The New York herald., 1863-11-07
The Missouri Dinlculty-President Lin .
coin and the Radieals-Rule or Rain.


coin and the Radteals-Rule or Rain.
President Lincolns settlement OF the Mis-
souri-Kansas difficulty has excited the wrath Of
the radicals The chapter of editorial articles
which we publish to-day from number of the
leading ultra-abolition journals, East and West,
will remove all doubts upon the subject with
the political reader.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Independent
declares that the Presidents letter to the Mis-
souri, delegation is the scrawny fruit from
the stock that yielded the golden apple to the
Illinois Convention" whatever that may be;
that I" in Missouri his policy has been constantly
shaped to the interests Of the slave power"
and that he takes sides with suspected op-
position who at all times have been willing to
compromise with the rebellion" The st. Louis
Democrat charges the solution OF this Missouri
difficulty against the radicals to the pro-
slavery influences of Edward Bates and Mont
gomery Blair in the Cabinet, and says that
"three-fourths of the conservative party Of Mis-
souri, is furnished by JEFF. Davis. and the other
fourth by Abraham Lincoln" But the Mis-
souri, organ OF the German radioals-the Neue
Zeit-takes the lead of all It's abolition cOlabor-
ers In its declarations that they must try to
have the popular branch Of tho now Congress
organized agaiost Lincoln and in favor OF the
government, sgainst slavery and in favor OF
freedom;" that "the friends of freedom have
nothing to expect from him. for, 'if not
their bitterest'he ia at least their most danger
Gus enemy"
Thus the issue is made up TIE radicals
will rule or ruin the administration, and will
have no half way compromise. They will give
President Lincoln to understand that they, and
not he, will determine the policy Of his admin
istratiou, and shat'f for presuming to act upon
his own Judgment in tie matter of this Missouri
controversy he has committed an objectionable
offence. They fatty declare that they will
teach him better manners, or send his admins
tration into Coventry. He has interfered with
their programme for the reconstruction of the
Union; he has taken the opposite tack, and they
will compel him to tack about or sink him.
Their plan Of operations will probably be-
first, the election Of a radical Speaker for the
new Congress; and, secondly, Congressional
caucus combination against those obnoxious
conservative members Of the Cabinet, Attorney
General Bates, of Missouri, and Postmaster
General Blair, OF Maryland
With a little improvement upon his late
Auburn speech. Mr.. Seward may be spared.
The laborious but fruitless efforts made last
winter by the Congressional radical caucus to
supplant him have certainly suggested COM
promise in his case. with any encouragement
from Mr.. Seward himself. But Blair and Bates
are past all hopes Of pardon. and we may ex-
pect dead set against them provided the abo-
lition cabal shall frst secure trusty radical
es the Speaker Of the House. The President
Of the Senate, Mr. Vice President Hamlin, 1t is
understood, Is with the radical faction, and tho
Senate Itself; and they have but to secure the
control OF the House in order TO gain the mas
terry over the executive branch Of the govern
ment, and TO dictate to Mr. Lincoln not only
the composition Of his Cabinet, but their policy
for the restoration Of the Union.
Now, in view OF this declaration Of war from
the radicals, what Is the course which President
Lincoln should pursuei The time has gone by
for the conciliation Of both radicals and conscr-
vatives. The time has come when he must
take his position broadly and positively on the
one side or the other. His own views and in
clinations are with the conservatives His Mis-
souri, letter, Of itself, 10 satisfactory upon this
point. Let President kincoln, then, take up
the gauntlet thrown down BY the rsdicl fac
| tion, and let hin prove 10 them that be u and
intesds t9 be, Tor himsell, the ipdgs Of the AcA