The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-10
From the N. Y. World
The RIair.Chase Quarrel.

Personal heart-burnlnSs are OF little puo-
lie interest except when they are likely to
be followed by results. The fact that Gen.
eral Blair, member Of Congress, an early
leader and still an influential member of
the Republican party in Missouri, has lately
in public speech at st. Louis, bitterly do.
nounced the radicals in general and Mr..
Chase by name in particular, assailing them
and him with singing vituperative cpl
thets, is link which connects the deplora-
BILE civil troubles in Missouri with the gen.
eral policy of the administration. Five
days after this vigorous philippe by General
B lair, his brother, the Postmaster General,
made in Maryland speech pitched in ex
actly the same key, with the difference that
it was more argumentative, and did not
assail Mr.. Chase by name-a forbearancs
which was due more to the Postmaster
Generals sense Of decorum than to any ten
derness for his cabinet colleague The
-reciprocated hatred of these gentlemen
has no more dignity than other quarrels
arising out of jarring ambitions. We do
not think it portsnds cabinet explosion
but it is all the more likely on that account
to be followed by important results.
The lamentable civil broils in Missouri,
on which the quarrel just now hinges, are
are likely to precipitate a decision by the
administration between the rival theories
respecting state rights, The state is a So
cial volcano; political passions throughout
Missouri and Kansas are kindled to such a
pitch that society is on the point of resolv-
ing itself into hideous and bloody anarchy.
Neighbor looks on neighbor with deadly
hate; and if the administration yields TO the
faction whose delegates were few days ago
in Washington, the wild uproar of demoniac
passions will create scenes rivaling in blood
and atrocity those of the French revolution.
The real question which underiss these
difficulties Is, whether the state govern
ment and state authority shall be upheld
or overborne; aud the crisis is SO urgent
that Mr.. Lincoln cannot long postpone his
decision without delivering up that fair and
fertile region to internecine strife and its
people to mutual e1termination.
General Blair, in his st. Louis speech,
expresses strong determination to support
Governor Gamble; and he accompanies this
expression with no obscure intimation that
he is prepared to fight for state rights evsh
aqainst the administration. The following
extract from his speech is very suggestive
1 believe it is pretty well understood
that did not agree with Governor Gam
BILE in political opinion, and yet did not
hesitate when he was appointed gov
ernor of this state, nor have hesitated ~
to this hour, to give him the support h'
deserves as the legal and constitutions
governor of the state, and l propose 4
to continue to do so, IN defiance Of oil oppc
] sition, FROM WHATEVER QUARTER IT Ma
COME. Great applause.
1t is no argument to say that he has mad
bad appointments, that he has done this
that, and the other that is wrong and in
proper; that is no argument for breakin
e down his government in an illegal and VI
constitutional manner. If, my friends, th
government t; the state can be displaced I
the will OF set of politicians,
otherwise than by the forms of law, "
shall sacrifice our republican institution
y and run down into sort of Mexican repu
. lie, where presidents, judges, &C., are MAJ
= BY pronunclsmentoes. The people of th
3 st.te are not prepared to degrade themselv
:. to this standard of Government. We a
rs. people who desire that there shall be ST
ibility, dignity, and respsctability in o