The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-06


| in November. Don't stop the sse~mes,
Great Movement In vlsvsAs~-asssss Again
the Crisis Found.
/ 1t has often been remarked iAAs every great
crisis in the history Of nations-every epoch OF
danger to liberty or nationaliy--hss Invariably
found the man destined to meet the crisis and
avert the impending calamity. When Europe
was sunk under the heel of ecclesiastical tyranny
when Rome was domineering it over Emperors
and serfs-men were found fitted for the time.
Luther sprang up in Germany, Calvin in France,
Huss in Bohemia, and Knox in England; and by
their efforts Europe was saved from the crushing
power of an intolerant church. Later on in the
history of the mother country, Cromwell appear
ed the scene Of action, crushed out the effemi-
nate sway Of the Stuarts and directed the country
in the way Of constitutional liberty. In the great
crisis of the old revolution in France, when So
ciety was disorganized and old systems shattered
to atoms the current of popular opinion was
! guided by Mirabeau, Marat, and the other promi-
nent leaders who sprung up, born as it were for
| the exigency of the time; and when that revolu-
ton was being urged beyond its proper limits
when the guillotine was drinking up the blood Of
the best and purest of France-then, too, did that
greatest Of all the soldiers Of fortune, Napoleon
Bonaparte, enter upon the scene, still the raging
Of the popular storm, and give to France firm
and enlightened government, combined though it
was with the reign of glory. So, too, in our own
country. When our struggle for independence
began, the men peculiarly fitted for the
occasion were found. Washington, Jefferson
and Franklin were called into being and
| guided the contest to glorious ISSUE
Later in our history, and down to the pre-
sent epoch, we find evidences Of the same pro-
vidential interference. In every great popular
contest great spirits peculiarly fitted for the oc-
casion appear to rule the hour
To ride the whirwind and direct tho storm
to save the country, or to sink it in perdition.
In the present political contest which is rock
ing society to its basis, we find that the rule
holds COED. For the last few months, since it
States that Colonel Fremont, the republican can
didate for the Presidency, was becoming SO popu-
lar that his election was next to certainty, most
if not all Of their rabd political leaders have
been chafng and frothing, indulging in bitter
denunciations of everything and everybody that
was not on their side, preaching treason and
dissolution, and threatening to drive out of the
pendence enough, and common sense enough, to
speak in favor of free suffrage, free speech, and
free press, or who ventured to support any other
candidate for the Presidency than the one whom
they themselves sanctioned. To such an extreme
did the spirit of insoent intolerance go, that be-
cause Mr. John Minor Bolts, sensible politician
of Virginia, undertook, some five of six weeks
ago, to make sound, patriotic speech to the
citizens Of Richmond, the sentiments of which
happened not to tally exactly with those enter
tanned by the Governor of the State that belli-
quious official appeared some time after in a
political meeting, fretted and fumed, ranted and
swore, and menaced the offending Bolts with
arrest and indictment for treason.
But everything comes in good time. The petu-
liant Wise has found his match-and more than
his match-in this same John Minor Bolts, whom
he would have had the Mayor Of Richmond seize,
and the Grand Jury Of Richmond indict for treason
to the Old Commonwealth. Mr.. Bolts proves
himself to be just the man for this crisis in the
South. We have always believed and stated that
there is vast majority Of the Southern people
shareholders as well as non-slaveholders If
they had chance of expressing their sentiments
would dissent from, disavow and utterly repu-
diate all sympathy and connection with the trca
sonable and atrocious doctrines put forward by
all the leaders Of the Buchanan democracy in
that region during the last few months We think
that Brooks and Keitt, and Floyd and Wise
would find themselves in miserable minority If
the people of the South had an opportunity of
expressing their real sentiments. We have al
ways thought 30; for every now and then still
small voice would make itself heard telling us
that there was q great deal more In public OPT
Mon in the South than made itself manifest In the
raying illusions Of It's spokesman. AT last, how
ever, an able and fearless mana yirginian by
birth and Residences Southern man by educa-
ton and principles STAKEHOLDER himself-has
boldly entered the lists hurled defiance at Wise
and oil the dsunionists Of the South, and de-
nounced them, on their own ground, at their own
freside and in their very teeth as traitors to the
Union and TO the South.
The speech which Mr.. Bolts delivered recently
In the city of Petersburg, the invitation of the
Executive Committee Of the American party, and
which we publish today, Is the first great and
effectual blow hurled at those who have impro
perly assumed the championship of the South.
Mr.. Bolts Is perfect Cnur de Lion In the lists.
Nothing can Withstand the furious impetuosity Of
his charge. Nought but retreat to his oyster
beds can save poor Quattlebum Wise from ami
hilation. Bolts assails him with his own wea-
pous, brands him with the epithets Of mailman
and traitor accuses him with perverting the
popular sentiment, hurls scathng invective upon
| him. and ends by calling him a miserable cur.