The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-23


man race in the Old World, who have looked to
this Western Star of Empire as their brightest
hope, is involved in the solution Of tho question
at issue.
AS TO the United States Congress, we trust
that it will adopt practical measures, and that
it will avoid debate. There is no necessity for
oratory. Action is what is needed In the emer-
gency of the country. Above all. let there be
no secret session. That sortof proceeding msy
do for the Richmond Congress, for their deeds
are evil and they shun the Light, just like the
candidates for State prison. But It is un-
worthy of the representatives of great republic,
who ought to have nothing to conceal from the
people who sent them, and whose eye is upon
them. They will he held responsible for their
action to God and the country.
The English Press on tho Now York
Herald and the War.
The English journals are in terrible trouble
and worse confusion about the New YORK
HERALD. They are in quandary from which
it would seem hard to extricate them in the
face of that strength and imbecility, folly and
ferocity, power and weakness mystery and
oandor, perspicuity and vagueness, sharpness
and bluntness, excitement and tranquility, va
poriDg and reasoning, dulness and wit, fairness
and severity, wisdom and eccentricity, thunder
and silence, which they attribute to this journal
alternately and in confusion worse COMPOUNDED.
We must truly be TO them their greatest
enigma. The New YORK HERALD is their
great and untiring study, aud its editorials
appear to fill them with sensations of
mingled wonder and dismay. Sometimes
they give us up in despair, and as DIR
nier resort speak of our lucuprations
as mere idle vaporing and nonsense, conclud-
ing with hint that such silly Boosting and
rafting of stage thunder add little to the dig
nifty of our subject.
But what has recently dumbfoundered and
perplexed them most completely, and capped the
climax of their tribulation concerning us by
giving them such a severe attack of indigestion
as they have not had for long time, is one of
our Washington dispatches, published on the
22d of May, concerning our relations with
foreign Powers, and which is described as an
"extraordinary article, which perhaps has
more the appearance Of communiqW than
anything we remember TO have seen in q
United States journal for some years past and
is 80 placed and displayed as to show the
reader that its statements are to be re-
ceived as of peculiar weight and anthem
ticity." That it is regarded by them as of
peculiar weight and authenticity is evident
from the manner in which they italicise por-
tons of it here and there. They FIRST learned
from this the attitude which our government
has assumed towards other nations, and tho
sensation which followed upon this discovery
had its effect not only upon the British people
and their government, but all over Europe.
They saw that the United States had determined
what to do in the event of any foreign Power
trucking to the rebel States, and the warning
was not lost upon England. Yet they seemed
sorry that the NEW YORK HERALD had told them
this, and puzzled themselves what to say to
anything so cavalier.
nient to turn a corner and commence talking
of the prospects of reconciliation, which would
leave England no opportunity for Interference.
Listen to their argument@"North and South,
it is true, have been in fearful temper, swear.
ing and cursing nightly. But the effervescence
must have subsidized by this time. If, on due
reflection and after looking at each other
fiercely for some time, their grim Wis
ages should relax into a smile, and
they should make up their minds to shake
hands and 60 home again, why, then, none
would rejoice so much as the people of Eng
land at such an ending to quarrel that pro-
missed fatal things. There really does seem a
little hope when we are told that the federal
government has resolved on making no imme-
date aggressive movement We know that
volunteer soldiers cannot abide waiting and
The tedium and hardship of campaigning with
out its glory. We shall be glad indeed if any
thing that we have said in depreciation of this
fratricidal war should have served in some
slight degree to damp their martial enthusi.
asm.' This last is particularly kind wish.
That the whole campaign concludes the
oracle, 'should end in smoke, must be the thing
most pleasing to men of English breed" Here
is British anxiety for cotton. Yes, it is very
evident that the effervescence has subsidized by
this time, and that the administration has re-
solved en- making no immediate aggressive
movement, and that Union men and secession
lists have, after looking fierce, come up smiling
and shaken hands, and that the martial courage
Of our troops has been damped, and that
the whole thing has ended in smoke
Very evident indeed--trom a comic
point of view. What next? Why, we
are suddenly led to believe that it is certainly
unfortunate that in the eyes of many foreign
ers The public opinion of this country should be
supposed to be represented by the opinions
put forth in one or two leading Journalist"
and all that the latter have said is accordingly
at once knocked to the ground Then we come
upon very sweet passage, which informs us
that it is of the utmost Importance that tho