The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-24

Inc abolition republican journals continue to
De hiIed with incendiary matter, for the purpose
OF infaming the public mind of the North az aiast
the South, and bringing to crisis the irrepres-
sible conflict predicted by Seward, melted hT
Helper, and carried into practical operation BIZ
John Brown. Foremost among these sheets il
the New York Tribune, from whose columna Or
yesterdays impression we reprint mess of the
most combnstible msterial, intended to Get iss
fanatical readers in blaze. First, there is N
editorial in which it is shown that the Southern
papers have black ists and white lists of the
commercial houses of New York, and that the
black are proscribed and the white recon-
mended. Then there is an original letter from
Petersburg correspondent, in which the ope-
rations of vigilance committees are described.
and the throwing into Jail of persons having the
Albany Evening Journal In their possession. In
addition to these incentives to revolution the
Tribune Of yesterday copies from other journals
batch of infammatory paragraphs, some Of
them showing that Harper's Magazine and Week
y are prescribed at the South, that several per-
sohs have been arrested for circulating Helpers
book, that the question of commercial nom
intercourse with the North is to be presented
to Southern Conference so as to make the
policy universal at the. South, that another
mechanic has been driven from North Carolina
as an incendiary, and that in South Carolina
an incendiary has been hanged by the vigi-
lance Committee.
We must accept all this as true, alarming
and terrible as it is. 1t is revolution actually
begun, and it is the resulssf twenty-five years
Of anti slavery agitation, which now reaches
its climax and is about to nominate Presi-
dent. First, it severed the religious ties, then
the social and now the commercial ties are
being snapped one by one. 1t only remains to
break the political connection, and the revolu-
ton ia complete-the Union isdissolved. 1t lis to
sever this last link of the chain which binds
the North to the South that the republican
presses are laboriDg with all their might.
Every day they are adding fuel to the
revolutionary fame especially the lead
ing abolition journal of this city, which
is piling faggot upon faggot and brand
upon brand, in order to make assurance
doubly sure, like the incendary, who, having
marked out for destruction some stately ware
house, filed with costly merchandise, lays his
combustible materials not in one corner of the
building only, but in every room, hoaping
them upon each other, and then applying the
lighted match simultaneously to every pile.
The result is certain, unless by some fortunate
accident the criminal is caught in the fact, or
the fire is discovered before it has gained any
Roadway.
1t is thus the Tribune is preparing the conaa-
grafton which it expects will consume the
noble fabric Of the Union and all the precious
interests and hopes it contains. The great
temple Of liberty is devoted by the niger
worshippcrs to the flames, and nothing can
save it from impending ruin but the vigorous
exertions of the conservative element in the
Central States, reused from its inaction by the
close proximity Of the danger and the mighty
stake which is at issue. Already the smoke is
showing itself at doors and windows, and soon
will the irrepressible flames burst forth, unless
the incipient fire is speedily quenched and the
lurking combustibles of the incendiary re-
moved.