The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-05-30

The Presidentfal Election OF 1s04-mr'
Lincoln ana His Cabtaet.
The late Union League and Loyal League
Conventions at Utica have blown over. The
politicians concerned in them assembled TO-
gether, talked over their schemes confdentaliy,
made their speeches and passed their resoiu-
tions intended for the public eye, and dispersed,
stoutly disclaiming all the time any object or
purpose beyond the suppression of the rebel
lion. But. with all their disclaimers, it is no.
torious that the Convention of Tuesday was a
Presidential movement Of the friends of MIR.
Secretary Chase, and that the Convention OF
Wednesday was under the auspices OF the
friends of Mr.. Seward, as rival republican
organization. ~
Between Mr.. Chase and Mr.. Seward, and be-
tween the republican radicals and conserva-
tives, there has been division in the Cabinet
since the day Of It's appointment. Messrs.
Seward, Chase, Cameron and Bates, a. Presi-
Dental candidates, each had their supporters In
the Republican National Convention Of 1860,
and, according to their respective claims,
thus certified by the magnates Of the party,
they wero placed IN mis- Cabinet by President
but it was failure from the outset. Cameron
ID disposed Of, Bates stands in nobody's way;
but there has beer nothing but trouble from
the beginning, in consequence of the appoint
ments Of Messrs. Seward and Chase. The sbo-
iition radicals have waged war upon the
former with unrelentIng hostility, and the
republican conservatives have looked with dis
trust upon the latter from the start. The sue
csssful management by Mr.. Seward of our
delicate foreign relations has gone for nothing
with the radicals. His sagacious policy whereby
peace has been maintained with England, has
been turned against him a. . sufficient cause
for his removal. J. The radical faction. on the
other hand, with Mr.. Chase as their leader, have
proved themselves utterly incompetent to con-
duct the war; and yet, In addition to our
domestic concerns they have insisted and still
demand the absolute control in the Cabinet Of
our foreign affairs. ,s-sa a,.,s.ief eaw \
And thus "the irrepressible conflict" between
the Chase faction and the Seward or conserve
tive faction has been going on, until it has
assumed the shape of two rival Presidential
electioneering movements, in these Utica Con-
venrions. We think the time has arrived for
President Lincoln to make an example Of these
disturbers of the harmony Of the administration,
and to put an end to their premature and mis-
chievous plottings and counter-plottings for
the next Presidency. His remedy for a dis
cordant and wranghng Cabinet is the remedy
applied by General Jackson. When he dis
covered that between John G. Calhoun then
Vice President-and his adherents in the Cabi-
net, on the one side, and Martin Van Buren,,
Secretary of State. on the other, there was
nothing but discords, and that there was no
hope Of peace without o change Of his minis
try, Old Hickory promptly solved the diff
Guilty by packing Off every member Of that
Cabinet, and by appointing Q new one, from
the Secretary of State down TO the Attorney
General. We need not here repeat the good
results which followed this mastery proceed
ing, nor illustrate here how much il had to do
with General Jackson's reelection. We think
that all the facts in the case and all the advan-
tages gained will at once recur TO President
Lincoln, In calling his attention to the subject
He has but to follow In the footsteps Of Gene
raj Jackson II he would have harmonious
Cabinet and degree Of popular confidence
and support equal 10 ell emergencies.
In the meantime We are gratined to hear that
there h movement afoot in this city which 10
calculated speedily and completely to check.
mate all the schemes and estimates Of all the
Intriguing and demoralixing Presidential fac
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