The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-03

aaon Under the Consultation.
Extremes meet. Keitt and Rhett navigate In
the came boat with Garrison and Wendell Phil
lips, and while the latter initiate the sails, tho
former are equally industrious at the rudder'
1t is especially touching to behold the efforts
in the same direction, Of our two great city
Statesmen, the Hon. Massa Greeley and the
Hon Benjamin Wood. Both zealously labor to
produce dissolution of the Union, and If the
means each employs is peculiar to himself, the
end they havein view is identically the same.
But for the niger, the Hon. Massa Greeley
would openly advocate secession. Why not!
The constitution, according to his school of
politics, is a "lesgue with hell and q covenant
with DEATH" and the Stars and Stripes are
+" Haunting lie." On account of the Niger, he
desires, 1t IL true, that "Southern mothers
should be reduced to poverty and their chill
dren to rags" but abstractly considered, he is
prepared, as he told his readers week ago, to
aid the South in peaoeably going QUIT" eff
the cotton States" he exclaimed last Novem
Der, "unitedly and earnestly wish to withdraw
peaceably from the Union, we think they
should and would be allowed to do 60 Any
attempt to compel them by force to remain,
would be contrary to the principles enunciated
in the Immortal Declaration Of Independence
contrary to the fundamental ideas on which
human liberty is basedw And again" If this
doctrine justified the secession from the British
empire of three millions of colonists, in 1776,
we do not see why it would not justify the
secession of five millions of. Southernsrs
in 1861" If the Honorable Massa, has jumped
Jim Crow little On the subject since; If he
now declares that "seas of human blood" must
be shed to prevent the South from Withdraw
ing, let no one accuse him Of inconsistency-
his love for the niger would amply explain
a tenfold greater somerset
The Honorable Benjamin Wood, is equally
convinced that forcible attempts to prevent
peaoeable secession, are altogether atrocious
Madison says 80; Alexander Hamilton says so;
and therefore, he says that he, the Honorable
Benjamin, has q right to stick to the same
opinion. He pitches into Greeleys arguments,
demolishes his theories, nor does he care q
straw for all the niggers in creation; but he
accepts the conclusions of his honorable col
league; aad, rather than have civil war, agrees
with Wendell Phillips thai "disunion is honor,
disunion is gain" Lord Chatham, Burke, Fox,
and other anti coercionists, in England, OF
ITS and 1776, are pressed into Jefferson
Davis service, and made to render valuable
aid as auxiiaries. The present rebellion is
treated as parallel with the colonial struggle
for independence, and schoolboy reading
books are evoked in favor of the application
of the words:-s'If were an American as
am an Englishman," changed, of course, into
IF were Southerner as am Northerner."
The endeaver of the loyal States to put down
treason, and restore the integrity of the Union,
the Honorable Benjamin Wood teaches his
readers, is "an avenging thirst for blood, by
wolves in sleeps clothing, who with
Tophet in their hearts, yet dare to
deface the mission of the Prince Of Peace"
and the cruelty of calling our Southern
brethren "long, lank, brown colored, tobacco
chewing, whiskey- drinking, overbearing, rude,
vulgar combinations of bully and blackguard,"
carving out entrails," and "brandishing OK
whips, Elk shooters, and bowie knives,"is ami.
madverted upon as 'grizzly, ghostly irony"
which every candid mind will admit to be rhe-
torically ridiculous.
In word, both Hon. Massa Greeley and
Hon. Benjamin Wood, want a good deal of
schooling. The Congressman and the ex-
Congressman have neither Of them we fear
any adequate respect for the constitution, and
each is willing to see the republic smashed to
atoms. Massa Greeley, who once said that the
Southern States "could not be kicked out of
tbe Union" now that they are out, cries aloud
to have them kicked in again; but this is out of
pure, philanthropic devotion to the nigger.
On all other considerations he is willing to slet
item secede peaceably." So the Honorable
Benjamin, bewails fighting for SO paltry con-
sideration as to preserve our nationality, and
begs that the dozen slave States may be allowed
TO ego in peace" Both are practical dis
uniorsts, and the lessons they inculcate are
equally adapted to encourage treason. The
country agrees with neither of you, gentlemen,
and its unity will be re-established in spite Of
you both.
FOLLY OF SENDING UNARMED MEN SOUTH
PROTEST OF GENERAL BUrIER.-Late and re-
liable Information from Fortress Monroe, given
in another column, places us in possession of
the fact that General Butler has verbally, and
perhaps officially, protested against the sending
of unarmed troops to his command. There are
already now at the fortress, or upon its en-
virons, more troops without arms than can be
supplied with them by the Quartermaster's
Department as it is now situated at the fort. A
few days since the unsrmed Naval Brigade,
Colonel Bartlett, arrived at Fort Monroe, in
the steamer Coatzacoalcos, from New York;
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