The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-10

United States in its full integrity. How is CHS
to be done? BY entering into war with the
seeded States for the continued occupation OF
those detached forts? No. A war will only
widen the breach and enlarge and consolidate
this Southern confederacy, on the one hand,
while, on the other hand, it will bring ruin upon
the commerce, the manufactures, the financial
and industrial interests of our Northern cities
and States, and may end in an oppressive
military despotism.
How then are we to restore these seeded
States to the Union? We can do it only by
Cancellation and compromise. The border
slave States still adhering TO the Union are
anxious TO act as mediators with the seeded
States. The Union men of Virginia, IN their
State Convention, for many weeks have been
laboring faithfully and earnestly to hold that
great State within the Union as aifordiug the
indispensable base Of operations for the reten-
ton of the border slave States and the recovery
of all the seeded States. Her Convention,
driven at length to extremities by the pressure
of her public opinion, has detailed special
commission Of three-Messrs. Stuart, Preston
and Randolph-te wait upon Mr.. Lincoln ana
inquire whether his Union policy means peace
or war. A republican contemporary intlmates
that these distinguished visiters, who have ar
rived at Washington, will 60 away not much
wiser than when they came. The next result,
then, to be apprehended is the precipitate Sc
cession of Virginia and next the speedy mus
teripg of fifty. thousand men within her borders
for warlike operations.
Thus the only means for the restoration OF
the Union-to wit, forbearance, Cancellation
and compromise appear to have been finally
discarded at Washington The Union, we are
told, is worth the desperate remedy OF civil
war; while common sense and the experience
of all mankind revolt at this remedy as utterly
subversive of everything in the shape OF
pre- existing institutions. Had Honest Abe
Lincoln" as the first measure of his adj
ministration, issued his call for an early extra
session of Congress in reference to the exigen-
cies of this fearful crisis of d5union revolution
and impending civil war, and had he provided
an armistice with the seeded States for the in
terregnum, he might have opened the Way to
us, North and South. for a happy deliverance.
With the assemhlir~ &c Cc-~-oc~ .,A.ua-o
from him to both houses, recommending the
Crittenden peace propositions as the basis of a
Union saving compromise, would have initi-
ated the good work. But the abolition war
faction rules the republican camp, and has sue
ceeded in gaining the mastery over the admi-
nistration. Tho theory of the war policy thus
adopted is that of Senator Chandler, that " a
little blood-letting" will be a good thing, and
blood it is to be.
We dare say, too, that the republican party
is more intent upon some startling stroke of
policy which will rekindle the fierce sectional
fires in the camp, whereby it has come into
power, than upon any plan whatever for the
restoration of the seeded States to the Union
But while our republican war makers may he
dreaming of heightened reign at Washington,
with the opposing South out Of the way, they
may be overthrown by popular reaction at
the North. Indeed, our only hope now against
in the overthrow of this demoralizing, disorga-
nizing and destructive sectional party, of which
Honest Abe Lincoln f" is the plant instru-
ment. Let the conservative people Of the
North, then, of all parties, who have anything
to lose or anything to save, in view Of vast
ing civil war, prepare at once for the needful
work of putting down this destructive domi-
nant party.
The BURNING OF THE IMPERIAL PALACES AT
PEKIN.-When the news of the burning of the
summer palaces of the Chinese Emperor at
Pekin was borne across the Atlantic, our first
impulses were those of regret, il not indigna-
ton, that such an outrage should have been