The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-21

meIb iOunUed Dy washington ana the heroes OF
the Revelation. Yesterday the three morning
abolition journals Of this city--ths Tribune, the
Times and the World published simultaneously
| an elaborate attack on the constitution Of the
| United States, the founders OF the Union, and
! the President and Cabinet, because their war
cry is not emancipation" but "the integrity of
tho Union;" because, having enlisted three
quarters of million Of men to fight for one
| idea, they do not now break faith with it, and
| compel them to fight for another These jour
| nails give the benefit Of their circulation to
| foul TRADE of the abolition cheitan Wendell
| Phillips, against the administration and tho sys-
TEN Of government which its head and every
| member Of it have sworn to uphold. In other
words, upon the principle that the end sancti
fies the means, he calls upon them to become
perjurers and covenant breakers, a class Of men
of whom we are told that they are "abhorred
Of God" as they are by all mankind.
Phillips paints the legitimate government at
Washington in darker coors than the rebel gov
crnmcnt at Richmond. He says all the audi
ence "know him as an abolitionst, and he is
glad and proud Of the NAME" "As an abo-
litionist, he continues, II have little more in
| terest in this war than the frontier mans wife
had in his struggle with the bear, when she
didn't care which whipped" Again, he avows
that he has been all his life "a disunionst,"
and that he "did prefer disunion TO being the
accomplish of tyrants' is, Of Shareholders.
lie allows that tour father 8, when they framed
this government, admitted the existence of
slavery, and tolerated it," Yet he confesscs
that the deliberate purpose Of his existence
has been to break this government up.
lie says:-"I endeavored honestly, and | am
not ashamed of it, to take nineteen
States out Of this Union, and to consccrate them
to liberty" And the only Union he will now
tolerate is a Union with slavery cut out Of it
| cut out Sin war Of IDEAS millions Of people
graphing each Others throats, every soldier III
each camp certain that he is fighting for an idea
that holds the salvation Of the world-eyery
drop Of his blood in earnest--such a war as
| finds no parallel nearer than that Of the Catho-
lie and Hugucnot in France, or than that of
| arstocrat and republican in 1890, or Of Crom
well and the Irish, aohc uicto,y meant eaieq ,as-
| ton"
This is worthy Of the man who, not long
since, lectlred in this city upon the bloody
massacre OF ST. Domingo, holding up the black
leader Of this horrible negro instruction to the
admiration or tho world; worthy OF the man
who accompanied the remains Of John Brown to
| their last resting place, and pronounced over
this horscthief midnight assassin and leader Of
4 ocrriia ;ncurrcct;on f,ooral n,,t;oc
in which the convicted and executed felon is
| apothcosized as martyr and demigod.
The lecturer says, "f the abo!itionists are the
cause Of the war. they have reason to be proud
| ofit' But he is not satisfied with the mode in
| which It 10 carried on. He says lie goes for the
war 'fsom sympathy with the negro" whereas
tic Union savers sustain ii only "from an idola-
trcus regard for the Union OF 1885," and he ac
cuscs tic government Of participating in the
general idolatry, instead of "wri;ing cmancipn-
ton on It's banners" which alone can give it
success. He says there is "a dcspotism at Rich
moGd and despotsm at Washington. and il is
only question OF preference between them"
lie does bis utmost to discourage the war
CIR tic Union. lie says "thcrc is not an e,e-
ncni OF good in it, Eve shall never &c, ont OF
il without ccDt OF at least two thousand mil
liens of dollars" "ncbt s the fatal disease Of
republics" it kept England bac! in all pro-
| gross At least hur drcl years can immense
dishaudcd army the fruitful, inevitable source Of
f.csh debts and new wa:SH Habcas
corpus. the right OF free meeting aud free pstss
tho three clements which distinguish liberty
from dcspotsm, and all that Saxon blood has
gaccd N the battles and tolls Of two hundred
Gears these, cveiy one of them, are annihiiatcd
in every square mile of tie republic. We live
10 day, every one Of us, under martial law or
mob law. The Secretary Of State puts ia!o his
Igsiic, with . warrant as irresponsible rs that
ol LOUIS xiv, every man wnam ii" p!eases ;
aad gou know TIA. neit!ic: press nor lips may
venture to arraign the government without
being sicncci" Nor is this all. q ircr The
iirst tim" on this continent we have passports,
which even Louis Bonnpartc rronounccs useless
aad oious, and for the first time spies frequent
our great cities In fine, there is no single
right that government finds itself able to pro
tect cyccp! the right Of a man to hi ives"
Such are hi, charges against The !, ynneut
!,ui this. he holds, would be all endl. Die ir it
should result in the 'aa lion of u parcel Of
a;gscrs. But if nJt ~ III he appeals to
the republican ptr'J to prevent the
restoration Of the old Union, by tell
;ng them it will ruin thew "Recon
struct this government" he says, "and for
twenty years you can never elect a republican
to the Presidency" Here is the grand secret
OF the radicals wishing for defeat . the Unoa
army unless il abo!ishcs slavery. nut such Is
HE reasonable audacty Of Phii!il 20 thai h.
proposes to supcrsede the President aud ,hc
administration if they will not proclaim aboii-
G:on to four millions Of negroes. His words
are-s.ln order to do il we nineteen millions
OF educated Christian Americans need not wait
| for the will or the wisdom OF single man: we
| are moi 10 wait for Fremont or Mcclellan.
| Government is not our dictator" And in order
to prerip,taie The overthrow Of the government
here indicated. he urges the argument! that if