The New York herald., 1862-07-26

to see. The Internal republicans and fanatics
aboitionists are crying out for policy The
declare that the President has no policy. The.
insist that the President must have pQlia-
They excaim that . policy is the one thin
neediul They write long editorials under tn
adys-,semeat heading of "Wantel-a policy.
Tleir cry originated with an internal repub,i
caa ,nurnal, whose idea of policy was the de
position Of President Lincoln and the establish
ment Of Ge,,-ce Law as small fry Cromwell
1t was caught as by all the abolition organs
great and small. ala was reiterated yesterda.
by the silly Tribune. No>, all these agitator
are parposely blind. they ar a'rald 10 &C
knowledge to themselves the real siate OF 'n'
case. The President has a policy, and Y
national, constitutional and conservative
What the agitators desire, therefore, is not that
the President should have policy, but that he
should adopt their policy. This, it will be
perceived, is quite another thing.
A long time ago, in his diplomatic cores
pondence now published and on record, Secre-
tary Seward marked out the policy OF our
government, both towards the rebels and
towards all foreign Powers. This po-
licy was determined upon when Pre-
sident Lincoln organized his Cabinet,
and appointed Mr.. Seward, the professed and
hated opponent of the abolition radicals, as his
Secretary of State, or Prime Minister. Mr..
Seward, As was his duty, informed the Euro
pean governments of this policy in his diplo-
-, Ior
repeatedly expressed this policy in his messages
and speeches. The government has never de-
waited from this policy for a moment. What
ever certain military commanders, or the aboli-
ton leaders, or the abolition Congress, or Cabi-
net officers like Mr.. Chase, may have been led to
the government itself has preserved its policy
intact General Fremont attempted to modify
this policy by proclamation in Missouri; bat
the proclamation, and not the policy, was modi-
fed by the President. Gen. Hunter repeated
Fremonts experiment in South Carolina; but
the government Immediately repudiated Hun
ter's manifesto. Congress, under the control Of
the abolitionists tried to transgress this policy
by the passage Of an unconstitutional Confsca-
ton bill; but the President prepared veto
against it, and thus forced Congress to veto its
own bill in order to escape his rebuke. Secre-
tary Stanton, led on by the will-o'-the wisp Of
an abolition nomination for the Presidency,
dared to transgress this policy in conducting the
war; and the President has raced him into
a mere chief clerk, and has appointed the con-
servative General Halleck as General-in-Chief.
Shall we inform the abolitienists what is the
policy thus announced and defended? 1t is
simply the suppression of this rebellion by
force, with q management Of the war which
shall preserve the institutions Of the South, as
far as is compatible with success, and which
shall render a reunion of the two sections pos
sible by avoiding all measures destructive of
the good old constitution.
Now, it is this very policy which the Internal
republicans and fanatical abolitionsts oppose
and decry. When it was reannounced by the
President in his confiscation order, few days
ago, they declared that it came upon them
. like wet blanket" They have been en-
all along to force the government to
this policy and adopt the fire and
birthstone, free negro and destruction, amalga-
nation and disunion policy to which, rs Wen
dell Phillips declares, they have been committed
for the last sixteen years. In spite Of repeated
disappointments, they have persevered In trying
to turn the government from its settled pur-
pose. They imagined that the President could
be bullied, humbugged or coaxed into becoming
a convert to their ideas. They have caught up
every word which fell from the Presidents lips,
and have again and again published private
letters from those claiming to DO in the Presi-
dents confidence. laboring TO miscon-
strue and misrepresent his utterances
INTO grounds Of hope for themselves. Such men
as Wade and Chandler have tried to bully and
blackguard the President into abelitionism,
forgetful that when Old Abe puts his foot down
no menaces can move him. Such men as
Governor Andrew, Of Massachusetts, and Gov
ernor Yates, Of Illinois, have tried to humbug
the President into abolitionism by promising
him increased enlistments, forgetful that the
President knew that Massachusetts, was misrep-
resented by an abolition Governor, and that Jlli-
nois had just declared unanimously against any
with negroes. Such men as Sum-
ner and Greeley have tried to wheedle the
President into abolitionism, fcrgetful that the
President WAS too old . polissal bird to be
caught with chat, and that he fully recolleeted
their abuse and scandal Of himself and his
family. No wonder, then, that, overwhelmed
by disappointment and modification, these fel-
lows still try 70 shot their eyes to the truth and
whine out "Wanted-a policy"
These crazy abolitionists are discovered,
found out, exposed, detected. The whole
country is Laughing at and triumphing over
them. The most doubtful conservative now
clearly sees that the President cannot be moved
from his constitutional policy. The dark
days Of doubt arc passed, and the nation il
reviving with renewed confidence. The
abolitionists have caused much trou.