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


| all go to work at once and honey
comb the whole of Colorado Territory.
The gold mountains, or mountains of gold,
which the patriotic Jewett and our humble
selves have given to the government will then
yield an income sufficient to pay off the ma
tional debt at once and fill the Treasury to over
flowing for the future. Then, if England remains
civil, we will pay her debt also and admit her
into the Union, Jewett's correspondent, the
Queen included. With such brilliant prospects
before US, why should we grumble at our mis-
fortunes or our deprecated shinplaster cur
rency? Courage, fellow countrymen. Greeley
and Jewett will be our deliverers. They are
the salt of the earth-in their own estimation.
According to the best authority -themselves--
the affairs of the world revolye around them,
and they control not only the present, but also
considerable portion Of the future and fair
share Of eternity. Let us trust them, therefore,
and be happy.
The FRESH STRUGGLE OF THE RADICALS FOR
AscENDANCY IN THE CABINET.--If there is man
in these United States whose lot is to be ptied,
it is President Lincoln g Uneasy lies the head
that wears crown" but uneasier still the head
that wears 1t under the additional weight OF
party pledges. In endeavoring to reconcile his
duty to the country in this solemn crisis with
his Indebtedness to those who carried his cleo
ton, Mr.. Lincoln undertakes more than any
man has ever succeeded, or will ever succeed, in
accomplishing. \ aTrs' ].
We see the effect Of this desire to accommo-
date bis patriotic impulses TO bis party obliga-
tions in the pleasure brought to bear upon him
by the radical caucus now sitting in Washing
ton To man of his temperament such inter-
ference must operate as continual blister.
Under its influence we hear no more OF those
genial flashes Of humor that were wont to set
both council and dinner table in roar, and
that made his official ways generally pleasant.
And, to add to his vexations, Greeley and Wen
dell Phillips have both gone on to tho capital
he one to push bis personal schemes while he
tightens the party screw still closer upon the
President and the other to use that wit and elo-
quence of which he makes such an unfortunate
use to induce Mr.. Lincoln to abandon himself
entirely to the suicidal policy enunciated by
him the other night at the Cooper Institute.
As on the occasion of the Presidents first
| proclamation, in September last, all this
note Of preparation heralds another desperate
effort on the part Of the abolitionists to compel
Mr.. Lincoln to reorganze his Cabinet exclusively
from their ranks and to place at the head of tho
army such men as Generals Fremont and
Hunter. The lessons taught by the disasters
that our arms have met With through the inca
pacity and miymanagcmcnt Of these men are
either wholly lost sight of or are not deemed
worthy to be weighed in the balance against
the objects which they have in view. What to
them is the alternative Of the nations ruin ~
compared with the loss Of power? "After US
the deluge's ea .a sge la a34at
1t is to such men that Mr.. Lincoln Ii asked to
surrender the few conservative elements Of his
administration, elements that alone have keptit
aAoat Having amajorty arrayed upon their side
in Congress, it is not improbable that they will
be able to coerce the President into surrender
to their views. Then, il after few weeks exl
pertinent of the abolition regime in both Csbi-
net and camp, they find, as they PROFESSIONALLY
will, that in neither will it work, they will.
allow the cause Of the Union to 60 by default;
for such Greeley the other day distinctly init
mated to be their intention. s...
Are we not justified under these circum-
stances in saying that the republic has reached
the crisis of its tate? On the honesty and firm
ness Of single man now depends the question
of its salvation or ruin. Let US hope that tho
President will rise equal to the emergency, and
that he will succeed in shaking off the trammeis
by which his patriotic impulses and tendencies
have hitherto been 80 fatally checked
THE CHEvAIrER JAMES WATSON WEBB Loom
mo Up ONCE MORE IN ALL Hrs GLoRY-Wondcrs
will never cease. "Monsieur Tonson has come
again" For a long time the Chevalier James
Watson Webb has been as invisible to the pub
lie eye as the great comet which half dozen
years ago swept with its luminous tail some
fifteen degrees upward from the west
ern horizon. But, if that comet has not
returned Webb, in all its splendor, bursts
again upon us from the far southern sky, grand.
glorious, corruscating and luminous As ever.
Read bis magnificent letters which we publish
to-day, dated from the Legation Of the United
States" at Petropols, Brazil, to II. T. W. d.
Christie, her Britannia Macsty's Minister, and
to Earl Russell on the subject Of "a difficulty"
webb is always in difficulty Of some sorD
with the aforesaid II E. W. d. Christie.
Now the world is coming round all
right again; for the redoubtabe and ire
pressibie Cbevaler Webb is again in
his proper element. He tried. with com
mendaAle zea to draw this offending Bri-
fisher Christie into gunpowder plot; but,
though be failed in this, be has succeeded N
getting into "a difficulty" which is something
to rejoice over From time immemorial tho.
Cbeyalier Webb has delighted In hot water
From the memorable day Of THAI awful collision
betweea him, with his mahogany stocked pistols
and Gen. Duff Green, the name Of james Watson