The New York herald., 1863-11-10

OF tne BunDOaV benVon, lying IN Tie mississippi
| river, opposite yicksburg, during the lombard
| ment of that place. a
Business generally rather quie, yesterday. the
advances thero Is perceptble falling of in many
branches trade Still there for complaint
At the Produce Exchange -four and wheat depressed
under he,vy recep:s while corn, which forward
slowly, was little better. Hog products wore without
important change. Whiskey q shade frmer. Petro-
much depressed and large sales could not have
been effected except at material decline. Freghs
tinued dull and neutral vessels monopoiziug what
! little business there was.
| President Lincoln and tho Robespicrro.
Ian Radicals.
The long standing quarrel between Presi-
dent Lincoln and the revolutionary radicals Is
coming to crisis At every step the President
finds his policy bitterly denounced and opposed
by those who have blatantly professed to be his
warmest friends while aiming to become his
masters. We published the other day the ma
lignant and personal attacks which his course
upon the Missouri question had provoked from
the Western radical press and from the satanic
parsons of the Independent. The action Of the
New Orleans conservatives who wish to bring
Louisiana back into the Union, under the
pledges of the President has furnished the
revolutionists with new materials for their war
fare against the Chief Executive. Now, Robes.
pierre Greeley dashes into the melee, calls
President Lincoln an ally Of the Missouri
rebels, and insists upon a new emancipation
proclamation to free all the slaves In Tennessee
If this were granted Robespierre Greeley or
some other radical would demand new procla-
nation Of emancipation every week. President
Lincoln will learn, sooner or later, that it Is
useless to try to cure q mad dog BY fondling
him. The only way is TO knock him in the head
at once. r
We are glad to believe, and We shall believe
~ long as we can, that Honest Old Abe has
been taught this lesson already. The noble and
conservative manner in which he rebuked the
Missouri and Kansas border rufaans furnishes
~ with the grounds for this belief. President
Lincoln must sse, ~ everybody else sees. that
the radicals are insane upon the question Of
slavery. They argue solely and constantly
that slavery is the rebellion, and the rebellion
Is slavery" when every Sane man knows that
slavery, or rather the attemps to abolish
slavery only formed the pretext Of the rebellion.
They forced Mr.. Lincoln to issue . proclama-
tlon to destroy slavery, promising him that this
would destroy the rebellion, when the result
has shown that this proclamation has not af-
fected the rebellion one iota. They have at
tempted to bully President Lincoln into prosti-
tuting the whole power OF the government
from the constitutional object Of the restors-
tion OF the Union to the unconstitu-
tional object Of destroying slavery, when his
| inaugural oath binds him 10 do no such thing.
These radicals care nothing for the Union.
They despised and spat upon It while 1t was
intact. They rejoiced when II was broken by
the secession Of South Carolina, and both Me-
phistopheles Phillips and Robespierre Greeley
urged the other Southern Statss- 10 seceds also
They never supported the war for the Union
until they conceived the idea Of converting the
war into an abolition crusade. The vilest cop
perhead has no such damnable record. For
the President to yield 10 these men is as great
| o folly as to enter an insane asylum and sub
NIT to the whims aud caprices of madmen,
monomaniacs and lunatics
or all the issues raised by this war there Is
mono 80 plain as that in regard to slavery.
Undoubtedly the war has killed slavery. IL
would have killed il II no emancipation pro-
clamation had ever been issued The most de-
voted aboltionist will reach the summit of his
hopes II be will only have patience. Nay, ell
his hopes would have been realized years ago,
and without war, if hs had only been content
to let slavery die out. But the radicals have no
patience. They want to do everything at once.
They are possessed by restless, mischievous,
impracticable devil, who will not let them wait
Sensible people, therefore, must allow them to
break their necks over their own schemes, and
quietly ignore their advice and their threats
This is precisely what we desire Of President
Lincoln. He has his duty before him, and
should do IL. That duty is to save the Union,
no matter whether slavery be saved or lost. If
he is an anti-slavery man. be may be happy in
the conviction that slavery cannot possibly be
saved. We have gone too far for that. If the
seeded States came back tomorrow they could
not preserve slavery for more than few years
and that in galvanized rather than in living
form. But, as the President Of the United
States, Mr. Lincoln has nothing to do with this
To use plain words, II is none of his business
what becomes Of slavery. lie 10 bound to re.
store the Union and TO administer its government
justly. Any man who would sacrifice the Union
to destroy slavery is as deadly and as dangerous
q traitor as the meanest copperhead who
| would sacrifice the Union to preserve slavery.
The masses Of the Northern people are neither
pro-slavery traitors nor anti-slavery traitors.
They are true Union men, and they want their
President to be like them.
We speak the sentiments Of all really loyal
people when We say that the slavery question
is now to be regarded % definitely settled, and
that it is no longer an issue in politics or in
anything else, The only issue now before 70