The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-18
Tho Abolition Agitators Beginning to
Raise Their Hcads.


Raise Their Heads.
The speeches delivered at birmingham, Mas
sachusetts on the Fourth of July; the resolu-
tions offered by Hon. Owen Loyejoy. in the
House of Representatives; the epistolary mani
festo, from Peterboro, of Gerrit Smith; and
the renewed vigor in behalf of aboltionism OF
Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Chandler, Greeley.
Jefferson Brick, with their satellites, all prove
that the deadly fear of consequences which
frightened the revolutionary demagogues of
the Northern States into silence, three months
ago, is subsiding, and that they are renewing
their mischievous attempts to undermine the
constitution, and perpetuate the dissolution of
the Union. They have commenced simulta-
neous onslaught upon Mr.. Lincoln, and abuse
him openly for not having made the destruction
of slave institutions, and the confiscation of
Southern property, part of his programme.
Wendell Phillips gives the President of the
United States between having 'slavehound"
branded on his forehead, or being the ''liberator
Of four millions of bOndsmen," and Gerrit
Smith says that "both abolitionists and anti
abolitionists should petition the Executive to
proclaim the liberty of the slaves" Thus the
school whose rawlings have for forty years con-
vulsed the country, and contributed to produce
the calamities by which it is encompassed, is
once more endeavoring to disseminate treason,
and to turn aside the armed efforts of our
patriotic hosts from the rebellion they are en-
gagged in suppressing, to aiding in the accom-
plishment of their own illegal and nefarious
schemes.
There never has been period ia the history
of the United States, when the people of the
country were so universally conservative az
they are at present If the question of main
tanning intact the rights which are guaranteed
to citizens of the South as we'll as of the
North by the constitution and the laws,
were presented to them tomorrow nine
tenths of the population would raise their
voices against the slightest invasion of the liber
ties of the inhabitants of the Southern States.
The loyal sentiment which burns so fiercely in
the hearts of the people of the Northern portion
of the republic, and has arrayed nearly half
million of men in arms, is exclusively directed
towards the suppression of rebellion and the
emancipation Of that fettered Union element
in the Confederate States, which is gagged into
silence by the despotism of the Richmond go
vcrnment. Our brave troops are engaged in no
crusade against slavery They eschew and re-
pudiate abolition teachings Two-thirds of
them are democrats, and, while they have sworn
that the mushets shall not fall from their hands
until insurrection is quelled, and the banner of
the country once more floats unmOlcsted over
every stronghold, custom house and post Of
fec in the land, they will connive at no such IL
legal acts as the confiscation of property, or the
emancipation projects of the wild revolutionary
fanatics, who are striving to aEer popular pas
sions into wrong channel.
The constitution" exclaims Wendell Phil
lips, I" is rent" A little while ago, he said,
"Dsunion is honor, disunion is GAIN and he
appeals to every ignoble motive his mind can
conceive of, why heroes like Scott should "pro-
claim emancipation" Gerrit Smith writes to
Mr.. Lovejoy:-"W Was ever such infatuation be-
fore? Is it possible that either Congress or
Cabinet is more concerned to save slavery than
to crush the rebellion? Possibly both are
Possibly the people are. Possibly slavery has
dcbauched Congress, Cabinet and people be-
yond recovery. Possibly having 50 long sue
cnmbed to slavery it may be as vain to try to
arouse against it, as to arouse the mass of the
drunkards against drunkenness or the mass of
tie gamblers against gambling" What Ian
guage to use against a race of fellow citizens
who are engaged in the noblest work it has
ever been the lot of men to achieved A 'de-
bauched people, beyond recovery" Shame on
the lips that can utter such words, at moment
when the sublimest fame of patriotic devotion
burns steadily from Maine to Oregon, and from
the great lakes to the Potomac! The fact Is
that Garrison, Gerrit Smith, Greeley Wendell
Phillips Chandler, Lovejoy and the lesser lights
that revolve around them are the true disor-
ganizers, with political tendencies as dangerous
and immoral as any that are entertained by
Jefferson Davis, Yancey or Howell Cobb. They
have no sympathy to look for from the masses
of the community, nor do we entertain fears
that they will meet with any sympathy from
Mr.. Lincoln and his advisers. The government
al Washington has undertaken the performance
Of a task it will not shrink FROM 1t is to re-
store the Union to its pristine integrity, and
when this work is accomplished, the rights of
every single citizen, everywhere, will be guar
anteed to them as they existed prior to the period
Of Instruction. Any project in opposition to
this, would but aid the traitors, and procure for
them a sympathy they cannot now look for.
GONE JEFFERSON DAVIS. Such is the form of
the Indictment in the case of the privateersmcn
now in this city awaiting their trial for piracy
In the oden time the Indictment ran--"Noved
by the instigation of the devil" Now it is "on
pretence of authority from one Jefferson Davis;"
and most certainly he is good substitute
for Satan; for no other individual has ever done
SO great an amount of mischief in the world.