The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-21


have sealed the condemnation Of the fanatics
In power. The propositions of the Peace Con-
ference, insufficient as they, In many respects,
were, might have been regarded by the South
as an olive branch. and public feeling
ciamored for their adoption, ON this account
These, also. were treated with scorn by the
House of Representatives, and were crushed
by Mr.. Seward in the Senate After the 4th OF
March, the duplicity of the inaugural, and the
victory of the incendiarist section of republi-
cans, in the formation of Cabinet, convinced
every thinking citizen, that no good could be
expected from an inherently rotten source,
and that the worst fears they had entertained,
were sure Of being sooner or later realized.
Under circumstances so deplorable, no i'm
mediate method exists, of expressing general
condemnation of the policy which is gradually
developing, at Washington, from bad to worse,
excepting through conventions and public
meetings; and it is especially necessary that
the conservative masses, every where, should
begin to act openly, instead of combining them
selves, as they have hitherto done, to private
utterances of opinion. Means should be taken,
as cannot be mistaken, and which will render
misunderstanding impossible. The South
should be made to know, that it possesses the
sympathies of the central States and the adj
ministration should become aware, that il will
be held to bitter responsibility for its shame
full mismanagement of the public interests.
The METRoPOIITAN EDrTORs IN LUCK UNDER
OLD ABE.-Tbere is one thing in which Lincoln
and his administration appear to have i'm
proved on the democratic regime of the last
eight years. However the imbecile rail-split-
ter and his Cabinet may be in other respects,
it cannot be denied that they know how to APP
preciate the press.
In the reign of poor Pierce every twopenny
rural editor Of whom nobody ever heard, and
who barely knew his right hand from his left,
was sent upon mission abroad or fattened
upon good Office at home. Every third and
fourth cousin of his was well provided for.
Under the administration of Mr.. Buchanan it
was not very different But under the new re-
publican rule, and with the advice of Mr.. Sew
ard, the enlightened and educated metropoli-
tan press are selected for reward, and every
republican newspaper Office in the city will
send forth two or three men to serve Uncle
Sam, either on foreign mission or in q fat do
mestic office. Some will 60 to France, some to
Italy, some to Germany, some to Eng
land, some to Turkey, and some even
as far as Alexandria in Egypt Mr..
Seward estimates the press at its right
Hn 1yvraxv hat Al,n
journals create, control and modify the public
opinion of the country; that New York is the
centre Of light whence facts and opinions ra-
date to the rest Of the Union and that the
poor devils Of country editors, equally without
brains or education, are dependent fupon the
metropolitan press for their very existence.
In taking care of the New York journalists,
and throwing overheard the hungry, impu-
dent and i'll hammered swarms of country edi-
tors who are now buzzing around the White
House, the Departments and the Capitol lite.
rally darkening the air with their numbers and
deafening everybody with their noise, Lincoln
and Seward are showing more discrimination
and sound judgment than they are doing in re-
ference to the mere objects of government
The New ENGLAND EIEcrIoNs-PRoBABrE
REACTION IN PUBLIC OrISIoN.-In the late cleo
ton in New Hampshire the republican majority
was reduced from the vote Of last November
to the amount of FIVE thousand three hundred,
and in the recent elections in Pennsylvania we
had similar result, as well as in some of the
town elections of this State. In the early
portion of next month the elections come of
in Rhode Island and Connecticut, and we
should not be surprised, Judging from the re-
suits in the other States alluded to, If more
complete reaction took place in those contests,
even to the extent of sweeping out the repub-
licans altogether.
The people there are beginning to wake up
to the true state Of the case. They are getting
to understand the policy-such as it is-of the
administration; a policy half cowardice and
halt coercion; the policy, in fact Of coward
and bully; for they are synonymous terms.
Ii is beginning to be understood that the re-
publican party attained power by false pre-
tences-by assuming to be pure and incor-
ruptible- while they are now doing nothing
but handing out the spoils and paying their
stump orators with Offices, at crisis when the
country is awaiting some settlement of its
pressing difficulties at their hands. The adj
mnistration is doing nothing and promising
nothing, to extricate us from the present CON-
plications. Yet the question could have been
settled by the last Congress If 1t had submitted
the Crittenden resolutions to the several States
and it could be settled even now, in six weeks
time, by submitting the Montgomery constitu-
ton to the people,
The present administration Is destined to be
the most corrupt and disastrous one with
which the country was ever afflicted, and Its
course up to the present time must have con-
vinced every one that the most fatal con-
sequences to the whole country are certain to
result from IT, Thus we should not be at all