The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-26

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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY AID THE HISTORY OF rax
WIG PARTY.

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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY AID TIKI HISTORY OF raK
WHO PARTY.
"The History Of the Wig Party" By orusby, which
mas bean spoken Of IN terms Of praise by some Of
tho nrst journals snd statesmen Of tbs times was So
vsgeiy reviewed in the March number Of the Atlantic
AonfAly This review would be unworthy Of notice. but
Tor III extremely bitter and partial character The whg
history highly conservative work. In giving hisso
ry ofhe wings history Of the growth Of abolsionism
becomes Indispensable II this ism that nnally des
uoyed the vhg party full account Of the origin pro
sres, objects and ton AGENCIES Of aboonism presoated
In The history In question Although that account given
with great fairness and importantly, exhibits terrible
reoovd for those who now rcd under sectional
banners The neral OF the book undoubtedly strongly
against The black republican, hesoe The violence Of such
black organs the Aadn which Is mot only black but
likewise Brown, republican concern
ID al proper and right that ths Aaac should try ts
bruisipg powers upon IL political adversary, and enter
the ring with this champion a whisgery but, nsverths
less n duty bystandsrs 70 see fair play. Any
one can ses that the Aasmfc must have We worst Of it,
for enters the lists under too much excitement The
whig d cool-very cool indeed he makes no passes In
anger; every blow tells upon the peppers Of biz op
poaeut. But the Aaasfie, stung with rage
and foaming with passion, hits right and len,
and WASTES IL rage in Intellectual efforts For Instance
amer many captions objections 70 various things In tho
book the Atlantic exclaus -s'Ths object Of all this bad
logic bed history and bad language 10 attack the re-
publoans and advocass the claims Of democracy" Now
the tact d, Ormsbys History distinctly disapproves Of
both the republicans and the democrats and recommends
the reconstruction Of the old whs party So the charge
Of the Aaassie manfssy false That tho true history
Of the old WING party should tell against the re-
pubroans than against the democrats, is reason for an
honest persons charging the historian with enmy to the
former and partially to the latter the duty Of the
historian to tell the ruthnot to make out case for or
against any party the Atlantic possessed any Of the
merit assumes would think too; but unfortunately
periodical biased by party prejudice TO SEQ
anything that happens TO fall ua Ter the SHADOW Of is
darling idol.
Is right TO say that the Atlantic fair specimen Of
modern New England literature and morals The htera
iurs aud morals OF that section are very excellent ex-
cepng when perverted BY fanstcism The deity OF tue
white man has long since been chased from tue New
England heaven and monsrel god Installed 10 his place
The modern Jupiter has soma curious habits, but the
worshippers In him nothing but divine perfeclors
snd the height OF proprety. Now to u.s. who breathe
not under tho canopy OF the New England Mig
ger olympus the following sentence, extracted from
Osmsby "Hstory Of the Wing Party seems to merit but
little Of the dxgust manifested by the Atlantic. 0rmsby
ssys-"The slightest reelection, aner . superficial
observation Of the condition Of country, will satisfy
any candid person Of ordinary ability thst the recon
structon Of the wing party s Indispensable to the per-
petuy Of the Union Ths democratic party, though no
NATIONAL left TO the sole opposition OF the republican,
which Is sectional party, must inevitably sooner or
later, itself degenerate into sectionssm This must be
the necessary result Of such antasonism But party
based upon intelligence and moral worth must most o.
the time be In the minority OF the colnty and much Of
readily accept the conditions OF their exis,euoe.n-
p 36s4. This sentence written some two years ago,
and singulAry prophstic) the Aaastis Is very
upon. After quoting above, and putting the closing
part In tales the Atlantic exciains: then the
banquet 70 which nvited!-ths mission of The rs
susctassd wing party 10 to be-not gaining victory but
being beasnw Then the reader that the political
preiadices Of the Atlantic have completely extingu!shed
all moral sentiments, and the proposition 70 form party
the bass Of "ntsgenos and moral worth" IT, unless
"vctory" be promised received with dagus Must no,
The moral tone Of the Atlantic Monthly be very elevated
indeed
The Atlantic also very reckless In il statements In
regard 70 the book which hes 70 upset Its equanInty
For instance, IL ridcuss Ormsby for "rankiug r. NJ
JOHNSON and Davy Crockett among the eminent statesmen
q their mss" The fact r, thsss are not mentioned
slAsssmsn u ALL The Aas~tc also says, che alu ies
frequently 70 Garrison and Phillips republicans" They
are simply mentioned each In the book, and are
spoken Of - ympah'zug with the republicans thus i'm.
plying that they are not SUCH aso says "Ormsby thinks
Taylor hurt the whiss, and that the Baltimore platform
was TOO anti-slavsry" There not word Of the kind
in the book and tho anti slavery character OF the Bal-
more platform ID not even nsnua.sd Also the Atlantic
charges 0rmsby with saying:-"No Northern editor ven
lures I, write or speak against personal liberty bs
There mot the shadow Of such statement In the book
We notice this attack Of the assumed champion of New
England morals and literature upon the humble produc
ton Of Mr. ormsby, simply because 10 ID extremely re-
markable for ~ maugnisy and injustice In the
(Harch) number Of the Atlantic Redpahs "Le Of John
Brown reviewed Tho depth Of veneraticn there mani
tested for this border that the editor can nave
no place In his heart for anything else.