New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-13
UNCENDIARIsu.

Who are the incendiaries? The AutOcrat who
presides at the Head Of the Post-Ofice Depart
mest dares 10 pronounce upon the character Of tho
matter that shall be allowed to pass through the
public mail. He declares incendiary matter shall
not be transmitted. But, leaving aside this mon
strous pretenson, We ask, What is incendiary mat
ter? Who are the ncendiaries against whom bis
despotic rule proposes TO shield the Slave States
Is it only the Republican Journals that are to be
stamped out in the South A little reflection viii
convince Postmaster Holt that he has undertaken
more difficult and comprehensive JOB than
ne imagined he was undertaking in thus
outraring the common rights of every
American citizen. VIII Postmaster Holt permit
the transmission of the proceedings of the
recent UniOn-Saying meeting In Boston, got up
especially to reassure the South to sympathiEe with
the shareholders, to save the Union Does not the
presiding officer of that meeting declare THAT he is
opposed to the spread of Slavery, and desires its abb
oEtionl Did rot its most eloquent orator expose
the vital weakness Of the South by Illustrating the
dangers that encompass it, and the ease with which
its patriarchal institution could be demolished Is
not this incendiary matter Is it not just such
views that the South protests against, fercey aud
constantly Are they not the very things the
SoutheneB say should be suppressed and must be
suppressed How is it with that reckless and
unprincipled sheet, The Herald Certainly, it is
the most inceDdiary of all publications. Ii
publishes Mr.. Stewards Rochester speech once in
every six months at least. Ii prints Henry Ward
II. "a. -.
Ii publishes Wendell Philhps's rank Abolition
speeches, and all the proceedings of the most fu-
rious Anti-Slavery assemblages that get together in
this City and elsewhere. Ii any outrsgeOusly radi
cal emancipation sentiment gets expression in any
part of the country, The Herald POunces upon it
and publishes it, and dwells lovingly upon it, for
the amiable purpose of showing what incarnate
devils the Republicans are. The Herald IS thus
crammed brimiu of incendiary matter all the time.
How. then. can Postmaster Holt, how can Virginia,
permit the circulation of The Hsraid2
The truth is, that to the South, while holding her
present position, all matter that is not carefully
prepared with express reference to the institution
of Slavery is ''incendiay." Leading articles par
agraphs, reports of public meetings speeches, geo.
graphical and statistical information, every genuine
utterance of the human heart, every untramneIed
conception of the human brain, Is opposed to
Slavery, and, in this sense, ineendisry Thought II
SEX is ineendiary.
What then, is to be the limit 70 the circulation
Of printed matter in the South if it is determined
to avoid and exclude everything that bears against
Slavery What but absolute suppression and
exelusioni There be no stopping short OF this.
The rule must be silence-periect utter, inexOr-
able silence; the silence of despotism, brutal sted,
universal; the silence of the dungeoa-of death.
And for every man who violates the rule, hanging
is the cnly specific. Brown has been hung, Seward
should be hung, howls cut Southern representa-
tive in Congress be ia an incendiay. Gene,
Mr.. Postmaster Holt, if these are not your Lnita-
tons, say what they are. Let Us know what Is
incenGisry matter in sOsr opinion. Ii you can
tolcraie The Herald, with john Browns, Theodore
PaIkers, Lloyd Gsrrison's, and Wendell Phillips