The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-07

PohICY OF TIE REPUBLICAN, PAHTY-ADyusT-
xEsr WAN1ED.-One of the chief arguments of
the republican orators during the late Presi-
dental canvass was that, when their party sue
ceeded to power, the country would have
wise, upright, patriotic and economical admin
istration. We were told that the early days Of
the republic were to be restored and revivedi
that truth, integrity, honesty, were to rule su-
preme in the national councils. In fact the
republican orators took US up to the summit of
political Mount Pisgah, pointing out at the
same time the sweet fields and swelling floods
of distant Canaan. We put the case with de-
gree of mildness which may be termed angelic,
when we declare that the country does not
seem to have bettered itself by change of
rulers. On the contrary, we are in a worse
condition than ever. The national treasury is
empty. Seven States have seeded and estab-
lished government Of their own seven other
c0nfederacies threaten to follow the example of
their neighbors. We have no army or navy
worth mentioning, and the dominant party is
divided into two hostile sections, with feuds
70 searching and 30 bitter that they extend to
the Cabinet councils. The antiaavery crusade
which commenced thirty years ago has culmi-
mated. The Union is dissolved. The President
of the United States sits in hostile capital, and
is helplessly tossed about by storm which he
can neither lull nor direct
Such is the real condition of things as they
stand now. The question is: what shall be
done? That question must be answered by the
President, and answered by acts, not words.
The republican party is clearly responsible for
the existing trouble, and the republican party
must remedy it. In some way or other, either
by force or compromise or Cancellation, they
must bring the seeding States back, and re-
store the confederacy to its old position. No
party can enjoy the sweets of power without
mourning its responsibilities, and the repubi-
cans cannot avoid meeting the new issue that
they, and they alone, have raised
We have waited patiently until after the in
auguration, with the hope that the party in
power would indicate its policy; but we can
make nothing out of the inaugural. To
use familiar, but very expressive phrase,
it is all bOsh. What We want now is Q clear
outline Of the administrations policy. That ia
what the country has been promised. All
along during the winter members Of Congress
have assured the people that as soon as the
new President had been swOrn in we should
see different order of things. Mr.. Chase, now
o Cabinet Minister, was for Inauguration first
and adjustment afterwards. We have had the
Inauguration; Lincoln is in the White House;
his constitutional advisers have assumed their
portfolios, and now we are anxiously waiting
for the promised adjustment
We wait however, as those without hope.
II is evident that the only consideration in the
minds Of the administration leaders is as to the
proper distribution of the spells Of victory. The
only vital question in Washington is who shall
have this or that place, and like sailors who
break into the spiritroom when the ship is
sinking, the republicans are already preparing
TO gorge themselves with such pickings 90 the
White House kitchen still affords. If the re-
publicans are not ready to acknowledge that
their promises were made to be broken and
that their professions are hollow humbugs, let
them bring forward their plan of adjustment
What has Mr.. Chase to say to the cotton States?
Why not give us adjustment first, and the divi-
sion of the spoils afterwardsa