New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-01
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The NJ. 7. Times publishes with unusual promi-
neuce ls4ssr from "NatiOna Union Man. to
Mr.. Seward, in which an idea to which that
journal has already given currency is again urged
upon public attention. This idea is now expressed
by proclaiming to Mr.. Seward, "FOrtune has
q" declared for your side. One of the great OBJ
elects OF your life is accomplished. You lost the
e" nomination but you won the Presidency"
In other words, in the view OF The Tunes,
while Mr.. Lincoln is nOminaly the President, IN
fact he is nobody, and Of no account. Dir. Seward
is the true head of the new Administration. lie
also is TO dictate it's policy and shape It's desliny'
MIR. L.incoln mas nothing to do but to receive his
salary, entertain guests at the White House ana
obedentIy sign the DEGREES which Mr. Seward
directs TO be prepared and laid before him.
Mr. Seward, being thus the real President, Is
mplored to save the country. And how WY
in the first place, by continuing in the new ADJ
mipiatraton that peculiar treatment Of the Pro-
Slavery Rebellion which has distinguished the
administration of Mr. Buchanan, that is to say,
the policy of doing nothing. This policy, We are
told will certainly prevent alt danger OF civil
war. The second specific for the salvation OF the
Union which Dir. Seward is urged to adopt is to
cut loose from oil Anti-Slavery fanaticism, and
especially from "the insidiOus agency of Gree
"ley," to abandon Republican principles and the
Republican organization, and found "a great
PARTY of Cancellation, Of justice, OF peace"
Having done all this, he is promised that "for
every howl of a disappointed fanatic that is
heard along your track, you will hear the
" shout of two millions OF national men that
" have fought against the policy of your party
A." and upon our shoulders we will carry yoHr ad-
ADMINISTRATION triumphantly through any e8igency
&" or any trial
The Journal Of Commerce is also prompt TO
bestow praise where it never praised before.
1t, too, ia delighted with Mr.. Stewards apparent
adoption of the policy OF which for years he has
been az earnest antagonist. " We are ready
says that paper. "tO accord al due honor to
" Senator Seward fo- the partial amends which
(" lis recent action seems to make for long
"course Of fanaticsm on the Slavery question,
"and we hopo he may persevere Ia the course
(which his recent speeches seem to indicate.
A" Such conduct now, when no is to be charged
with important duties and responsibilities ID
connection with the new Administration, will,
a. If continued and adhered 10, win the approval
{" of the conservative men of the State, who care
lees for men than for principles, and who
"woud as cheerfully accord to Dir. Seward Us
to any other statesman the hoaors which await
the incoming AdmiDistr alton, if it shall put It's
4" foot upon sectonalism, and restore the country
% to condition of union and peace"
The Herald abounds in similar laudati0n.
" Mr Seward" il tells Ms, has evidently de-
cided that the Republican ultrsists, under the
leadership of Fessebden Hale, Wade, Sumner,
" and Greeley, shall be thrown overheard, and
- that the two or three thousand voices in the
" North in favor Of coercion aud involving the
4" nation in the horrors Of civil war, shall be
" henceforth disregarded." +" Whatever is asked
- for by Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis-
" souri,, Maryland, DIR. Seward, or, rather, Dir.
" Lincoln's Administration, is prepared, with
" due show Of resistance and proper coyness
" Of expression substantially to grant
Mr.. Seward may deserve the eulogy thus
heaped upon him by the lifelong enemies Of
himself and Of the principles with which he has
been identified; but We are happy 70 say that
the report against the Franklin Compromise
which no made yesterday in the Senate in con-
junction with Senator Trumbull, locks as though
The Times. TIE Journal, and The Herald, were
all doomed to some disappointment. We fear
they may yet End it necessary to abuse him
again as they haze been wont 70 do ia times
past