The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-13

promptltude of an honest nature No man, in
the history of the United States. has ever been
called upon to assume such weighty response
bilities, or take upon himself risks from which
politicians Of small calibrc would have shrunk
in dlsmay. Yet he has done no more than
keep pace with public opinion, which has sas-
tanned him in all that he has done, and still
looks with confidence to him alone, to avert
every new peril from the country, as it shall
arise. Within the last few days, the papers Of
this city, whose clamorous discomfort paved the
way for the terrible disaster to the federal
arms at Bull run, and whom impunity has rem
dored reckless in their attempts to reduce the
nation to state of anarchy, have raised their
voices in wilder and more discordant howl
than ever, in order TO sustain the insubordna-
ton and mismanagement Of General Fremont,
in Missouri. They have openly threatened
government with the mutiny of his troops, If it
dares to bring him to court martial, and have
advocated his unconstitutional proclamation,
even calling upon him to raise, on its basis, the
standard OF insurrection. The calm, well
digested exposition Of Catholic views on the
subject of slavery, by the learned and venerable
prelate who occupies the highest place in our
North American Catholic Episcopate, is in
suited by them, with every appliance Of mis-
representation, and yesterdays Tribune gives
mp two columns Of its paper to q garbled, dis
colored and almost blasphemous diatribe, by
pretended Catholic, who falsifies history in
order to abet rebellion, and create discord in
the Catholic Church. These things ought not
to be allowed. The same strong arm which
closed the mouths of the Nears, Neeman's
Journal and Day Book, ought, on far higher
grounds, and for more cogcnt and imperative
reasons, to be raised against the Tribune, hide
pendent, L;bealor and Times.
Under the tutelage Of an aristocracy, in Great
Britain, jealous Of the success of American in
situations, the Garrisons, Tappans, Greeleys,
Raymonds, Wendell Phillipscs and Gerrit
Smiths of the North, aided by money contribu-
ted in England, established and perpetuated
the school Of politics which, for over quarter
of a century, has had for its motto that ''the
constitution is league with hell and cove
nant with death" One Of the same school,
Cheever, has just returned from Europe, cheered
on by subscriptions for his church. to fresh
yigor in the work Of sowing dissensions between
the States, which may tend to permanent dis
severment OF the Union. To this faction, and
to its unceasing intrigues, it was owing that the
slave States were goaded to rebellion and that
the Southern frontier is now the arena of Il con.
flict which may result in the sacrifice Of tens of
thousands of lives; that national debt is rapid
ly rolling up Of hundreds of millions Of dollars;
and that blow has been struck at the pros
perity Of the country, which would have de-
stroyed less elastic and vigorous nation. Not
contented with this, they are straining every
nerve to turn the present war into an instru-
mentality Of dark, individual vengeance, and to
offer up oil that is held sacred by American
hearts, on the Internal altar of their brutal, Mig
ger worshipping fanaticism.
The duty Of the President of the United States
appears as clear as MONDAY in the premises
Nineteen out of twenty Of the people of the
North, contemplate with loathing and dis
gust the bloody incendiarism of the aboli-
ton press, and would hail its suppression with
an outburst of triumphant rejoicing, such as has
not been witnessed in this country since the
cloud first began to overshadow the horizon
which now menaces our political destinics
Such step would give an impetus to loyalty
which would enable government to triple or
quadruple the number Of troops in the federal
service, while it would be q means o.. rallying
the Union element in the South, and demon
strating that there is no disposition in The North
to assail or undermine those rights that are
guaranteed to them by the constitution and the
laws,