The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-25

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IrrepressibIe Conflict In the Republican
Party Concerning the Formation OF
MIR. LtncOIn's Cabinet.
The Waterloo Of the campaign between the
two factions into which the republican party is
divided, will undoubtedly be fought out within
the coming fortnight. Seward, Cameron aud
Bates are the leaders of the one side-that
which leans towards peace and conservatism
while Fessenden, Hale, Samner, Doolittle,
Greeley and Garrison, champion the hosts who
thirst for civil war, and an overthrow, through
the last resource Of battle, of slavery on the
American continent The coercion chieftains
have been rendered jubilant by the fight from
Harrisburg of Mr.. Lincoln, which they COM
pare with the concealment of Charles Ii. in the
branches Of an oak mindless OF the appendix
to the Memoirs of the Marchioness of Gram
mont, in which the royal fugitive gives rather
a curious explanation Of that glorious passage
in English history. We fear that not much can
be exploited out of the intended massacre of
the Presidential family, including wife, chill
drerr, Colonel Sumner, Rositter Judd, and other
respectable ladies and gentlemen. The profit
and loss account Of secession against aboli-
ionism would have gained but little by such
diabolical outrage, and it is hard to get people
to credit the existence OF an enterprise without
the shadow of an object Asyet, no more has
officially transpired than that Mr.. Lincoln saw
no cause for anxiety" at either Columbus,
Cincinnati or indianapolis; assured the public
that nobody was hurt;' began to talk
vaguely of assassination at Trenton, and put
for it, with, we hope, no tangible cause at the
solicitations of his friends ia Harrisburg, as
though his only chance of safety were immedi-
ate protection by the soldiers Of General Scott.
This does not seem a very broad foundation to
build hopes upon, yet it is the last resource of
the ultraists who would drive Mr.. Seward out
of the Cabinet.
Almost Immediately after Mr.. Lincoln's cleo
ton he found himself beset by two classes of
individuals. His own first thought was to Sc
lect Cabinet. Mr.. Bates Of Missouri was his
first choice for comparatively subordinate
position Then, DESTROYS Of securing the sup
port of the great State Of New York, and with
Just esteem for the talents of his principal ri.
val for the Presidential chair, he asked Mr..
Seward to occupy the important position of
Secretary OF State. simultaneously, he prof
fered the choice Of the portfolios Of the War
and Treasury Department to Mr.. Cameron,
hoping, thereby, to gain the favor OF Pennsyl-
vania Nearly at the same time, he received
visit from Vice President Hamlin, who had but
one favor to ask, namely, that his old friend,
his antiquated, venerated, fossilzed, but never
forgotten ally of Connecticut, Mr.. Gideon Weles,
might be dug out of his oblivion and given
some place-probably that of Postmaster Gene
rain the brotherhood of the administration.
| This made four; but almost Immediately after
! wards a conspiracy was formed in this city
| and in Ohio with the direct object OF driving
Mr.. Seward and Mr. Cameron from the strong
holds they had secured. The effect upon the
| latter was felt at once. The Greeleyite allies
| have had more difficulty with the former. They
have used however every measure which inge-
nuity could contrive to accomplish their purpose
| They have had the perspicacity to avoid acting
directly from New York; but have brought
| their attacks to bear from New England, from
| Washington city, and from the Northwest
| Abolitionists Of the Massachusetts, school have
been instructed, in these different sections,
| that their only hopes of salvation of bread and
butter, OF the smallest drippings from the pan
| of patronage, would depend upon the vehe-
mence of their outcries against the great New
| York advocate of republican principles. Hence
it is that on every side the President elect has
| been beset with circumstances, and urgent en-
| treaties that he would undo what he had ap-
| oarently done. The future will show with
| what success these assaults have been made.
As soon as Mr. Lincoln has had time to look
around him in Washington, he will, beyond a
doubt, proceed to fill up his Cabinet, perhaps
to change it in accordance with the shifting
scenes of the revolutionary crisis. The Fes-
sender school will press hard upon him. Wade,
Sumner, Hale and others will tell him that
there is a "brainless spawn OF some malignant
influence, rushing upon frightfui doom,
abroad in the land that "the eggs of the rep
tile must be cIushed;" and that lis his bounden
| duty to surr ound himself by men Of their own
| stamp who will recklessly deluge the land in
| blood. and take upon themselves the response
billy Of fire, famine, slaughter, rapes, burnings
and disaster to any conceivable extent. Then
will come forward gentlemen OF the school OF
Mr.. Chase OF Ohio-a man not over scru-
pulous not particularly attached to
Massachusetts, ultraisms, nor vehemently in
clined for or against the diplomatic tactics
of Mr.. Seward, but, emphatcally, avowedly,
unalterably partisan OF himself and of his
own ambition. Not destitute of talent, he will
present innumerable reasons why his grasping
ambition should be satisfied, and his friends
will declare the impossibility OF his occupying
a subordinate place to any other individual.
Next in order, will parade itself the scion of a
veteran relic of older days, Vim. Montgomery
Blair-one of the family Of the Blairs who
were not altogether obscure in the days Of the