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'I 7 "t'.4 Jai t - ..1 . Ai . .. . ' • . . . - , , ..._ ~ , ~ . . • , . ' . . 1 ' 1 • ' - - • • * ..'' ' 5 • •.i RA ' ' A. S. GERRITSON, Pnblisher.l :11[01 4 1TROS E' PI --' Tituß DAY _4l_ __ AI:IR 4 1 'IS. A• • .., ~„ 4 '71:..,-, - ;:i. , :.,` ."3-r..: , . , ;.= -•,--'..•••-•,- ~ ~ , c, ,, . .,: 71,7,.• : ; ,;;i.,11,1. ~i:,, ~,,,, ~_.,.1:c;,...,!' Lincoln's Officials Robbing the Mils. It has beconie a matter of notoriety that the administration has prostituted the post office system of the United States to , its own personal and political purposes to snch'an extent that no one is certain of the safety of money, or of the inviolability of private communicatio ns, when committed to the keepin g . of the _. mails. True to praCtice of violating every personal liberty or right hitherto held sacred in governments and commun. ities, the administration now arrogates to ittielf the indecent privilege of tampering with the correspondence of citizens ; and, -Acs gratify its malicious bate, _against men :vibe dare honestly, to criticise and oppose measures 'Which they deem corrupt and imbecile, has established - a system of es pionag43 over the mails as mean and shame ' less as it is possible for the originators to make it. The prominent men of the country who oppose Mr. , Liticolo and his policy now take it as a matter of coarse that their let ters will bevpened, and though writing nothing that they would be unwilling that the government officials should read, if they had any business to do so, find a great inconvenience in the faCt that their letters are on this account delayed two or three di - ye beyond the usual time of mail delivery, oftentimes to the great detri ment of their business, and sometimes are net delivered at all. This matter was brought to public no tice by District-Attorney Hall's letter to one of the city papers, explaining the rea son of the non-receipt by mail of Govern or Seymour's letter to him in reference to the- proceedings taken io the matter of The World and Journalpf Commerce. It appears that Governor Seymour's letter was published in•the Argus, and came on in that paper to New York before the original copy reached the district-attorn ey by mail. The following is his note in relation to the matter: • To the editor of the N. Y. Express : Your paragraph, although perfectly correct, referring to the non-receipt of Governor Selinour's resolute letter, may, if unexplained, do his department:injus tice. 'I received it only this morning un der post-mark of June 26. It should have been received in doe course of mail early on the 27th. Ally clerk called for it at my postal-box several times yesterday.— Another and private letter from the exec utive, post-marked June 24 (I) also came to-day. I regret to say this isnot the first time that some subordinate in the post office, either in Albany or New-York, bas tampered with my letters when their out side indicated associations distasteful to the administration sympathizers. June 28. A. Gan= HALL. It is therefore evident that some spy or wneak-thief in the employ of the adminis tration deliberately detained, and per haps opened, Governor Seymonr's letter, fur the information of the dynasty that presides over the liberties of the Ameri can people. The postmaster at Albany is the editor of the Evening Journal, and he has not, we believe, yet attempted an ex planation of this harge by District-At torney Hall: WM. B. B.mm's rarrnats ormarim. When Mr. Hall was corresponding with Wm. B. Reed, of Philadelphia, their cor respondence was regularly detained and opened. Mr. Hall finally used to leave his envelopes unsealed and endorse them on the" outside, with a request that the government spy, being thus saved the thief 's business of opening the letter" sur reptitiously, should read them immedi ately and forward them as soon as possi ble, as the. delay Was a great annoyance. The first grand coup de ingin which was to'the — pnblie, was the seizure in this city of all the telegraphic dis patches which had been sent or received from May 1, 1860, to May, 1, 1861. The seizures were made by Marshal Murray and Superintendent Kennedy, simultane. onsly at all the offices. The documents seized were voluminbus,and no doubt the officials had a pleasant time looking them aver; but nothing came of them. This seizure was made May 21, 1861, byorders from Washington. An espionagenf the - maThcwas then ar ranged, no doubt, by Mr. Seward and Montgomery Blair, the two head spirits of the' administration, and it, was found extremely interesting and convenient to open the private letters of persons of whom they were jealous or stisptcioas,and thus to judge of their secret sympathies. The members of the opposition party were especially very carefully watched in their correspondence; and, though-noth ing was , disbovered, bas'been continued DR to the 'Present day. No doubt , the great . ..POt NV bleb "the' Secretary of State is said have discovered through his spies is makop ;froth thin *wee. Probably some, tune before the election, all the 1411 Y exPiiialiOnajiu Condemn:Oen of the government ~ w hich have partied, thronat.h the mails; iind'iihia have. beep,careany F 4 dattdovill beptibliehad, with `iiiitottild beaoinga, as evidenue:of gainst the governMent. el) ' l non People areaPt 0) 1 0 oalt strongik on. pOlitical anbjeiste;'2osl ) , per 4r` 811 e,b !k PgrsOne.WignetelOilki ' n ut map, might make nee of lan% Page. Being addressed 60 a prominent A man, the letter wjll be opened and :the language taken down. For instance, ' ' the other days soldier wrote to a friend : "I am down on this government, and every thing pertaining Ito it. It is above all things deceitful and desperately wicked. I would not. turn My hand over to save this adminifitration from hell and damns- tion." If this letter bad been addressed to some public 'man in the 'opposition, it would no doubt bey. flirnished another evidence of the - great plot.. It will be at. tempted to ' be made' out that there is a grand conspiracy 'at the North to over throw the government. It 1A 'understood that General Rosecrans has lent himselfto some such absurdldea against the oppo sition.. It. has been known for a long time that this city is fitted with government detec tives, who are looking after mare's nests, and by bogus °gelds, who occupy their time principally in levying black mail on unfortunate people who come in their way. Innocent Unionists who come here, having escaped from the South, are hunt ed down and fleecied by these bogus de tectives, under threats of being sent to Fort Lafayette. They have no friends here, and have no means of proving their loyal ty, and are tbereftire at the mercy of shar pers. The article published in The World of March 15, detailed fully their mode of operationp. It was shown too that there were three hundred special officers of the War Departinent in this city, costing to the government about fifty thousand dol lars per month. The provost-marshal of every congressional district has a corps of detectives. This, perhaps, may give us a clue to discover where the immense number of men that are on oar army rolls are to be found. Senator Wilson said that seven hundred thousand men had been enlisted or re-enlisted from the ltith of October to the Bth of Jane last, one hundred thous and of whom only were negroes. The country has wondered where these men are. The spies of the administration in the North are probably all on the pay rolls of the army. Every fellow employed in tampering with the mails, or employed with the provost-guards, under the pre tense of hunting deserters; but really to keep the , net-work of espionage, and cor rpption all over the North, and finally to force Abraham Lincoln on the people for another four years, somehow, no doubt, figures on the paytitapter's lists, 'The ar my of fellows in the North in the disrep utable employment of prying into honest men's business would, perhaps, make an army sufficient to capture Richmond by very force of numbers—for they would not be likely to do it by the exhibition of moral or physical courage. They should be made to either go to the frodt, or to obtain an honest livelihood, as other peo ple have to do, especially as citizens, who are helps to the community, are liable to draft to fill their places. The World has suffered especially by this nuisance of tampering with the mails. Letters addressed to the editors in this of fice have been. opened, and some have never reached here. We are constantly losing the money addressed to us by our subscribers. It is not a great'effort of the understanding to conclude that persona who are engaged in the business of sur reptitiously opening private letters would have enough of the instincts of the thief about them to appropriate whatever mon ey might be found in them, especially as it is come to be rather an exception than a rule to find a government official- who will not steal. These men fingering the mails would naturally make a business of pilfering letters addressed to The World on the .plea that itisa" traitorous" sheet. We have thus lost large sums of money due tut.. In the case of a tikeneral Fremont, the tampering with his letters has become so regular and palpable that be has found it neoesaary to have his correspondence ad dressed to some fictitious name to receive it in due time by regular course of mail. Telegrams to him are also delaYed in the same way, and a singular fatality attends all,, telegrams relating to the Fremont movement. Mrs. Fremont's private letters to friends are also opened, and it is stated that on one occasion it became so annoying that she wrote to a western postmaster that if he would be kind enough to let her letters pass through without delay she Would mail with theta to him a duplicate of each for him to examine at his leisure. Several letters inclosing-monerin the envelopes neeothY , the Ertonotty men in tkis, city have lately' beenitiisaid suld'the money not yetliiimd:. z - The lettere of a „wstiricitown gentleman of this city whollio knOsirit toile a crat and a: fast frietql,Of URA tieral Mae!. lan, have been regularly _opened . and de• leYeds eo much so that he mule it a sub. ject of especial remonstrance with the government, and the fact was not denied that his letters, vivre w4qcjied,44,ters of friends oflfeCielTan—are.regatilivia*A _The, hapthods. adopted for the openini bb private eerretP9tideuee - PaSsiag,' aro the'maila are those most approved. ty thieves and malichbers.- Themtiog-or lettere is liretiglit do iinal4erfiouon that it is impossikdauit.matiyinstaocae:4o-dis• cover-that they haiti been' tintpered ii. One method is said to be asfollows: A B: 1 11: rx - 101:-;G. 0.65139±ia small. tube is inserted in the etirner oftbe` letter, where it is generally not - sealed,and, a gas blown in which nets upon. the Miler lage, and, by its continuous pressure in= side, bursts open. the envelope, with no possibility of tearing it or destroying the regularity of the edges. Them are other methods, too, by means of thin knives. It is.. stated that a great' many of the letters thus detained are sent to the dead letter Office, the officials being ashamed to forward them, after Bo long a delay, by the regular channels. The dead letter of. flee is found very convenient in these ca ses. If this administratiou, bad the slightest respect for 4aw—not to say decency— there would be a remedy for them things- But what, law shall be opposed against the President's will ? The laws against robbing the mail are of the severest char acter, as they shouif,l be; and every one of these spies are liable under that law to imprisonment for a term of years; and if ever we should be blessed with a Demo cratic administration they might pos sibly got their deserts. • The following extract, from the act of July 2, 1836, still in operation, gives the penalty even for. detaining papers or let ters for a day or two, and applies to hun dreds of, cases, even where the opening and robbing cannot be proved: "And 6641/wilier enacted, That if any postmaster shall unlawfully detain in his office any letter, package, pamphlet, or newspaper, with intent. to prevent the arrival and delivery of the same, to the person or persons to whom such letter, package, pamphlet, or newspaper may be addressed or directed, in the usual course of the transportation of the mail s algitig the route; or if any postmaster shall, with intent as aforesaal„ give a efer ence to any letter, package, pamph let, or newspaper over another which may pass through his• office, by forwarding the one and retaining the other, he shall, on con viction thereof be fined in a sum tot ex ceeding five hundred dollars, and iniprie, oned for a term not exceeding six months, and shall, moreover, be forever thereafter incapable of holding the office of postmas ter in the United States." [ World, Republicans Becoming Sensible: There are frequent indications, pf late, that many Republicans are becoming sen sible as to the alarming condition into which the country has been brought by this war, and also as to the necessity of a change of administration. A remarkable instance of this, is the Boston Herald, a leading Republican journal of 'Massachu setts, from which we take the following extracts : "The present appears to be a fitting time for the press of the country to lay aside all party issues and devote them selves to the task of restoring peace to the nation upon a basis which should bo alike honorable to all concerned. The present mid into .31aryland, threatening as it does. Baltimore and Wasbington,the heavy drafts which are constantly being made upon the people in the shape of men and money—to say nothing of heavy tax ation and the,high price of living—ad monish us that war is a most serious mat ter, viewed in its most favorable aspect." It further says upon the general topic of subjugation : " We presume the people of the So - 4h are satisfied that they cannot subjugate the North, and the people of the North are satisfied that - they cannot subjugate the South. This being the case, what be comes our duty ? To stay the slaughter of meb,—to restore peace to the country? This is a political question, and must be decided at the polls by the voters of both sections of the country. If the press mould unite upon any basis that would re commend itself to the people, there would be no difficult) , incoming.to an under standing upon the subject. Can we agree with the South upon any terms ? Can we offer a basis of settlement which they will adopt, and which at the same time will be satiefactory to the North ? For ' our part we see no way opened for a re turn of the rebel states to the Union ex cept• by and through the ageney of the Constitution. They must either resume their State sovereignty and acknowledge the Federal Constitution, or they_ must stay where they are. If the people at the South are a unit against a, return t 6 the Federal compact, it becomes ;a question. for as to decide hOw mdfl longer we will fight•tdeomtiel them . to an up vri i llifig as sociation with us: kid if vpi+were-tO, succeed in destrdylng t4te,arizues, would we - then' have pease agsin upOt , permitneht basis f ,11103 arf',VJAvitqu'OT Lionel, and ,depiand the seritim.aonguiera *ion Of thinking, 'Reacting. mad& 'OA! object in this artkilele call the aitea. lion of the prom ja tta Sfeatill4tg . 04 devlrea ;Ton .theni O t,r)',4,10 ask AO to' &ulna thur,pyttcr, pultel,y and aithisionetel,K,ifyith view to con cent ortoirov, dial , to P tiWitallie — pes3oo, , Of the North upon soue4rpject to stop the further ebeddiagA.WW _.. • _ _ . 14 .11 - titiiiiffOrs Wan '. • Volunteers . ormitedi•forimayytiar. wire at this office for the name of the par ties wishing to pay bounties. =RIEMMIIEFI ibiasons shbuld not •, 1/;:i3e is at heart a. secessionist.„ On l be'Ee.ele ed. inuarY 14, 1848, be made ,41 speech in 'congress, in which ,hesaid Any people anywhere, being inclined, and having, the power, have a right to rise up, , and shako off the existing, government, and form a now one that will snit them better."., 2. He has .violated his pledge to the peo ple. In July, 1861, Congress passed a resolution, which was adopted by, bim, in these words : "That this war is not wag ed in any spirit of oppression; or for'any purpose of conquest. or subjugation, or for the purpose of overthrowing or inter.' fering with the rights or established in stitutions of the States, but to defond and maintain the supremacy of tht Constitn tion.". 3. He has violated the Constitution which he -took a solemn oath to support, in ways without number: His emancipa tion proclamations which he has issued he himselfacknowledged he had no power to do. 4. He has suspended the habeas corpus in states where there was no necessity for it. He has caused to be arrested and im prisoned citizens for expressing their can did opinion as to the acts of the adminis tration, without allowing them a trial by jury, and has afterwards discharged them without attempting to prove any charges against them. 5. He has muzzled the mouth and the pros in a more arbitrary manner than any despot in Europe. 6. He has prolonged the war for the purpose of collecting a great army to 'aid and alsist him to a re-election as Presi dent by the point of the bayonet.. 7. He has sent armies to Florida and Louisiana for the purpose of organizing new states for the purpose of voting for him for the next President—and by so do ing twenty thousand men have lost their lives. 8. He has squandered millions upon millions of the publio moneys to colonize and support the negroes, and has no sym pathy for the white soldiers who are slain by thousands in the field. 9. He has organized ail army of negroes and forced them from the plantations, where they could have raised food tbr the army and have supported their families, who are now starving and dying. lb. He bitsinitiated a systemof extrava gance and corruption in the conduct of the war which will, sooner or later, over thratv our government. 11. Before he. was elected, be declared himself against the election of a President for a second term. He has violated this pledge, and now says it was all a joke. 12. Being suddenly raised from the common walks of life to the highest , hon or in the gift of the nation, he became vain and puffed up, and keeps a corps of sol diers as a body guard, which no other President ever did. 13. He has a set of fanaticsand shoddy Contractors, and all kinds of speculators, for his advisers, and they flatter bun, Which pleases his vanity, and makes him think he is the greatest man in the world. He will soon wake op and Snd all these things a joke, and honest:l43ld Abe will go down to posterity as a great joker, and nothing more.—Albany Argus. • What Ras the War. Done ? There are some honest men who - say that 'the war must go on (without trying to negotiate) until therebellion is crushed, the slaves all freed, and a Union restored. They are deluded with the hopes of early peace, by Lincoln's style of a 'vigorous prosecution of the wail Delusive hope! What has the war done thus far towards the accomplishment of these purposes 1' Look to the borders of Missouri, Kansas, and Kentucky, the abodes of guerrillas, robbers and devils, accursed of God, and abandoned by man. Look to the tdack eued, war-scorched belt over which the contending armies rnovei, and leave,deso laden and death in their track. Ledk at the- slaughtered• thousands around the ocean shore and along the river bank,and upon the innunieratle battle-fields 'reach ing almost across the continent, and the answer will be, it has done and is doing the same to this nation as it has to every, other where civil 'war existed. le3F"The Springfield Republican, a' Massachusetts Lincoln organ says: 4 - We should' have unlearned such follies by this tittle. War can never be conduc ted successfully in this way: Half Mill ion volunteers could, not be organized, equipped and put into the field before , the campaign for this year is at an end, and tomaintain 44110 . 1 i, gigantic 'althea another yearosittii the bet ter portion of our" bodied men withdratim `ifora prodn4+o, labor,.wohld natio:eat our `resonrcies and bring ns to'bankriVy *dry rapidly." -,lrigrOur white soldiers-wilt feet highly oompnteeeted by the follolinglrom the New:York Tribtinez.,,, a General Wild is-an-enthtudast on the subject .of colored troops.: ~H e firmly be. notes that ,a.white. man in-mcnned time, sad bketriet-diseipline'l cam beAMtde as goodiaminegroa,liteluiethe moist ttpli- Ailotedace bags.;&dope Jand solace 'bey in him. Gen. Hike, w hol comicarlds the colored division, took it by preference." How aro you, white trash ? vano:ektuawg • The'' D7e6liirYpori tren2o, l S Itepniali- I can Anti-slavery journal;' but irith'Lidtne relpeetfor -the: (length ution and thelights of the States, says We never .did knowingly, and mover intentlto infringe- upon the Constitution and-trample diiwn -the lawsoand 'usages andmompromises upon which the•mation, titands for this emancipation of slaves: in, the S outhern States.. Holding to State .tights —the right of each Community to leguilate upon and control its local affairs; whieh ideais at the; bottom of American; freedom—the, very-keel. of -our ship of. state ' we do now and have always repudi ated all interference - with:local-matters in States to which we do not belong.:- It was never , necessary or justifiable. 'We have no slavery in lilassachtsetta, and- wd would resist to the death ha imposition up on us 1 but if we had: slavery here, fatal>, fished by the free will of the . people, as just, right and expedient for us, .though we might differ from the, majority,; we would•reaent and resist any interference on the part of Maine or, Vermont, or any other community or government under heaven, to forcibly or unlawfully abolish that slavery. " Whenever slavery is abolished by vio lence, at the expense of the Constitution and Union,. it will not make .ihe•negroes free, but it certainly wilt destroy the liber ties of thirty millions of whites. There can be no other result ; for our freedom is in the Union and. under the Constitution ; and when these go, where will the repnh- Holey° gone before it ; and whew that sinks, the star of the world's hope in our great political.experiment—for surely it, is nothing yet but an experiment—goes down in blackness and darkness. If any body would risk its setting by lawless rind revolutionary action for emancipation. or anything else, we go not with them-- The safety of all—whites and blacks—is as in the case of St. Paul's shipwreck—in sticking to the ship, keeping the old flag flying, employing experienced hands and pilots, and running by the old chart where we have prov,ed it to be correct." Republican testimony against Lincoln. The New York Times a leading Repub lican paper speaking of President Lincoln's declaring he will not receive' propositions for Peace without the abandonment of Slavery, disapproves of his course in the followingh4gnage "The dent made but two condi tions to .the -reception and ' , consideration of any , proposition for the restoration, of peace, which ,should come to him from competent a'u'thority; first, that it should embrace the integrity . of the whole Union; second, that it should enbrace the aban donment of Slavery , . - We believe he might have gone stilrforther than:thin fie might have omitted the second of these condi tions altogether, and required the first alone, as essential to the, reception and con siderations oflproposalnfor - peace. We do not mean to say that it will he eventually found possible to end the war and restore the Union - without • the "'abandonment of Slavery ;" but ice do say that thisabandon ment need not be exacted by, the Presid ent as a condition without which lie, ,will i not receive or consider proposals for peace. The people do not, require him to insist.up on any such. nondition. Neither his oath of ofice, nor his. consistency requires him to insist : upon, 4. That is one of the questions to be considered and arranged when the terms of peace come to be dis cussed. It is not a subject on which terms can be imposed by the Government, with out consultation, without agreement, or withoutequivalents." It is cheering to see this evidence of good sense coming from such a prominent and influential Republican Paper. Repu'b- Hoene as well se Democrats are 'getting hearitly sick of the war as at pr4sent con , ducted, and long for an lionorablepeace. The people will holdllr...Lincoln to a fear ful responsibility for closing the poor - to peace for the purpose of setting, free the slaves of the South.' The lives , the pro perty and prosperity of the if/Wes - People of the country' are to be made eurbordin • ate, to the destruction of slavery. or A - gentleman Who, 'a few days - ago, was wandering over the .grontid recently occupied by a portion of Gen., fairly% for ces, engaged An, the "siege of Washing ton," picked . ,up the,note-boult of a, con federate soldier, containing, among oilier matter, the following bit Oflytical poetry: QuUtti 'lleitife to; Lee, "Can you tell me, • ' • In the shortest style of writing, When people:will, • • All.4get their • • Of thie big job of gliting T." , Quoth"tee to Illeade, "!'tali; indeed; I'll tell you in a minute— When legislators And. speculators t 4 enter m it." ,-"orY.; EirecomiAberman's troops:recently took, ..ssession of a ooton,miltand made ptiis ciffitni hindiCrtkitis; *bo :Ntere eareing ,tloii• hen* ( 4viog 4t Watk Wit.;Pag4kait r ltrat; l what to do. i 1133, themhivilly :=e00 . 4,r 'gild item, !..)." Marietta; Obio,lntl there dlsitherge them, to seek at leisure, for subsistence, among a strange and hostile people. lIEM!a The.l*ideola Callibr Troop. • • LetrthoGiverimicit;:or;the - liatesiot General in command, deal frankly *ith them, tell,them plainly • how numerous* force is reiittireikand bow Mpidly* must be underarms, inOrder tesecure`the duo cess which is now, as all believe,: within our grasp—arri-the East would turn out regituentsas fast - as the West did its hand xedlia,yjnen in May t ,Such• a call, so guide . 4 , 11 1 oc , in i4 ers i o od, T i knld ea courage ever - `body;; •vieuld'be itesponded to by the best-blood Of the country ; it would crests a new enthusiasm. 4.1.0 the shape in • which:the President has , chosen to put 44 dertulnd is, we are ,Conntrained to say, pretty sure to do the - very reiersc.• To - threaten a peremptory draft vow, when everybody believes that the War is nearly ended; to demand men for : three years.} hen: the struggle should be ,and unuit lcoe over in six months; to call for half a Million Men when the country hail rightly or Wrongly' imagined that a hundred thousand would suffice to ter , rrdnete the struggle, thisdoes'appear to us to misunderatand , the spirit of the Ameri can peciple, and to blunder. . This Is 'appatebt in the first place be cause it is sure to be trilitunderstooed by aildur enemies abroad and at borne. It will be received us anonfession of weak ness, and not as a sign of strength : it will be regarded as a compliment to the resist ing power of 'the rebels ; it will be quoted as an official acknowledgment that unless our army, already so vast, is made strong er by half a million of men, we shall fail it the second place, because, instead of stirring the hopes 'and reviving the en thusiasm of the people, it rather depresses them ; it gives voice to the 'doubters, sod silences those who never doubted before of our success. In aigrintt crisis like this, it is impdri; ant to keep tip the spiritsof the people, to maintain their hopefulness, to encourage them to new efforts. But, this proclaim tion,'Cold, lifeless, rigid, bound round with red tape, clothed in the formal language of the bureau, sounds as though the author. thought the people could not bear to be chilled and disheartened. Its tone is not that of the chief of a Republic calling upon his 'fellow-citizens to support a cause in which all alike are interested, but rather it is the tone of a European sovereign tell ing his,subjects what he requires of them. Now whatever cold forms official routine Moment like this, the best words the Pre sident of the United 'States can speak to the people are the directeat , simplest, heartiest; the besttone he can assume is that of unreserved trust and confidence in the people ; the strongest and most effec tive appeal he can make to them, is a sim ple statement of the truth.—Post, 450. "Honest" Old Abe is a great master of low cunning. The mostarrant knave that ever plied the vocation of politician could not be more expert in the art of offering bribes to prepdice. In the Niagara negotiation trick he has out-tincolned Lincoln, craftily making a strong appeal for abolition support, while putting a seem ing affront On Mr. Greeley, one of the fore mostepostlee of the abolition gospel. Par, Lincoln knows that the sincere • abolition ists distrdst axed despise hint ; , that they hate Seward,. whom he'retains as his chief adviser r that they are just now exceeding. ly sore and sour because he has forced out of his cabinet the man whom they most wished him to retain in it. There was imminent danger' of an explosion in the Republican party when Mr. Lincoln seised this, opportune occasion to proclaim himself so thorough-going an abolitionist that be would not consent to the restore ' tion Of the Union without the Abandon mentofelavery. He calculated that the denunciation which this declaration would provoke in the Democratic press would advertisethis aboliticludia4 and operate as a cenificate , ofebaracter to that wine of his party Which is in , triost danger of desert. ing him: He will keep this new abolition pledgelintil after the election, when be will probably disappoint ' abolitionists and * Unionist* alike 14; malting a disgracefid peace on the basis of dual separation. If hi is ieelected the Union will neither be restorid • abelished) all Mr.. Lincoln's talk : about doing either is a trick, to.retainhis holden power. A refusal to. con: t .Ito , reunion till slavery is voluntari ly ;cloned. by the South, is equivalent to Wdetermination that the Union shall. never be restored. , , The illy best' thing that tbe Prmildent can dole to tuns Stanton and Halle& in.; to the street„ aid fill :60. places, . sa he easilj with :inn of more ability.-... '])lair conducts his ; disi• . lirtitisOit W i th ithility,, and so might be pertititti4 ta retinal) under boads,to keep. t bill:4109; bit Effanten Ise not 0125,1thlare qnshfieitstvd.ifcr his pleia. Ile has no ability aura war' =Mater whatevei, sto honesty orsensO dticenoy, and has , ?item an ia• supportable weight. At !ciao a time u this, tilien thektation is struggling for its very enetoitoe, these cabinet are not an edifying sight, and the President eonnot do a more ~,acceptable servfoe fa the country Oki tikgwee leave of absence to all those who thus trifle with their pogi• tiong; and are, at the same time, Moons. peteht to perform their duties...4 l mA a. Troy WAsg (Ropubßeas) July 21. Lincoln's Last Trick.
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