Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-01-31

MrscHrEr MAxKRs-The Charleston Mercury,
Richmond Enqrirsr ct al, Of the South, have
made no more mischief for the South than the
New York Tribune, Springfield State Joxynal ct
al on the other side are making for the North,
lust now The former have succeeded In seducing
the Gulf States into dsunion; while the latter are
straning every nerve to drive every border slave
holding State into the same position ere the 4th
Of March. Thus we find in yesterdays New York
papers a dispatch from Springfield stating that
the State Journal Of the dav before assumed au-
thority from the President elect to declare that he
continues to set bis face against any action on the
part Of his friends in Congress looking to any
possible settlement of the troubles Of the times
until after the 4th Of March. That journal volun-
teers such an assumption Of authority, in the face
of the fact that three several occasions within
the past month Mr. Lincoln has felt himself called
distinctly and palpably to contradict Its
tons concerning his position upon the question
ofthe times. The State Journal is not his organ.
II Is the contrary In close afiliation with the
New York Tribune and the wing Of the Repub-
lican party whose sentiments that paper speaks,
which Is now engaged In the hopeless task of
licking the incoming administration into the alb
clifton shape.
SEEKING upon the telegram from Springfield
concerning the purport Of the Journals article
referred TO above, as affording some hope that IL
may be able to effect what on the day before yes
terday Il admitted to be well nigh hopeless
viz to prevent the Republican party In Con.
gress from coming TO some satisfactory solution
Of the difficulties Of the day--the Tribune yester
day revamped a conversation which some one ID
said to have had with Mr.. Lincoln very soon
after his election, when the danger Of the de-
struction Of the Union was but a small speck
black cloud that now hangs over Its future, and
when he had reason to suppose that the trouble
was simply on account of his election-it re
vsmped (republished) that old conversation a,
proof that Mr.. Lincoln is not noic anxious for
settlement Of the question that may keep the Dor
der States true to their allegiance to the Union.
In refutation Of its statement in question, 1t II
quite sufficient for Us to say that we have within
the last month conversed with eight direren
gentlemen, all Of whom have had frank and ful
conversations with Mr.. Lincoln upon the subject
and all Of whom aver that no other man in til,
country Is mere anxious than he Is for SPEEDY
settlement Of the troubles, upon some fair bas!
that shall prove the means Of assuring the con
tinuance Of the border slaveholding States in tn,
Union. Thus we know, positively, that within
the last two weeks he has emphatically declared
that he has no objection whatever to the accept
ance Of the borderState resolutions as the basis
asettlement. We have further to point the public
TO the fact, now notorious here a. that the sui
at this moment shines over US, that Mr.. SewarC
10 straining every nerve to induce his politica
friends in every State Legislature to respond Il
yirginia's request for a conference Of the State
here on the 4th proximo; and also to induce hi
party in Congress to lend their aid IN good faitl
and spirit of genuine compromise, to the worl
Of aiding that convention to save the horde
slaveholding States to the Union.