The New York herald., 1862-10-07

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A still more palpable blunder is made by the
candidate of the radicals when he contends
that q great increase Of trade to the Northern
States and to the whole commercial world, and
| vast increase in the production of the great
Southern staples" would result from emsnci-
patton. 1t is just the reverse 1t would cause
vast decrease in both; for If the negroes would
not work at all, if they were emancipated,
Southern staples would be fearfully reduced,
and the trade to the Northern States and to the
whole commercial world would almost cease to
| exist Emancipation would be destructive to
the blacks, to South and North, and to the rest
of mankind. Wadsworth's visionary ideas are
quite in keeping with the sentiments of the
faction to which he belongs.
WADswoRTH's LETTER OF AccEPTANCE-The
letter of Gen. Wadsworth to the Hon. Henry
j. Raymond, President of the Republican State
Nominating Convention, was published in our
columns yesterday, and is a very good letter of
acceptance. II presents no particular point
worthy of criticism, except that its political
economy is altogether mistaken. Gen. Wads-
worth thinks, for instance. that freeing all the
negroes in the South would cheaper cotton
when the experience of emancipation in the
West Indies has shown conclusivey that free
negroes in warm climate will not work except
to gain enough food and clothing to supply
their phys wants. This is a mere specula-
tive and theoretical matter, however, as all the
negroes in the South are not likely to be freed,
at least in this generation.
In regard to the. war, Gen. Wadsworth's ideas,
as expressed in this letter, coincide with our
own, as repeatedly expressed in the HERALD
Like us, he understands that the election will
turn upon the necessity of sustaining our ma
tonal government in its efforts to uphold itself
and maintain its territorial integrity, and especi
ally upon the proclamation of the President
issued to that end" Certainly this war is for
the maintenance and integrity Of the Union
and certainly the Presidents proclamation is
military measure designed to assist us IN con-
Guiding the war. Every loyal democrat under.
stands that; Gov. Seymour stands upon pre-
cisely that platform. 1t is only Greeley and
his radicals who believe that the war is for
abolition, and that therefore, the proclamation
has concluded the war, and all we have to do
Is 10 rest on our arms auQ wall lOT Tue ISL OIL
January.
Again, we agree cordially with Gen. Wads-
worth when he says :-"This great domain,
from the lakes to the gulf, from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, one country, governed by one idea
freedom-is yet destined to dictate terms, if
need be, to the world in arms, and hold that
man to be a traitor and coward who, under
any defeats, any pressure of adversely however
great any calamites however dire, would give
up one acre of it," Gov. Seymour and every
other loyal democrat heartily endorse that,
because it is true, and because it is very
severe cut at poor Greeley and his radicals, who
have been and are now willing to let the cotton
States 60 if slavery will 60 with them, and who
are trying to block the wheels of the war until
the lst of January, careless what becomes Of
the Union SO that the negro is freed Traitors
and towards, are they? We thank thee, Wads-
WORTH for giving us that word. All loyal de-
mocrats, like Wadsworth and Seymour, are for
vigorous war, to be victoriously ended before
the lst of January, careless what becomes Of
slavery so that they save the Union. They,
therefore, are heroes and patriots.
tached himself to the radicals, and must be
bound by their principles; otherwise, judging
from this letter, he would have made very
tolerable sort Of q candidate. He but repeats
our praises when he says that "it will long be
remembered, to the great honor of the mer.
chants, bankers and manufacturers of the
North, that, giving the lie to the calumnies Of
.lo ubn oh kho,,
with being degraded and controlled by the
petty profits Of traffic, they have met the nu-
merous sacrifices of this great struggle with
cheerfulness and promptness of which history
furnishes no parallel" But most of these fnan-
cial men who have so generously, literally and
patrotically contributed to carry on this war
are democrats and these very gentlemen
whom Wadsworth eulogizes he will be CON-
PEELED to arrest, prescribe and subject to the
coniscation of their remaining property If he
be elected Governor; because the radicals say
that all the democratic merchants, bankers and
manufacturers are traitors, and insist that all
democrats should be regarded and treated as
traitors. General Wadsworth could not resist
the radical pressure if he were Governor, but
would succumb to it, as higher officials have
done, and send to prison the very democrats
with whom he now agrees, and whom he now
(before election) SO warmly praises. That
would be very sad thing for General Wads-
worth, as well as for the democrats. Let us
save him from 1t by not electing him.
THE ORLEANS DYNASTY IN THE FIELD-We
publish in another column letter from the
Count de Paris, in reference to the campaign on
the Potomac in which he took an active part