The New York herald., 1863-11-19

keep him there. He has spent lifetime il
running underground railroads and kidnapping
black men IL is high time that he was ar
rested. now that he has commenced the busi
ness of kidnapping white men,
The Late Elections tn the FREQ ana Dor.
der siav states, aad Thcir sfgniAcans
| Results.
The elections ia the free States this year
from Maine TO California. have gone, with an
unmistaksble emphasis. in favor of tho sup
presson OF the rebellion by force Of arms, al
the only road to the restoration of the UDon
and substantial and durable peace The
popular tide began to set in with the elections
Of New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connec-
ticut, last spring; but It was with the majority
Of fifty thousand for the war from the border
slave State of Kentucky, in August, that the
general movement Of public opinion became
a resistiess flood, sweeping away all obstruc-
tions before it from the Atlantic to the Pacific
| Ocean
In these elections of the free States and slave
| holding Kentucky the people have deereed
| that. notwithstanding all the blunders, all tho
shortcomings. all the harsh and arbitrary pro-
ceedings. of the administration, and all the de-
plorabe proofs which it has furnished Of its in
capacity in the conduct of the war; the admins
tration must still be sustained in its efforts to put
down the rebellion by force Of arms. The
| copperhead peace faction, involved in this
unanimous decree of the loyal States, has been
| signally rebuked and its counsels-suggesting
armistices. peace conventions and peace upon
| any terms-have been Indignantly and scorn-
fully rejected as unworthy free people. The
conservative masses of tho loyal States have
resolved that. as the rebellous States will have
1t 30, the war shall go on; that the rebellion
shall be crushed; that the government shall
live and not die; that its territorial integrity
shall be maintained and that the administra-
ton constitutionally In power cannot and shall
not be separated from the government.
NThus far we run before the wind But
there have lately been elections held in two of
the border slave States upon another issue
the issue of emancipation-and the results of
these elections are very remarkable. The
States to which we refer are Missouri and Mary
land, in both Of which the abolition radicals
have carried the day. Nor can it be said that
it was the dictatorial power Of the admins
tration that brought nabout these results;
for what are the facts? In Maryland one
member Of the Cabinet mr. Chase) advocated
the radical abolition movement but another
(Mr. Postmaster General Blair) quite as &C
lively opposed it, and positively asserted that
President Linooln's policy was not that Of the
radicals In Missouri President Lincoln him
self in very marked and in very offensive
manner to the radicals, defined bis position to
be against them; and yet the radicals have car
ried the State. Henceforth, in Missouri and in
Maryland, emancipation will be the order Of
the day till the work Is accomplished. wesay,
even so let It be. The people of each of the
States of the Union have the right to- determine
the question for themselves; and il they choose
to abolish slavery they will only be following
the precedents Of New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and others Of the ''old thirteen"
Nor is there anything very startling in this
popular revolution in Maryland and Missouri in
favor OF emancipation. In both these States,
under the increasing pressure Of free white Ia
Dor, slavery had, in fact, become an incum-
brance before this war broke out But the war
has given wings to slave property all along the
border, and has taken away all the safeguards
Of the institution. Slavery must die in all the
border States; nor can it escape even in the
cotton States complete and terrible overthrow,
except through the speedy submission of those
States to the protection of the federal consti-
tuition. In Alabama aud Georgia alone there
are now, we dare say, more than million Of
slaves, that have been brought in for safety
from the so-called border States. The number
has been reported at eighteen hundred thou
sand. At this rate the institution will die Of
surfeit in the cotton States in the course Of
another year; but in any event this concentra-
| ton Of the slaves Of the South in the cotton
States is suggestive of more terrible danger
than that of an immediate and unqualified sub
mission TO the "LincOln government"
But while these late elections in the free
States and the border slave States have shown
that neither tho disorganizing factions of the
day, nor the blunders Of the administration,
nor the institution of slavery itself shall arrest
the great work Of restoring the Union or stand
In the way we nnd that these grand popular
show that in reference TO the Presi-
Dental election the Union army, or
"the soldiers VOTE" holds the balance of
power. Thus. Notwithstanding the prodigious
financial and .fanatical agencies employed by
Mr.. Chase to. secure the inside track, and in
spite Of the kindly inclnatons of the people
towards President Lincoln. some popular
hero of the war-some such man as Mcclellan,
Rosecrans, Grant, Meade, Banks, Gilmore or
Thomas or some new Napoleon not yet de-
veloped-in commanding the soldiers vote, may
carry of the prize. Even Fremont, - soldier
would probably to-day, in the republican camp,
prove strong enough to spoil the calculations
| Of Mr.. Chase. We conclude tha, this war. like
ell our other wars Of any magnitude, will give
us military chisstain or two for the Prcsi.
dency; aud it is probable that the arst one Of
our new batch Of heroes will step ioto the
shoes Of Mr.. Lincoln at the close Of his pre-