The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-27

! season may be obtained, and where there will
be the fullest guarantee that no reasonable in
tercourse will be allowed them. Government
would do well to send them there just as ami
able old Dix sent his curiosity shop Of prisoners
to the Gilmore House at Baltimore. The loca-
ton is magnificent and the inducements to low
atty are superb. We hear that Mr.. Bennett has
recently had Mr.. Thurlow Weed for his guest,
and that these two worthless have arranged be-
tween them just how the war shall be carried
on. The ladies will thus have even their curl
osity catered to without any danger to the
Union. Send them by all means to Fort Wash
| ington.
The Conspiracy In the Republican Camp
Against the Cabinet-AnOthcr Masked
Battery.
We submit to our readers this morning a very
suggestive commentary from the New York Tii-
| baaae on the alleged shortcomings, corruptions
and imbecilties of Honest Abe Lincoln's"
Cabinet, and imperiously demanding change
| in the War and Navy Departments This broad
| side Of shot and shell does not come from the
editorial columns of our abolition contemporary,
| but from masked battery, in the shape of an
| anonymous communication. If called to an ac-
count for it, Greeley can plead as usual, not
guilty, and that if apprised of the character of
this communication in season he would have re-
jected it. But the Tribune has conspcuously
published it, and scattered it broadcast over the
land; and in thus actively lending itself, under
mask, to the uses of plotting spoismen and
political disorganizers, we feel it to be duty
to hold up our Janus-iaced contemporary to the
attention Of the government and the country.
The anonymous paper in question. adopted.
conspicuously printed and circulated by the
Tribune. calls Justify for a change in the
Cabinet; declares that "there will scarcely
be dissenting voice throughout the whole
North that there is a necessity for change"
that "public confidence has been weakened to
a still greater degree by the belief of compli-
city by the War Department in the numberless
frauds which have been committed in army
contracts" and that. as to the Navy Depart
ment, the charge sis not so much completely
by the Secretary as his utter ineficiency.'
Hence change in these two departments is
imperiously called for; and the Tribune re-
former in the premises is somewhat surprised
upon taking the loan asked by the govern
ment," did not prescribe 'the condition that
the Cabinet should be reconstructed so as to
restore public confidence"
Let it not be supposed, however, that these
are the indignant and unadulterated complaints
of an honest patriot, intent only upon "the in
tegrity Of the Union" Behind this masked
ha ttorv tbipL ,ov bo dafoofad cap,o of +Lo
parties Of a radical conspiracy in the republ-
can camp initiated on the 4th Of March for
change in the Cabinet, in view of the abolition of
slavery, the spoils of the present war and the
honors and emoiuments of our Presidential sue
cesson. For all that we know the roots of this
conspiracy may extend to the Cabinet itself
for it is said that Mr.. Secretary Seward, Mr.
Secretary Chase and Mr.. Secretary Cameron
have each their little cliques of sappers and
miners, and party jobbers and spectators
working like beavers for the inside track to the
succession.
This stupendous continental war, however
has given to the War and the Navy Departments
the expenditure Of the hundreds of millions of
money which Congress and the Treasury De-
partment have been called upon to supply. As
snmng that Mcssrs. Seward Chase and Came
ron are each looking after the White House, it
will thus be seen that Cameron has the inside
track, and that Welles regarded as a mere no.
body in welding the important expenditures
and jobs of the Navy Department, is holding
place which might be turned to a much better
account in party view of the subject.
The trouble with the radical abolition Tribune
wing of the republican camp is that the Cabinet
is too conservative, and Cameron, in this re-
spect, is particularly obnoxious to these aboli-
ton radicals. They complain of his completely
in jobs and contracts, and of his incompetency;
but while they have furnished no proofs
of his alleged corrupt affiliations, they
cannot safely undertake to deny that
Secretary Cameron has proved himself most
active, a very capable and an untiring business
man. That he has made some mistakes in the
business of this war we must all admit; but
they are rather due to the counsels Of his mill
tary advisers than to his dishonesty or his own
want ofjudgment. Nor is it fair to charge upon
Secretary Welles all the short comings and mis-
fortunes of his department since he was placed
at the head of it. Much of the responsibility in
these things belongs to his inefficient, blunder-
ing or treacherous naval subordinates, as in the
case, for instance, of the destruction of the Nor
folk Navy Yard, and the mysterious surrender
of its immense supplies Of cannon, shot, shells
and ammunition to the rebels.
The fact is, that the republican abolition ra-
ideals want to supersede Cameron and Welles,
80 as to patch up radical Cabinet with the
view of making this war crusade against
slavery; and other partisans, joining in this hue
and cry for a change, have their eyes upon the
spoils, The policy of Mr.. Lincoln is to turn his
back upon these disorganizing radicals, and to
follow his own true nnlicy-Mthe integrity of