The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-28
The Situation OF the Countrywide Policy
or the Incoming Administration.


or the Incoming Administration.
The definite selection Of Mr.. Cameron for
place in the Cabinet of Mr.. Lincoln, settles the
question respecting the policy to be adopted
by the incoming administration. A conserva-
tive programme, conciliatory to the border
States, may be considered as having already
been inaugurated. Whatever may be the
final result of the action, yesterday, Of
the Peace Convention, Mr.. Seward has evil
IDENTIFY decided that the republican ultraists,
under the leadership of Fessenden, Hale, Wade,
Sumner and Greeley shall be thrown overheard,
and that the two or three hundred thousand
voices in the North, in favor of coercion and
involving the nation in the horrors of civil war,
shall be henceforth disrcgarded. Over mil
lion Union loving citizens in the States of Vir-
ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland
and Delaware, win rally in their places to the
support of the government which will assume
the reins of power next week, and q new party
will arise out of the ruins of those that will
have ceased to exist, from which much good
may be augured, If Its plans are conceived with
prudence, sagacity, and an unfinching, unex-
ceptional eye to peace and amity, equally to-
wards those States of the confederation that
have seeded, as to all others.
The tone Of the articles which began to ap-
pear in the Albany Evening Journal, in Novem-
Der last, and the speeches that have since been
delivered in the Senate of the United States
by Mr.. Seward, have rendered it evident, that
| from the very beginning Of disturbances in the
cotton States, the more farsighted statesmen in
| the republican ranks, have counted upon
| divisions in the South, TO enable them to per-
| feet future scheme of action, which contains
many excellent with some few dangerous ele-
ments. Recognizing that the border nom
slaveholding and slaveholding States hold the
balance Of power in their hands, they have
deemed it indispensable to satisfy the claims Of
the latter, and to yield to oil of their demands.
| Hence they have carefully fostered the Peace
| Conferences, and have looked to the result of
their proceedings for the germ Of o settlement,
in the course Of time of our national difficulties.
Should these fail, their policy will not
be changed. Whatever is asked for by
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri,
Maryland, Mr.. Seward, or rather, Mr..
Lincoln's administration, is prepared, with due
show of resistance and a proper coyness Of
expression, substantially to grant. The recent
elections in the Northern slave States have
confirmed this determination, and no effort
will be wanting to consolidate, in an indie
structible bond Of union, the interests Of the
portions of the confederacy that have remained
true to their allegiance
So far this is we'll, and whether the Critten-
| den amendments to the constitution, the propo-
sition of Mr.. Franklin of Pennsylvania, or even
| the less satisfactory measure Of Mr.. Adams, to
| erect New Mexico and Arizona into q State
and thus take the question of slavery In the
Territories out of the cognizanco of the fede-
| raj government, shall form basis, from which
negotiation shall begin, 1t win matter little, so
| long as q result is ultimately arrived at which
shall be deemed by the South to be fully and
entirely adequate to meet the exigences of the
| present crisis. II must be remembered how
ever, that patchwork will not answer; and
when wo hear the professed organs of Mr..
Seward declaring how much or how little may
| be done without q 'sacriice of principle IL
savors strongly Of return to the Chicago
platform, and of seeking TO accomplish aboli-
ZIONIST objects, under a plausible disguise
The scheme Of Mr.. Adams, which Ia said 70 be
highly thought Of by the future Premier, is
Landed by him mainly, because "no risk ia in
CURED by IL OF extending slavery If this is
the proposition to be presented 10 the Southern
States, 1t may be reasoned from, but can
scarcely be acceptable, as ii stands, to either