The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-05
we do not get beautiful Common Council
next year TO make laws for this great metropo-
Lis and faithfully guard Its finances.

The Present Northern Abolition ana
Southern Dlsunion AGttatton-Who are
tho Disorgantzcrss
The late Washington dispatches and ediso-
rial commentaries of this journal on the pre-
sent alarming crisis in our national affairs, ia
connection with the slavery agitation, have
brought down upon us raking fire from some
Of the batteries of the republican party. That
invincible military chieftain, the Chevalier
Webb, doffs his harness, mounts his charger,
and dashes down upon us as upon the chief"
of the slavery and disunion agitators.
Thus it appears that "the real authors of this
slavery excitement are those who repealed the
Missouri Compromise, the few miserable abo-
litionists of the North, the political leaders Of
the South, and the NEW YORK HERALD" and
that 'he latter is the chief agitator, because OF
its power" The Chevalier Webb also charges
that the HERALD Sis edited by reckless and
unprincipled foreigner, who has nothing in
common with our people or our country" that
"day after day it maligns the whole North by
the most palpable falsehoods, and excites the
South to acts offolly;" and finally, thatthe editor
of this paper sis not only willing to see the great
republic shattered to atoms, but in the interest
of Europe, is exceedingly DESTROYS Of producing
such result" All this is very dreadful; but
few words will suffice in the way of an an
swer. In the first place, we have been
almost as long in this country as the
Chevalier Webb himself, and it is our country
from choice, and not by accident. Secondly,
we would refer the Chevalier to our city tax
list, as affording positive evidence that we do
possess something Sin common with our peo-
pie" and something in no immediate danger of
being sponged out by general bankrupt law.
As for the rest of the Chevaliers accusations,
they are the veriest nonsense and billingsgate
of impotent malice and rage.
But our unduly excited Wall street cotempo-
rary has also something to say on the general
issue, in order to put himself in a more favor
able position before the country. Thus he de-
clares that he would, if he had the power,
chang every abolitionist in the country who
seeks to interfere with slavery where it consti-
tutionally exists Very good Let Mr.. Seward
and the republican party at once mount that
platform, and publicly repudiate the 'irrepres-
sible conflict proclaimed at Rochester, and it
is quite possible that with the blooming of the
first flowers Of spring, the editor of the He
RAID and the Chevalier Webb will fulfil that
beautiful prophecy of the lion and the lamb
lying down together. But, from the ridiculous
accusation that "the HERALD has for years
attempted to undermine our institutions by its
assaults upon everything and everybody con-
nected with morality and religion" and that
"now it is doing all in its power to array the
North against the South, and the South against
the NORTH &c., we turn to inquire who are
the disunion agitators and disorganizers of the
day.
We charge that the prince of these slavery
agitating disorganizers is w. H. Seward, the en-
bodiment, according to the Chevalier Webb, of
all the virtues Of the Sermon on the Mount;
we charge that the Virginia raid Of John Brown
was only the practical fulGlment Of the bloody
instructions of Seward. We have also before
us an incendiary abolition publication, entitled
"The Impending Crisis of the South How to
Meet It, By Hinton Rowan Helper and this
book we find endorsed, approved and recon-
mended by two-thirds of the republican list of
members of the present Congress. Among the
subscribers to aid in its circulation, we find
host of other prominent republicans, aswill be
seen from the following list
In aid Of the general fund for circulating one hundred
thousand copies Of the work in hand subscriptions up to
the 18th Of june 1859, amount to about 00 which
the following, as will respectively appear, have been re-
1 ceved in sums Of from $40 to S25O.-