Springfield Weekly Republican

Popularity of The President.

In New York, the other night, after Wendell Phillips had displayed his 'unconditional loyalty' for an hour in saying all he could to make the president of the United States appear mean and ridiculous, and had ended by expressing his preference for Butler or Fremont for the next president, and Horace Greeley had followed with the nomination of Mr. Chase, the crowd that filled Cooper Institute responded to both with three stirring cheers for president Lincoln. The same thing has since occurred at a meeting in Boston called by the radical anti-slavery people. It is so everywhere. What may occur to change the drift of public opinion in the next ten months, it is impossible to say. But there is no mistaking that drift now. If the election should occur to-day, Mr. Lincoln would be re-elected without any opposition worth counting. The people hold him to be honest in intention and in act, sound and reliable, and as fast as it is safe to be. They see that the general direction of public affairs is about right, in spite of all mistakes, and they do not believe anything is to be gained now by experimenting with changes of policy. This is the way the matter now stands in the popular mind, and popular opinion is confirmed rather than shaken by the efforts of the uneasy spirits who are never so uncomfortable as when things go right.