The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-03

InllauelpAla. III tney IRu 70 meet the neCcS5I-
ties Of the time, they have only to stand aside
and let the democractic party come forward
and walk over the course.
A Few WORDS WITH Mr. THOMAS McELRATH.
1t is wholly impossible that people can go on
from day to day propagating infamous doc
trines, undermining religion, and stirring up
discord between the various sections of the
country, without some notice being taken of
the course they pursue. Every man of us here
has tangible appreciable interest in the con-
tinuance Of good government, in the mainte-
nance Of religion, in the stability of the Union.
To attack any of these is to attack each citizen
individually; their injury is his injury; when
they are brought into contempt, he cannot be
respected; if they fall, he falls with them. h
who attacks them, in fact, is nothing less than
Q common enemy.
Such an enemy is Mr.. Thomas McElrath, the
only resident proprietor and publisher Of the
Tribune newspaper; likewise, President Of the
Nassau Bank, and bright light Of the Methodist
Church North.
One is wholly at loss to perceive what pur-
ing the course Of the Tribune in channel so
plainly detrimental to the interests of the coun-
try; or how he can reconcile it to his conscience
as o Methodist, as citizen, or as banker.
The fomenting of civil discord is surely not q
doctrine Of the Methodist Church North.
The staid and respectable members Of that
church are, we are convinced, as solicit
H. 30 Hc~
peace and prosperity Of the country. They
have read their Bible too faithfully to be un-
aware that he who endeavors to set his neigh
bors by the ears, and light the torch of civil
war in his country is as grave an offender
against religion as against society. How can
Mr.. Thomas McElrath take his seat among
these men and join them in their common
devotions when the whole energies of the
newspaper he controls are directed to o
work which their belief stamps as sinful
and reprehensible in the highest degree?
How can he mix with his fellow citizens,
when all his apparent labor is devoted to the
destruction Of their national peace, and the
overthrow Of that association on which their
prosperity depends? Nineteenth of the lead
ing men of New York are connected in some
way or other with the Southwest and South.
Some are themselves owners Of property in
these sections of the country. Others have
friends and relatives who are Others do bust
ness with Southern men. The well being of all
depends in some measure on that of the whole
country, including the South. How can Mr.,
Thomas McErath look these men in the face,
when, if the aims of his journal were accom-
plished, or If it had sufficient influence to carry
them even partly into practical action, the
South and Southwest would be irreparably in
jured, and all connected with it would suffer
in proportion?
But if so singular course as that Of the
leading proprietor of the Tribune is singular
in citizen and Christian, it is a far mose
puzzling riddle in banker. OF all the inst-
tutions of civilized society, banks are the most
sensitive to political disasters or narrow legis-
lation. If any legislative measure Injuries a
country it is the banks who feel it first. For
their welfare is founded on the public credit,
confidence, and general good will among the
people Yet here is banker the president of
a bank, who devotes the whole force of the
newspaper he owns to the enactment of q law
which is calculated to ruin one of the most i'm.
portant branches of trade in the State, and to
effect depreciation of from ten to fifteen per
cent on all city property. The same man de-
votes the same power to severing the bond OF
fraternal union between the North and the
Souths to the consummation of q political re-
volution which would inevitably aunihilate the
trade and business of New York Do the share
holders of the Nassau Bank ever reflect on
these things? Do they never think that the
very power they entrust to Mr.. Thomas Nc
Elrath for their common benefit may be actual
)y employed in endeavouring to promote mea-
suTes which are sure to invoke their injury and
the ruin of the bank?
Tolerance is good; it is excellent; Mr.. Nc
Elrath has right to his opinions. But when
man frankly tells us II is his conviction that
we ought to be ruined instead OF prosperous,
fighting instead of working, the least we can do
is not to help him to carry such convictions
into, effect All the New York hotels, the
Astor House, Metropolitan, &c, &C., have been
great friends Of McElrath and his corps Of de.
structives, giving them champagne and oysters
in any abundance. How do the hotels like the
socialists now?
EvAmyITrou AT Wrcr parxvr TIE o-...-