The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-26


the negroes of the South against their masters
We want no such arming. 1t would be an act
Of disgrace and humiliation to the government
to resort to such soldiers We don't want
them. We have loyal white men enough, three
times over, to put down this Southern rebel
lion. Let us keep the negro in bis place. We
can make him in the South useful in thousand
ways; but if we attempt to make him Union
soldier we ruin him, we ruin the South instead
of saving it, and We disgrace ourselves and our
cause in the eyes of the whole civilized world.
Grand nisc0vcry--The New York Herald
TO be the Motive Power of the Political
World.
All great discoveries require time for de-
vclopement and for their recognition and appre-
citation by mankind. 1t was long till Galileos
discovery in astronomy was firmly established.
Harveys discovery of the circulation Of the
blood long met with great opposition. Galvani's
discovery Of galvinism; Morse's discoveries in
magnetic electricity, leading to the invention
Of the telegraph; Watts invention of the engine,
proving steam to be motive power, and Ful-
toms successful application of it to ships, all
encountered opposition, difficulty and doubt;
and il required twenty-five years to establish
the most useful of these discoveries to the salts
faction of the world at large. Ii has taken tie
same length Of time to develope the newspaper
press OF the United States as o great power
on earth; ard "thc Little Villain" of the
New York Times, however small in other
things, is great in being the discovcrcr of
the motive power which regulates the move
meuts and The wheels within wheels of the
chief governments of the world. In yestcr-
day number he devoted long leading article
to the demonstration Of his discovery, and he
shows very conclusiyely that the New YORK
HERALD is that power. He says the HERALD
has power to compel England to recognise
Ike Southern coniederacy and to 60 to war
with the United States; nor is this all: the h.
RAID, with lis enormous circulation, is regarded
in England as the great organ Of The whole
American people and Of the government at
Washington and lit has power to plunge tho
country into war with England" and intends
TO do this, knowing that it wonld be disastrous
to tic country.
Such is tho potent and mighty influence as
crihcd TO the NEW YORK HERALD by the Times.
But il is not a little amusing to lind in the next
page Of the same paper its Washington COR
respondent taking exactly the opposite view,
prociaiming that the HERALD is right
on the question of Mason and Slidell's
.rrcsl tbot tta oIcI;t;nr ,.ros, aro al ,,.a,a.
in courselling cowardly concession to Eng
land or France for the sake o. peace" and that
in pursuing this course they are "dong more
harm to the country than Jefferson Davis or
Dcaurrgard." But the writer holds that the
HERALD Las no influence; whereas, "whcn the
humiiating suggestion is rc-echocd III journals
o. undouotcd loyalty (mcaning the abolition
jeurnalsl, from nervous apprehension OF the
danger Of war with England, there is danger
that the poison will infuse itself into the public
mind" We really wish the abolition Scribes
ana Pharisces would settle among themselves
what is our position, for tie poles cannot be
more opposite than the two positions which are
attributed to us respectively by two writer's il,
the same Journal.
The truth is that these ignorant pretendcrs
and when questions OF difficulty arise
they are at their wits end, and, like drunken
men, reel to and fro. Time will show that the
HERALD is right on the international question
now raised, that England will look before she
leaps, and think twice before she goes to war
.r....
owe her grudge, for the sake Of two men
with whom we have a quarrel, who are not
among the number of her subjects and have no
relations with her Of any kind whatever. Right
glad she will be if we win let her alone, as is
intimated by Lord Pamerston and the London
press But it is not likely that she will
long enjoy this immunity. As appears, from
the intelligence we publish elsewhere
the rebel government at Richmond is
breaking mp and retrcating TO Nashville, pre-
paratory to the retreat and breaking up OF its
army, and the caving in Of the whole rebellion
before the victorious march Of our arms. There
will thus be very soon million Of mon in arms
left free to settle the question Of Mason and
Slidcll and all old scores with England We
have long account with her to wipe out
Whenever she was in pinch we were friendly
to her. But for the last thirty years she has
been aboring to split up the republic, and, with
the aid Of her allies, the abolitonists and theil
organs, she has succeeded at last. This is the
greatest injury one nation could infct upon
another, and when the disaster is repaired, as it
quickly will be, we shall then be in !. position
to make the British aristocracy feel the conse.
quences of their treacherous schemes to over
throw our government, and with it democratic
institutions in the New World and the hopes OF
humanity in the Old.
CAPTURED CORRESPONDENCE OF THE ENEMY AT
PoRr RoYAL.-We publish to-day a curious
batch Of letters captured at Port Royal, where
the enemy made 30 hasty retreat. Some of
them are military and official; some are the
epis.les Of Office seekers and would-bc captains.
some rive MS a Ulimpse OF life in n fort. some