The New York herald., 1862-07-17

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The War for the Union-PresideMt LIN.
colin and His Ststcsnanliks Policy.
President Lincoln, In the great work of this
war for the Union, commands, In remarkable
degree. the confidence of our loyal States and
people. Looming above the discordant politi-
cal factions Of the hour, hs stands out in the
coast. All men Of ell parties devoted to the
cause of the Union turn to him to guide us
through our present troubles. All mon recog-
nize his honesty and active patriotism, and no
truly loyal man, consulting the events and
developments Of this war, will hesitate to ap-
prove the wisdom of his policy for the sup
preston Of this great rebellion and tho resto-
ration of the Union.
1t is well for us and our popular institutions
that we have such pilot ct the helm at this
juncture of life or death to the nation. Had
Mr.. Lincoln been . vain, shallow, conceited,
ambitious and INSCRIPTIONS juggling party
politician, like poor Pierce, or weak, trem-
bling, credulous imbeeile, like poor old MI.
Buchanan, the States of this Union would, in
all probability, to-day be divided among three
or four gunpowder republics of the Mexican
and South American school. On the other
hand, had Pierce and Buchanan, or either Of
them, possessed tenth part of the frmness of
Abraham Lincoln, we should have escaped the
fearful, bloody and terrible drama of this civil
war.
But poor Pierce, becoming the servile tool of
his Secretary Of War, JEFF Davis, and of the
rampant, domineering, ultra Southern faction
at his back, sowed the dragons teeth of this
rebellion with his repeal of the Missouri Com
promise. The wretched old man of Wheat
land, covering and trembling under the threats
and terrors Of the same reckless faction, repre-
sented in his Cabinet by those infamous traitors,
Cobb, Thompson and Floyd, became their
obedient instrument, and, on the Kansas quos-
tlon, completed the work Of discord, treachery
and disunion which poor Pierce had begun, BY
the sale of his birthright for Southern mess
Of democratic pOttage. But what else could
have been expected from either Of these men
than the faithless course which they pursued,
when the one was chosen only upon the merits
of his obscurity, and the other because Of an
alibl in his favor on the great issue upon which
poor Pierce, having served his turn, was turned
out in the cold.
Poor Pierce and Buchanan Where are they
now? If there were nothing else in the record
than their disgrace and the public odium and
suspicion under which they have fallen, we
right let them pass. But when we consider
that it is to their slavish and most degrading
obedience to the Southern radical and domi-
neering faction Of the late democratic party
that we are mainly indebted for this monstrous
rebellion, we may proftably hold up these
two faithless and imbecile public servants as
q warning TO the people, and to all Prssiden-
tial aspirants for the future, whose highest
perry neutrality upon the vital issues Of the day.
There Is q rampant, violent radical, domi-
neering faction in the party camp to which Pre-
sident Lincoln owes his election. 1t Is the
Northern abolition faction. 1t has also tried TO
control the Presidents policy after the manner
of the insolent and remorseless Southern ultra
faction Of the rotten democracy. Had Prcsi-
dent Lincoln bowed to the commands Of these
abolition radicals th. war for the Union would
have been changed into awar for negro eman-
cipatlon, involving universal confscaton
throughout the South, the reduction Of our re-
bellious States to Territories, negro political
and social equality, eliminating in the san
culinary scenes Of st. Domingo between the
white and black races. But President Lincoln,
marking out the policy Of his administration
for himself upon the broad platform Of " the
integrity OF the Union," and Of State sove-
reignty over the slavery question, has pur-
sued " the even tenor OF his way" regardless
Of clamors, threats and denunciation, which,
ere this, coming from the chiefs Of his party,
would have vanqushed any other than reso-
lutte man, firm in bis convictions Of right and
wrong, and resolved to adhere 10 them against
oil opposing cliques and combinations
This k the secret Of President Lincoln's
popularity. Ills honesty, consistency and
statemaulike policy have secured him the con.
Hdencs OF the country. He has doubtless dis.
appointed our radical abolition faction, in the
determined and successful resistance which he
has made, and continues TO make, to all their
nefarious and disorganizing schemes, plots
measures and movements to entrap him. Hs