The Abolition Plot In Congress

ushington, L)ec. 11. Theovents of the first week ff the ■WNon of Conjjress uwe proved the ;-oneotne.is of lliu views exprvssed in my letter of Nov. 27. The opposhion j to the President ori the part of the I radical and clira members of Congreso, I tin Ut kun tlic forra of a regular or anizaliun. This organizatioti is led lv SuiM'ior and Trumbull intheSetwte., nd bv Lovt'juv and Thad Stephen in Ihu House, 'f hey boast that they can 3011. mand 77 votes in the House, aod s clear majorïty in the Senate, and do not hesitate lo express their designs npenly. They declare they have nothiag to hope fi-om tlie President, who, thoy aru convinced, is false to all his piedles, and has wo!d himself to the shtveholders. But, at the same time, they tissert that they fe:ir notbing that tho President can do to tliwart their designe. They are confident of being ftble, in the (jouree of tha noxt two urnUhs, to command a two-third vote in both houcs on any question that they niay bring up. Aeano as they reaoh that point, they propone to curry, over 'he Preaidenl'e veto (lor tliey knów he witl veto them), the following rneasuren: 1. A joint resoltition declaring that slavery is the oause of tho war, and that it is impossible to bring the war to a successful issue vit hout uboliatiing tilaverv wherever it exista; 2 The.total and uncoaditiooal repeal of the fugitivo slave la ; 3. The passage of a bilí deelaring freo, and ordering our Generáis to offer freedoni to, all slaves who shall leave their masters; 4. The pnss-ige of a bil! confiseatinor all the property of the rebels, iiicluding their si a vea ; 5. The pawnge f a joint resolntion rcquestiiig the Piemttent to dismiss (Jen. McClelhin, and to appoint Gen. Banks ComtnandiT-in-Chief of the irmies of the United States in his place; G. The pnssage of a bilí obliterating the houndary line betwoen the States of Nonh Carolina and South Carolina, consolidating the two States into one, and calling the new State '"Carolina." The bill for effeeting these objecta are already drawn up, and aro being pnvati'ly cireulatecl. I have seen a complete set of them (one of each) with interlineations and erasures in tliu hand-writinu: of one of the great high pi iests of abolitioni:n. The Prei-ident i fully aware of tho powerful eornbination that hns been ionned against hiin. And while I wili do hirn the jnstiee to say that heis insensible to fenr, I must also add that he laiks that firmness and decisión of charac'.tr which alone v.an enable hiin to wifffstand it effect ually, and to overeóme it. Ono of tho most prominent c.haracteristics of his mimi is his habit of permitting m:ttera to drift on and to regúlate thuinselves. The historian who, in futuro yearí", write.s the history of tbffl war 11 show that this, ai.d this t.lone, was the cause of the full of Fort Sutnpter. To use hia on ho:iifly illustiation he wants " to run the machine as he finds it," and is unwilling to tako the responsibility of putting it in that order in which alone it ought to run. On the present occasion, it is in his power to rally around him not onty all tho conservative men in Congres., bnt all the consurvative men in the nation, and to erush tbia atrocinna conspiracy in the bud. Bnt up to thia hour he has done nothing i'i that (Hrection. Nay, worse than that, he is inciined to temporiza with the unscrupulous faotimi which is anderinining his ad mi nisira ti on. The wkole country aA-aited his message wilh breathless ei'spense. Hut the wholo country tiirns uway from t, sick with (iisappointinnnt. It is sileét on the very topic of all others that the nati.m is most anxious to have settled. Mr. Lincoln has had the reputatiop.of being plain and efraightfurward. Buthe has been anythiñg but plain and Btraigbtfo: -ward in hit public messages. No one eculd teil whether his inauguial meant peaco or war. Tho wholo country wrangled over it until the gnns of Fort Sumptor settled that point. In this message ho will not say irhat ought to be done towaids the negroes. Tho oüly point on wbioh lie is explicit is his re-affinnation that the Chicago platform is a law unto hiin. If, instead of favx pas, Mr. Lincoln had said frankly in his message that he preferred a course towards the slaves, such as has been inangurated bv Gen Dix and Gen. Hallcck, there 'would have been no more donbts as to wlure ho itands. That one dechtration would have rallied arojind hirn all ths conservatie men in the natioo. Everv eonservative mem bei of Cougress, toö, would have rallied to his support, and he would havo founj himself at the head f a party in Cougress powerful enough to defy the radiciils to do their worst. He may doso yet. Hè cannot do so now.