Serious Talk About The Presidency

Thero is also considerable talk about je Presidency. It is known thnt Mr. iincoln ii a catididate for re eleetion. t is a pitiable thing tbat we are now to ave a sfcrife of men for a prize to be won yoar and a half henee, butso it is; it cannoí be hclpcd, and nobodj is to blame, - but the ciiüdidates and the politiciaus. Mr. Liucoln's gamo would secin a difficult oe, and likely to be more diffioult; but he has thus far provcd himself to be very powerful ; the Péóple, Congress, Wall streef, the arnjy, all subuiit to hira. He seized Vallandigham and bundles hint over the border, and Ohto democracy dure not wag lts tongue ; a small squad of his soldiers loith maskets breaks itp a democratie convention in Indianapolis, and anoiher squad suppresses the leading eppositüm newspiiper in the Weet. Under the plea of national peril and the pecessity of gaving tho Union, or, as Gerrit Sinith has it, of putting down ihc robcllion, he may pro ceed to severer extremes, and ha ving secured au endorseinent by his own party or bv the loyal league iuto wliicli it is easy ei.o'.mh to introduoo a Trojau horse (il!ed vith office holders, Le may compjel the country to ro elect hiiu, - that is, supposing that they aio uormally uuwiling to do so. I think it fair to presume that it' in November, 18G3, the lebellion is not supprasscd, the people will not be willing to re-eloct the men who have tried forthrflG and half years ip vain to suppress it. It is not in human nature f or a people to tolérate, at least to admire and seek io perpetúale such, administratice skdl as Uiat proces itself. If, on the ofcher hand we have victories Mr. Lincoln runs the immediate risk o meeting with a coiupetitor who may be more powerful tÜan hïmsolf with tbe people and the arny a!so. If he seek to avwid t li is danger by proseribing al men of skUI and euergy, iio runs the risk of tirine the people out more and mor every dy. H8 role is a difficult one, but he ha:; resources. One coiiHidoratioii nut 'yol taken intothe estimütc of chances s the comparativo síreDgth of the iiis and the om's. Id peaceful times and with free eleetioiis, the ciut.s wou'd havo the best of it ; the liistory of eleetioua since 1830 shows this; but it is impossible to say what power maj acoomplish whcu it sets out. .Onething I reekon is certain, viz: that William 1Í. fieward will have a good deal to do with the next cleetion, moro tbí q wilh the last. Ifhe is content tb be Mr. Liñcolu's grèat man four years longer, and it' ?rfr. Lincoln Btanda n chanée to be re ohosen, Mr. Seward wü! take the loyal side ; it the radical?, the anti s'avcvy mei, tho men who are in earnest and mean to suppress the revolt and slave-y with it, n matter what breaks, , the men who wai i i i with the ern improvements, bear sway in tho re;üi counsols, Mr. Soward will give the country to the copperbeads as hegavc New York to Horutio Seymour. lio and bis clique of corrnptioniata are strong enough to pontrol New York and Pennsylvania, f not other States, exoept as againat the President hituself I believe', on tho whole, and aa at presentadvised, tliMt Mr. Lincolü, it' he wants to get ro-clectcd, must look outside of tho republioan party, unlesa he is willing to dispense with the services ut' Mr. Bevvard. Tiiúí, otigh.t to bc the ultimatum of every loyal man, for tlero can be, bumauly speaking, io suecess either in tho work of auppressiug tlierétellion, or in that of reoonstructing the Uniou and Southern society, wbile political utheisrn bears sway in Washington. -c2aft+H ■ J53g Tho Amherst, Lnnsinw and Traverse Buy Kailroad ís being rapid ly griided between Owasso and S;iginaw, and the port Hurón rsiad will bc built to Plint tbis eeason without doubt,