The New York herald., 1862-03-18
President Lincoln and His Conciliatory
NO-Party Policy.

President Lincoln and His Conciliatory
No-Party Policy.
The conciliatory no-party policy OF Presi-
dent Lincoln, in his military and civil appoint
ments since the outbreak of our Southern re-
bellion, has done wonders in giving unity,
energy and efficiency to the Union sentiment of
our loyal States. According to the established
rule of his predecessors since the time of
Washington, he organized his administration
upon the basis of the party electing him; but
this rebellion, which combined all parties
in our revolted States against the government
practically wiped out all party lines in our
loyal States in the great task Of maintaining
the government. Thus recognized as the official
chief of all parties in the North, President
Lincoln has responded to this general movement
in broad and comprehensive policy eminently
successful in encouraging the support of all
parties.
In the appointment of his Cabinet, Mr. Lin
coin, under the circumstances surrounding him
at the time, had no other resource than the par
ty which had elected him. His first object was
to harmonic and consolidate that party. The
several rivals and factions which had competed
for the Chicago nomination were thus gathered
around him, and blended together in his minis
try. Thus he was prepared to conduct his ad-
ministration, as the official head of the republi-
can party, when the bombardment of Fort
Sumter broke into pieces and scattered to the
four winds all the parties of the last Presiden-
tial campaign. President Lincoln's first war
proclamation was tantamount to an official
notice to the country to this effect and as old
line democrats, and old line whigs and Know
Nothings, and what not, came volunteering by
thousands in answer to the Presidents calls for
soldiers to fight the battles of the Union, he
showed his appreciation Of this patriotic support
in the appointment of our army leaders from
the remains of all our late political parties.
Our old fighting democratic party is thus
represented in the army by General Mcclellan,
General Buell.. General Halleck, General Sher-
man and others-a numerous array; but they
are supported by proportionate body of
democratic volunteers among the subordinate
officers and privates of the army. Nor has Mr.
Lincoln stopped here in his grateful recogni
tions of the party-sacriicing patriotism which
has brought such large numbers of the old
democratic element of the North to his assist
ance He has made an old fashioned democrat
the head of the War Department itself, one of
the three infexible Union men who, as members
of Mr.. Buchanans Cabinet, after the igno-
minious expulsion or retirement of Cobb, Floyd
and Thompson, saved the late administration
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government and the country.
Those three infexible Union men of Mr. Bu-
chanan's recognized Cabinet were: Dix of New
York, Holt of Kentucky, and Stanton of Penn
sylvania. These men were among the leaders,
in 1860, of the conservative democracy against
the election of Abraham Lincoln; but from the
political revolution effected by this rebellion
We find Stanton now Mr.. Lincolns Secre-
tary of War, Dix the commander Of our
military forces in Maryland, and Holt, with an
other old line democrat-Robert Dale Owen
entrusted by Mr.. Lincoln with the final exami-
nation and judgment upon many millions of
money in the claims of army contractors
Thus it would appear that the best materials of
the old democratic party of our loyal States
have been absorbed into the party of Honest
Abe Lincolns" administration. And the same
may be said of every other party of 1860
Under this happy and prosperous state Of
things, in reference to the suppression Of this
satisfied except the radical abolition wing of
of the republican party They have been rails
ing terrible hue and cry against Mcclellan
they have howled considerably against Halleck,
and they have not spared Buell., or Sherman, or
Dix, for refusing to make the Union cause in
this war secondary to the cause Of negro eman-
cipation. For a time this noisy and restless
abolition faction were apparently satisfied in
having a man after their own hearts in CON-
mand of the army in Missouri; but the follies
and extravagant expenditures of Fremont
were too much even for our amiable
President Fremont was military luxury in
Missouri, too costly to be endured, and so he
was very properly superseded. MI. Lincoln,
however, anxious in any reasonable way to
appease the clamors Of the abolition element of
the country supporting him, has magnanimously
given Fremont the opportunity to redeem his
late follies and blunders, and 70 distinguish
himself in the field, in his new command over
the Mountain Department of Virginia.
II is unnecessary further to pursue the evil
dences of President Lincoln's conciliatory
policy for the sake of the Union. Party creeds,
and party principles and antecedsnts, he has
placed upon the common level of devotion to
the Union cause. His generous course has
won for him golden opinions from all sorts of
men," and has made our native citizens Of all
parties, our adopted citizens Of all nationali-
ties, and our religious people of every church.
harmonious body in support Of bis admins
tration and the enormous burdens Of this holy
war. We have reason to congratulate the
country that the right man is in the White
House, for the trying ordeal of this gigantic re-
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