Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-04-01

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Special Dispatches to the N. Y. Herald.
tbs KEY NOTE OF THE FUTURE.
Watchwords, tersely expressing either the
gist of doctrinary differences or embodying the
solution Of the complications OF the day,
have frequently been given out within the
last few years by political leaders for the |
guidance of their respective parties. There
was Douglass popular term, 'nou-interveu- /
tom" Stewards "irrepressible conflict the |
Southern "equaliiy Of rights Greeley's mo
compromise with traitors" and Chase's "in- |
auguration first, adjustment afterwards The |
republican key void for the immediate future |
has inst been given out by the Ohio member
OF the Cabinet II is "homogeneity, or
peaceable separation on the basis OF the
free and slave labor systems Of the country"
| ventute to say that in less than two
months the entire radical wing of the repuh-
licans will regulate all their party tactics by
the key note sounded by the clear, fnrseeing
mind that is already their recognized leader.
A CONSISTENT CoERoIoNisT.
OF all the members of the Cabinet Secre-
tary Blair alone has never yielded in his
opposition to the evacuation OF Fort Sumter.
Although left alone at last he continued to
insist that the stain inflicted upon the federal
authorities by the firing into the Star of the
West should be wiped out, and the post rein
forced. and held, at-aA hazards, until the last
hope of a reconstruction Of the Union has
disappeared. ar
TIE LABoRs OF GOVERNOR CHASE.
Not one of the Secretaries devotes himself
more conscientiously TO the business OF his
department than Mr.. Chase. He always ap-
pears at his Office before nine O'Clock; re-
mains during business hours, if not called
away by Cabinet meeting, and before dark
again repairs to his department where he
has labOred many nightu until the small hours
in the morning. T tits J.'aJ
THE POLICY OF TIE ADMINISTRATION TOWARDS
THE Seeded STATES.
WASHINGTON, March 20, '6l.
There is no real ground for any apprehen-
sions of civil war; at least not as far as the
agency of the administration will 60 Fort
Sumter is about being evacuated. High au-
thorities assert that no order has been issued
to reinforce Fort Pickens, Notwithstanding
the statements Of the New York organ. No
attempt viii be Immediately made to collect
the revenue in the seeded States by men-of-
war. In fine, nothing will be done likely to
precipitate conflict. ID
The belief in a voluntary return of the Sc
ditous States to the Union has been aban-
doned, and the impracticability of forcing
them back recognized by the administration
| The executive and his constitutional advisers
well know thut the assertion of the supreme
cy of the federal laws, Vi ct arms within the
rebellious States, would inevitably involve
the federal authorities in war of subjugation,
in which they have no desire to engage
They are anxious not TO place ady place any
Instructions in the way of what they now
consider the only bloodles solution of the
Southern imbTOglio-peaceable seParation.-
/ can state positively that such denouement
is not considered unavoidable by all the ad-
ministration, and that it will afford key to
all the executive acts bearing upon the South
ern question. The very sectionalism exhibi-
ted in the selection of Northern material ex-
clusiVely for the leading diplomatic, Terrific
rial and other offices, means nothing less than
preparing for the impending formal disiu-
tegratiOn of the Union, and the fact that even
the border slave Sta'es were all but overlook
ed in dispensing the federal patronage, only
goes to prove that the possibility of retaining
them in the Union is not by any means firmly
believed in by the administration.
A bloody internal strife can only be brought
on by direct aggression of the revolutionisis,
or by demands, the fulflment of which the
constitutional obligations of the adminisira-
ton will not allow. If the revolutionary au-
thorities abstain from either until the propos-
ed National Convention, or Congress will
have opened the way to a separation, no blood
will be shed, unless unreasonable terms should
be insisted by the South upon the final set
tlement.