The New York herald., 1863-11-03

souri-Kansas imbrogllo has sorely disappointed
and perplexed tho abolition radicals. This Is
especially the case In The Northwest, where the
leaders Of this domineering faction had deluded
themselves with the idea that they were the
masters of the administration. Had not the
President adopted the whole programme Of tho
radicals! Had be not made their schemes of
confscation. conscription, emancipation, &C.,
the leading measures of his war policy! How,
then, could he resist their demands for the re-
moval Of General Schoheld from the Depart
mont Of Missouri and Kansas, the snubbing of
Governor Gamble and the Missouri conserva-
tives, and the establishment OF radical general
and radical abolition policy over this depart
ment. The Jim Lane committee of seventy
proceeded to Washington certain Of success;
they returned each with 6ea in his ear. But,
instead Of accepting their rebuff like men Of
sense. resolved to make the most Of bad bar
gain, they threaten the removal of the Presi-
don't himself IL he shall continue to stand in
their way.
We are grsti6ed, however. that In this matter
these abolition destructives have run to the and
Of their tether. Honest Abe Lincoln has
plumply admonished them that he and not they,
il responsible for the acts and measures Of biz
administration, and that THEREFORE he must be
allowed margin Of discretion ~ TO whether
this proposition, that or the other, In his oon-
duct Of public affairs, shall be adopted or
discarded. Nor is this all. The day il ap-
preaching, and may be near at hand, when tho
President will be required to make known his
policy in regard to the restoration Of the rebel
lious States to the Union. Senator Sumner
would reduce them to the condition OF Terri
tories, or to so much wild land, without local
institutions or boundaries Of any kind; and
from this wild land he would carve out new
States, and new institutions for them, based
upon the eternal expulsion of African slavery.
But Mr.. Secretary Chase and the bulk of the
radical faction do not care to 60 quite 80 far.
They will be satisfied with the practical aboli-
tion Of slavery in each Of the rebellious States
Is the condition precedent to its readmission
into the Union. This is their sine qua non and
their ultimatum, upon which they have resolved
to rule or ruin the administration This is the
main issue, too, which was covered up in this
Missouri Kansas muddle.
In theyettlement of this question, therefore,
We think it may be safely assumed that Presi-
dent Lincoln has broken ground for the next
Presidency, and has very broadly intimated
that his platform will be that Of the conserva-
tives; that his policy will be the restoration Of
the seeded States as soon as any or all of them
HAY choose to return, and with their local in
sttutions, including slavery, just as the war may
practically have left them. In other words, we
adhere to the opinion that the Secretary
Of State spoke by authority In bis letter
to the French government suggesting that the
return to both houses of the federal Congress
Of the members due from any seeded State
will be regarded as sufficient for the rehabili-
tation Of such State, with all Its old constitu-
tional rights, a. one Of the United States in
good standing. This is the position which the
Presidents settlement Of tle Missouri-Kansas
difficulty foresbadows as bis position for the
Presidential succession.
We have some strong circumstantial evidence
in support of this comprehensive view Of the
subject. For example, some time in advance
OF Mr.. Lincoln's official rebuke to the Missouri
radicals, the Postmaster General, Mr.. Mont
gomery Blair, in public speech II Nsrylaud.
denounced the reconstruction policy Of Mr.. So
cretary Chase and his followers and proclaimed
the conservative policy we have indicated a.
the Presidents plan Of restoring the Union.
About the same time Gen. Francis p Blair, Jr.,
out in Missouri, was actively engaged in q
stump campaign against Mr.. Chase. The sub
sequent letter OF the President on this Missouri
question shows that the Blair in Missouri and
the Blair in Maryland had been speaking by
the book; that they knew what was coming,
aud hence their bold and unreserved state
ments concerning the views and the pur-
poses Of the responsible head of the admins
tration. r-A
But how were these Blair brothers thus post
ed up in advance Of the radicals We think il
not unlikely that they received their cue from
the head of the family, the veteran Jacksonian
Francis P. Blair. Of Silver Spring Our old po-
litical readers will remember that when Gene
raj Jackson went on to Washington to assume
the duties of the Presidency he took with
him two Of the most prominent and powerful
Kentucky politicians Of that day--Francis p.
Blair, Sen, ana Amos kendall-the one as the
editor Of the administration organ, the Globe,
the other as an auditor Of the Treasury, subse-
qnently promoted to the Office Of Postmaster
General by President Van Buren,. These two
men Blair and Kendall-were the special con-
fidential advisers of Old Hickory; and II was to
Blairs sagacity as apolitician that Old Hickory
was chiefly indebted for the brilliant idea Of
making . war upon the United States Bank the
controlling question upon which he was elected
for second term. We now suspect that this
veteran politician Of Silver Spring has become
the special confidential adviser of President
Lincoln, and that the President satisfied that
the counsels Of the veteran Blair are wise, sound
and infallible, has concluded to try the expert
ment Of reelection, and upon platform
which will command the conservative masses
of the country Of all parties against all thu dis-