The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-08


of Terror, just a. convertible intolerance WA
set aside with the restoration Of Charles II
The one lasted about a. long a. the other
Each succumbed under the influence Of the ad
vancing spirit Of tho age, and gave place To
that latent, enduring, material power which
may be lost sight VI temporarily, butte never
be extlnguished, because it is founded in the
first law of self-preservation, without which
society would perish Great Britain and France
have both been the arena of contests, not un.
like the struggle that has begun in the United
States, apparently between two nearly equally
balanced factions, but ending, after the noise
and passionate clamor of temporary excite
ment had passed away, in the triumph of o
third party, Irresistible in numbers and strength
and composed of the worth, solidity and intel
l'gence Of those nations.
Out Of the remnants Of ideas Of past ages
that should have long ago been discarded as
obsolete, have been elgendered the disorders
that threaten this country with the temporary
overthrow of its prosperity. The New EGG
land mind, revealing In dreams Of an Old Tes-
lament Jehovah, stern and pitiless, whose laws
the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers are EN-.
powered to interpret and to execute, has full
minated it's fanaticd thunders against slavery
and shareholders, until the whole North is in a
blaze Intellectual sensualists, in the South
ern States, have saturated their minds, on the
contrary, with the gladiatorial strifes Of the
small, Independent republics of ancient Greece,
until they have become crazed and infatuated
into adopting similar States rights doctrines
for modern times, absurd and delusive in
theory, and impossible In practice. Year by
year, these two antagonistic elements have
been becoming more hostile towards each
other in attitude, more bitter and denunciatory
In words, until the sad point has been arrived
at that five hundred thousand men are arrayed
against each other with sword, bayonet and
cannon, eager to shed one another's blood. Yet
the Northern and Southern schools Of politics
are not the only ones in the United States ;
neither do they compose the majority Of the
people of the nation. There is here, as there
was, formerly, in England and France, party
more firm, patriotic and determined than either,
namely the great party of national progress,
which eschews the ultraisms of both sections,
and aims at the greatest material and social
developement of the country. From its ranks,
% is acknowledged by the administration, in
the public documents recently laid before Con.
gress, spraDg forth the tens of thousands of
troops ready to lay down their lives for the pre-.
servation Of the Unon because its integrity is es
sential to the permanency of civilization and of
free institutions upon the American continent.
II embraces almost the entire population of
the Central States, and, when the present period
of delirium shall have gone by, will be found
to have stronghold in the West, South and
East. 1t will prevail, eventually, over short
sighted factiousness and suicidal intolerance,
because it is in accordance with the exigencies
Of the age, while they are, essentially, both
feeble and antiquated.
There is but one means of reducing order
out of the present chaos. 1t is for tho bone,
sinew, intelligence and worth of the United
States, to rise up as man against those ultra
isms Of sections which threaten to engtE it's fu-
ture In ruin, and have singly and disinterest-
eddy in view the great object Of restoring the
integrity of the Union, not to subserve party
ends, but in the cause of civilization and
progress. This is mighty and gigantic
work, worthy Of free people. 1t should cause
an oblivion of past grievances on the part OF
those who have no selfish end to subserve in
perpetuating strife, and reputation of the
narrow minded policy insisted on by the repub-
lican opposition press Of the North. tits to
use the gallant armies that have been assem-.
bled by the federal and the rebel States for
legitimate and patriotic purpose They should
be 50 directed by the administration. Mr..
Lincoln was elevated to Office, in great mea.
sure, by the votes of one of the two sections
out of whose teachings have evolved our pre-.
sent discords. His future success depends
upon his soaring above the narrow limits of
faction, and cemprehending the great nstional
exigencies of the age. By so doing and assert.
ing broad and comprehensive policy, the
quarrel will soon be settled between the North
aud the South, and light spring out Of the pre-
sent darkness