The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-12-24


The republican journals of the North are
daily becoming more and more bitter in the
tone of their bclligcrent manifcstos, and in
their ,imperative advocacy of the EXTREMIST
measures, to reduce the slave States to submits
sion to the doctrines laid down in the Chicago
platform. Appeal to the memorable logic of
grooycd cannon, Sharpc's rifles and the bayo-
net takes the place of reflection and argument
now, just a. rant, abuse, ealumny and dia-
tribe did that of truth and facts while they
were arousing their readers to that pitch of anti
slavery excitement which has produced the
present crisis They demand that Mr.. Lincoln
shall inaugurate his administration with block
AIDES. bombardments and invasion, as fppant-
ly and impudcntly as though the welfare of the
country could be promoted by conformity to
such diabolical fancios They decree that the
south shall be put down. a glibly as if if
teen States were a vagrant To be arrested by
the first policeman. With qnasi-auihoritativc
language, they pretend to foreshadow the po-
Icy of the incoming administration. as substi-
tuting the blood red flag Of civil war for the
stars and stripes which float over the Capitol.
and confidently predict that the "irreprcssibie
conflict" will be carried out with a ruthless
barbarity which John Brown himself would
have hesitatcd to sanction
The transparent motive of so much furious
elamor on the part of the republican press is
TO drive Mr.. Buchanan into initiating aggres-
-ive measures agant South Carolina and any
other States that may seccde, in order that ne
and his government may hereafter be- charge
able with a responsibility which they are afraid
Mr. Lincoln may have sense enough to shrink
from ineurring. One day the President
i called an IDIOT another we are as
surcd that be is insane and again, that
lie il q traitor "sold out to the South" be-
cause he will neither send more troops 10 Fort
Moulirie nor encircic Charleston harbor with
d naval Gordon Of steamships AMI revsnuc cut
tiers. The choicest bilingsgate is rcsortcd to,
with most refreshing disregard of truth. know
ledge and propriety, in dcnouncing bis re-
pugn1nec TO hloodshcd and endeavoring to
hound him on to acts of violence. Ii would
harmonic with abolitionist plans to the letter
were Mr.. Buchanan to suffer himself to be
moved or inundated BY such scurrilous bolster
ing. We're he TO yield one iot to the sugges-
lions of his aayersaries. they would be tn first
10 turn upon him the full .yials Of popular ndig-
nation, and TO represent the calamities which
would thenccforth bcfal the country ms an
unweloome legacy bequeathed by him to a sue
ce-sor. willing but unable to evade or avert
them.
The forhcarancc which marks the course of
the administration in the peculiar aud trying
emergency To which abolitionist ianatici-m has
reduced II Is cmncntly wise and prudent. Its
pacific attitude has involved the sacrifice Of no
principle. and it, patriotism hls been equally
displayed in what il ha- done and in what IL has
left undonc. Ii has refused To recognise the
right Of state to seecde, though ii ha- not de-
MED L. revolutionary power to do 80. While
maintaining, what is undcnisble. mat no power
10 cocrcc state il delegated BY tho constitu-
ton 20 either the Prcsiden, or TO Congress, 1t
has a. strenuously asserted that individual de-
linquents may, If cxpcdicnt. he reached and
punished by the strong arm of the central
government, through its federal courts. The
attempt to cocrcc state h. military force
would. as declared by Mr. Madison, be an act
Of war-a virtual recognition Of its separate in
dependence, and tau,anount 10 dissolution Of
thc Union. Such an act Of folly will never be
committed by Mr.. Buchanan. The states be-
long together. Their reserved rights iudivi.
dual constitutions, and different social insti-
tons, src. each and al. part OF
common bond, sheltered by the constitution,
entitled, In their Emergencies, 70 mutual re-
spect and protection, and he will not complete
The work Of destruction which fsns,iclsm and
sec'ionalism have begun. With The treason OF
individuals. III should ever come TO any overt
act, he might be strictly entitled. perhaps, %
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