How To Unite The North

From tlw National Intc'.ügc. ie r. VV Leu tbu New York oluction campaign was in progresa, the administratie party attacked tlie caudMate of the couervutivo party wi h tho ino.-t vindictive feroeit}', and by tho cour e they pursued í embittered thu hostility existing butween t'iu luembers of tlie two parties. After : thu eleotioQ was over, a calui survey of tha fitld of their defeat convinoed them tbnt thia waa au errer, and llio able, [ riotio, ar.d trul' eoascrratívu couríc purHud by Governor Bcjuioar sioce bis , c'eclio.'i ai;d inaugnration bas ', y justified the eutugium pronouuoed on Liai a few days siuoo by Gon. Curcornn. hiniiodiattly at'ter that election, and the pubhshed resulta of the campa ign in Nsw York Bbd the Wet, wc beSoaght tiie frienda of the adruióistratron to take into ooncideration the iniportauco of uuiting the North in the support cf the constitucional baad of the executivc departmeüt of the govemment, and we urged the iieeossity of presouting to the world to the reoel'.iya at home and to fordign Povti-8, the aspect of na adimuistrition vvhich represen ted tLewillofi 'the'peopie. Ollior influences prevailed The leaders of t!i} radical party urged ou tho administratton that the election resulta wero hut aocidental and tempora ry ; that tho pcople wei-e but dissatisñd with !he want of military success; that the poücy of tho admmistration party liad uotlimg to do with the voteg of the country against tho partv ; in short, that the coüservative innjorities ónglvt tu bi; áieregardcd and igfiored. Tüey wero accordingly disregarded and igriored. No aUempt was wade to place the administraron in accord with them. No eífúrt was mado to unite them iu support of tliu adiBTuistration In efloct tho people were told that the radical policy was adopted, and tliat tho adminiatration askcd oüly tho support of those who wero willirg to support that polioy, while sorae adininistration mc:i sou;;ht to epread tho doctrino that to oppose that policy was treason, and all who opposed it were tr:itors. The rosul t upon the popular mind has been what miglit hare been ahticip'ated. Standing as we do in au iridependeut position, attaehed to no party, w are able to vvatch with clearness tlie effect of passing eveuts on the public uihid. The divisiou between the supporters of the ridical policy and its opponents has become widor than ever, and with vast masses of the people it has led to a radical opposition to the adiniuistration. As we reinarked y.esterday, the " leaders " havo no control over tlie peopla It is no pirty leaders, with echerniug heada, and shrewd eves to success, that now direct popular raectinga and couventions. But the people drives expresa their own views, and go all the lengths that their pent-up feeltDgg, whea at last breaking out, eau earrj them. Tho result is visible in the exeited tato of the public mind in the Northwest, and in New England tself, where the breach between the admiaistratioo party and the opposition ia hopeless. But wbat is to be tho result of this? Radical pressas like tho Tribuno infurra their readers that unluss the demócrata ohange their course the war must stop and dishonor and disgraee follow. But niay it not be true also that a chango of course by tliein and their party niight avert the catastrophe ? That we know is hopeless. Ynt we do not boliove that the eause of ihe Union is lost because nerabors of tho opposition party have boconie o violent. The golden moment has indeed passed, bat thero s time yet. If the administration had, on the regult ot the last fall elections, aceepted the voica of the people as then indica'ed, and placed itself at once in a position to represent that voioo, we should have been now in the attitude of prosonMng to tho rabellion a united front of the cutiré Northern pcople, oflfering with on o hand tho Qustaiued constitution of our father, to ba their law and ours, and with the other hand th sword of justiee, to exact obeJienw. The fow radicáis vvho would hivo hold back for wani of an antilavery policy would have been insignifio.uit. Tho vast mnjority of the republionu par y suaíained the abolition polioy only beciusa tha ad ninistration had adopted it, afid would have rejeeted it iustantly and joyfully when the adminis tration abmdoned it Tho tnia course, then, was to havo united all the North, exeept tlie smill squad of original radical abolía niists, in a rhjid constitutional policy. This oould have been done them. Is it too late now ? We submit tho question seriously to the friends and advisers of the adininistration. There is uo possibili;y of contealing the growth of the anti-war ff;e!i:ii;. It grows because tha adminwtra'ion rejectad the voioe of the conservativa misses, rcfusod their oounsuls, and lei t them to their aolemn conviction that t!ia courge of the adininistration would ruin tha nation. They aro coníirmeil in that convietion by tho words of such dtstinguishcd frionds of the administration as Mr. Weed. They eaw in tho proseen! ion of tho war on this policy only uational dostruction Whnt was the natural course of their minds ? Why, neoessarily thoy thought thnt thoy must go against the war. And wbat th:n ? Thoy have not askod theinselve?. The niind of the people is in a cliaotio tato. They htive no unite sensible or practical idea of how to stop the war. or what to do to stop it without loting h:u-acter and oxistonce, or w!.-at to do with the country wheu it iñ stopped. No plan for stopping the war has been suggestpd ('he Tribune uiediution idea alone exoeptud.) Ctiiaot the a'Lninistration understnnd tlies.; traths ao usto profit by them? The co:iservat:ve masscs of llio peoplo are without leaders qow. Wisdom at Washington iniglit gatlier these furoes torrether by a sudden, patriotio, tioble effort, and tho North stand unitod for the Union. For thÍ3 a to bo reniarked, that wit'.i all the t;lk abiut peace and au end of the war, with all the anxiety expreseed to close tho eontest, the democratie sud otisorvative masses of ihe peoplo are not for pese and dúunion. Tliere are vorioOï possibilitiea in the future. - DarkflÖSS overhang it. The radical poli cy will dcütroy the country as it has des troycd tho uuity of thu pcopJe already. Any patchcJ up policy ia hopcless of good. Nothing promises safety to the coustitution, to proporty, families, home, to natioüal existence, except aD inetanfiaecii1? ehn'jc in sdmiuistration policj, ' and the a dop ti an of tho sti-ict letter of the otjiistitiKiua as tho guide throult war to pc.ico.