Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-19

The INCOMING ADMINISTRATION, &c.-MR.
SkwARp.-The New York Hsrald's Washington
correspondence has for some days past teemed
with accounts Of the efforts Of combination Of
the radical leaders In the Republican party to
induce the President elect TO discard Mr.. Seward,
and 20 call Sir. Chase or some other gentleman
holding Mr.. C.'s extreme opinions, to the State
Department In bis stead. The tone Of the New
York TTisEss towards Mr. Seward and those
Republicans who are acting with him to the end
Of bringing about satisfactory settlement, tells,
Enthusiastically, that the Hsrald's correspondence
is correct At least wherein It explains the dssirs
Of the radical wing Of the Republican party, in
this connection.
Fortunately for the country, no such combina-
ton can possibly succeed because the failure OF
Mr.. Lincoln to call MIR. Seward to his aid, under
existing circumstances, will involve the certainty
Of civil war In ninety days.
This fact the President elect will realize In forty
eight hours after he reaches Washington. This
Is %; as to set Mr.. Seward aside account Of his
labors to settle the troubles Of the times, must
surely defeat any settlement; renting the duty
of making one wholly into the hands Of MesGs.
Greedy, Sumner, Andrews, Wade, Bingham,
Dudley Field, and others Of the same political
stamp, who certainly desire to have every slave
holding State leave the Union, because, among
Ted, the chances are that extreme anti-s slavery
sentiments may no longer be upPermost at the
North.
We have to say to the distant public that there
Is really 10 earthly chance Of the success CT any
such combination.
Mr.. Lincoln must necessarily labor to restore
harmony to the country, even at the expense of
the friendship Of these Of his supporters who
desire that his administration shall faithfully
reflect only their own abolition idiosyncracie,
He must elect between the support OF the conser-
yative elements, North and South, Of the times
or OF the mira abolition wing Of his party. II
he chooses the former, he keeps all the border
haveholding States in the Union, ultimately re-
stores all the seeded States TO it, and his party
throughout the North remains overshadowing
Notwithstanding the approaching detection Of its
abolition elements for every friend Of the preser-
walton OF the Union at the North who compre-
bends that it cannot be preserved by the use Of
force in the hands Of one section only, will rally
around the new administration the instant 1t be-
comes apparent that Its influence is to be lent To
secure settlement that shall keep the border
States true at heart TO the Union
III ne chooses the latter for his friends and ad-
Vsers, he instantly precipitates the border slave
holding states into revolution, and unite against
discrimination and It's policy an Overwhelming
majority Of the NOrth-every Brec kinridge, Doug.
las ana Bell man there, every one Of his own con-
sentative supporters, and every other man in every
non-slavehoding State who may realize that bis
own condition may be Injured by twenty years
ciViIwar With him, the question will be, sim DIV:
VIII ne come into Office supported within three
months BY the most overwhelming party, North
and South, tee country held; or will he elect
TO attempt to administer the Government with
responsibility upon him for making disunion by
tns line OF Mason and Dixon's line fixed fact
Tor ali time, for having utterly ruined the bust
ness interests Of the North In so doing and with
none supporting his administration and Its policy
but politicians Of the extreme anti-savery stripe1
We do not believe there Is a man In Washing
bon who will fail 70 realize the truth Of what we
say above, concerning the alternatives which MIR.
Lincoln has before him or who on five minutes,
rejection will not comprehend that In making
bis election between them, he will surely elect
the former.