The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-06

looked fer, and so unsatisfactory, We havethe
news Of the definite formation of Mr.. Linc0ln's
Cabinet 1t confirms the worst fears we have
entertained concerning the probable policy of
the administration. 1t Is now officially an
nouEced as follows
Secretary OF State. VIM II. Seward, ON. 7.
Secretary OF Treasury... Salmon p. Chase, Of OHIO.
Secretary Of War. Simon Cameron, Of Pa.
Secretary OF Navy. Gideon Welles, Of Conn.
Secretary Of Interior.... Caleb B. Smith, Of Ind.
Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, Of Nd.
Attorney General. ........ Edward Bates, Of No.
Thus the Seward Weed slate is completely
broken; indeed, it would appear from our
Washington dispatches, that the admission of
Mr.. Chase was made sine qua non of the con-
tinuance Of the New York Senator, in the posi-
ton Of the Secretary of State. The radical por-
ton of the republican party is, Of course, ex-
ultant II has succeeded in introducing ele-
ments of. discord into the government, which
will be powerfully felt and, probably, will
ultimately triumph. An irrepressible conflict
between the rival factions has commenced al
ready, and must continue until one or the
other Is driven from Office. Those who know
the character Of the respective individuals
whom Mr.. Lincoln has chosen to be his advisers,
can entertain but little doubt which section will
succumb.
The President has begun his career as Chief
Magistrate by committing the error which
proved fatal to poor Pierce. He labors,
however, under disadvantages infinitely
greater than. those which embarrassed his
unfortunate predecessor. The latter, to please
everybody in the democratic party, select
ed Cabinet from all the extremes. By
the side of Marcy, whose views were in the
main correct, he placed Jefferson Davis, q rest
less, subtle, scheming, Southern radical, whose
more mercurial, enterprising genius neutralized
the efforts Of the Secretary Of State, and pene-
trated every act of the administration. In the
same manner, Lincoln has brought Chase and
Blair-the one an Unsuitable, logged, persevering
demagogue, the other a traditional believer in
the obsolete theory of newspaper oligarchism-
into proximity to Mr.. Seward, which the latter
will not have the moral courage to sustain.
His finer craft will be perpetually overruled;
and, before many weeks, he will have either
lapsed into practically subservient relation
to his colleagues, or be banished on some
foreign mission. The President is Wanted as
being second Jackson in irmness; but his
counsels cannot fail to be swayed hither and
thither by the strife which will encompass him
The best view of the case might be, that
Cabinet wrangles, will occupy 80 much of the
time and attention of the administration, that
it will have but limited leisure to carry out its
coercion theories respecting the South. But even
this is uncertain. Out of divided counsels, too
frequently spring foolish, immature and suici-
dial measures. While the seeds are sown which
viii destroy the republican party, it is to be
feared that the welfare of the nation will also
suffer serious detriment, and that, in the rapid
progress of events, the grave blunder that has
been committed, may be but one step further
on towards disastrous end.
THE New YORK PoLIcE TAKING Gaze OF THE
WHOLE CoUNTRY.-When the republican party
inaugurated the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment of New York they selected the richest
part of the whole country for their police dis
trict, in the four counties which 1t embraced
within the boundaries of this State. At that
time the party controlled only three or four of
the Northern States but since it has elected
the chief magistrate of the country, those limits
have become quite too restricted for the official
cficiousness Of that peculiarly republican In
stitution, the Metropolitan Police. Hence we
find, by the admission of Fouche Kennedy him
self, that the Metropolitan Police district has
been extended to Baltimore and Charleston,
and even further South, and that a regular sys-
tenn of police espionage is now established
throughout most of the Southern cities-tbe
headquarters being in New York, and the New
York people being obliged to foot the bills.
We publish in another column, correspon-
dence upon this subject between Fouche Ken
nedy, of New York, and vidocq Kane, of Bslti-
more, together with some editorial comments
of the Baltimore press, from which it would ap-
pear that the New York police have taken the
whole South, If not the whole country, under
their especial care. The cities Of the South are
swarming with New York policemen, they are
drafted into the ranks Of the "Southern volun-
teers;;" and indeed, in every society throughout
The entire country, for aught we know, desec-
lives are scattered, listening to every mans
conversation and logging every mans foot
steps This contemplate system of espionage,
we need hardly say, comprises no part of our
democratic form of government; 1t Is inimical
to the spirit Of this people; it is dangerous to
the existence Of individual liberty, and could
only be Initiated and fostered by an oppressive
and dogmatic faction.
The Metropolitan Police were established os-
tensibly for the protection of the lives and pro-
perties OF the citizens of the district who pay
for their support. This is the special duty of
local police force, and although II was bad
enough to find that from the beginning the
Metropolitan Police system was but political
partisan machine, established for the further
sncs Of party aims, such an outrageous misap.
plicesion Of its power ss MIR. Fouche Kennedy