The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-21

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| Webster might say hereafter that from The mo-
nen' when John Brown swung between heaven
and earth might be dated the beginning of the
end OF American slavery and the disruption oi
the American | MON.
Thus is Tie parallel rendered complete The
frs, Revolution began in the death or Crispus
Attacks, the colored man. The second will be-
gin in the death Of John Brown. The Grst was
saneuinary struggle for seven long years
the second il TO be- OF the same character
taking its hue and complexion from the events
at Hnrpers Ferry, and according to Rev. Mr..
Wheeiock. inaugurating the s'new era Of the
antislavery cause" in which ''to moral agit,.-
ton will be added physical, to argument action;
for other devoted men will follow in the wake
of John Brown, and carry on to It's full results
the work he has begun" It u the logic OF
bay onets and rifles and pixies that is hence
forth to convince the shareholders Of the South.
This, says Mr.. Andrew, Ia "the eternal and
heaven sustained nature of the sirrepressible
conflict" The same gentleman invokes 1.-THE
holy memories" of the Old South Church, and
then turns to "the battle ground Of Concord"
Ralph Waldo Emerson follows up these
revolutionary parallels by tracing the genealo-
gy CT John Brown back to one Of the Pilgrims
in the May flower, and showing that his grand
father was u Revolutionary captain, and tour
Captain Brown" said Mr.. Emerson, "is happily
Il representative of the American republic. He
did not believe in moral suasion, but in putting
things through" No doubt in the next edition
of Emerson's Representative Men" the name
of John Brown will have most conspicuous
place. what favorite will he be in history"
continues this abolition leader. Nothing can
resist it. No man dare believe that there ex-
lists in Virginia another man as worthy to
live, as deserving Of public and private
hOnOrs." The extremists in the French Re-
volntion set up naked courtezan for
public worship as "the goddess of liberty,
The orators of the second American revolution
purpose the apotheosis of John Brown, after he
dies the death of a murderer on the gallo ws--a
man of whom a leading journalist Of his own
party in Kansas has admitted that he took five
respectable men, heads of families, out of their
dered them in cold blood. This, no doubt
Garrison, Rev. Messrs. Manning and Neal, and
the rest, would call "doing God service;" and
the brigand and assassin, stained with the blood
Of his fellOw-men, will be worshipped after
death. His gailows will be the emblem and
symbol Of niger redemption, and bits of the
rope with which he will be hanged will be
sold at enormous prices and be venerated
like pieces of the true cross" He will be
regarded rs a second Saviour. whose sacrifcial
blood has ransomed the black race. His words
and acts will become new gospel, and the
evangelists of revolution will present it from
Maine to Virginia.
Mr.. Emerson gave the true Interpretation to
the object of the meeting, and Of the collection of
the sinews of war;" when he said:-"I hope,
then, that in addition to our relief to the family
of John Brown, we shall endeavor to relieve all
who are in sympathy with him, and not forget
to aid him also in the best way, by securing
freedom and independence in Massachusetts
ITSELF" What Mr.. Emerson means by the latter
he explains. He says, if any citizen Of that
State is summoned as witness to Virginia. the
process Of law must be resisted by force. If
habeas corpus will not do, that becomes
nuisance and the citizen must rely upon the
substance instead Of the empty form; in other
words, he must 60 back to the original right
Of resistance and revolution, and nullify the
constitution and the laws. For such an object
other aid will be wanted.
Thus is the republican party hurried along
on the dark stream Of its destiny by a power
which its moderate leaders cannot resist. The
party consists of two elements-one the politi-
cal, the other the fanatical. The political
wants merely spoils and power, and to that
end keeps up the anti-slavery agitation in
which it has no faith. The other element, the
fanatical or abolition, pure and simple, is per-
fectly sincere, like John Brown, and is rapidly
leavening the whole party. Already the repub-
licans are more than half abolitionized, and the
process is still going on at fearful speed.
The moderate men will be carried away by the
resistless current, and when the politicians
who always 60 with the strongest side, find out
the strength Of the revolutionary element,
they will yield themselves up to its sweeping
energy, preferring to be borne ON the crest Of
| the wave rather than to be overwhelmed be-
meath its weight.
| The CONSTITUTIONAL LoAN-INCREAsE OF THE
STATE DEBT.-From the present returns of the
vote on the State loan of two millions and q
half, from forty-six out of the sixty. coun.
ties in this State, it appears that there is a ma
jority of 28,373 in favor of it. We referred, the
other day to the indifference exhibited with re-
gard to this question of increasing the State
debt. The total number of votes returned, SC
far, on the loan, is 164,l73, of which 96,54s
were in favor of, and 68,l70 against it. Seven
teen counties, including New York and Kings
are yet to be heard from, but we may safely