The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-29
Moro Whitc-Livered Sensation Journal
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JEFF Davis and his Southern rebels have OBJ
tanned more aid and comfort from the white
livered, sensation journals of this city than
from almost any other source. These journals
aid the rebels directly and Indirectly. Directly,
by publishing information Of intended move
ments of the Union forces-s game which the
Tribune began playing through Harvey, its
Washington correspondent, and which precipi-
tated the bombardment and thus caused the
capture of Fort Sumter. Directly, also, by
encouraging the rebels-who still manage to
obtain the New York papers-to believe that
the North is divided upon the question Of this
rebellion, and that just one more victory will
insure the immediate recognition Of the South
ern confederacy. Indirectly they aid the re-
bciiion by encouraging the rebels and dis
couraging the Union men at the South by their
persistent attempts to make this war, not for
the Union as 1t was but for the abolition Of
slavery. They accomplish the same end also
at the North by constantly attacking and en-
barrassing the administration by applauding
English attacks on our own government; by
attempting to inspire popular distrust in our
generals and our soldiers; by exaggerating the
repulse of party Of reconnoissance into "sick-
ening" and disastrous defeat;" by declaring
| that our soldiers, whom General Mcclellan and
the rebels equally compliment, tran away"
were ''routed, !" and "tumbled, rolled and leaped'
over the cliffs at Edwards Ferry; by urging the
government to discriminate in favor of foreign
ers in suspending the privilege Of habeas corpus;
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nation, after it had been disavowed by the Presi-
dent; by appeals to the Union officers not to
obey General Mansfeld's order in regard to flu
| gitive slaves; by incessant endeavors to put the
administration in the wrong, and weaken public
confidence in its measures; and by all these,
and thousand other ways, striving to force the
government either to make this q war of eman-
cipation or to submit to the recognition Of
Southern republic.
Every one of these modes of giving aid and
comfort to the rebels is daily practised by one
or the other of those abolition organs-the 7ri-
bune, Times and World. That they have rather
injured themselves than the Union cause, thus
far, by no means lessons their crime. A thief,
caught in the act and deprived of his booty, is
a thief STILL The "peace organs" effected no
great harm by their daily groanings; but that
did not save them from suppression nor their
editors from Fort Lafayette. Only the clemen-
cy of the administration, and the fact that the
people are Furnishing the Tribune, Times and
World in their most vulnerable point-their
pockets-have preserved this runaway, peniten-
tial and cowardly trio from joining the Able
McMaster in his enforced monastic retirement
long ago. Daily this abolition trio, like Mac
beth's witches, are raising " toll and trouble"
for the administration, and each throws into the
internal cauldron such wicked ingredients as it
can collect from the field of current events and
keeps the pot boiling. Again and again we have
referred to this subject, but with every issue of
these journals our text and proofs are renewed.
prove their completely with the rebels we have
to refer to no back files and rehash no old ex-
tracts. We need only go back to their last
Saturdays and yesterdays issues 10 corroborate
our statements. So, once more, like detec-
tive policeman, we drag these old, hardened
offenders before the great tribunal of the pub
lie, and leave them to the punishment they de-
serve.
First as to the Tribune: Greeley never kept
the promises he made when he snivelled out
Forgive me Just once more,'" and begged the
HERALD's mercy for his past transgressions. AS
soon as he recovered from the brain fever into
which the poor victims of Manassas scared
him, and the mob which his fever conjured up
had vanished with his doctors, he renewed his
muck upon the Union cause, and was seized
with an attack of too much Fremont on the
brain. He cannot forgive the administration Of
his own choice because he is kept out of the
kitchen, and because 1t refuses to make this
war Of emancipation. He assails our President
and our generals because they prefer tfo Con
stitution to the Iribne as rule of conduct In
Saturdays Tribune we find an article discour-
aging our merchants from taking government
contracts, on the ground that they will have so
much trouble to get their money-they "must
entreat, and importune and bore, and often
BRIDE" The Tribune will say that the object of
this article was not to discourage contractors,
but to reform the government. But look at the
result. So the Tribune asserted that its object in
criticising military movements was not to de-
feat, but to reform orr army. Was that the
effect? The people look at results and not
! ebS oAiSSCu OuJCClS, duu luc lcbulb VI tHc 4T9-
tme's articles is reasonable and criminal
Hearty support, not criticism is what the gov
eminent asks from all true patriots. fhe
government will correct its faults as it best
can, and needs no hint from the Tribune. Every
such criticism, from an honest or dishonest
motive, is blow at the Union and an aid to
the rebel cause. But the Tribune shows itself
more plainly in an article on the Edwards
Ferry affair. 1t should have been written by
Uriah Heep, it is so every 'umble,' and so
bitterly vindictive. 1t begins by disclaiming
any intention to say anything, and ends by
sneakingly insinuating that Gen. Mcclellan is
to blame for the failure and loss " in the af-
fair. When it is considered that there was no
" failure" about the matter, the object of the
Tribune becomes very AZ aren't. The I" loss -
was one of the ordinary casualties Of war, and
even this the Tribune exaggerates. In yester-