The New York herald., 1864-09-24

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the field reduces the Presidential problem to I
contest between President Lincoln and GSnera
| Mcclellan. The radical abolition war fatStlon
Is swallowed up, and the copperhead peaoe-ld
| any price faction has been turned adrift. The
republican candidate and the democratic can
didate stand upon the same platform the
maintenance Of the Union at all hazards"
and this is the paramount and all-absorbing
issue with the masses of the people Of the loyal
States OF both parties. The differences be
tween the Baltimore and the Chicago platforms
do not exist az between Lincoln and McClel-
Ian; for the one il really as obnoxious 10 the
radical abolitionists, such as Wendell Phillips,
Hon Ben Wade and Greeley, as Is the other to
such intractable peace copperheads as Vallan-
dgham and the Hon, Ben Wood
The overwhelming pressure Of the Union
sentiment Of the North, pure and simple,
has thrown the radical disorganizers on
both sides into the background. Lincoln
is thus the republican candidate in
spite Of the abolition managers Of tina:
party, while Mcclellan has become the
standard bearer of the democracy in spite Of
their dctatoria copperheads Thus it is that
while Lincoln exercises bis own discretion in
accepting or rejecting the radical resolutions
OF the Baltimore Convention, Mcclellan as
coolly kicks over the Chicago platform. This
things. 1t reveals . tendency of tho public
mind highly favorable to q restoration Of the
Union and reorganization of parties on
solid and durable footing The displacement
Of the abolitionists and the copperheads in
tlis canvass is sure indication that their
reign is ended, and that the country has had
eo ough of them
Between Southern secessionists and Northern
aboiitionists this terrible civil war was TO
mented They played into each others hands
for thirty years in view of the same object
disunionthe one faction for the perpetuation
and the other for the extirpation of Southern
slavery Since the beginning Of the war the
fanatical abolitionists have left no stone un-
turned TO reduce this war to a slavery
uprooting crusade. Union or no Union, whils
our Northern copperheads are but
detachment Of the original Southern secession
democracy, taking up their cause where it was
abandoned for war by Jeh. Davis. Mason,
Yancey, Sldell, Floyd. Cobb. Thompson and
Company, The implacable abolitionists would
still rend the country into fragments to carry
through their one idea Of '.human freedom"
while the compromising copperheads would
stoop to any degradation OF submission to their
former Southern masters in order to serve them
again for mess of pottage. Between these two
destructive factions the public sentiment Of the
North has interposed and set them both aside
There we're, but few short months ago, many
reasons to fear that what with the controlling
influences Of tho radical abolitionists over the
councils of the administration and the republi-
can party, and what with the manifest disanion
designs of the copperhead directors Of the
democratic party, this Presidential campaign
would probably, from its fierce excitcments,
light up the combustibles Of civil war in the
North and involve the whole country Ia the
horrors of anarchy
Now We have every reason to rejoice that
all these dangers are avoided; that these afore-
said dsorganiz'pg and revolutionary factions
are cast into lasting disgrace by the quiet
but irresistible pressure upon the two great
parties Of the day OF conservative and en-
lightened public opinion. We see that radical
war abolitionists and radical peace copper
heads are alike disarned and rendered power
less for further mischief; that with the re-elec-
ton Of Lincoln the pressure Of public opinion
Will restrain him from pushing the war beyond
the necessities of the Union, and will as power
fully hold the democratic party, with General
Mcclellan, to his Union platform, should be be
the successful candidate. Looking confidently
now to the defeat and dispersion Of tho rebel
armies the submission Of the rebellious States
and the restoration of the Union, the people
will be triAed with no longer by factious poll
ticians.
And so We regard this Presidential contest as
now simplifsd to an issue between the qualifi-
cations Of Mr. Lincoln and those Of Gen. McClel-
Ian Tor the great responsibilities Of the White
House in view Of the work of reconstruction
before U.s. AT all events, the radical abolition
candidates having withdrawn from the fight
and the copperhead peace agitators having been
cut adrift by General Mcclellan, we may con-
gratulate the country that the designs OF South.
ern traitors and Northern disunionists, aboli-
ton warmakers and copperhead peacemakers,
are already and permanently defeated. Lin
coin or Mcclellan, an intelligent people have
decreed that the Union shall not be sacrificed
in prosecuting the war nor in negotiations for
peace.
THE DANISH QrEsT1oN.-The settlement OF the
Danish question seems to be retarded by fnan-
cial considerations Now that an armistice has
been entered into, and, in fact, peace become
almost matter Of certainty, the contest seems
to have resolved itself into how much Denmark
shall pay how much the dmches shall pay,
and, finally, In what manner Prussia shall re-
ceive repayment for her outlay in this war. A