Weekly national intelligencer., 1864-03-03

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to the administrative measures of the President in
matters of political policy would seem to relate
rather to their form than their substance. Ap
proving the substance of those measures he would
seek to carry them out in q somewhat different
method and with somewhat different agents, giving
men who favor immediate emancipation rather
than gradual, and who, in other relations more
prononce in their adhesion to all the political opin
ions which exclude Cancellation towards those who
have in any way participated in the insurrection.
In the matter of military administration we are
unable to say whether he approves the present
dispersion of our forces or whether he favors the
policy of concentration advocated by General
Mcclellan
Such are understood to be the shades of differ
ence reflected by the different candidates. of Gen.
Mcclellan, President Lincoln, and Mr.. Chase, and
in the statement of these differences we can under
stand why men of different convictions should
espouse the pretensions of or another according
to the tenor of those convictions but it seems to us
at the same time that it is quite possible for the
adherents Of each to justify the grounds of their
adhesion without undertaking to misrepresent the
position or views of rival candidates. The maxim
Of political well as of ecclesiastical fellowship
should be din essentials unity; in non-essentials,
liberty; in all things, charity"
We have said that the duty of practising mode
ration may be commended to men of conservative
views in treating the candidacy Of either President
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the grounds of this obligation as incumbent on the
friends of all candidates in the treatment of poll.
tical competitors, We proceed to show the grounds
on which this duty may be enforced on the oppo-
nents of either the President or his Secretary
We may say, then, that should President Lin
coin be reelected we have right to presume thst
he would be much more conservative in his second
term than he has proved to be in that which is now
expiring. The whole country knows that the poll
tical instincts and predictions of Mr.. Lincoln all
incline him to conservatism. This was proved
by the policy which he first adopted when left free
to initiate measures without extraneous pressure
to disturb his original convictions of duty and it
is equally proved by the persistency and violence
of the pressure which it required to shake him
from the fixed resolve with which he entered on
the war. In his second term he would be more
exempt from such pressure, and from the tempta-
tion of yielding to it, for the men who were fore
most in impressing on his policy the direction it
has actually taken have forfeited their claim to be
propitated in the future by openly abandoning the
President who has done SO much for them In the
past greater spectacle of political ingratitude
has never been seen in history.
And then we know that Mr.. Lincoln, as long as
two years ago, foresaw the coming of time when
he would have to break with the Greeley fac
tion,," as he called them. In his interview with
the Border State representatives held on the 10th
stated in reply to question propounded By Mr.
Noell of Missouri, that he (the President) must
not be expected to quarrel with the New York
Tribune before the right time come J" and in re-
ply to another inquiry suggested by Mr.. Crisfeld,
of Maryland, he made similar statement, saying
before the proper time, nor at all if it could be
avoided" We do not know whether the Presi-
dent deems that the "proper time" has yet come
to quarrel with the Tribune but the Tribune evi-
IDENTIFY thinks that the proper time has come for it
to quarrel with his pretensions to a denomination
and reelection. And, under such circumstances,
the President, we judge, must have lively sense
of the great pains taken and the small rewards
realized by the effort to concate the " Greeley
faction"-a sense which would be likely to pre-
serve him from yielding iu the future to pres
sure" of which he has publicly complained in the
past. Before he had thus yielded we all remem-
Der the feeling terms in which he recoiled from
the violence done him by the opportunities of this
"Greeley faction" Speaking to the Representa-
tives Of the Border States, when again summoned
by special invitation of the President to an inter
view at the Executive Mansion on the 18th of
July, 1862, Mr.. Lincoln said:
"I pressed with difficulty not yet mentioned-one
which threatens division among those who united are
Gen. Hunter is an honest He was and hope still
is my friend valued him the less for his agree
ing with me in the general wish that all every where
could be freed He proclaimed a men free within GER
tain States, and repudated the proclamation He ex-
pected good and less harm from measure than
could believe would follow Yet, in repudiatinq IT, /
gave dissatisfaction If not offence TO many whose support
the country cannot afford to lose And this IL not the
end Of it, The pressure in this direction is still upon me
and s increasing. BY conceding what now ask you can
relieve me, and, much mere, relieve the country in
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