The New York herald., 1864-11-01
AMERICAN AFFAIRS
Tho Presidential Question.
NR. LIECoLN's CHANCE or RE-ELECTIoN ON TnE

NR. LIEcoLNs CHANCE Or RE-ELECTlON ON rms
PIArfORM tf
av From tho london rimes, OCT. III
The nieigence received the persin II remarka-
bio for the blanks that nccessy policy has left y.
inst at the time when favorable nom the
would DO 70 the government party in the North as water
to thirsty eol tlna two "tam0us viGi0
res" would cose Mr.. Iincon's Grst oice, opea
his SEC sd brtor1y, ana redeem the many failures q
his most disastrous administration In tho .moment
OF political triumph much will be forgotten
excused AID tho iew murmnrs Of the defeated party
ise ground righ or against tho rnl.
Ing policy. The dem crats. adpoeatina ioar 10 me
end accept IN oduorce all e ptb,ic caLmtrs trims
sna 81 Peace has freods, bN party that can.
not be swept away by the report or single victory. IO
fu experiences? On the slh OF March nexl Mr. Lnon viii
quit the Presidents char 10 his oath OF office and
North has gained Stree March ls60 with price paid for
iu lite aud money would he appalled, by the results
the cnlc'htion 10 he party politIcians Of America
they appear TITLES, and the ut1re ta regarded with
exactly The same cnnyfacence when they bad not
written the 0rst leaf Of the tragic volume tie history Of
tho war has lied into. For ourselves look
the proseec of years OF such civil contest
At once horsb'c and wesrying.
Never ending. still beginning:
4 SFhtiug still, and still destroying,
ss the moss melancholy and depressing tho whoo world
presents, and The greatest reproach to mankind.
From the London Telegraph, Oct. l0.l
Mean hile the North is stiil busy with
tue Presidential struggle. 70 what extent will be
and honest may, perhaps, be gathered from recent
measure adopted Tennessee, who're tho overuos has
Issued an order tbat all persons voting in The eecl0n
nust swear = oppose an armistce and pcaco
tion with armed rchcls" and as pcudan. TO this we
have the assertion ha. conscrr:on las boon ordered
IN that State of all white men aud negroes between the
ages Of eighteen and forty Ave whether the North
eject Lincoln Mccle'lan--amd csrtaials ~ tie
time ts,0 the chaacss are nrch in fuvor y
Pessn VIII na s asn s,s nes noae NE
"exha stlen" which has been perpe:ually pro-
phes,ed ard never proved. Tho prospects Of ,ha
onedsravy indeed often brighter but thcy
have also more than onco been darker than now. Even
the Grst pr. Of the long Northern rrogramme Ia YET
Iafri EtlnA ~.
barren OF practical results; the collapse follows
cxcessiys effort hegoros TO be visible. and hence New
Stanton Is 8, tar from esng confidence 10 the Executive
that gold. which not long ago seemed steadily fos
again risen to tho s'gni0cans quotation Of 1ss.
the Kebess TN rnrss on Peace.
IPa.ss 0ct. ~ correspondence o. london Telsaraphl
Ye.ierday and there been general exodus
OF the southern Americans, who going over 10 body
TO stcnd tho fancy oaz1sr at liverpool "wnou shall
We have peacc In your country z" asked yesterday of
ono Of these gentlemen. Posh.y in tour sear.,n was
the reply. t@ ss0s
-. The Rebel Prtraveors. aessEf IS
OAPTAIR woOD's K.YoRr pF TuE CRUISE or THE
4 TALLAuAass--" ~ naraTrsyr AND "Rype-
NESS" o. LORD LYONS AND aDaInAh HOPS, n.
tph;hnond top ~ corrssp.uacrc,n. London Telegraph
hassss has reached Richmond booking mono the worse lor
his late and evidently troubled ccpeconde
about the thii,y Sa"kss shis he has burned,
regret say that according account hs gives
nnd 90 uns &n0w moro uusDIui aud NOrth by gentle
man OF tho behavior OF the halifax anhar!i.cs their
conouct aad p1rsics,idyiy th6 of Idmiya, Hoye
credtaele 10 the pstonal character for hospitality
and showed want Of mpartiality between tbs two
unfairly matcbed betigerents The commander
OF the ra!abnssco, when he arst went In, etaied
his MDonsld, and bid that Official been
alone s would have gone wel the ,ilahasesa
would have resolved tha treatment usnaly accorded TO
vessels An Captain W ci asked ps mission
coil his vessel anttso three days. time u IN
snd this AZ drst freely accorded.
But the American Consul by OF the
teiegf sph TO Mr. seward and Mr.. seward was
enough. se all knew, sy some ether farm of msxuo,is
CyEectian. 10 Icri Lyons, whose dispatches ~
prod.c entire change IN ths deportn,sut 0f the
officials at iieirRx Huf,i-cf las,,s9y St f'c II
c0rreY Of he dan before instead ,blo
snpp.y e coal, tha tallahassee crt iosn 20 400
tunored tons, not enoggh IN of accident
i-a by Yankee cruisers. Oi this hruse
up the cruise, Mr. Seward rooabiy intontei II should
But this all Not only Captain Wood trated
by admiral iope with oXtrcme psrsppai dscvvrtesy
hui deemed proper 10 sub ect hts vessel TO tho
p,onage r, officer ant of armed hoate crew
The ias,, happy TO state. was Withdrawn he
Protest ~ toe c,ptSn 1ho Tallahassee went 10 SCI
wsi p3ttng tu,nnast and is Iepairinr al
wa.fnnpIon, IoirL where Lord ivops' mandates
l ab(yps, such the renduct for which
tclsu Admiral Hope IL o tho mpgess,on That
the rp.d States the weaker party Ia the sirursc,
and that rne mseratnity consists In leaning TO Their
side on evesy oocaason