The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-28

fostering sore of vice and crime IN the midst OF
the community
Mr.. Sumner says he hears voice saying
that the war, with all IT'D terrible consequences,
proceeds from tho abotitionists-that they are
"the authors Of this terrible conasgration."
We hope what the orator heard was the still
email voice Of conscience, for never did voice
speak 80 true. In common with all his incen-
diary tribe. he holds that negro slavery is "the
origin and handspring of the rebellion" and
that "the government must strike directly at
that" This is to libel George Washington and
the founders of the government to denounce the
constitution which they made as bond Of per-
petual union. The protection Of slave property
Is guaranteed forever in that instrument; and it
Is the parricidal attempt Of Sumner and the
abolition party to nullify the compact which
has led TO secession and the war; They have
continually denounced the constitution as q
covenant with death and an agreement with
hell. They conspired with the British aristoc-
racy to break up the Union Of which the constitu-
ton is the bond, and they are now engaged In
Satanic conspiracy to Illustrate the success Of
the war for the Union, and to split the Cabinet
and the North, just as they have already split
the republic, into two fragments. Their
design Is to rally Northern rebellion
against the government around the person Of
Fremont, just as the secessionists have raised
Southern insurrection around the standard Of
Jefferson Davis. Both rebellions must be put
down; but first that which is the cause Of the.
Ca, nd sa t.a uno&
dangerous to the existence. Of the govern
ment. Till the head of the serpent of
abolitionism is crushed by the heel of Abe
Lincoln there can be no salvation for the
South, aud no hope of redeeming its rebels
from the fatal error and delusion into which
they have been led by the anti-slavery propa-
gandists and sympathizers with John Brown.
The Army, the Niger Question, and the
Coming Election.
From the beginning Of the war up to the
present time, the abolition journals of the
Northern States and especially the Tribune and
EVENING Post Of this city, have been engaged in
covertly sssailing and lampooniag the admins
tration, and endeavoring to bring the President
into discredit for no other reason than that he
has perseyered in maintaining tho patriotic
policy Of restoring the Union to its pristine in
tegrity. on the basis Of the constitution and the
laws, as they were bequeathed to US by WASH
ington and the fathers Of the republic. Their
view, on the contrary, has been that the con-
stitution is a "league with hell and covenant
with DEATH" that it ought to be discarded al
together; and that the exclusive object Of hos
tilities with the Southern States should be to
raise the negro to position Of equality, and
perhaps Of superiority, to the white man, and
put arms into his hands TO accomplish that pur
pose. Every speech that has been uttered
every unauthorized proclamation that has been
issued and every document that has been pub
lished, tending to establish this infamous theory
has been speedily seized upon by them, lauded
to the skies. and recommended to the approval
of their readers On the contrary, Mr.. Lincoln
and his advisers have been bitterly abused be-
cause they have failed to sanction such
iucendisry absurdities, and an affiliated
weekly sheet has gone so far as to denounce
him a. "the slavehound Of Illinois" Not
contented with the mischief they have
alreany achieved, these papers and their
adherents are now exerting themselves to sup
plant Irish and German labor in New York by
substituting emancpated blacks in their places,
and to raise Mr.. George Opdyke, partisan of
the most ultra Of their diabolical schemes, to
the Mayoralty Of the city.
If the programme OF the abolitionists Of New
York we're carried out, anarchy would soon
prevail throughout the country, and it would
soon be utterly impossible to carry on the war.
They maintain that slaves should be armed
against their masters, raised to the dignity of
soldiers, and mingled together in the same
ranks with the brave native American, Irish and
German patriots who are enlisted in the glorious
work of crushing out rebellion, and re-establish-
ing the institutions that have been imperilled
by treason. What hideous state Of things to
contemplate! We should have crops of niger
lieutenants, captains, majors, generals, and
major generals, and who knows but Greeley
Garrison and their associates might not even
lobby some woolly headed producer Of rice and
sugar into the post Of Commander-in- Chief of
the American armiest This is no fiction OF a
diseased IMAGINATION. Ii IS precisely what
might be the natural and necessary consequence
Of the adoption of the shameful policy which
such papers as the Tribune and Evening Post
would foist upon the country. Fellow soldiers
must occupy relation to each other Of perfect
equality, and the project Of arming negroes
which these journals advocate, would entitle
them to the same privileges Of promotion that
are enjoyed by the whites. The conservative,
law-abiding citizens OF New York are called
upon to endorse with their approval this de-
grading plan for reducing the nation to bar
barism. and the anti-slavery faction hope that,
by electing their candidate for tlfe Mayoralty,
they can make it appear to the world that this
great metropolis has desenerated into down
ward progress towards such horrible amalga-