The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-02-06

tsa days In February avsrrel that soms Of his rivals la
susiaess had made damaging misrepresentation with
regard 70 his standing financially ana mentally ana while
endeavorng 10 sraehten matters up he became very
much excited ana bchterous In his Language For time
all business was suspended and the excited perssn
tho cynosurc Of all eyes Bome parties the had
the bad tastc 20 harsher term) 10 pe the ha
ransuer with Jumps Of dough and handfus OF gram til
finally 1t was found necessary 70 withdraw after which
business resumed its wonted direct On Groceries were
quiet Cotton dull. Petroleum Grm Fregbts wore dull,
but unchanged.
s2avery-The Biunders or the Adminis-
tration-A Constitutional Amcndme mt
the Only Remedy,
The tlunders Of Che administration In Che
management Of this war are painful TO contem-
plate; and from bis FIRST disaster at Manassas 10
his last iasco in Virginia the record Of President
Lincoln a. military leader is but budget Of
bluude-s In aome respects, however, his des-
potic assumptions Of power. his crude ideas, and
his thkering experiments in Wow of settle
ment Of the slavery question, are moro depio
rabie than bis wasteful Encouragement Of our
armies.
In revokiag General Frenient's Missouri edict
Of emancipation, and in reproving General
Hunter for his preposserous South Carolina
manifesto. the course Of President Lincoln was
satisfactory to the country But in his letter
q admonition to General Hunter there was o
warning that, If our facetious President could
not permit any indulgence in these abolition
proclamations by his military subordinates, II
was because their communicative himself
intended to nonopolige them, and TO use
them in good time and in his own pecu-
liar way. And so it came TO pass that
10 September. 1862, We had che initial
emancipation proclamation from President Lin
coin, warning the rebellous States that unless
they should come TO terms before Che end Of
the year apother proclamation would be issued
extineuishing their peculiar institution They
disregarded this warning, and so On New Years
Day, 1865, the tAunderboIt Of emancipation was
launched upon them az a military necessity. II
produced at first great sensation Of Joy in the
abolition camps; but after a while. upon
closer inspection, they found it to be the trick
of Jupiter with the frogs, when, for the king
which they had called for, he cast down to
them great log into the water. The President
had abolished slavery beyond the lines Of Our
armies, where his edict would be dead letter.
and had saved slavery within our military
lines, where his proclamation could be made
effective. No wonder that he regarded it as q
good joke, and described it as "the Pope's
bull against the comet"
Another year rolls away, aud Mr.. Lincoln to
his ANIMAL message to Congress appends new
proclamation on this everlasting trouble Of
slavery, embracing aa amnesty to tae masses
OF the people concerned in the rebellion. lie
requires them to endorse his emancipation
proclamation and ali the Concurrent acts of
Congress in reference to slavery till repealed
or declared void by the Supreme Court. He
has made the discovery at last that the SUI
preme Court may possibly upset all these fine
doings some day; but in the meantime he will
proceed with this business OF swearing in the
subjects of Jea. Davis and reorganizing the
rebellious States, on the basis Of the emaDci-
patton proclamation, at venture. Is this the
President of the United States engaged in the
sound and wholesome work Of rebuilding tho
Union, or is it Don Quixote fighting the wind
Mills It IS indeed the knight OF the Sorrow
full Figure" But where il his faithful Id )ch-
man. Saucho.
We need not here argue The question TO show
that all these lame devices OF President Lincoln
in behalf of universal emancipation, short of
some larger remedy. will only serve to make
the existing confusion upon this subject worse
COMPOUNDED than ever They win only serve 90
prolong the war, and will leave this thing of
African slavery as much bone of contention
when the war is over as before the war began.
so long as any one OF the States of the Union
may re-establish tomorrow the institution
which i, has overthrow to-day. We would
therefore earnestly call the attention Of Con-
gress 20 the fact that there is only one way in
which this slavery question may be dccsively
and permanently settled by universal emanci-
patton. and that now is the opportunity for this
great achievement. This way is pointed out in
the federal constitution. and is simply an
amendment of that instrument. declaring
slavery abolished throughout the United States.
II Is thus provided that ''the Congress. when
ever two-thirds Of both houses shall deem it
necessary, shall propose amendments 10 this
constitution. or. on the application of the Legs-
lstures OF two-thirds Of the several States, shall
calr%convention for proposing amendments,
which, in either case shall be valid to all in
tents and purposes, as part OF this constitution,
, when ratified by the Legislatures Of three
fourths of the several States or BY conventions
in threefourths thereof as the one or the other
mode Of ratification may be proposed by Con.
gress.1
: Here. then, the amendment suggested, passed
by a two-thirds vote in each house of Congress
and ratified by the Legislature. OF by conven-
tons Of threefourths Of the States Of the Union.
will abolish slavery at once and forever through.
out the length and breadth OF the land. And
why not : The institution. so long as IL exists,
can never be ANYTHING heres fter eycan. a souroe