The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-01-20

both in our camps ana those or the rebels"
This, again, is strictly true, and We regret we
cannot say something complimentary about the
Tribune in return.
The Abolition Conspiracy Against the
Presisient.
From the beginning of this war down to this
day, in all their schemes, intrigues, measures
and movements in Congress and in the Cabi-
net, the dominant abolition faction at Washing
ton have been guided by that revolutionary
motto of rule or ruin. Holding the power over
the purse and the sword in Congress, they have
used it with high hand to bring the President
TO their terms. They have thus compelled him,
against his better judgment, to endorse their
emancipation and confiscation acts, to adopt
their treacherOus counsels in the conduct Of the
war, until at length, when the public indigna-
ton is aroused against them, they are endeavor-
ing to throw the responsibility for their crimes
and blunders upon the honest victim Of their
prosecutions.
From the day when these abolition Jacobins
discovered that General Mcclellan, at the head
Of the army, could not be made their blind and
obedient instrument, they conspired to destroy
him. They disarranged his plans; they brought
defeat upon his army in front of Richmond; they
brought the rebel forces which he had driven
away back again to the front and rear OF Wash
ngton; and when he had expelled them from
the soil Of Maryland, and was upon the
threshold Of successful campaign in
Virginia, he was removed from his COM
mand by an abolition pressure which would
be satisfied with nothing less than his removal
But, while subsequent events in the field and
the testimony Of numerous witnesses and docu-
mentary evidence before the Porter Court Mar
tial and the Mcdowell Court of Inquiry have
given not only those two officers, but General
Mcclellan, an honorable acquittal before the
country, we cannot say as much for the con-
trolling heads of tho War Office. On the con-
trary, General Burnsides disaster, in the face
of his magnanimous assumption Of the whole
responsibility, together with the evidence OF
those aforesaid military courts, tells heavily
against the heads of the War Office and the abo-
lition cabal with which they are identified
In this extremity several letters of President
Lincoln to General Mcclellan when he was in
front Of Yorktown are produced in court to show
that after all the President is the man who has
all this time been directing our military opera
lions in Virginia, and that therefore the respon-
sbility for all our disasters in that quarter falls
upon him. Technically this cannot be denied;
but what is the substantial truth in the matter?
The President necessarily leaves the practical
details Of the War Office to the officers in charge
Of that department. They have the authority
10 act, and If their plans and combinations fail,
with all the men, means and facilities at their
command necessary to secure success, they are
and the faction by whose counsels
thew are guided We hold the President
responsible for retaining his executive subordi-
mates in any department after they have been
tried and found wanting. But what can he 90
while dependent upon this dominant abolition
faction in Congress for the ways and meanss
We have urged and still would advise him to
cut loose from this disorganizing faction and
fall back upon his own original conservative
war policy; but it seems that he has good rea-
sons to fear the rule or ruin leaders of this abo-
lition Congress.
We see. in the attempts Of this abolition faction
to fasten upon him the odium and the disgrace
of all their own follies and plumbers in the
management of the war, that they have already
entered upon the game of breaking down his
administration. They have extorted from him
their imperative sine qua non OF sweeping
emancipation proclamation; they have found 1t
as futile against this rebellion as 'the Popes
bull against the comet" they see that this in
fallble abolition specific is an ignominious
failure; that it has united the South and is d.
viding the North; that the way is dark before
us; and so, If they cannot secure their power by
the destruction Of Southern slavery, these abo-
lition Jacobins are aiming to overturn the gov
eminent and to divide the Union, that they
may secure the control, at least, of Northern
confederacy.
What, then, is the manifest policy of Presi-
dent Lincoln? II is the absolute rejection of
the counssls and agents of this Jacobn aboli-
ton faction, and the reconstruction Of his Cabi-
net, and the prosecution Of the war, not for
the destruction of the South, nor for European
Intervention and Southern confederacy,
but for the restoration of the Union
we call upon niM 70 consiuer INC CAL
gencies and dangers of his situation and to throw
himself and his administration upon the con-
servative sentiment Of the country. In doing
this he will lose the support only Of msera-
BILE disorganizing faction, and will regain
united North, divided South, and triumphant
prosecution Of The War. - : ST
The SPEED OF THE ALABAMA AND THE ABILI-
rY OF OUR New SLoors TO EQUAL 1.-THE ex-
ploits OF tho pirate Alabama have directed pub
lie attention to the new sloope, Of about the
same tonnage as the well known Iroquois,
which have just been completed, and Of which
such great expectations were entertained as to
speed-the dspredations Of thu. pirate causing
particular attention to be directed to that im-
portant point. We do not pretend TO be well
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