The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-01-23

We were OBLIGED to drive the fellow away rom
our armies, As we detected amid all bis FOLLY
spice Of knavery and a full determination to
injure the cause of the North Will he con-
clude, now that the Times has taken up the
defence of slavery. that "Great Britain, nation
which reads the Times ia ripe for destruction
a. corporate existence" Poor "Bull Run, of
all his errors none will ere long remain TO
solace him, we fear, save his hatred Of the NEW
YORK HERALD. He will manage, we dare say,
somehow to drag our name into his epitaph'
Poor, weak, silly Bull Run Russell
The Last Radical Progrsmme OF the
War.
We find in yesterdays Tribune the last radi-
cal programme of the war. As the Tribune
editor has but recently returned from Washing
ton, where he held conferences and cauovses
with the leaders Of the abolition party in Con
gress and the Cabinet, we may regard this pro-
gramme as official. Its features may be summed
up in these few words:-To fight on until the
lst OF May next, and then, If our efforts are
fruitless. Met us bow to our destiny and make
the best attainable peace" We call the serious
attention of the President and the country to
this display Of the white feather by the radical
faction. We have always commended that the
desire OF the ab0ltionists was not to restore the
Union, but to destroy slavery and the Union
together. We have always predicted that the
radicals would be the first to cry out for peace,
after they had obtained the abolition Of slavery
in all the loyal States. We ask the President
and the country whether we have been mis-
taken-whether our predictions have hot
proven true! Even President Lincoln must
be startled, now that the future de-
signs of the abolitionists are revealed
to him through their own chief organ. In
spite Of our constant warnings, he has been
made the dupe Of set Of dsunionists who have
forced him to issue the emancipation proclama-
ton in order 10 render reunion impossible. Let
him read this manifesto of the radicals side by
side with the recent message of JEFF. Davis, and
see for himself the condolences in purpose of
the rebels and the radicals. Both JEFF. Davis
and Greeley assert that this is to be the last
year OF the war, and that if the rebellion main
tains itself but little while longer the South
ern confederacy will be acknowledged. This
is the mode by which the emancipation proc
lamation will end the war This is the pa
triotism and devotion to the Union of the radi-
cal faction. This is the end Of the war for the
Union
We do not care TO recall at present the plea
SAINT promises and Internal arts by which the
radicals seduced President Lincoln from the
plain path Of constitutional conduct of the
war, and by which they have tempted him step
by step onward, until now-when he is
sinking in the quicksands- turn
upon him mockingly, and declare that they in
tend to submit to destiny and make the best
attainable peace" We can but pity the disap-
pointment and chagrin of the deceived and be.
traysd President as he reads Greeley's declara-
ton that the emancipation proclamation is to
end the war by dividing the Union, and we can
imagine him comparing with these words the
past pledges of the radicals, and bitterly ex.
claiming, with Macbeth
Accused be that tongue that tells me so
For 1t hath cowed my better part Of maui
And be these juggling lends believed
That palter with US in a double sense,
That keep the word Of promise to our car
And break u to our hopel
1t will be well for the President and the ma.
with these Juggling fends." If he will break
with them wholly and sincerely, and rely upon
the support of the conservative masses of the
people, he can yet save the Union. Three
months remain before the army will be reduced
by the discharge Of thousands Of our best
soldiers, and before Intervention Is possible
either from foreign Powers or from the traitor
Of hoI;
that time everything can be accomplished If
the President will but take the proper measures
to secure success. In yesterdays Tribune the
radicals indicate how they demand that the war
shall be conducted until May next and
with some Of their recommendations we agree
First and principally however. we must advise
the President to recall his abolition proclama-
ton and reassert the Union sentiments Of his
inaugural address. Thus he will at once secure
the hearty support Of every man who loves the
Union, the effects Of his proclamation will be
exactly reversed and the North will be again
united and the South divided. For what few
persons may say Of the fckleness of this change
Of policy the President should care nothing
Repentance is never agreeable, and the COMES
Sion Of sins is cruel task; bat both are az ne
cessary to the salvation Of the Union as to the
salvation Of the soul. The President has been
popularity termed honest, and we hope that
he will be honest enough to own himself in the
wrong and to atone for bis past errors, now that
they are apparent, no matter at what cost Of
pride and self esteem.
This done, the President should chan &c his
Cabinet as the radicals recommend; but he
should reorganize it, not Of worse fanatics
than those who now compose it, but Of practi-
cal. conservative statesmen, as, for example,
General Mcclellan as Secretary of War. The
people are so unanimous for reconstruction Of
the Cabinet that it is dangerous to trife with
them longer The radicals agree with the con-
servativss upon this point, and there is no dis