The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-26

state or the War; The Southern Pro-
gramme-The his hts, tho " rongs, the
Dang RI, the Power and che Dusy OF our
Government.
Our national capital Is still inyiolate. 1t Is
still beleagured by confederate traitors and
infested by their spies, but we feel easier con-
corning its safety to-day. -Four New York re-
gimepts have been thrown in among Its defend
ers, viz.-the Seventh, Sixth, Twelfth and
Seventy first and four other regiments Of ours
are IN route, making, in all, body of $500
men, equipped and despatched within week,
under the in mediate supervision OF General
Sanford, who has now q half dozen other re-
giments almost ready for embarkation. Good
work, this but with any thing corresponding to
the equipments Of Massachusetts, in reani
ness, our city and State would have had
| fifty thousand men in Washington to day. AS
| it is We estimate that there are at least ten
| thousand 10y armed men now there and In
| the neighborhood, exclusive Of the four or i've
! thousand reported at Annapolis, including n.y.
ing artillery, sappers and miners, blacksmiths,
| &c. By to morrow evening we hope that the
defensive force on hand and within few hours
reach of Gen. Scott, will not be less than
| twenty thousand men.
| Meantime the extra session of the secession
Legislature Of Maryland meets at Annapolis
to morrow, and its first business may be to pre-
cipitate collision in that village. Gov. Hicks
has held back this suspected Legislature till
dragooned into it's service by the Baltimore
mob, for he appears to have been well informed
of tho constituent elements Of both houses, In
calling them together he has simply consented
10 serve the revolutionary cause. Would 1t not
be well for Governor Morgan at once to apprise
Mr.. Seward and Mr.. Lincoln that there must
be no temporizing or compromising between
them and this secession Legislature at Annapo-
| lis; but that on the other hand, it would be
well to dispense it with the first manifestations
Of rebellion against the supreme laws Of the
land, and the supreme rights Of the people Of
| the United States. We are how in a state Of
war, and until the authorities and people Of
Maryland shall have ranged themselves on the
side Of the Union, they will BE treated as ene-
mics by the armed legions OF North, with
or without orders from Wash ton. The spirit
| Of our people is up, and will cause itsasf - DO
-..r -. w. au1uueu trIondss and treacher0us
foes. There must henceforth be no more
courtly compromises with rebels and traitors
until they are subdued.
Washington is still held against them, but IL
is still in danger. The enemy is moving up
| from the confederate or revolted States, and,
| for all that We know, JEFF. Davis and Gen.
Beauregard may have thirty thousand men
within twenty-four hours march of the White
House. But if Gen. Scott, q, reported, has
taken possession Of Arlington Heights on the
opposite bank of the river, he has gained q
most important strategical and defensive posi-
ton. Upon the whole, we are encouraged to
believe that this tremendous pressure of North
ern patriotism is exerting a wholesome influ-
ence at Washington in behalf of q positive,
powerful and decisive plan Of operations; but
still we do and shall encourage our brave and
loyal fellow citizens Of the all powerful North
to keep 1t up.
The origin, the objects, the leaders
agencies and instruments, and the vast
and comprehensive plans of this Southern
revolution, astounding as they now appear,
are only so from the astonishing sue
cesses of the general movement. It had
been taking root and spreading its branches 10
and from South Carolina for Thirty years, but it
| might have taken thirty years more to become
in any degree alarming, with proper exercise
Of vigilance, courage and energy on the part
Of our federal authorities. But the repeal OF
the Missouri Compromise in 1854; the bitter
sectional Kansas imbroglio and its division of
the country into two great sectional camps on
the slavery question; the narrow escape of the
national democracy in 1856 from a crushing
defeat; the growing power of the North, and
the troubles and weakness of Mr. Buchanan's
administration, suggested the time, and precipi-
tated the fulflment Of this gigantic rebellion
And here is its programme. The democratic
party, demoralized and weakened, was first to
be crushed, and 1t was crushed at its Charles.
ton and Baltimore Conventions of last April
and June. This would and did open the door
to the election of Northern anti-slayery Pre-
sident, and this was to be the kew note of
Southern secession. But, in the meantime. the
preparations for practical success in firing the
mine of revolution were industriously carried
on. Thus Mr.. Buchanan's Secretary of War.
Floyd, was sounded and gained over to the
conspirators; and he served them well In filling
our Southern forts and arsenals with arms and
munitions Of war, and in removing or in re-
fusing to furnish them with garrisons. Thus
Mr.. Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury,
Cobb, executed the part assigned him, in vast
ing the money and in destroying the credit of
the government Thompson, of the Interior
Department, was also co-laborer ia the plot;
and all this time our trusting and incredulous
Chief Magistrate was like sailor fast asleep
In rickety boat, drifting outinto an angry sea
On the 10th of December last the miae was
sprung In the secession Of South Carolina. and