Year: 1862

We perceive that Horati0 Seymour Is an
nounced to address public meeting at the
Cooper Institute this evening, as the democratic
candidate for Governor Of this State. We en-
treat him to take the opportunity of retiring
from contest which there is every reason to
fear will be characterized by dangerous vio-
lence. We cannot afford at this moment to ex-
pend our strength in fierce quarrels among our
selves, while the enemy is in the field and the
rebellion still remains to be crushed by our
united efforts


1t is quite true that the party now in power
is open to severe criticism; and, from the elec-
tions in Maine and Connecticut, and from va
rious other signs of the times there can be no
doubt that the tendency of the public mind is
towards democracy or conservatism, and the re-
publican party is everywhere rapidly declining
in strength owing to its development OF radical
ism and the violence threatened by the leading
abolitionists against all who differ in opinion
with them. The mismanagement of the war
caused by radical interference; the severe, if
not unconstitutional, measures adopted against
citizens in the loyal States, and the corruption
in army contracts which has come to light
have contributed in no small degree to drive
from the ranks of the party many conscr-
vatives But many who do not approve of
| what has been done, and who detest radi-
calism, still remain, because they think that
a strong opposition to the party to which the
administration belongs would greatly interfere
with the successful prosecution of the war for
the Union, by dividing the people and intro
ducing perplexing and distracting compli-
cations.


If the elections could possibly result In plac-
ing the conservative party in power at Wash
ingtOn, the case would be entirely different
But in our system of government Cabinet Minis
tiers cannot be displaced, as they are in Eng
land by the popular voice, or their defeat on
any important question in Parliament or a vote
of want of confidence in them carried in the
House of Commons. In England ministers are
changed because they are held responsible for
every act of the government The sovereign is
not responsible, and cannot be changed unless
by violent revolution. In our system there is
an opportunity of making change of the Chief
Magistrate every four years. and the disposition
OF the people is to give every legitimate support
to the government in power for the time being.
1t is true the President can change his whole
Cabinet, or any part of it, if he finds it ineff
cient; but he is not expected to replace the dis
missed or resigning members from the ranks of
their political opponents, as the English sove-
reign always does. 1t is the President of the Unit
ed States himself and not his ministers, who is
| held legally and consttutionally responsible by
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| sis, and the party in power must deal with it
according to their best judgment The Pre-
| sdent of their choice and themselves will be
held to strict account hereafter. The nation is
engaged in terrible civil war-strugging for
its very existence. Any interference by the
leaders of the opposition party tending to de-
feat the object of the war, or to emlrarrass the
be unpatriotic and unwse.


This is no time for party gladatorship. There
ought to be only one party-the party of the
UniOn-till the war is brought to q successful
termination. After that will come the reckon
ing, when party can once more legitimately
take the field, lay bare every misdeed, and ex
pose every act Of corruption and every viola
ton Of the constitution. But now there is no
time for this. The train is in motion: we are
all in for the war. The locomotive cannot be
stopped, nor can any ono safely jump of to cri-
ticise the movements of the engineer. the brake
men or the conductor. When we get to the end
ofourj journey that will be the proper time to deal
with those in charge of the train if they have
been guilty Of any folly or crime. Or, suppose
the case of ship in violent tempest, which
threatened every moment to send her to the
bottom, what would be thought Of the conduct
Of the passengers if they mutmied against the
captain and crew. instead Of obeying their
orders and giving them every assistance? The
ship of the Union is at this moment in imminent
peril; she labors in a heavy sea- with tre-
mendous gale and lee shore in view false
reckoning having been made on the log We
are all on board and she is freghted with the
hopes Of humanity. She is in Danger; for there
are foaming breakers ahead. But the ship is
stalnch. We know what heads devised her
| plan aud what workmen constructed her giant
frame: and she will weather the storm if every
one Of us does his duty. and if those who steer
and man he's are not improperly inter.ered
with by any foolish zeal in this hour
Of national peril. When the gallant
vessel arrives in port then it will be the time to
condemn aught that was harsh or unjusta5le
| or inluman in the conduct of the officers or
seamen, and TO bring them to a rigid account
| iQr the voyage.


| we are In the midst of revolution as great
as that which took place in France seventy
years ago. and party violence cannot save the
nation, though it may destroy il. II is bad
enough for the radicals to take advantage OF
their position to indulge in violent dcmonstra-
toHs and threaten what is still worse. Let not
the democrats initiate their example, else we
are lost. Let them not give the abolition dema.