The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-24

UnlOn.' we return 10 tnis suDJect YET again,
in order to present to our readers a few adii-
tional facts and observations in connection
with the late extraordinary, sweeping and
preposterous abolition manifesto of General
Hunter.
The PRONUNCIATION Of the manifesto created a
very perceptible feeling of dependency
among our conservative Union men of all par
ties. Nobody could suppose that General
Hunter had issued this edict without consul
tation with other parties; but the impression
very widely prevailed that he had been led
astray by some malign influences at Washing
ton. Indeed, not few intelligent men enter
tanned the suspicion that the Secretary Of War,
Mr.. Stanton, falling under the same Northern
radical influences as his last unfortunate pre-
decessor, had given the cue to General Hunter
which resulted in this very absurd but mis-
chievous General Order, No. LIZ We are
gratiied, however, to be able to state that Mr..
Secretary Stanton has q clear and satisfactory
record upon this question, and that he heartily
supported the President in his ssasonable and
universally acceptable revoking proclamation.
But still, as it is impossible that General
Hunter could have issued his sweeping aboli-
ton edict without the encouragement of some
Influences belonging, or supposed to belong,
to "the power behind the THRONE" the question
still recurs, What were those malign in
fluences? We have reason to believe that
certain Mr.. Pierce, Boston philanthropic
missionary to the contrabands at Port Royal,
and q special protege of Mr.. Secretary Chase,
has had the longest finger in this abolition
pie. We suspect, in other words, that this
Rev. Mr.. Pierce and his colleagues among the
Port Royal contrabands, presuming too
largely upon the support and countenance Of
the Secretary of the Treasury, are the
parties most Immediately responsible for
the daring experiment of this General
Order, No. H." AT the same time we
regret to state that the radical aboli-
ton views and opinions of Mr.. Chase, and the
great influence in the administration which he
has so we'll earned at the head Of the Treasury
Department, were very we'll calculated to lead
General Hunter after this Jack-o'-lantern of
universal emancipation.
Mr.. Chase is understood to be the most ultra
ject of Southern slavery. From him, it is al
legged first came the radical revolutionary idea
that our rebellious States, by their overt acts Of
rebellion, have committed political suicide, or
telo de Sc, as Mr.. Senator Sumner designates it,
in his legal phraseology. 1t would thus
appear that the scheme which Mr.. Sum-
ner has urged upon the Senate for the re-
duction of our revolted States to the alb
solutely subordinate condition of Terrific
ries, including the abolition of slavery,
with State rights and State boundaries, is sup
ported by combination which not only CON-
mands considerable party in both branches
Of Congress, but at least one Of the most pow
erful and popular Of the members of Mr.. Lin
coins administration.
In this view Of the subject, the firmness and
consistency of President Lincoln stand out in
very bold relief. The resolution which was
adopted by tho almost unanimous vote of both
houses Of Congress last summer, declaring sub
stantially that this war is waged only to put
down the armed forces Of this rebellion, and
that with this object achieved, the war should
cease, has been steadfastly adhered to by the
President His late Secretary Of War, Mr.. Ca
meron inveigled into the snares of our
abolition radicals attempted to change
this conservative war policy to suit
their purposes, and so Mr.. Cameron was
superseded. General Fremont, last autumn,
under the delusion that the war had put an end
to the federal constitution, led off in this radi
cal game Of emancipation; but the consequences
to him, instead Of lettering Others from the
same folly, appear to have exasperated the fac
ton to which he belongs to every possible de-
vice, intrigue and experiment to drag or drive
the administration into their schemes.
They are fighting against the restoration of
the Union. Their political ascendency depends
upon the destruction Of the Union, and they
know IT, emancipation or separation" is
their ultimatum, and the radical dis
organizers devoted to this destructive
policy are now the most diabolical and
the most dangerous of oil tho traitors
| against whom tho administration, our generals
and our armies have to contend. Hence the
greater our cause for congratrhation in view Of
the frmness, patriotism and unfailing con-
sistency and sagacity Of President Lincoln. He
stands before the country tried and approved,
as the man and the statesman equal to the ext
oencios OF this momentous crisis, and the coun-
trv hereafter, as now, will recognize in him the
trusty and steady pilot without whose vigil
lance and answering rectitude our Union and
our popular Institutions would have beer
wrecked among the rocks and breakers Of this
! rebellion