The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-27

The plot thickens. Outrage Degets outrage,
and every bathurst Of rage oG one side leads to
corresponding outburs.s on the Other Ii the
country were actually plunged in civil war the
sar guage Of the party press could not be more
violent, more incendiary, more subvers;ve Of
all law, order, gcol government aud common
sense. Yesterday the New York Daily Tines
cYerfowed with rage al the " rufiaus," the ss,-
wages" who had resolved " IN their vindi,tive
hatred to /" slaughter" the men Of Lawrence.
The senior colaborer of the Tines, the Nav
York Tribune, is still more violent It positi e
ly cures the ''myrnidops OF border ruffisnisri,"
the villain assailants," whose rumored attack
on the city OF Lawrence Web " ore of the most
execrsole crimes recorded in history" and
whose I" gigantic wickedness' caused air this
devastation and butchery :" it characterizss
Sou-herners as base and orutal" /" feroc:ocs
blscBguards," given to cowsrdly malignant
and atrocious conduct" ana inevitably prone
to atrocities and eutrages - and it considers
shat Go man can be their friend unless he De
wiling to "skuik, to prevaricate and to lie"
Nor are the organs Of the niger drivers one
whit behind those Of the niger wolshippeis ia
violence, blood;hirstness and rage. The Rich
nond Hhig is "rejoiced" at the savage rs
FAULT of Brooks on Sumner; talks Of his
"slGuderous back" and hopes that the
bal q. e. personal outraged may be kept
In motion, and that Seward and Others
may catch it next The Richmond
Examiaa-once moderate able journal
IF - hat Hu-ta al fn.
ardIy vituperation, he falls to the floor Al In
animate lump Of iucarnate cowardice." Such
ere TIE lengths of folly and nonsense ana rsok-
less violence which the party journals OF mi.
country have reached.
The leaders ere not behind the papers.
Their language, their tone, their plans, ore %
wild and senseless ss the articles we have
quoted. They are prepared TO go as fer as the
most Iabid editor Nor is there any difference
arising from locality. At Richmond and at
Boston, at Charleston as at New York, the
spirit of the politicians is the same. They are
aU, everywhere, for fighting, and violence, and
destruction and bloodshed. II they cannot be
mu2zled ard got out Of the waS, we eha'' all
be cutting each others throats before q
igelyeinonth, BECAUSE we cannot agree about
he best way Of treating our negroes.
Is tbis the wind-up Of the republic from
which America, from which Anglo Sayons,
from which humanity and the world expected
80 much? Have we lived eighty ysars-the
only tree republic on the globe-fought our
way, in spite Of hostility from all Europe, and
organic difficulties Of our own, to . petition
rot second 10 any living Power, in order that
row we may give monarchists the satisfa ,tion of
seeing us combine TO commit suicide. Have the
principles OF Jefferson and the maxims Of Wash
inston, aid the teachings Of the fathers and
the preachings of the clergy brought forth 50
little fruit that we are going to war now, in
our eigbtietb year, for az trivial q matter az
any that ever served a caprisicus prince as the
pretext Of a war in Europe Or Asia?
There isr hyperbole in these inquiries: they
are earnest, simple. natural; they Issue, spon-
taneousIy, from tbe heart Of every man wbo
has seen this country grow from the condition
OF weak, half fl.dged independency to taat
Of one Of The greatest empires in the world /;
who has watched cur tr Lde swell year after
year, until now we feed aud clothe half the
human race, and our Injuries give employ
ment TO a large part of two great nations;
who has seen our ships increase year after
year, until now there u not O sea that does not
reflect back our flag, or wind that does not
swell American canvass; who has felt, in En-