarites of his clan have been softened
and refined into the qualities of the active
man Of business He would make an efficient
Cabinet officer his mind is methodical and
quick in its perceptions, his political experience
is large in all parties, his habits are industri-
Gus, he is devoted to the Union. and he never
forgets his responsibilities in looking out for
the main chance. He would be an excellent
adviser of Honest Abe Lincoln in reference
to the swarms of vensl politicians that will
crowd upon him at Washington. Cameron has
studied the whole ships crew Of them, from
Dan to Beersheba; and We really suspect that
they are the conspirators who have put the
nose Of Cameron out of joint at Springfield.
But let them beware, for Cameron is like old
Butcher, and though down to-day his enemies
will find him on his legs tomorrow.
An ERA OF PoLITrcA ISsASrrY.-It would
really appear, from the indications all about
US, that the old proverb, "Those whom the
Gods wish to destroy they first make mad"
was about to receive another endorsement from
the people Of this country That the people Of
South Carolina are utterly daft there can be