The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-01-19

the splendo9 o our final destiny. Let ~, however,
look q ourselves Is We are. Let 10 march %
wisely, since il is inevitable that we must 60 for
ward II some rate; while the American Navy
may hope some time or other, to be thoroughly
overhauled like IN old man OF war, RACED. cut
down, sharpened, and mounted with long Paixhan
guns, to sail quick, and be everywhere, and throw
an unpreced ented weight Of metal for the number
Of men and the number of guns. Until that time
comes, let take the best that we can have, and
multiply our steam commercial intercourse, under
the control of the government, with every part of
the wor d. No matter how ant may be the
port or how unfTes u n,ed e waters, wherever our
vessels go, keep u EN- in active service, null
tlpy their number, let the mail service by con-
tract, let eRterprlsng men bid for it, give no favor
itlsm, put our rusty naval officers into active COM
mercial service, make it an object for our own cit
zens, born on the soil, and fired with the blood of
our fathers, to mount decks, pull ropes, and
hre our guns; and wherever our steamers 60, let
them carry with them not only The prestige of our
national greatness, but an idea of the electric pro-
gress Of our republic Let these steamers admin
lister substantial and powerful aid and appliances
to our commerce, by carrying freight and passen-
gers to accommodate and help our people; opening
new commercial MISUNDERSTANDING fresher and
pursr light among the nations.
We hope the bill for the new mail steam
ers will pass. We had rather vote twenty
millions year, for such bill as that, than
eight millions 10 keep rotten hulks afoat in
our own harbors Drag out our old commodores,
brush EN- up, send 'em to sea by steam, give 'em
something TO do. In these piping times of peace,
ste amers will stir their blood almost like the shock
Of battle; and If they won't 60, send the captains,
and If the captains will stay at home, send the
lieu.enaats. Work, work, work; the flag of the
Union must wave around the globe. Talk about
Britannia ruling the waves.' This 10 a very
funny country now that it is fenced In.
The COURIER AND ENQUIRER, AND THE SLAVERY
| AGITATION. Courier and Enquirer, of this
city, in its editorials and through its Washington
correspondence, is endeavoring TO creep out of the
position which that journal assumed in relation to
the slavery question, and TO throw the onus of the
whole difficulty on the democratic party. 1t said,
the other day, that the agitation was produced by
a set of demagogues, who cared not what ruin their
course produced, provided they could accomplish
\ their own purposes. This is very true, although
4 we were surprised to see il in the Cotuau. How
ever, it is never too late to repent. We are in
formed that there is more joy over one sinner who
repentetb, than over ninety and nine just persons.
4 That the Courier and Enquirer has erievously
snned in its course the slavery question, no
one who has read that pa. er for the Inst year or
| two, can doubt.
We will, however, be disposed TO question the
sincerity of the CoWisrs repentance, if it INDUCES
as much it has within few days, in mis-
statements. II says, for instance, that spirit Of
disafitction has grown up between the North and
the South, ii is chargeable entirely those trading
demagogues who, while protesting, under the
name of democrats, TO abhor agitation, are secretly
conniyIng for the promotion of both and that the
! abolition party would have died a natural death
/ years ago, but for the industrious efforts of the
locofocos TO keep il alive. Now, the Courier and
/ Enquirer cannot but know that such is not the
case; that if democrats have formed combinations
with the abolinonists, the wings have done the
1 same. Is it not well known fact that VIM. H.
Seward for many years past, has advocated aboli-
ton principles Oft be most violent and ultra charac-
Z ter, when he was Governor of the State of New
! York, as well as since Look a: the course, too,
/ of Thurlow Weed, and that of Horace Greeley
men who have done everything in their power to
back aboilionism and every other destructive lem,
foreign and domestic, that Missionaries and crack
Drained poets could invent. The fact is, that both
parties have truckled to the abolitonists, for the
purpose of getting their votes twas this that gave
the aboLonists the power TO use and control both
the old parties, and, if anything, the wings went
farther than the democrats did in the dirty work.
II the C0oier wishes to back out from the unfortu-
nate policy with which that journal identified,
/ il must do so fairly, and in a straightforward
manner.