The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-08

by party principles or platforms, wnen great
No Cabinet selection could be made within the
lines OF the republican camp better calculated
to assure the South Of the conservative inclina-
tions of Mr. Lincoln than this appointment Of
| Simon Cameron Here, then, are the two gress
| and powerful central States of New York and
| Pennsy igaaia brought forward in these two
, Cabinet appointments in behalf Of peace The
| Astor House speech OF MIR. Seward and the
| well known liberal opinions of General Came
| ron, harmonic so well that we accept them
| conformity az indicating the same obiect-the
| cancellation OF the South, through the action Of
the republican party in Congress, ia advance
| Of Mr. Lincoln Inauguration.
| This preparatory reconciliation is forcbly
| suggested by the necessities Of the day South
Carolina has seeded Florida, Georgia, Ala
bama and Mississippi, it IL expected, before the
| expiration Of the present month, will have fol-
lowed her example. 1t is also apprchendcd
| that this revolutionary policy of South Caro-
| lima, ii thus strengthened, will draw into the
same movement all the other Southern States
before the 4th March, involving a threatened
state of things well calculated to challenge the
immediate and serious attention of all int
rested in peaceable commencement Of the in
coming administration. Hence these Cabinet
indications from Springfield in favor Of com
promise.
| And why should the republican parry in
| Congress hesitate in this matter? The conces-
sions demanded by the South involve no sacri-
fee Of Northern principles worth a moments
consideration for if the Missouri dividing line
be adopted, or if slavery be recognized in all
the Territories, or if they all be admitted at
once as slave States, the memorable laws of
climate, soil and emigration will ultimately es-.
| tablish their supremacy. Nor can we under
stand why there should be any difficulty in re-
of the South or why the Southern STAKEHOLDER
should not be allowed a margin of six or nine
| months sojourn, with his slaves. on Temporal
ry visit to free State, or while on journey
through it. This privilege has existed hereto
| fore in New York. and we believe that Mr..
| Stewards name is among its advocates. In o
| word the demands of the South on the slavery
! question involve no difficulties which the re-
publican party in Congress may not overcome
within the next ten days, if they can only be
brought to common sense understanding of
| the subject.
But we are told that these suggested soon
cessions to the slave power" will be the certain
destruction of the republican party--that the
| public opinion of the North will revolt against
L rokt roo Our 10 hot 10
! very contracted view of the subject How
stand the parties Of the present day? 1t was
shown by the election of 1856 that the demo-
cratic party would, in all probability, be borne
down by the republican party in 1860. The
| politicians of the South began accordingly to
prepare for a revolutions; and, to bring it about
as soon as possible, they planned the dissolution
which was brought upon the democratic party
| at Charleston. In this work Mcssrs. Cobb,
| Floyd and Thompson, of Mr.. Buchanan's Cabi-
net with many other leading Southern men,
| were active agents. Their object was, through
tho election Of a republican PRESIDENT, TO pre-
| cipitate the cotton States into a revolution"
which would enforce reconstruction of the
government and of parties, which would re-
store the Southern States to something like the
position of power they have lost, inside or out
side of the Union of 1860.
The republican party, however, may take
this work of reconstruction into their own
hands If they will, and in liberal concessions
of Southern distractions may not only save the
| Union. but establish themselves in power for
twenty years to come. This policy might cut
Il - Gao, No. sxo al al
ment of two or three hundred thousand fanatics,
and it might involve the loss Of the New Eng
land States All such losses, however would
be amply compensated in the gain of Northern
conservatives in the Central and Western
States, and in the acquisition to the party of
the border slave States. The initiative Cabinet
selections Of Mr.. Lincoln look in this direction.
Let the republican party in Congress act ac-
cordingly and at once, and in saving the Union
they will save the incoming administration, and
make ii great success.
The secession cause in South Carolina, Gcor-
gia and Alabama, seized upon by the mob, is
being pushed to excuses which are offensive to
people Of the North for the Union. This con-
dition Of things offers great advantage to the
republicans in behalf of the Union, and they
should seize upon it without delay.
Hon. MAssA GREELEY AND SENATOR CRIrrEN-
pES.--Our philosophic friend Hon. Nassa
Greeley has just rushed into an epistolary
conflict with Hon. J. J. Crittendcn, touching the
compromises proposed by the Kentucky Sena-
tor Being essentially man of peace Greeley
deals only in the pacific weapons of pen, ink,
paper and hieroglyphics sometimes, perhaps,
in Shapes rifles, at that convenient range
measured by the distance which separates
Kansas from Spruce street; but in this case he
seems 10 have employed his supplements of war
TO little purpose, aud withal without authority.