The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-11-19

Influence or the New York herald Through
out the Worid-Opanions OF tine Mnyifsh
and American Pross.
from tbs Nsu YORK Courier and Enquirer Nov. l8
FANEUIL HALL rRUK TO AMERICAN FEELING.
Nothing can he clearer than the right of American
citizens, on all occasions, 20 assemble aud express
their opinoss upon public qaest'o9s, without inter
ference from any other portion of the people. But
this is a right which belongs solely to Americans
Foreigners and the agents Of foreign governments
possess such right; and, consequently, when,
some twelv- years since, Mr.. George Thompson,
an Englishman, and subject of Great Britain, ven
tured to come among US, TO sgiiate upon the sub
ject of slavery, we did not hesitate to advise
peope-no matter how great their adherence of
slaver-to drive him from every public meeting in
which he might have the impudence to thrust him.
self The advice was followed in more instances
than one; and the worthless agent Of those VINO
seek TO destroy our glorious Union was compelled
to sbandon his unholy work.
Years have elapsed since that period. The came
George Thompson has become me mber of the
British Parliament The United States of America
have increased in power and influence, and ex-
cited alike the admiration and the envy of the
world England, especially. looks upon our in
ereaspg wealth and strength with jealous eve.
Our widely extended commerce meets and di-
minishes hers upon every sea; our growing manu-
features successfully contend with those OF her own
looms in some of the most extensive markets of the
werld; and our maritime strength plainly ad-
monishes her that she is no longer the mistress of
W
we have disease within. The casker worm which
English cupdty planted-the accursed slave
trade which enriched the island OF England,
and to which her greatest proudest and best, even
at this day, owe all their wealth and position
left in midst a which threatens to destroy
the whole body, and the control of which has de-
manded all the iorbearancc and patriotism Of our
wisest and purest statesmen during three-qua
of q century. England perceives with satisfaction
that while we could and did throw OIL her authori-
ty, we couldnot rid ourselves of the curse Of human
slavery, which, for the love OF gold, she had plant
ed in our midst and il is the boast of her press
that have the seeds of death in very vitals-
that the curse of slavery, which English cupidity
planted in world, and which is blot upon her
on, and not stain upon ours WILL sooner or
later, be the cause of our dissolution a united
people, and the creation of dozen petty States upon
its ruin. Their game has been, and is, to foment
dissentions among the States-to arouse the North
against the South and the South against the North
and thus accomplish by intrigue what she, with
the whole civilized world at her back, cannot do
by force of arms-annihilate our glorious Union.
With this view, for years past, England has sent
into our Northern States unprincpled agents,
whose business it was to address them selves TO the
fanaticism of the age, and to preach a crusade
against slavery; while at the Same moment, her
equally unpriDciped agents are traversing our
Southern States, boldly and openly preaching dis
union, aud pretending to point out The benefits to
accrue to the South from secession and seperate
treaties, and free trade with England.
II is POT our purpose to lind fault with the jealousy
of Engl ind, with her desire to the seeds of
discOrd among us. According to the selfish dplo-
macy OF nations, these things are tolerated if not
UNSUITABLE; and whether justihable or not, the
strong will ever resor to them when they do not
fear re buke. She is now the first power upon the
face of the globe and such she desires TO remain.
Yet she cannot shut her eyes to the fact, that in
another half century, this republic, should we
continue a united people, must inevitably be-
come what England now liz, and give laws to
the civilized world. This is fact as susceptible
of demonstration as the simplest problem in
Eucld-the handwTlting upon the wall is too
legible 10 admit OF questIon-snd the English
statesman must change his nature and the English
press its character, when they cease 10 ali the
means in their power 10 accomplish the desruc-
ton of that Union which, IL IL continue, must n-
evitably render England Sc cond rate power. We
should not be surprised, therefore, when we daily
perceive a press like the Herald, edited and con-
trolled by Of her subjects, daily agtaring the
question of slavery and predicting dsuoion and that
agitation and those predictions transferred TO the
colu inns Of The London Times. For period Of
twelve years. ever since the editor Of the HTah
visited London in ls:,S-the Times has quoted from
its columns the leading American press and
the reader need not be told that those columns have
ever eemed with just such articles as, transferred
the Times would necessarily poison the whole pub
lie mind Of Europe against our people aud our in-
stiiutions. NO species OF abuse upon our iastitu-
titns, our public men, our social relations, and our
private habits, has ever appeared in the Herald
throughout Europe; and the reader need not be
told, that NO public man, no party, no class Of
society, and no individual of any prominence, has
escaped the scurrility for which the Rerah is
notorious, and for which the TIMES IL ever on the
loo out, if not advised in advance. OF the extent
Of this systematic abuse and its immediate trans
fer 70 the columns OF the Times, even those
who daily read the Herald are scarcely
aware until they pause and reflect upon the past.
But when they do reflect, aud put 20 themselves
the quesiion-what public or prominent private
man has escaped this abuse What party has no,
had il showered upon themi What class Of our
soretv tfpru the clrrpv dawn. laa besn 2
What public institution has been unassailed
What bank, railroad, canal, moneved institution,
passsd unscathed l-they cannot but stand dghast
at the extent Of the injury which that press has
done us in Europe. Through the Tints, the
Reraid's habitual abuse OF our country, and its
ridcue OF every thing American, and all classes of
Amencan society, are familiar TO every intelligent
man in Europej and in VAN do the representatives
Of our country, aud our patriotic countDmeD re-
monstra,e against being thus judged. The answer
is for they are 20 told by the Times for it's own
quote from the Nsn York Ueyaid, and the Tio,es
assures Us II Is your leading new sp3per"
How TAR this systematic abuse OF our country has
been The result Of an arrangement with the Tnes
ia lsS, we leave Others to determine; but certain
il is. that since the visit OF the dor Of the Hrdh
10 London in that year, the Times has never failed
To lind in its columns the identical class of articles
upon our moneyed institutions, our 'cople. aud our
government, which IL desired, and which II would
have written Itself for our injury in Europe, Il
had not been already manufactured for il by the
foreigner who evdt Htly sought our shores with no
other object than TO Islander aud drltme us
But while The Herald only irjaTed US IN Europe,
We could submit I'D comparative silence. Mol 50,
however, when il is directly, bot surrep,todsly,
aiming blow at the Union itself. And such ~ lie
posirion-such its daily avoc alton at this moment.
Al good men, Of eli psrt,es-all friends Of the
Union Of the Statesunite in deprecating agitation
The Berold prticnds to JOIN IN this cry and Yet,
day after day, and week after week, II II sending
forth the cry Of dsuuion and originating aud Great
pg agitation upon the slavery question. Not less
than oDe-ihird Of its editorial columns are daily
devoted 10 this infamous work and whoever has
watched its course as We have, cannot doubt hit
this it " carry ing out it, werk OF enmy To INC
Unioa. Not the 1tsies itself, nor the combncd
press Of England, does tythe ut VIII II the Hcroid
daily acct mplishes in this way; and we do not for
moment doubt but It's labors are prompted by
those who have the deepest stake in our disuniou
But we have he.n led asray from following the
course Of Mr. George Thompson, in THIS glance at
the Hrold. Oar apology, however, is 10 be found
IN the fact that Thompson and The Herald are
WOfktpU in he tuf hut diileTen modes,