The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-03-02

lS&c Inc agents took 250 head ut about lac
Nearly oil sold on Monday and the few that came in
Tuesday were eagerly taken at advance Of &c. Hc
on the sales Of Monday notwithstanding more cattle
expected during tho last OF the week. Cows were active
at $50 S7o veals active At &C. loo. Sheep and
| mbs were heavy. and Csc. head lower. Hogs were
lower. Corn fed brought from 7Xc. &c., and sti fed
7hc 7Kc The total receipts 1891 beeves. 2li
cows 400 veaIs TT sheep and lambs and 544
wantsd-A New Set or Statesmen.
The work which poor Pierce and blundering
Buchanan began, the present imbeciIe admins
tration, led by Abe Lincoln, the joker, has al
length completed. The American people ore
tired of incapacity, tired Of partisanship, tired
Of corruption, tired of small politicians, and
ment in the administration Of the affairs Of the
nation. They demand better, wiser, purer set
Of men to I'll the high Offices Of the republic
They demand that practical and patriotic states
men shall take the places of the silly, imbecile
drivellers who have almost wrecked the ship
of State. In the nominations for the approach
ing Presidential election these demands Of the
people must be grati6ed.
Poor Pierce always yielded to the buster
ing threats Of the Southern radicals in his Cabi-
net and in Congress, and was entirely under
the control of JEFF Davis, then Secretary Of
War, and now the chief of the rebels. Pierce
gave way to these fre-eaters and consented to
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, thus
bringing the irrepressible negro again
into national politics and opening the
door to dsunion. Buchanan was completely in
the power Of Thompson, Cobb aad Floyd, and
SO permitted them to arrange the disunion pro-
gramme upon grand scale, and to tamper
with leading Southern politicians and officers,
secure arms for the insurgents, and scatter our
army over distant frontiers and our navy to
the ends of the earth. These two Presidents
brought the country to the verge OF ruin by
submitting to the dctation of Southern radi-
Gals. President Lincoln has tried hard to top
pie it over the brink of the precipice by sub
hitting to the dictation Of the Northern radi-
calls. Chase, Stanton, Sumner Wade, Wilson,
Chandler, Greeley and Wendell Phillips have
been the fends at his elbow pushing him for
ward to destruction. Now that he has done
their bidding they turn upon him and will rend
him to pieces.
President Lincoln found the North united for
the Union. He has divided 1t by his unconsti-
tutional proclamations his illegal and unnecss-
sary arrests, his military mismanagement and
the gross corruptions of his subordinates. He
found the people eager to volunteer. He
broke the spirit of the people by wasting our
armies, uselessly sacrificing the lives Of our
soldiers removing our best and most popular
generals-except General Grant, whom he
dared not remove-and allowing the rebels to
their inferior forces and assume
the offensive upon Northern soil. All these
criminal blunders have killed volunteering,
and rendered frequent drafts and enormous
bounties necessary to recruit our armies. So
asgrant have been these mistakes. II we may
call them by so mild word, that the former
friends Of the President now take advantage OF
his errors, and indict him as incapable and
dangerous. The Pomerey circular distinctly
charges that Mr.. Lincoln cannot be re- elected,
ought not to be reelected, and will imperil our
republican institutions If, by any chance, he
should happen to be reelected. This is ter
rible statement TO be made by members of Mr..
Lincoln's own party, and with the sanction, II
not by the authority, Of Mr.. Lincoln's Secre-
tary Of the Treasury. II settles finally all
hopes Of his denomination; and, in spite Of his
little jokes and his bid Of thousand lives
for three electoral votes, he must acknowledge
to himself that bis race is run, and that not
even a miracle could give him any prospect OF
success. More than this, IL will practically
preclude every member Of his administration
from securing an election; for they are all
pdrt;ceps crimiais in Mr.. Lincoln's transactions,
and must share his fate.
In this state Of the case the political Geld Is
clear for the true Union and constitutions! can
didate, if he be the right man and stand upon
the right platform. An Independent move
ment, started under the proper auspices sup
porting popular military candidate, and
strong for the war; the Union, and perchance
an amendment Of the constitution abolishing
slavery, win revolutionize the psltics OF the
country as thoroughly as did Jackson in 1928,
and Harrison in 1910, after the pronigacy
and corruption Of Van Buren's administration.
Tammany Hall democracy Is now in posi-
ton TO lead such o movement IL her mana
gers have the pluck and the brains to 20
ahead. They have been kicked of the peace
JEFF. Davis train on the Central Railroad, and
they must either withdraw from political life or
organize train Of their own, with ssme such
candidate Is Grant, Mcclellan, Thomas, Gill;
more, Dix, Rosecrans, Dupont or Fsrragut
as their locomotive, and plenty Of sound
and square war resolutions to Keep the
steam up. Let us see how they will avail
themselves Of their splendid opportunity; and
let them understand that IL they do not take
the initiative somebody else will. The people
are resolved to have good, wise, beasss practi-
cal, capable and energetic statesmen and gene
rails for their next President and his Cabinet,
and they will undoubtedly carry out their