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low it was Applied and what it Did.


How it was Applied and What It Did.
From the N. y, journal Of Commerce.
Has any one forgotten where the
interference Of Mr.. Iincoln with Nc
Clellan's campaign in Virginia first
began? Read the following letter and
it will be recalled to mind.
ExEcrTIvK MANSION,
WAsurNeToN, March 81, 1864.
"Major Gen. Mcclellan: My doar
sir-1his morning / felt constrained
to order Blenker's division to Fremont.
and l write this to assure you that L
did SO with great pain, understanding
that you would wish it otherwise. If
you could know the full pressure Of
the case, i am confident You would
justify it, even beyond a mere acknowl-
edgment that the commander-in chief
may order what he pleases.
ga. LINCOLN"
Here was the confession of polit-
ical pressure, working against the ma
tion's interests IL was not a military
necessity. 1t was not want of men
for public service. 1t was an outside
conifin6sssd IF aaadi aFaadicpl r,pg politicians and it
stronger. Blenker's division was fol-
lowed by Withdrawing Wool and his
command from Mcclellan. Then Nc
Dowell and his command, and the
campaign was destroyed. And all un-
der political pressure! Fremont laughs
when he remembers it. He reminds
his friends Of the fact in his late let
ter.
Does any one need to seek further
q reason for the failures Of Abraham
Lincoin2 He has always looked at
partisan political demands as Ut high
or importance than the national de-
mands. Can any one point to an in
stance, IN his whole term, in which he
has subordinated party to country Has
he ever done an act that showed the
superiority of patriotic considerations
over the demands Of his political allies
and supporters? Has he not again
and again outraged the feelings of all
good conservative men, and damaged
beyond all measure the cause Of the
union, in obedience to some radical
pressure? Recall the various steps
he has taken in building up the power
he now wields. How sternly he has
trampled on public laws and private
rights at the demand Of these men,
And look at them. They have been
rolling in wealth, aud laying up
colossal fortunes every month. Was
ever n palmer history written in the
ewes of tho worldp While he has
destroyed the liberties Of the people,
and brought the union to the verge OF
ruin. his followers, who have pressed
him on, have been gathering plunder
from soldiers and people. And they
are not yet satisfied. The war is no.
whore near its end under their press
urc, and they are determined it shall
not end, the union shall not be restor-
ed, as long as they can continue to
thrive as now, and keep in Office a
president who snhmits so readily TO
their pressure. The man who could
write such letter as the one we have
quoted above, manifestly ought not to
be president Of great nation in time
of civil war. He who can confess 30
freely that he jeopardizes the interests
Of a great campaign, and the lives of
a hundred thousand men, because he
cannot rosist political pressure, is
not the man to lead people like this.
Let any one study the meaning of
that letter, and tell us whether he is
willing to go on for four years more
of war under the same leader subject
to the same pressure. We want q
man Of mind, a man of will, a ran
who dares to secure union and peace
when the opportunity offers, without
fear of any pressure from political fol-
lowers who arc fattening ON the spoils.
We want man who is not afraid to
hurt his "party" by any wise, patri-
otto course. We want a man who
will keep tho union uppermost in his
mind forever, so that no pressure OF
outside influences can change his set
tied purpose to preserve that union,
and to seize any and every opportuni.
ty for SO doing: Mr.. Lincoln would
not dare to make peace without abo-
lition to-day. He could not stand
the pressure Of his radical friends. -
He IL bound hand and foot, body and
soul to them. He has not the moral
courage to cast them oil, if he desired
to. He never yet resisted pressure
He could call his proclamation pope's
bull against comet, but he mus,
issue il nevertheless, for they pressed
him on. lie could not Il ks the back
track now, for they stand behind him
and he would be afraid of them
Who, with calm thought, doubts what
we now sayy And who is Of the de-
li0erats opinion that Mr. Lincoln ough
to be president for four years moreY