The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-18

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President Lincoln Nobly Meeting the
Crisis.
The Developments of each successive stage
of the great crisis through which the United
States is passing demonstrate fully that the Pre-
sident, in proportion to his continually increas-
ing experience in affairs of State is rising to the
position and dignity Of one of the most firm,
enlightened and comprehensive statesmen that
the country has ever produced. He seems in
tuityely to understand every one of the ele-
ments of evil by which the integrity of the re-
public has been undermined, during the last
thirty years, and to be able to apply an efficient
remedy for them all. The bold and energetic
manner in which secession newspapers have
been suppressed; the decision that has been
shown in imprisoning rebels at Fort Lafayette,
irrespective of rank popularity or antecedents;
the enlarged views that have been manifested in
the reorganization of our armies on the Poto-
mac. in Illinois Missouri and Eastern Virginia.
as we'll as the skill and strategic talent that
have been manifested in the recent sea expedi-
ton to Cape Hatteras, betoken mind and con-
science alive to tho fearful exigencies of the
epoch and full of resolve that the nation shall
be restored to its pristine grandeur and pros
perity. But while contending, in battle array,
with the insane faction of niger drivers at the
South, and putting down with the strong hand
their murderous and suicidal treason, Mr.. Lin
coin has been equally mindful that the original
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fanatical niger worshippers at the North, and
that to them are mainly owing eur present
troubles. The moderate and effective rebuke
contained in his letter to Major General FIRE.
mont is eIninently worthy of admiration, both
for the dignifed and courteous language in
which it is couched and the death blow it strikes
at all attempts of badly advised local COM
manders to overstep the legitimate sphere Of
their military duties, and inaugurate govern
mental policy, concerning matter on which
the gravest results may hinge, and which tho
President alone has the right to indicate.
The reunion Of the States, temporarily
discovered by insurrectionary treason, cannot
be established by force of arms alone. In add
dtion to the triumphant advance of our troops
by sea and ON land, it is indispensable that the
good and glorious old constitution, with all of
its provisions, and guarantees, should remain
embalmed in the respect of the people, and that
it should be the pole star towards which all
thoughts will point, when the moment shall
have come for negotiating a cessation Of the I'M
fortunate strife that now rends the entrails of
the republic. AS it came down to us from
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and their con-
temporaries, it must be preserved and clearly
marked as the basis Of the peace which the war
is intended to bring about The greatest enc
mics Of the Union and constitution are the Sc
ccssionists of the South and the abolitionists of
the North-the political niger drivers who
eliminated their reasonable intrigues with the
bombardment of Fort Sumter, and the niger
worshippers who have endcay Ored to make tho
struggle that has commenced q crusade against
Southern institutions, il which oceans of blood
should be shed to crafty the malice and folly of
the school of which Garrison, Greeley, Gerrit
Smith, Wendell Phillips and others are the pro-
minent representatives. The recent acts and
letters of the President of the United States,
show that he and his advisers are equal to the
task of stretching out the hand which shall
etiectually crush the efforts of both of these
classes of factonists, and that they are not more
resolved to drive the armies of Beauregard. Lee
and Johnston out Of Virginia, than to check
efforts similar to those into which General FIRE.
mont was lately beguiled by perfdious abolition
counsellors.
The people of the United States endorse
every one of the recent acts of Mr. Lincoln, as
well in shutting up secession newspaper Offices.
as in depriving active sympathzers with rebel
lion of their liberty by enclosing them within
the walls of federal fortresses. When the proper
time, however, shall have arrived popular senti-
ment will demand another step forward, and
insist that those who originated the discord that
prevails between the States; who for years de-
clared that the constitution was league with
hell and covenant with DEATH" and who have
preached division of the Union into two con-
with far more pertinacity and venom
than any Of the school of Davis, Slidell Ben
jamin and Yancey should be mcted out their
deserts. Such journals as the Anti-Slarerv
Standard the Tribune, Boston Liberator, Times.
Independent and Post have done more to OBJ
sruct the progress of this patriotic war than all
other ins!rumentalities put together. They
have not only stimulated their readers to vic.
lation of the constitution on the subject of slave
but have endeavored, by every pos
sible device, to foment discomfort against the
and its agents They ought to
be silenced in the same manner as the secession
newspapers have been silenccd, and we have no
doubt that the closing up of their offices will
be the ultimate sequel of the measures which
the President Ks so wisely adopting to secure
the well being of the country. He is meeting
tho crisis nobly, and the hearts of the people
are with him in his determined efforts to put
down both secession and antislavery treason.