The New York herald., 1862-02-17

livered Pork was fair demand while prices
changed. Sugars steady with sales of sss hhds
and 11S 1000 bags Laguayra coffee were sold on
private terms. Freghts steady and engagements
moderate.
Moro Successes-Expectod Fall OF Fort
Donelson-Defeat OF the Rebels i'm Mis-.
souri,.
The glorious news will be found in another
column that the flag of the Union, baptized in
commanding Fort Donelson, on the Cumber-
land, as it waved few days since over Fort
Henry, on the Tennessee, and that General
Grant reports its certain capture The way to
Nashville will be opened, and speedy end will
be made of the rebellion in Tennessee. In Mis-
souri, it has received its final blow. In its igno-
minious fight General Prices rear guard was
captured, and our troops have more prisoners
than they know what to do with. Thus the
work goes bravely on
What ought to be the policy of the govern
mcrt under these circumstances! The admra-
BILE proclamation of the President, announcing
all amnesty to all political prisoners, ought to
be followed up by declaring an amnesty to all
now in open hostility to the government, upon
laying down their arms and submitting to the
authority of the laws of the Union, to exc
cute which is the sole and single purpose
Of the war. Such a proclamation would
operate as q talisman upon what remains
of the insurrection, and dissolve il like
the snow of winter before the genial
rays Of vernal sun. There is no vindictive
purpose to crafty on the part Of the Presi-
dent, and there ought not to be on the par Of
those in authority under him. Certainly there
is not on the part of the officers Of the army
or the citizen soldiers who enlisted for the war.
, For what war? The war to restore the Union
| and the constitution, and not . war for
vengeance nor war for any utopian ideas Of
philanthropy for negroes at the expense OF white
men. The Presidents proclamation Of pardon
to political offenders cannot fail to produce
powerful effect upon the misguided dupes OF
the insurgent chiefs. It's wisdom is obvious to
all men not blinded by fanaticsm and blood
thirsty revenge. Another proclamation, ofer-
ing pardon to the rebels in arms, upon their
submission, would crown this policy, and afford
the most practical refutation of tie enormous
| living of the leaders in the rebellion and of the
| misrepresentation of the British press. II may
disappoint the rabid abolitionists in and
out of Congress; but, standing on such broad
platform, the President can afford to despise
| their enmity and their friendship both alike.
/ The plaudits of nation redeemed will com
! rensate for the Satanic hate of a disunon fac
ton, who are the primal source of all our ma
tional troubles. The conservative course of
Mr.. Lincoln will endear his name to generations
! yet unborn.
| What do the fanatics propose TO do when the
! war is over To rule the Southern States "a
conquered provinces or territories. and to
emancipate The whole negro ponula ion. Did
they ever seriously consider lie effect
of their insane proposition: In many districts
| of the South the blacks outnumber the whites
Now, if they are emancipated they will be enti-
tied to be members of Congress and Governors
| of States In brief time, therefore we might
reasonably expect to see some hundred negroes
| in the House of Representatives, if not even in
the Senate Chamber. What sort Of ludicrous
figure would such piebald Congress present
to the eyes of wondering nations? Such a
laughing stock, indeed has Jamaica already be-
come. Nor would the absurdity stop short here.
AS tie negroes in Southern climate increase
more rapidly than white men, IL would not be
long till they would have a preponderance
in numbers, and then perhaps the idea would
occur to Sambo that he ought to have the en-
tire South TO himself, and that IL would be we'll
to get rid Of the whites, after the fashion Of st.
Domingo, so earnestly recommended by the
abolition tribe. In the North the negroes can be
politically free with impunity TO the white
race. though social freedom is further from
their reach than IL is al the South. But in the
cotton States the case is entirely different,
and enlightened humanity revolts at The thought
of emancipation. As Jefferson truly said, IL
is impossible that the two races can exist
together free at the South. But the impractical
visionaries think little Of the consequences Of
their theories. The President however, is q
man OF strong common sense as well as of a
genial nature, and they cannot make him the
instrument of their silly and destructive de-
signs. This rapid succession Of decisive VIC