The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-13


year. The republican party is gone; the
Chicago platform is annihilated; the democratic
organization is smashed to pieces; disunion and
abolition theories are condemned to equal repro
baton, and principle is established 10y which
electioneering machinery will be broken up MS
useless ut the close of each yearly struggle at
the polls, and new men will be brought forward,
each successive year, by the people, to repre-
sent new and fresh and conservative issues that
may have arisen, just as Mr.. Dickinson has been
selected by the Union Convention, because OF
the prominent part he has taken in the main
tenance of national ideas since the Inauguration
of the war.
General Dix and His Kid Glove Policy
With thc Maryland Rcbels.
In the great distress of President Buchanan
last winter, when he discovered that the trail
tors of his Cabinet were sinking his admnstra-
ton, he turned them adrift at the eleventh hour
and put loyal men in their places. Thus
| General Dix was called TO the head of the Trea-
| sury Department in the place Of the traitor
| Cobb, and our readers will remember the ia
nous order OF the General in regard to reye-
|
| man attempts to haul down the American flag,
shoot him on the spot'-and how that order
electrified the country At that time this war
had not broken out, and the honest, conserva-
| tive Union men of the country were making
great efforts for, and entertained strong hopes
| of, compromise which would restore the Sc
coded States to the Union. Hence it was con-
| -. III kIox 10 bad 1<1.1
taken the initiative for strong measures before
the war, would surely be the man for strong
measures in the midst of state Of war.
But in this reasonable conclusion the country
and President Lincoln were mistaken. In that
single pont-blank shot of his riHed cannon at
those revenue cutter traitors in New Orleans
! it appears that General Dix exhausted his stock
appointed him to the command of the military
department Of Maryland under the belief that
the General was man of decision and prompt
action that when he had anything to do in the
great work of suppressing this rebellion he
would not be writing and telegraphing back
to Washington, but would put it through"
And this was the hope Of the country. But the
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situation of Baltimore and Maryland in refer
ence to this rebellion?
An extensive conspiracy Of rebels is known
to exist in the State and all over it it is known
that their headquarters are in Baltimore; that
they are only awaiting an invasion by the rebel
forces from Virginia to light up all Maryland
with the fires of civil war to cut off all our
| Va, pOto 4 ~ a.
that city in the rear 1t is known that the pur-
pose of the rebel Maryland Legislature, which
meets in a few days, is an act of secession and
a reign of secession terror like that inaugurated
by the late traitorous State authorities of
Missouri and yet, in the midst of these
dangers, what do we see? We see, for instance,
that while an obscure editor of contemplate
weekly secession paper at Greenport, Long
Island is seized and clapped into Fort Lafay-
cite, three or four daily secession organs in Bal
timore, Of the most rabd type, are permitted,
without interruption, to kindle and blow into
great fame the secession combustibles around
them; that these organs, with impunity right
under the nose. of General Dix are allowed
from day to day to publish information for the
benefit of the enemy and in every way to be-
lie, misrepresent and scandalze the govern
ment of the United States and its great and
holy cause.
And why are these things permitted? We
can only answer that it is because General Dix
has put on his kid gloves, in order to deal
gently with tie fashionable rebels of Balti-
more. He does not wish to give them any
cause Of offence he wishes to conciliate them,
when he ought to know that these Maryland Sc
cessiohists, like all the rest, are only laughing
at his credulity We can tell him, however,
that he is in danger, and that he must act, or he
may be destroyed. He must adopt the policy
of Lyon and Fremont in Missouri, of graphing
he.threads of this rebellion wherever they are
visible, or Baltimore may soon be too hot to
hold him. If Fremont were in command Of
Gen. Dix's department at this crisis we have no
doubt that his first act would be the suppress
sion of those Baltimore secession organs, and
that his second act would be a proclamation
establishing martial law over Baltimore and the
whole State OF Maryland, including a special
injunction against the impending meeting of her
secession Legislature Doubtless such procla-
nation would be approved by three-fourths of
the people of Maryland; and we submit this
opinion seriously to the Immediate attention Of
President Lincoln and his Cabinet
The safety Of Maryland 10 indispensable to
the safety Of Washington and the immediate
proclamation Of martial law over the State will
at least enable the government to discover and
battle the designs of the Maryland rebel con-
spirators, as the allies of Beauregard. At all
events the loyal people Of the Union every.
where desire the suppression of those rabid
secession organs of Baltimore, or the reasons Of
. Gen. Dix for his extraordinary indulgcnces to.
wards them. If he cannot take off his kid
| gloves in dealing with these Baltimore traitors
, we want to know the reason why. Is Gen. Dis
| asleep? We should like to know.