Lincoln and the next United States Presidency.
The New York Herald asserts that the nomination and election of A. Lincoln for the next Presidency are the only security for the political; commercial, and financial interests of the North.If that is their only security, the interests aforesaid must be as near destruction as their worst enemies could wish them. He must be a bold man and heavily feed, who, in the face of the present experience of the United States, could make such an assertion. How came "the political, commercial, and financial interests of the North" in such peril that nothing but the re-election of Lincoln to the Presidency can save them? By the election, mal administration, and despotism of the very man whom it is proposed to re-elect, on the theory, we suppose, that a hair of the same dog will cure the bite. No one but Bannett, whose brazen impudence is proof against shame, could attempt to thrust such a monstrous proposition down the throats of a bleeding and bankrupt people.
It can matter little to the South which of these war candidates of the North is to the Presidency, though possibly, from what it knows of Lincoln, it might give him the preference. The Herald itself is witness that the war carried on by his Administration has thus far been a stupendous failure. It may seek to saddle the responsibility on his Cabinet and his Generals; but, if that were true, why does he keep such a Cabinet and such Generals? He has just told the delegation from St. Louis that he does not intend to change either! Clearly, then, he must be himself in competent, unfit for his position, responsible for the conduct of the war, and therefore, of all the Black Republicans, we hope he may be re-elected. We are used to the man and to his ways; we know how to take him and how to take his Generals; we can calculate on what he can do and what he can't do; or, to use an illustration as choice as those his own elegant taste revels in, we have got his exact measure and know how to fit him. After fighting a gorilla for so long a time, we might not be able readily to accommodate ourselves to a man. Moreover, where could we find in an enemy a more efficient ally than Lincoln has proved himself to the South in this war. Pharaoh, in bringing all the curses of Egypt upon his own people, scarcely rendered more valuable service to the Hebrews, than has Lincoln to the South by his unparalleled stupidity, pigheadedness, and ferocity. His own folly and glance have done almost as much for us as own prudence and constancy. He has involved the North in a war which might have been avoided, and has put reconciliation and reconstruction beyond the pale of possibility. He has ruined the trade, commerce and finances of the North, and fastened upon its treasury an insatiate crew of blood suckers, which we do not wish to see shaken off till they have drained the last drop of its exhausted exchequer. All that is necessary to give the United States its finishing blow is the re-election of. A Lincoln to the next President therefore we second the nomination New York Herald.
