The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-25
The New Era Of the Anti-siavcry Asi-

he anti slavery agitation, Hitherto the fanati-
to- resort 10 The last argument OF kings" the
| icgic Of blows, witch the fanatics themselves
| openly declare they design as the beginning Of
he end, the opening act Of a second revolution
| in American history, embracing civil war and
| The dissolution of the Union. The republicans
have beer hitherto known as the black repub-
lcan part Hereafter they will be known as
the REQ repuh!icans-rcd with the blood OF
their fellow citizens. The long crusade Of Sc
dit and reasonable agitation has resulted
At last il overt acts of treason and rebellion,
al which some of the more timid republican
lesders how feel appalled,, while the hypocriti-
cal, who are not yet prepared to throw oil the
mask dep,ecste violence and bloodshed, and
soy they want TO overthrow the institutions Of
the South only by moral warfare. AT the same
time, however, they excuse and palliate the
crime Of John Brown rs If it were mere poll
teal offence one not criminal in itself, but
only criminal becAsse the lnsurreotiou failed.
Had success crowned the bloody work
it would be oil right Thus do they
nnconsciously betray the secret sympa
thics and wishes OF their hearts. The Til
tas.e recently said the time was not yet
come to write John Browns epitaph. He had
only acted rashly, aud was little ahead Of his
party AID his age. The Tribune, too, endorses
the treason at Harper's Ferry by bucking up
the subscription for Browns family, first pro-
posed in its columns. Who dares to start or
second public subscription for the family of
IN ordinary coid-blooded murderer? No one.
There are numerous other families more de-
serving of cOmmiscration, and those who
would single out for special favor the families
Of brigands and assassins would be regarded as
sympahizers with robbery and assassination
Society does not offer premium on murder
nor insure the lives Of assassins for the benefit
Of their families. What is there favorable in
the case of John Brown or his family to take
him or them out Of the ordinary category?
Nothing whatever. On the contrary, under a
free government like ours the crime Of treason
and the murders which accompany it exceed
asl others in atrocity, and are regarded in all
countries with more than ordinary detestati0n
by the people. This would be the case in the
North we're not the population extensively
tainted with fanaticism which sanctides the
most hideons Of crimes as al act of heroisIn
and "the work Of God" Hence it is that the
family Of John Brown become objects
Of special solicitude, while those Of
many good men are left to starve.
There is a revolutionary sentiment at the bot
tom Of this. The design is to honor and glorify
Brown, and to popularize his treason. 1t is in
tended also to show other devoted men, who
are willing to follow his example, that they
may feel assured that their families will be
taken care of il they should "pay the glorious
forfeit of their lives" in doing the work OF
Heaven, and carrying out its "higher law"
If. therefore, the intention of the subscrip-
ton for the family Of John Brown is only to
afford relief to his relatives according to the
flesh, it is an insult to the majesty of the Law.
and an endorsement of his crimes. But John
Brown has another family-a mystical one
consisting of a million of sons of his spirit, who
only want arms to finish the work which their
father begun at Harper's Ferry. It is for this
family the subscriptions are principally raised,
and it is for this that John Browns autograph
letter is sold for ten cents a copy, and his
photographs at dollar each. 1t is thus Mr..
Emerson understood the principal object Of the
meeting at fremont Temple, and it is so I'M
derstood by thousands.
The anti-slavery party consists Of two
elements religious and fanatical
the other merely political. The po-
litical alone would be harmless with.
out the other combustble element, which,
once it is thoroughly ignited seems impossible
to control. In the time OF Cromwell it was the
religious, fanatical element which rendered his
army and himself so terrible. 1t is the same
now. The fanaticism of which the modern
Roundhead, John Brown, is the representative,
is driving the men of the North to desperate
lengths. Some Of the political leaders of the
republican party, who are only trading in the
anti-slavery agitation for the acquisition Of
power, or the possession Of the public plumber
or to make money by pandering to fanaticism
and party spirit by their intiammatory publica-
tons, would gladly arrest the now perilous
progress Of this fanaticism if they could. But
it has grown too powerful for them to hold it
in check They have played too long with the
passions of the fanatics, and now the movement
is beyond their control. They have sown the
wind, and they must reap the whirwind.
Another instruction is in preparation, more
bloody and more extensive than the first. Its
battle fields will not be confined to Virginia,
but, as the Washington Era has threatened, the
area Of rebellion will be extended to other
Southern States, where the black population
are more numerous in proportion to the whites,
and more ignorant and more unciyilized than
they are in the border States The second
outbreak will be the signal for the dsso
luton Of the Union and civil war whose
horrors no imagination can depict, and whose
end no man can toresee. How long will the con-