The New York herald., 1861-10-17
The Temper or the North and or the
south In This Contest.

The Temper OF the North and OF the
south I'm This Contest.
One OF the most encouraging manifestations
OF this war in behalf Of our Union cause is the
remarkable difference disclosed between the
temper OF the North and the temper Of our
rebetious Confederate States of the South.
While our loyal States have entered into this
contest "more in sorrow than in anger;' while
our Northern people exhibit now less OF sec
tonal animosity than they have shown in any
Presidential campaign since 1910; while the
bulk of our people, from all our political par
ties Of the last twenty years, are actuated by
feelings of pity, conciliation and forgiveness
towards their deluded brethern under the rebel
despotism of Davis, what do we behold as the
ruling elements of this dreadful despotism? A
malignant frenzy; q ferooious scorn Of our 60
vernment and our people; a savage and remorse-
less spirit Of revenge, destruction and spolia-
tion unsurpassed in the annals Of any civil
lzed community on the face of the globe.
We no longer see or hear anything of Southern
conservatism, or Cancellation, or magnanimity;
we see nothing and hear nothing from the pub
lie journals Of our revolted States bat universal
hatred, implacabc hostility and incessant calum-
thing identified with our great and holy cause
of the Union.
This is the difference between the temper of
the North and the temper of the South in
this contest, and it may be readily ex-
planned The twenty-three loyal States, con-
Of bair otr Nd IF 4ha r;r
ness of their cause, naturally disposed to
be charitable and forgivipg to their misguided
brethren of the South. Besides, we all know
that, excepting South Carolina, all our revolted
States were dragged into this senseless rebel
lion by band Of desperate and reckless con-
spirators, against the wishes and the remon-
strances of popular maiorities ranging from
twenty to seventy-iive thousand. We Of the
loyal States also cherish the conviction that,
with the first guarantee of protection offered
them, the loyal people of the rebellious South
will rise as cordially to assist in putting down
this spurious government of Davis as did the
people of France to put an end to the bloody
reign Of the .Iacobin Club.
Thus We explain the charitable and commise-
rating disposition of our loyal States towards
our revOlted States. Secure in their strength,
enthusiastic in behalf of their good cause satis-
fed that it must prevail, our Northern people
always excepting little clique of abolition
malignants and few scattering secession ennis
saries) have, in this war. only one object in
view-"the integrity of the Union" Hence
their unity of sentiment, and their general de-
sire to convince the rebellious South, even
against its will, that our only purpose is the
restoration of line Union rs it was, and as il
must be. il we are ever to have peace between
the two sections.
On the other hand, the conspirators in this
rebellion, impressed with the badness of their
wretched cause, and conscious of their weak
ness, are naturally desperate, reckless, un-
scrupulous and ferocious. They had counted
upon the perfect union of the South on the
final issue of sectional war, and upon divi-
sion OF the North which would render the
government of the United States an easy prey
to Southern armed dictator But the game
has been reversed for while the North is unit
under the old flag, the South is the house which
is divided against itself. The Southern States
of Delaware, Maryland Kentucky and Missouri
still adhere to the Union; nearly one-half Of
the State Of Virginia. has completely seeded
from the seceders, and one-tbird Of Tennessee
is in rebellion against the rebels.
The issue, then, between the Union and the
flibustering Southern coniederacy of jeff. Davis
cannot be doubtful; nor can the crowning re-
suit be much longer delayed; for as this rebel
lien is at the point Of exhaustion the govern
mcut is just beginning to develope its power.
Let lis heartily support the conservative Union
policy OF the administration and let our aboli-
ton agitators and disorganizcrs be put down.
If necessary, by the strong arm of federal
power, and our army and navy will soon open
the way to the deiverance Of the South from
this intolerable rebellion.
THE MISSION OF SIR JAMES FERGUssoN, OF THE
BRITISH PARLIAMENT, TO TIE REBELS DENIED
The Richmond papers recently announced the
arrival in that city Of Sir James Ferguson, OF
the British Parliament with letters from the rebel
Commissioner Mann in Europe to Jefferson
Davis. We inferred from this statement that