The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-22

In the military movement, under the promise TO
continue their salaries and keep their situations
open for them during their absence. Already
two hundred and fifty thousand men have been
enrolled for active service and the number is
rapidly on the increase; while, since the evacu
alton of Fort Sumter, no less than Twenty-Five
millions of dollars haze been subscribed for them
throughout the country, by States, corporations
and individuals, and by the end of the month
the amount will probably be doubled. But
all will be wanted. Such earnestness and
patriotism, such unity and strength, as we are
display ing wherever the flag of our Union
waves must strike terror into the hearts of
those we are preparing to oppose.
The Great Union DEMONSTRATION.
The stupendous demonstration which this city
witnessed Last Saturday, in favor of the preser-
walton of the integrity of the Union, has no par
allel in the history of the world. 1t was more
than q meeting-it was a national ovation.
Union square was but the loudly beating heart,
of which every thoroughfare of the metropolis
constituted an artery. Wave upon wave Of
human beings, thousands, and thousands, upon
tens of thousands, poured through the streets,
for hours together, actuated by a sentiment,
neither Of joy, nor of triumph; but of infiexi-
BILE determination that, whatever the cost may
be, the Union shall be preserved.
With the bombardment Of Fort Sumter, all
past issues, every party line and platform, was
swept away, and became as obsolete as the
period beyond the food. With the opening of
the batteries of General Beauresard upon the
flag of the United States new volume in the
history of the country opened, which can
never close, until the Union has emerged out
Of its present trials, in full integrity and
splendor, without the loss of single star.
Nor is the enthusiastic patriotism which has
been displayed, within the past week, con-
fined to New York. North, West, and East, the
people are unit. Opposition is unknown;
but, in every city, town, village, hamlet, and
dwelling, from the Atlantic seaboard to the
Rocky Mountains, the same unanimous resolve
prevails, not to lay down arms until the rebels
Of the South have been reduced to submis-
sion.
The government of the Confederate States, has
wantonly and wickedly inaugurated hostilities,
in order to discover and destroy the republic.
The government, at Washington, has appealed
to the love of country, which rules in the heart
of every good citizen, North and South, to aid
it in establishing the Union upon its pristine
basis 1t could have invoked no principle, so
potent to unite the sympathies and concentrate
the energies of civilized people. 1t is found
ed in instincts which lie deep down in the hui
man heart, and form part of its untaught, ma
tural logic. Patriotism, reverence for the past,
respect for established authority, as well as the
law of self-preservation, are all motives for
maintaining it. The attempt of a successful
unity, is sacrilege from which every sensitive
mind shudders, and the odiousness of the word
treason, Justly attaches to those who would
rend the parts of the homogeneous whole asun-
der Hence 1t is, that one soul, one will, in
spires the Northern States in this terrible crisis,
and that, as Senator Baker exclaimed, "Seven
hundred and fifty thousand men, and three
hundred millions of money" will be readily
sacrificed in behalf of such vast and precious
interest.
1t is clear as MONDAY, that the atrocious
effort to destroy the Union, cannot succeed.
It's aspiration to do so is unnatural, suicidal
and base, and can find no response in the intel
lect or conscience of right minded individuals,
even in the seeded States The programme of
President Lincoln, on the contrary, is founded
upon that imperishable, inextinguishable love
OF country, which will not permit the
REIMBURSEMENT of any of its parts, but
prefers any sacrifice to its disintegration.
All that the people demand is that
it shall be carried out with the utmost vigor
and energy. The North does not stint its
proffers OF men and money. Two hundred
thousand troops will as readily be yielded, as
the seventy-fve thousand that have been re-
quired. II loans are wanted, our merchants
and capitalists have signifed their willingness
to give, with the utmost profusion We CALL
then, upon government to take no less than the
exigences Of the case require, and TO be re-
strained within the limits of no i'll calculated
economy. The war that has begun, should be
short, sudden, bold, and determined The ban
ner of the constitution, should be carried into
every corner of the Union, where it has been
thrown down, and ii should be remembered
that fearful bloody strife, of limited duration.
is preferable to prolonged conflict Neither
should the object in view, be ever lost sight
of, amidst the excited passions of the hour.
1t is not to avenge wrongs, to destroy enemies
or to subdue territory, but to restore to the ma
ton the prosperity it enjoyed one year ago, in
G word, to conquer peace.
The BANNER IN THE BREEZE.-Our cities,
towns and villages are gay with the streaming
colors of the Star Spangled Banner We see