The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-06

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The Last Assault or the Radical Press
Upon the Policy or the President.
The sensible and judicious course of Mr..
Stanly, appointed by the President Military
Governor of North Carolina, has furnished oc-
casion for most violent outburst of the aboli-
ton journals against the conservative policy of
the Chief Magistrate, whom the Jacobins are
attempting to stab over the shoulders of his ap-
pointee. The revolutionary radical press has
opened in full chorus, like q pack Of furious
hounds, against scorpion Stanly, the cruel
out of the State of North Carolina DR.. Vincent
Colyer, an incendiary missionary from this city,
Of the same stamp as poor Pearce, whose mis-
sion in South Carolina was attended with so
vast an amount of evil, while, for its professed
object, it is confessed to have been miserable
failure. Whether the folly or the criminality Of
such proceedings is the greater it is difficult to
determine. The Tribune, the Times, the Post
and the Commercial Advertiser demand
either the reprimand or the recall of
Mr.. Stanly; and two of these journals
state that Secretary Stanton has declared that
he would not belong to government for five
minutes which could authorize or sanction his
proceedings, and that he has written to him,
with the sanction of the President, to counter
mand his orders. Indeed, the Post last even
ing improved upon this, and asserted that the
President himself had directed Mr.. Stanly to
revoke his action.
Now, as Mr.. Stanton has continued member
and even several days, since these events
TRANSFERRED, we conclude the Secretary of
War never used any such language;
for the course of Governor Stanly has
been shaped by the well known policy Of
the President, and the President could not
change it even to accommodate Mr.. Stanton. It
10 the same policy that guides the path Of Ed
ward Stanly in North Carolina, and Andrew
Johnson in Tennessee. Both men have very
properly been invested with large discretion.
They are natives of the States over which they
have been appointed provisional Governors,
and they know better than abolitionists sitting
in their easy chairs in New York what
their respective States, and for their ultimate
restoration to their normal condition under the
constitution and the Union. As for the hum
bug Of teaching the A B to blacks of forty or
fifty years of age, it is so preposterous that the
common sense Of mankind laughs at it. Bet
ter far to teach them how to work for an honest
living; and Governor Stanly, a. a practical
man, did we'll to get rid of the pestilent nui-
sances that, under the pretence of instructing
the negroes in the rudiments Of an education
which they cannot comprehend, and which
they could never turn to any account, were
sowing the seeds of servile instruction against
the white race, and undoing all the good that
the moderate and conciliatory policy Of the
President was SO well adapted to produce.
II. II. Helper brother Of the notorious Hinton
Rowan Helper, admits in his letter to Cover
nor Stanly that he left the Union army in
order to cooperate with such emssaries as
Colyer in the work Of pulling down what the
President is laboring to build up. If the war
were carried on according to the fanatical
ideas of the radicals, it would continue for
twenty years, and fail in its legitimate object
at last.
By his proclamation at the beginning of
hostilties, nearly fourteen months ago, Mr.
Lincoln announced that the object of the war
was to restore the rebellious States to their al
legiance, and not to NEEDLE with their local
government or institutions. He said II was Ito
maintain the honor, the integrity and the exist
ence Of our national Union, and the perpetuity
of popular government" The tendency of the
abolition policy is to overthrow both. The
President said the immediate duty Of the forces
called forth would be ITO reposssss the forts,
places and property which have been seized
care ,could be Observed 10 ovoid any destruction Of
on interference 10Th property, or any disturbance
of peaceful citizens In any part Of the country"
The object Of the abolitionists and Of their pro-
pagandsts il the very reverse Of this. Again,
Mr.. Lincoln, in his message to Congress on the
9Th of March last, announced that the question
Of emancipation rested with the Southern States
themselves, and not with the general govern
ment. and he repudiated the idea Of setting up
any .claim Of right by federal authority to
interfere with slavery within State limits" and
declared that he referred the absolute control
of the subject in each case to the State and the
people Immediately interested" No language
could be more explicit than this; and both
houses Of Congress, by large majorites, adopted
resolution embodying the sentiments Of the
President. His rebuke of Generals Fremont
and Hunter on this subject is matter Of history.
Il is TO contravene and overthrow this con-
stitutional policy that the abolition conspra-
tors have banded together in the case of the
two Carolinas. Their instruments are anti