The Placer herald., 1861-03-02
The Policy Of the incoming Administra-
tion.

to the Capitol to assume the reins of gov
ernment. AT Indianapolis Ind, be spoke to
the people, and from the remarks there
made it would seem that he would consider
the sending of an army into South Carolina
as invasion, and if the people were forced
to submit that it would be coercion. For
the Government to hold or retake the forts,
or collect the revenue, or transport the mails,
he asked if it would be coercion, In con-
cluson he said he was not asserting any
thing but asking questions for the people to
decide in their own minds. From this and
other sources it is gathered that the new
Administration will not be disposed to
plunge the country into war, by the attempt
to invade any of the seeding States by arm
ed forces, but rather continue Mr.. Buchan =
ans pol cy in the hope of an amicabe set
Element of the distracting questions at is
sue. This will not suit Republicans of the
Wade and Wilson school, bat the recent
positions taken by Seward and Cameron,
who will belong to the new Cabinet, afford
the belief that ulraism will not control in
the new council.
Through the present session of Congress
the Republicans have been found impractical
bic by reason of their compromise
notions, and have materially complicated
the dihicu ties; but the rapid Withdrawal Of
States, and their representative from Con.
gress, has lately awakened some of them to
the real danger Of the Union, who begin to
acknowledge the necessity of compromise
as the only hope. Letter writers announce
positively that this disposition is growing
rapidly in the dominant party, and while it
promises some hope for the nation it threat.
ems the disruption Of the Republicans. Mr.
Seward, before all others considered the
great leader Of his party, has already had
anathemas hurled at him by bis friends for
squirting towards compromise in his late
speeches.
The exact nature of the compromises the
new Administration will support, is probably
not yet known to itself. The members of the
present Congrss seem altogether unable to de-
eide upon plan, and the public hope is now
centered upon the Peace Congress, com
posed of Commissioners from number of
States, now in session at Washington Mem
hore of Cororos, ,bap,ealvoe ,,-onoeo o,vait
ING the action of this Conference, in the ex
pectation of receiving from it a plan that
will be acceptable to the country, thus
acknowledging their own inability to provide
a remedy. The Crittenden plan seems to
engage most attention, and it is believed
that if an accommodation is arrived at, it
will be taken as the basis. Although this
plan is not acceptable to Republicans, yet
the pressure in its favor is growing stronger
every day at the North. From the PIES
ent position of the States of the far South,
we do not know that they take much inter
est in it, but we believe, that if all the States
again come together as a Union, that any
settlement that will receive the approval of
all of the border Slave States, will be ac.
quiesced in ultimately, by the remaining
Southern States.
The present confederation Of the several
seeding States, may be regarded differently
from different stand points. In one phase
it presents a Union prepared to make good
the position its several members have taken,
if the attempt is made to force them back
into the old confederacy; in the other, by
being thus consolidated they can more readi,
ly make kno~n the guarantees they demand
as condition to remaining or coming back
to their late sister States. AS viewed by
different minds, this action either gives the
liveliest hope to a speedy restoration of
fraternal feeling, or obliterates the last hope
of the Union Of the States recently so pros
porous and happy.
For ourselves, we do not yet quite despair
If there is one half the patriotism and love
of country in the breast of the Republican
party claimed for it by its members, there is
still hope for the country; for they will raise
superior to the claims Of party, and accede
to the higher demands of common nation
ality.
SENAToRIAL.-The Legislature does not
vet appear to be in the humor to 90 into
an election for U. S. Senator. Scarcely a
day passes that resolution to 60 into joint
convention is not offered, but is as often de,
feated by decided vote. Upon Wednesday
and Thursday resolutions were introduced to