New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-19
TIE HERALD AND PUBLIC MEET

Wendell Phillips, advertised TO be delivered
this evening, "that he intends to pitch
Z" into the American Government, and praise
3" that Of England in relation to the Trent busl-
ness" We presume that paper viii follow
up this lie to-day by Others just ss absurd and
lust as base. The Herald never let's an oppor-
unity escape. great or small, by which 1t may
help its friends, the Secessionists. Tue lecture
Mr.. Phillips will deliver here this evening is.
we are told The same he gave few days since
in Boston, and which he commenced by saying
that it " might be supposed that be came there
as an Abolitionist to talk of the war. Not
" at all. As q mere Abotionist, his interest
4" in the war had gone By, for the system OF
Slavery on this continent had received It's
'.deah wound" And again he said: " He
" would look at it the warl not as white
" man or negro looks at it, but as an Amer
L" lean citizen, who knows neither black nor
white, neither Saxon nor Indian, but stretches
" an equal scepter over ALL" Months ago be
spoke in the strongest terms of condemnation OF
the attitude England las assumed toward this
country and if he alludes to her at all now it
will BE-, we presume, III terms that VIII give
great qualification TO the popular sentiment Of
the moment. The UcrdM knows this ms well Is
We do but it has iorlorn hope that there is
yet force enough IN The name " Abolitonlst" to
cobjure a mob by. By mob it Will hold out
aid and comfort to rebels; by mob it hopes
TO concentrate all the treason Of the city; out
Of one mob it hopes may grow many, and out
of MANY mobs cont nued state vi riot when
there may be again chance of securing the
triumph of traitors and Of taking NcW-lork
out OF the Union. 1t uses the name OF Phillips
Only .. m incentive TO disorder, that treason
may make some Roadway.
Ii may be- that there are few persons
they cannot be many, notwithstanding the
large number Of its readers who buy the sheet
not because they care what 1t says but
because they think their neish0ors do.
may be that there are still few persons
under the Influence Of Journal whose
suppression, were It's power az AL commen-
.urate with It's circulation, would be more
inperstyely called for than tine taking Of auy
Southern city. Let sucL persons remember
the record of The Heyold for only little more
than half n year. 1t is Secession sheet OF
the most malignanE type. Ii advocated the
ADDICTION OF the Secession Constitution only
about eight months ago. That Constitution 1t
declared 10 be "As IMPROVEMENT upon the
Constitution adopted by our Fathers in l7s9.
Ii declared 1t to be- especially necessary that
-. the conservative masses of this metropolis
a. sLoud take hc lead in iniorsing the Consti-
tuition which the Confederate States OF the
:. South have adopted, and Of siGNfFYING
TIER WILLINGNESS TO ACQUiEsCE IN THE
SAME" All these facts We have stated before,
and more than once, aud Eerer get has The Herald
reniuTed TO sag that Il has changed Us opinions.
IL is silent under the repeated charges made
against it, by this and other journals, of It's
treason. 1t DARE not enter upon its defense.
Reckless and bold as it is, il knows that there
ia point where public patience will bear and
forbear no longer; where even its unparalleled in
science as the great public Zany, the privileged
Fool OF the public press, who Is tolerated be-
cause he raises laugh, viii not save it; it is
wise enough to know that, II 1t claims any virtue,
OF dsclams any vice, and asks that ITS char.
aeter be considered seriously, it is ruined from
tIat moment. Therefore it dare not answer
when arraigned for treason. 4 traitor every
body knows it il, and for It's life it will not
venture TO assume that il is OF any consequence
whether it is or not. 1t is ruined if it pretends
to any character. Ii contents itself with being
the mouth.pece of the vilest and most ignorant,
satisfied that through such instrumentalltles it
may sometimes perpetrate the mischief it al
ways longs for
1t is for this reason that The Herald, when
peculiarly deyilish, endeavors to get up public
meeting, or to incite riot in one got up by
other people 1t wants riot now at Mr.
Phllips's lecture. in the interest of Secession
Just as at the fall of Sumter it endeayored to
get up public meeting In opposition 10 The
GorernmeHt, and in sympathy with the South,
that the attack upon Sumter might be made
the occasion Of The Secession Of Ner- York City,
as it had proposed and urged for weeks before.
We know that it is denied that The Herald ever
made call for such meeting. We do not
know whether the denial is made because it is
hoped that nobody will take the trouble to verify
the fact, or whether steps were taken, in the
suppression of an edition Of the paper, to make
it difficult to verify it; but this wo do know,
that in the number for Monday, April -, 1861,
now before US, in an article Oh the fall OF
Sumter, The Herald says: I've again call
4" upon our fellow citizens of this island, ire