The New York herald., 1862-03-06

The New Military Governor rofTennessee-
The Union Policy ofthe Administration.
The appointment by the President of Hon.
Andrew johnson, of Tennessee, as Brigadier
General, and his transfer from the Senate to the
position of Provisional Military Governor of
said State, is proceeding which will be hearth
ly approved by every honest believer in and
advocate of "the integrity of the Union"
Governor johnson, in maintaining his loyalty
to the Union, and his place in our national Con-
gress as Senator from Tennessee, in defiance
of the secession ordinance of her traitorous
Governor and Legislature, has been the chosen
victim of the most malignant secession perse-
cutions. Narrowly escaping with his life from
his home in East Tennessee, over the mountains
into Kentucky, and by that way to Washington,
he has been since last summer an
exile from his State. In the mean
time his family, and the families of his married
sons and daughters, have been eaten out of
house and home by secession marauders, and
scattered he knows not where; his property has
been sequestrated, and price has been set
upon his head by the rebel ruffans In the
service of the traitor Governor Harris and
his confederates. 1t is eminently proper, there
fore, that this faithful Union man, Johnson
should be returned with an overwhelming Union
army at his back, as the Governor of Tennes-
see, and with the discretionary powers OF mill
tary commander over all the rebel conspira-
tors and ruflans of the State. With his return
they will know that they have superintendent
over them who is not to be trifed with; and,
better still, the downtrodden Union men of
Tennessee will hail their new Governor with an
enthusiasm which, perhaps, no other man could
command
Best of all, we have the most satisfactory
evidence in this appointment that "Honest Abe
Lincoln" repudiating all the disorganizing
schemes of our mischievous abolitionists, in
tends, in the recovery of our rebellious
States, to adhere to his own well considered,
simple, safe and practical policy Of the restora-
ton of the Union in it's integrity. Andrew
Johnson is conservative man on the slavery
question. He will not meddle with the con-
stitutional landmarks Of the institution in Ten
nessee; but he will proceed to reinstate the
Commonwealth as it was under the Union
down to the unlucky day when it was dragged
into the morass of secession. Thus we may
expect, in very short time, to find Tennessee,
like Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland, safe
and sound back again in the Union, without
other injury than the ordinary casualties of
war to her peculiar domestic institution OF
slavery.
We think it very probable that one of the
immediate consequences of this war will be an
emancipation pressure upon the border slave
States which will rapidly operate to the abo-
lition Of slavery therein; and by the action
of these States themselves, in view Of the
changed condition of things around them,
Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky
and Missouri with the restoration Of the
Union, will, we think, find it to their advantage
to slough off this institution of slavery as quick
ly as possible consistent with the public tram
quillity. We think, too, that such will be the
course of said States, with the issue in their
hands; and the question should be left TO them
and to every other slave State of the present
day, as it was left originally to the slave States
of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
others. This is the policy of "Honest Abe Lin
coln;" and as it has been consistently pursued in
the reclamation of Maryland, Missouri. Ken
lucky and Tennessee from the gripe of this re-
bellion, we may venture the opinion that it
will still be adhered to, all the emancipation
schemes of Sumner, Trumbull, Lovejoy,
Cheever, Beecher and Greeley to the contrary
notwithstanding.
1t is this policy which has broken down the
strongholds of the rebellion in the West. and
which, if not disturbed, will speedily break up
the whole concern. We expect shortly to find
it fully developed in the complete restoration of
Tennessee to the laws and benefits of the Union.
In this connection we would suggest, however.
that no State convention is necessary. Tennessee
is not in the condition Of province wrested from
a foreign enemy. She has not. in fact, been out
of the Union. Her functions as a State adhering
to the Union have simply been suspended by
lawless armed mob. We have beaten off this
mob, and its spurious State officers and age lts,
and all that remains to be done is to lili The
vacancies which we find in the personnel of the
legitimate State government. and in the repre-.
sentation of the State in the two houses of Con-
gress. We dare say, however, that under the
instructions of the President, and with power
full army to support him, Governor Johnson
will fulfil the public expectations in the rcstora
ton Of the law and order of the Union in Ten
nes,ee.
REIGN OF TERROR IN RIcHMOND-DEspERA-
TroN OF THE REBELs.-The rebellion is in the
last terrible agonies of violent dissolution.
Richmond is getting too hot to hold it. Read
the exciting information which We publish this
morning from the Richmond papers. The
Union men of that city are beginning to put the
handwriting on the wall. attention, Union