The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-19

lie ordinances or for public opinion. Until the
ballot box provides remedy for the gross
perversion of the trust which devolves on these
men, we fear that we shall have to bear with
patience the abuses which make themselves so
unpleasantly manifest to our pockets and senses
More violence OF sewarl's Organ
Against the south-Thrcats OF Bloody
Revelation and Civil War.
1t is curious coincidence, that while In the
HERALD of yesterday morning an editorial ar
ticle appeared about "The Northern republican
journals and the South" in which we referred
to the fact that zone Of the republican leaders
told the South if she did not keep quiet, the
North wonld whip her into submission" an
other article appeared at the same time in the
Courier and Enquirer in which almost the same
phrase, but considerably stronger, is used In
threatening ':the refractory" South, who is rs
sured that she "will most certainly be whipped
into submission" That article we have trans
readers, alters careful perussl whet her it is
possible for the Union to exist while the organs
of the republican party continue to throw
rockets of this description ito the midst of the
ccmbustible material whit so. abounds at the
present time. North and SCUM. and is ready to
go into blaze upon the application Of the in
cendiary fire The Courier and Enquirer
is the special organ OF W. II. Sew
ard isin New York, and must be re-
gardea as expressing his sentiments. 1t
will not he its fault if the political structure
raised by the wisdom and public virtue of our
forefathers be not reduced to ashes. In the
article we have extracted it does its worst to
reach thai contamination. 1t exceeds in VIC
lence and ,nalignity and laundering falsehood
all that has hitherto been published. It heaps
abuse on the Southern men in Congress gene
rally. 1t describes them as foolish, weak,
childish, reckless, fiippant," "grown up boys
sputtering nonsense" ami it describes the con-
dition of the non slaveholding whites OF the
South as "a horrible debasement of millions
of white laborers," because some of the whites
work in the cotton fields with the negroes Such
is the fragrant hypocrisy and raving incon.
sistency Of journals which claim that the black
man is equal by nature with the white, and
ought to be made so socially and politically
But this is not all. The Courier and Enquirer
asserts that the Southern members of Congress
represent only the Shareholders, and that both
are in league together to enslave with the same
bondage rs the negroes the six millions of
whites at the South
Can we wonder after this at the utterance OF
lisunion sentiments at the South? Can South
ern men stand it? What can we expect but
the breaking up of the commercial relations
North and South, and an end Of all friendly
intercourse between the two sections? Can we
be surprised at the action Of the Southern
banks, or at The expulsion of Northern teachers
from the South, or at the tarring and feather.
ing of known abolitionists, or the Punishment
Of the suspected, or the propositions for a
peaceful secession, or at the gauntlet Of def
ance to mortal combat thrown down by ''the
lre-eaters' of the South?
Col Webb. with his usual logic and regard
to facts-whether historical. Congressional
aluelling or geographical says the Southern
States have not the right Of peaceful! secession,
because "illinois, embracing more than one
Third of the Union, would possess a similar
right" 1t Is the first time we have ever heard
that illinois embraced third of the Union,
though If that were the fact we cannot see
incendiary contemporary. Bns. stranger logic
still, he mantains that the Southern States
have not tie right of peaceful secession,
but the North has the right Of bloody rcvolu-
ton. Any attempt at Southern secession, lie
adds, viii be punished as treason, and the re-
fractory seccders will be whipped into subjcc-
,ionr Suet are The ferocious sentiments of the
,fayorite organ of Seward in this city. He de-
clares that peaceful secession will lead to civil
.conyulsion and bloody strife. and that the
South must he whipped if it attempts it. Blu.
the CDuyifi end Enquirer is laboring with all
its might to produce secession and revolution.
1t will, therefore, be responsible for fratri-
cidal war jf it comes, and still more will Mr..
Seward whose instrument 1t is.
The articles in that Journal and in his other
incendiary prints at the North, remind us Of
Samson catching three hundred foxes, and
tying firebrand between the tails Of every
two Of them, and when he had set the brands
III 'Ss"H5 suo iD-AC5 ~ AiALo i1S WIZ VI s1S
Pbilistines, till they had burned up both the
shocks and the standing corn, with the vine
yards and olives. Seward is the Samson O.
the republican party, and he has set on his in
eendiary journals with firebrands in their tails
spreading conaagration and destruction wher-
ever they 60 Israel's chieftain succeeded in
another feat--he laid hold on the two pillars Of
the temple where the lords of the Philistines,
his enemies, to the number of three thousand,
worshipped, and he pulled down the temple,
destroying both himself and them together.
The republican chieftain seems bent on accom-
plishing the same sort of achievement BE
may succeedin overthrowins the federal Union,
the temple erected to liberty on this continent,
with the constitution for its creed and its ritu
al. but SIR borJ no, x-;ff ba n,-nr