The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-22
The Insurrcction and the War-What OF
tho Night

Northern papers are, some Of them, specializing
on the campaign in Missouri and discussing the
question whether Fremont ought not TO be re-
moved, and whether he ought ever to have been
apponted-some throwing a gloom over the
prospects in Kentucky and Western Virginia,
and others indulging in lamentations about the
! late disaster to our naval squadron near the
mouths Of the Mississippi, the capture Of the
Fanny at Chicamacomico, the escape OF the Ber-
muda into Savannah the escape Of the Nash
vile out Of Charleston, and, lastly, the obstruc-
ton of the navigation Of the Lower Potomac by
such formidable batteries as to suggest the
question whether the blockade Of that river by
| the cannon of the rebels is not more efficient
than the blockade Of the Southern coast by the
United States navy-while the Washington let
ter writers deseant on these topics the journals
for which they write add to the depressing
effect of their lugubrious jeremiads by still
moro gloomy comments The mischievous
peace papers are squelched; but the more mis-
| chieyous abolition journals remain. BY their
continual cowardly whining, their base fear of
a war with England-just as if that would ami
hilate the country-by the doubts they are
throwing out us to the fortunes Of our army
and navy in their next collisions with The
enemy, and by their positive assertions that in
this war the cause Of the Union cannot be
crowned with ultimate success unless the con
stituton is destroyed and the whole negro
population of the South are emancipatcd by
the federal army, under proclamation Of the
President, these white feather journals are pro-
ducing spirit of dependency at the North,
except in the case of men whose motto is, mo
surrender" who have faith in the wisdom of the
political fathers who framed the constitution,
with negro slavery among its provisions, and
who have the pluck to battle to the last for the
preservation Of that constitution as it is and for
the Union, of which it is the sacred bond. These
journals and the abolition demagogues on the
stump and in the pulpit, here and there through
out the Northern States, are demoralizing the
army and discouraging its leaders by preaching
up the idea that the war will never end unless
it is made war of universal emancipation.
Now we do not know the future. and cannot
tell what the action of the government or of the
generals of the army may be; but sure we are
that, if General Mcclellan could fight again the
battle of Bull run-fght it over the graves of
those who fell on the 2lst Of July--and if the
Union General conquered the foe on the
very scene Of the former defeat OF our arms,
as conquer he will wherever and whenever he
meets him; and if, at the same time with this
victory, the government should seize all the
journalists and demagogues at the North who
are throwing hampers on the war, because it is
not carried on in such a way as to suit their
fanatical ideas, the clouds of detection which
now hang over so many minds would be
speedily dispersed and such rejocings would
take place all over the North as were never
witnessed before.
These are the two heroic remedies which will
effectually work the cure of dependency. No
homeopathic pills will suit the case. All de-
ponds on the President whether the right medi-
cine shall be administered. The constitution
has placed the responsibility on his shoulders.
He is in virtue Of that instrument, Com
mandcr-in-C Chief of the army and navy. No
other man shares the responsibility. To him
alone, therefore, will the people look and not
to his Cabinet or generals. MIR. Lincoln has
nobly risen to the height Of the emergency from
which his predecessor shrank. He has appealed
to the country to sustain him, and it has re-
sponded warmly to his call 1t has placed men
and money without stint at his disposal. In
obedience to the impulse Of patriotism, he re-
buked General Fremont when he dared to
transcend the legitimate objects of the war as
limited and defined by Congress. For that
course he has been grossly assailed by fanati-
cal press, which prefers it's abolition theories
to the practical restoration Of the Union. Mr..
Lincoln has done well; but he has much yet
to do. Since the days Of George Washington
never did greater responsibility rest upon any
President, and we have every confidence In him
that he will not fail in the discharge of the high
and holy duties which now dcvolve upon him.
Lord Lyons IntrIgues-The Insulting
Policy OF Great Britain Toyvar ds the
United States.
If the people of the United States justified
Secretary of State Marcy, in rendering passports
to Sir John Champion and the three British
Consuls, in 1854 they would still more unani-
mously applaud the prompt adoption of SINH
lar policy towards Lord Lyons, at the present
time. The communication to the Secretary of
State, of the 18th instant, is. probably the most