The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-23


solution. Already are they sounding the note
to snbron the country once more in
intestine feuds, and their future viii DO only .
Of the past. What il their history
during the last few yearsa
Tho TSibxxe has led the van Of the abolition
press, and, by holding out false lights, has Jared
many frail bark to destruction upon the ro.ks It
has disorgsnized and destroyed is own party.
By encouraging evory ism, and "every wind
Of doctrine" it broke the wings into numerous
scots and Fragments, and when il wanted to
combine them in favor Of Scott it miseraby
failed. The fressoilers, the liberty. men, the
sgraIians, the anti renters, the Maine Liquor law
fanatics, all kicked against him. traitor to their
principles and to his own convictions, while large
number Of the Union wings refused to sail in the
same boat with the organ of abotionism and social
Ism, and were thus scared from the supper. of the
candidate who, by the intrigues Of that Nephis-
tophiles, William H. Seward, and his tools, obtained
the nomination of the Wing National Convention At
Baltimore, and who had the misfortune to be- sup
ported by journals that openly advocated the viola
ton Of the Fugitive Slave law, trampled upon all
the compromise measures, and "execrated and spst
upon" the very platform upon which General Scot.
was nominated, and upon which no took his stand
The whig candidate was, therefore. "killed" BY
the advocacy Of the IYibu~e, just as the whig
party had been destroyed by its teachings. To
complete the work o! destruction, that journal
daily uttered against General Pierce, tho demo-
cratic candidate, the foulest calumnies- charging
him with drunkenness, eowardise, and reli-
gious intolerance, and blackening his character
with all the filth that malignant ingenuity could
rake from the gutter. Nor was this desperate VIC
lsnce enough. The sanctity Of private life was
violated, and even ladies were dragged before the
public and stories we're arfuly conoocted in which
tlnth was mingled with fslsehood and threads of
ssndor woven into web Of wiles," in order to give
plausibility to the fabricatons Of bafled malice.
The result was that every high. minded, honorable
man in the community was disgustsd and the effects
produced were the very reverse Of what was calcu-
lated-ruin to the wings, ruin to the whig candi-
date, and ruin to the short-sighted journalist him
SELF who at last in his frenzy, cursed the ship and
all her crew as they sank together in the waves.
The course Of the silly, namby pamby Tunes, was
just reckless and unprineipled, though it lacked
vigor and opportunity to do the same amount of
mischief a. the Tribune. In the Kossuth inter.
vention movement it bore conspicuous part, and
lampooned the officers Of the navy because they
did not lend their countsnauce to the antics of the
Hungarian leader, who attempted to embroil this
country in war with three of the great powers of
Europe together, and Heaven knows how many of
the smaller fry. Both journals led thousands
astray, and assisted to get up revolutionary fund
y bieh was to supply the snews'' to dsnolish
On the Captain Bobadil plan, the governments of
Austria, Russia and France, at one fell swoop. and
to give republican freedom to Hungary, Italy, Ger
many and all the nations of the world. The
shining bubble, which dazzled for moment.
burst ~ we predicted, and vanished into thin mir.
but not till many of citizens Of all sexes, ares
and conditions, were humbugged and deceived by it.
The Times, ~ well a. the Tribune INDUCED in tho
lowest abuse sgainst General Pierce, but wound.
ing only itself and its party, like FIVE dollar Biz
ningham gun, which bursts in the hands OF the sim
pleton who msditates terrible destruction upon the
game, but only kills himself and the friends who
we're foolish enough to accompany him. Both the
Tribune ard Times, from poverty of invention, re-.
'eatsd again and again the odious ISLANDERS as
'ften as they were fepelled. Both
Shot their bolts away
I'LL their exhausted Quivers yielding none,
They glean'd the shafts that had recon'd
The IImes, like the Tribune when the ship was
,ong down, got into small boat, and Immediately
snde mned the gallant vessel az unseaworthy, which
lis pilotage helped to drive upon an iren- bound
eeshore but the presumptuous helmsman and his
sckboat have shared the same shipwreck with
hose who trusted in him.
The EVe~i~g Post, on the other side, followed
he example Of the whig party journals, and
ssailed the character of General Scott in the most
Inscriptions and ferocious manner Fortunately
or the party whose cause it affected to espouye it
lad little circulation and less power, and being
ounteracted by more potent influences, it effected
but little harm to its party in the
ate election. From its former treschery it YVES
lot trusted, and, therefore, could not betray. But
a its will for evil it has never been behind any
Their journal in this country. In sedition, and
reason, and its tendency to break up the Union,
nd involve the country in civil war, It has ever
een in the front rank of the domestic foes Of the
ountry and its institutions.
All these journals, as We have sad are dangerous
o the nation and to society; and, by continually
eeping up agitation and strife, are diverting the
eople from the pursuits of industry, and retardng
he growth and prosperity of the country, while, at
he same time, their writings tend to demoralizs
he people, and to bring about political convul.
ion which would shake this Union from its centre
the two oceans, and lay in ruins the fairest and
most glorious political fabric ever devised by human
agacity, or ever reared by human hands. The
make is scotched, not killed. The anti slavery sem
iment is at work, and Is active as ever. "Uncle
TOMS Cabin" is more widely diffused than any book
hat ever preceded it. The seed sewn by its teach
Dgs viii produce fruit in due season. We have no
oubt that In the campaign Of 1856 the issue will be
resented more directly between treason and patriot
sm than it has been in 1852. The battle Of the
compromises Of 1850 must be fought over again
he struggle will be thus: the freeseiers and abo-
tionsts, who now cling to the skirts Of the demo.
ratio party for sake Of the spoils, the freesoilers
nd abolitionists who chung to the late whig party
rom the same motive, and all the rag-tag and bob
Gil Of the outside sssts Of abeltionists and Other
sts will be consolidated into ona nh undar thu