Year: 1862

InauguratiOn or tho Governors or New


York and New Jersey, and 4 heir Policy.


On the first of next month, and with the COM
mencement of the new year, Horatio Seymour,
of this State, and Joel Parker, of New Jersey,
will be inaugurated Governors of their respec-
tive States. They were both nominated and
elected by the conservative citizens Of their
States after one Of the most important cam.
paigns in the history of the nation. They were
supported by that portion of the people who
had become disgusted with the Encouragement
of the war by the radicals They were selected
as the representatives of the antiabolition, anti
radical sentiment of the people. They were
elected to the important positions of Governors
as conservative men, and as rebuke to the In
trigues of the radicals at Washington, the real
Marplots of the war. The vote cast in their
favor was oensure and an indictment of the
mismanagers of the war.


Occupying that high position, chosen as q
reprimand to the radicals for betraying the
trusts committed to their care, the public are
looking forward with more than ordinary in
terest for the policy that they will pursue.
They are not looked to as men, but as the
official mouthpieces Of the majority Of the cit-
zens Of their respective States, and as one Of
the mediums through which the national land
marks laid down by our forefathers, but trodden
upon and almost destroyed by the radicals,
times have had so important duties to perform
as these two officials. In consideration of these
facts, Horatio Seymour and Joel Parker ought
by all means to meet and have consultation
with each other, and, after due consultation,
careful and candid consideration of the trusts
committed to their care, weighing fully the in
terests Of their constituents and the future
of the country, mark out some line of
policy to be pursued by each in their
official capacity, and to be inaugurated with
their taking the oath of Office. They should
consider the amount of men and money that
has been furnished by the people in thcir
respective States to aid in putting down the
rebellion, and also how the money has been
sqnaudered and the valuable lives of the volun-
teers sacrificed by the radicals in their efforts to
disgrace conservative generals and foist upon
our armies abolitionists and aboltionism. In
deciding their policy they should bear in mind

that the people have repudiated the radicals for
dividing our armies and refusing Mcclellan the
support on the Chickahominy that would have
enabled him last spring to have captured Rich
mond and crushed out the rebellieu, and that
the radicals are directly responsible for the
sacrifice of life and the expenses Of the war,
which has been prolonged by reason Of their
breaking up and defeating McClellan's plans on
the peninsula


The duty of the Governors elect in this State
and New Jersey is plain and straightforward
BY all means let them meet and consult toge-
thcr at an early day, and mark out conserve
tive policy to. be pursued in unison, and thus
better meet the expectations Of the people and
more fully discharge their duties to their States
and the nation. Let their policy be such that
future generations cannot say that important
trusts were committed to their care in vain.