Washington telegraph., 1864-03-09
M111sroSrs ron rHn N.cKs OF Nh. LINCOLN

M1LLsroSEs ron rHE NEcRs OF Mr.. LINCOLN
AID HIS CABINEr.-The indications In favor
of peace are becoming stronger and stronger
every day. That portion of the press which
sustains the war policy are now denouncing
Mr.. Lincoln and his advisers. The New
York World, which no one can charge with
Peace proclivities, IL absolutely threatening
Mr.. Lincoln,-aye, predicting for him the
worst fate that could possibly befali man. In
a brief article entitled "Lincoln's follies," it
handles that ''patriot and statesman" without
gloves, and warns him to forego whatever as
pirations he may have in regard to serving the
country for the next Presidential term. This
is treason, actual, downright treason, II ever
there was treason in the World. 1t tells him
that it would te better-but here are its own
words. and We do not think we could improve
on them:
sBut Mr. Lincoln and his cabinet had better
have millstones hanged a bout their necks and
be drowned in the bottom Of the sea, than
hold power for another four years. The fnan-
cial crash will come ere the expiration of that
term. The political revulsion will come before
then-the waking up Of the nation from its
awful delusion-and woe, then, to the author :
Of our calamities."
All! yes, the financial crash is the thing that
will settle the matter. We could get along
we'll enough Mcssieurs Editors, so long as our
pockets were not. touched-well enough 90
long as things worked on mocthy nj home;
but when we begin to feel in our pockets; when
our purse strings are cut, (what matter about
the heart strings!) then we will rouse up, and
waken the echoes with our roaring. 1t is of
little consequence how many have been driven
into Mr.. Lincoln's slaughter pens, and how
many more have been reduced to poverty and
destitution but the temple of Mammon must
not be undermined if he would save himself
from the "hnancial crash" lie might strike
at the very foundation Of constitutional free :
dom, he might pull down the pillars that sus-
tain the temple Of liberty, but let him beware
of the financial crash, for if that should come
and find him still in Office, then, indeed it
would be better for him and his cabinet "tO
have millstones hanged about their necks, and
be drowned in the bottom of the sea-" 1t il
only the sound of this crash that will wake MP
the nation from its awful delusion.' IL j. only
this that will bring woe to the authors Of our
calamities.'
We could stand the suspension Of the h75t1-
corpus, we could stand the arbitrary arrest
and Imprisonment of our fellow -citizens-we
could, in . word, stand the deprivation Of
every right dear to freemen; but the Presi-
dent who is so unfortunate in his policy rs to
bring financial crash down upon Us, had bet
ter look out for 'millstones' and the bottom Of
the sea-
As we have said, this denunciatory language
towards the President is peculiarly suggestive,
for some Of our papers are like weathercocks,
showing which way the wind blows. Our Re-
publican Gar is evidently on the downward
tract, and the memories which will be conjured
up by those who have suffered at his hands, or
through his policy, will embitter and intensity
the feelings of dislike and hatred that will fol-
low him into private life. lie and his advisers
will have no smooth road before them. Hsto-
nv is full of the examples of those who have set
at defiance the principles Of right and jutice
in their mad attempts to retain possession of
arbitrary and illgotten power
NeIc York NetrODohtqH.