Wise. Conservative, and benignant Adis President Lincoln--the War to be closed in 90 days.
The New York Herold, of the 30th, has a characteristic article, which may be so into sarcasm that we are almost in to think that there is a substratum of ‘"rebel"’ in establishment. It says the Abolition who have heretofore urged an active and war, are beginning to advocate a defensive for several months to come, so that when resume offensive operations their fleets and may be seconded by a general uprising of in the rebellious States, in response to the resident's decree that, though recognized by him slaves till the 4th of January next, they shall be thenceforward, and forever, free ‘" It says: The argument, at this time, for standing on the tensive"’ broadly discloses the arms and objects our abolition disorganizes. They aim to the war, that they may still fatten upon the and plunder of the Government; and in the that the war, in being actively suspended , may, from and after the 1st of January, to be a war for the Union, and become an abortus crusade. Their ultimatum in emancipation or separation — the conquest of the South the fashion of William of Normandy, or two in federates. These abolition Marplots have nothing or desire to restore ‘"the Union as it was."’--would deprive them of their present political war, and their political hopes of the future.--their programme is to overthrow ‘"the Union as it as,"’ to destroy our rebellions Southern States. and to reduce them to the condition of Territories to recognize a Southern Confederacy, in craer out off the political elements of the South in a construction of our political parties.From this pernicious programme of our abolition destructive we turn to the wise, conservative, and benignant aims and purposes of President Lincoln. the object of his late proclamation is not to destroy, but to save the South; not to abolish Southern favor by the sword, but to induce our revolted rates to preserve their domestic institutions by a return to the ark of the Union. We feel entirely that President Lincoln, from a vigorous prosecution of the war, anticipates within the ten ninety days such decisive work with the carries of this rebellion that there will be no necessity or the enforcement of this emancipation decree.--This too is so manifestly the tear of our abolition action that there can be no difficulty to genuine in a men to comprehending that their policy is the most of the war, and with the least possible delay in any quarter.
in Virginia in Kentucky, and in Missouri, the the rebellion are now so situated that all the advances the in our favor for active operators against them. We have the men, the means, and the facilities at hand, whereby we may make work of the rebellion, note only in Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, but in North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, within the next sixty lane. Let this be done, and the approach of winter will find our armies advanced southward late the cotton States, where winter is the most favorable reason for military operations, and where our land foresee can be assisted by our gunboats far into the interior of every seaboard State, from South Carolina to Texas. But with our armies along the northern frontier of these States, and with our meets in occupation of their seaboard towns, the rebellion will be ended in a general capitulation, and the Union and the South will be saved, including this vital institution to the cotton States, as they are situated, of their system of African slavery.
On the other hand, let the snows and rains and impassible border State roads of winter still find our armies in Northern Virginia, and in Kentucky, and Missouri, and they will be apt to remain there April or May, wasting away from disease and , while the rebel armies are subsisting upon the supplies of said States, without which they can not be subsisted through the winter. Thus, with the return of spring, our depleted regiments, old and new, will need another draft, and we shall have before us another year of war, with its increased its finished productions, and its doubtful But all these deplorable contingencies may, and we hope will, be avoided by the active present on of the war, now and without intermission, during these next two favorable months for military operations in our border slave States.
Such are the considerations upon which we urge the immediate adoption of offensive operations against the enemy East and West. It is so clearly the policy, and as we believe, the purpose of President Lincoln, that we cannot doubt his decision.-- We rely upon him to bring this war substantially to on end before the 1st of January. In any event we rely upon such inches-as to our arms as will, if recursed to avoid an abolition crusade, lead our patriotic President to the extension of his term of grace on the slavery question to those States which may still be unreclaimed from the rebellion. His decree of emancipation is a mere military act, which he may amend, extend, or revoke, at his discretion.
The season, the advanced and exposed positions of the enemy, our superiority in men, means, and facilities of all kinds, the expectations of the army and the country, and the necessities of our cause — the Union--combine to urge upon our house: President a prompt, earnest, and resolute advance upon the rebel armies, East and West.
