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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
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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
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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 _.. • _
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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.