The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-10
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revolutionary crisis, and the imminent danger
Of utter destruction with which the confederacy
Is threatened, II ID manifestiy in the power OF
the advisers Of Mr.. Lincoln TO use the oppoi
tuuiiy TOT the beneat of the republican party,
and, b. taking the initiative in the sestboRent
oi liz differences that divide the South from
the Nor'h to place themselves permanently at
tie lead o. tue country for the next thirty
yesrs. The Cabinet selections which hr Lin
coin has made, including Senator Seward, aud
perhaps Mr.. Cameron, from the two greatest
States OF the MON, would seem to indicate
thai he may take o more broad ana compre-
hensiye view Of public matters than the plat
form upon which he was elected would have
led to anticipate, and that, under the influence
If inexorablc necessity, he may yet come
to the tsrdy conclusion that forbearance, con-
citation and concession are indispensable for
the settlement Of the affairs of the country
Whatever motives, however, may influence him,
l. certain that he has entrusted bis cards TO
he hands Of able men, who, if they play them
with the sagacity which may be looked for
from their experience, may yet save the Union,
establish their own supremacy on solid foun-
dations, and open new era of prosperity to
the nation.
While the people of the United States have
been waiting in vain for some intimation of
the course which Mr. Lincoln would pursue,
the welfare Of the republic has been in the
worst of hands. The wise recommendations Of
Mr. buchanan the decided stand taken by him
in his correspondence with the South Carolina
Commissioners, and his defence of fede-
raj property are the only CLEANS of
light in the midst Of Cimnerian darkness.
Members OF the Cabinet, like Floyd,
Cobb and Thompson, have been conniviDg
with treason and rebellion, while our national
physicians IN the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, although continually proposing new
modes of saving the Union, have failed to
make one substantial step in advance towards
the end which they protested to have in view.
1t has become daily more evident, in this most
critical period Of our history, that no remedy
can be expected to existing evils from the
incapacity, stupidity, gross ignorance, and
habitual selfshness, weakness and cowardice Of
members of Congress. Southern frenzy, under
the bannershp of South Carolina, has been ad-
vancing from threats to secession, secession to
open rebellion, Selling upon forts, arsenals,
custom houses and post Offices, with view Of
regaining by violence the supremacy in our
national councils of which they have been
robbed by fanatcism and the anti-constitu-
tional encroachments of sectional faction.
Meanwhile Mr.. Lincoln has been pausing, un-
resolved what line of policy to adopt, but
watching the throbs of the national pulse until
delay is no longer possible.
The Legislature Of Virginia has just con-
vened in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and
Louisiana State Conventions are either deciding
or about to decide the actions of those States
Florida is virtually out of the Union; the
northern slave States are booming daily more
violent; yet the wiser portion of leading men
ut the South look to Southern Constituent
Convention to take the initiative in adopting
| measures which may at the same time save the
Union and secure the preponderance of slave
! holding oounrcls in our national administra-
ton. They propose to adopt amendments to
the constitution such as the Central and West
ern States can honorably accept, which shall
cover the reasonable grounds of difference be-
tween themselves and the South, insist
| ing upon the recognition of the pro-
perry rights of their citizens everywhere;
upon other needful stipulations which
have been heretofore denied; upon full
liberty to carry slaves into the common
territory, and, above all, upon the recognition
| q .">.n.;nn Ci opinion respecting
- ->.', Z. tti.-'tioa ip tho different
& rs. -ss,,'. IL. aias fssa certain that If
4, 80. .s...a5Gl.l. lxs submitted to
Ssl.e r. $50 Iii I..S IsG:sy advising and in
,i"ns u.ri, acceptance OF them, and assigning
| period similar to that which was appointed
for the ratification of the constitution of 1887,
when all States agreeing to their propositions
should thenceforth be considered as forming
| the future United States Of America, they may
rely upon New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and the majority of the Western and
Northwestern States to accept them without
cavil. II is not improbable that the New Eng
land States would demur; but what then? The
people Of Massachusetts, were recently warned
by one Of her greatest statesmen that cyan
KEGS arc not popular anywhere" and if ver-
mont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island,
Connecticut and Massachusetts, should volun-
tarily cut themselves of from the Union, every
one would regard it as blessing, and, the ex-
cision thus accomplished, as q guarantee OF the
future prosperity and peace of the country.
At any rate, Southern supremacy would be
secured by the submission Of reasonable pro-
posals TO the North; and, out Of the fury of the
present tempest, this intention stands promi.
nent as beacon which may yet guide the ma
ton into still waters, and reafflrm politicians
south Of the Potomac in the hold upon power
which the events Of the last few months have
nearly riven from their hands
The choice by Mr.. Lincoln of Mr.. Seward as
his Secretary Of State, and, not improbably, Of
Mr. Cameron as Secretary Of the Treasury,