The New York herald., 1862-03-29

vefsiFe OF ner national allegiance lie says,
therefore, that he shall ill these Offices tempo
rarily. 'untl the State shall be restored 90 far
to its accustomed quiet that the people can
peaceably assemble at the ballot box and select
agents of their own choice" In other words, he
adopts the sensible view of President Lincoln,
that this rebellion has not carried any State out
OF the Union, but that In Tennessee. for in
stance, tho federal authority has only been
temporarily superseded by rsbellious conspi-
racy and that with the suppression Of this con-
spiracy therein the State as member of the
Union, resumes its former position. without the
necessity of any legislation whatsoever On the
part of Congress.
This is the doctrine Of President Lincoln, and
1t stands upon the impregnable ground of the
constitution. Our radical abolition faction,
however, do not like it. They prefer the theory
of Mr.. Senator Sumner-that State in revolt
against the general government has committed
felo de &C. has destroyed ITSELF and has forfeited
all its claims, even when recovered, to oonstitu-
tional protection, and. when wrested from the
rebellion, maybe rightfuliy governed by Con-
gress with the absolute authority of the con-
qusror Of foreign territory. Hence Mr..
Summers assumption that Congress may
and ought to declare slavery abolished In our
rebeliious States, and ought to legislate for
them as for States, by their acts of rebellion,
remanded back to the condition of Territories,
and in crude and chaotic mass, without q
vestige Of political organization or of geo.
graphical boundaries to distinguish one from
another. Mr.. Sumner plumes himself upon the
fact that he derives this sweeping revolutionary
theory from the peculiar views of John Quincy
Adams. But the views of Mr.. Adams on the sub
ject Of Southern slavery and rebellion were
too much embittered by his unpopularity in
the South as Presidential candidate to be en-
titled to much consideration. After he left tho
White House he became the leader and the
chosen apostle Of the antislavery faction of
Congress, and did more, perhaps, than any
other man Of his time to foment that succession
of sectional slavery agitations which have cul-
minated in this rebellion.
There is no safety in the violent abolition
counsels of Mr.. Adams. They tend to anarchy
and endless confusion. On the other hand al
though with much greater cause for a hostile
spirit against the South than Mr.. Adams as
Presidential candidate, we find Mr.. Lincoln,
through all the trying ordeal Of this rebellion,
from bis journey incog. to Washington, in order
to escape a band Of secession assassns, down
to this day, the magnanimous, steadfast and
consistent advocate Of "the integrity Of the
Union," including the preservation of the re-
volted States Of The South and their institutions,
slavery and ALL as they were. II is not, then,
q matter of wonder that his Provisional Cover
nor Of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson has been
there is every prospect of complete success in
his enterprise, without the slightest difficulty,
after the expulsion Of the bogus Governor Har-
ris and his armed oonfederates from Memphis
The speeches which we publish to-day, in
this connection, of Emerson Etheridge, Parson
Brownlow and Horace Maynard, are full of cn-
couragement. Mr. Etheridge's loyalty is so de-
cided that he does not hesitate to tell the peo-
pie of Tennessee that, if the issue is to be made
between slavery and the Union, slavery must
60 to the wall. But upon this point the Presi-
dents emancipation Message will, OF ought to,
satisfy the people Of Tennessee, and Of every
other Southern State, that, whether it is their
wish to preserve their institution of slavery or
TO abolish it, every consideration of safety,
economy and prudence invites them to the
fullest confidence in his administration. We
think 1t exceedingly fortunate that Andrew
johnson has been appointed Provisional Co.
vernon of Tennessee. He is known throughout
the South, not as an abolitionist, nor even as
Northern republican, but as q Southern con-
servative democrats and from this fact, together
with his proclamation, we anticipate the best
results against the falsehoods of the secession
leaders of the South and the disorganizing
schemes Of our abolition disunionists OF the
North.
TURyInGs AND TwBrINGs OF THE "LrrTIE
TT "A abort time aU0 W. doCI arod that