The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-11
Tho Administration, tho War and Our
Satanic Abolition Faction.

Satanic Abolition Faction.
With the bombardment of Fort Sumter, the
loyal people of the mighty North, startled from
their dreams of security and their hopes of
peace, rallied for war, en- m,asse, around the holy
standard of the Union. With all our warnings,
and with all the facts before us of the incipient
! movements Of a deliberate rebellion, we were
! taken by surprise. President Lincolns war
proc. amation came upon us like bugle blast
ia the night In that delenceless condition, re-
cutting from long reign of peace, under which
we were becoming rusty and luxurious, we
wero suddenly called to the sternest realities
Of a tremendous armed instruction, menacing,
as the first STEP revolutionary seizure Of our
national capital.
In an instant, however, our loyal States COM
pretended their situation, their deficiencies
and their resources. The secession trail
tors of Mr.. Buchanan's Cabinet and their
confederates had reduced our federal
treasury to bankruptcy; had dispersed
far and wide the forces of our little regular
army, and had widely sown the seeds of trea-
son among it's officers; had scattered the ships
| OF our navy to the most distant corners of the
globe; had stored our forts, arsenals and navy
yards in tho South with vast supplies of gun
powder, small arms and cannon from the
| North, and had seized them, leaving our go
vernment, we may say, without money, with
| out an army, without navy, without arms,
and without any general knowledge of the
simplest rudiments of war among our people.
| This was our condition in April last; but our
! loyal States realized it, and knew their capa-
bilities. Enlistments, equipments and warlike
| preparations of oil descriptions became the or
| der Of the day. The paramount idea was that,
having been called to this issue of arms, we
| must put down this Southern rebellion, and in
! the brieiest possible time. We had entered
| bravely into the work, and were progressing
finely, when a mischievous and active seces-
sion element appeared in our very midst
1t was that old hidcbound, corrupt and
trading democratic element, composed main
| ly of Northern men with Southern pot lucky
| principles; that rotten spells and plumber demo-
cratic faction emanating from the Albany Re-
| gcncy, which would sell the country for a jug OF
whiskcy or mess Of pottage. The vagrant
| Bohcmians of this rotten faction were
| making their reasonable stump speeches. ard
| others Of the tribe were publishing and ciTcu-
lating their secession organs here and there and
everywhere-such as the New York Do;y Noes
and Day Boot But what followed? The sound
public opinion Of The North soon silenced these
secession stumpers, and the government, with
some arrests of obnoxious parties, and with
the exclusion of their secession journals from
tho public mails, soon put an end to the trea-
sonable peace agitation Of this rotten secession
democratic faction.
Good. A serious disturbing element Of mis-
chief was thus disposed of, and SO eifectually
subducd that c,en its remaining representa-
tves in Congressman as Bright, Bayard and
Powell, in the Senate, and such as Vallandig-
ham and Ben Wood in the House-sing their Sc
cession ideas now 10 Union music; and wo hope
! soon to find them dancing cordially to the
| fiddle OF % Honest Abe Lincoln" With this
! seditious democratic faction out of the way,
! our loyal people of our loyal States proceeded
with vastly renewed energy ard enthusiasm III
the great work Of their war for the Union. And
mark the wonders we have accomplished. We
Cd and equipped Unien volunteer army;of
six hundred and Fifty thousand men; we have
put our federal treasury upon secure founda-
ton, though expanding over million of dol
lars day; we have built up and equipped
navy Of two hundred and fifty ships; and still
the work goes on.
In these achier ements we have far exceeded
in the actual work accomplished anything
which would be done in the same time by any
other body Of twenty-five millions of people
on the face of the globe Better still, under
| the sSlful supervision of General Mcclellan,
the different divisions Of our army and our va
rious existing and forthcoming naval exped-
tions, promise such tremendous assault along
the whole front, flank and rear of this rebellion
as canno. fail TO crush it. Best of all, Pres-
dent Lincoln's sound, conservative Union policy,
| in regard to the Southern institution
| OF slavery, meets the cordial approval of the
| great mass of the people of our loyal States.
and OF all the loyal people of our rcvolted
States and they are no ;nconsderable fraction.
| Nothing now is wanted but the harmonious CO.
| operation Of Congress with the administration
| and the army, in order to bring back into the
| Union all our rcvolted States, South Carolina
! and all, before the LIST of May
| But, unfortunately that original faction of
discord, dssension, disunion and civil war-the
Satanic abolition faction of the Norih--stands
between our people and Congress, between
Congress and the administration, and between
the administration and the army. and is threat
ening the most disastrous consequences to our
sacred cause.-the integrity of the Union" Be-
tween war for the Union and war for the
extirpation of Southern slavery, the President
has made bis choice. Our loyal States and the
army are with him, and large portion
of the people of our revolted States are
longing for their restoration to the Union.
But the mischievous movements Of this
Satanic abolition faction must be stopped
or they may sink our hopes of the Union be-
yord redemption. Pigmies may overthrow
| the work OF giants and this MALIGNANT abo-