The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-25

SUPPRESSION OF THE PEACE JOURNALS IN
New YORK.-The government has taken one
step moro in advance, and, instead of arrcsting
the progress of the New York secession journals
southwark at Philadelphia, by the mails, it will
arrest their passage at New York and throw
them out of the mails, if offered. This is very
we'll as far as it goes, but it is only half mea-
sure after all. 1t is not enough. No half
measure will answer. The circulation Of the
peace journals ought to be stopped in New
York itself Their publication ought to be
suppressed, and there ought to be a large
armed force detailed here to carry out the
measure. The object of these journals is to
create discomfort in the minds of the soldiery
against the war, as we'll as in the minds of the
people; and they want to get up riots to aid
and assist the rebels-not that they can do
anything here; but they want to create a diver
sion. The discomfort began with the republi-
can shoddy contractors, who cheated the sol
diers, and then the battle of Bull run served to
give the climax to newspaper sedition. The
effect of their appeals to the people
is to prevent enlistment, and to give aid
and comfort to the enemy. Their mischievous
tendency, therefore, ought TO be arrested in New
York as wen as elsewhere; and not only the
secession journals, pure and simple, which SYM
pathize with the Southern rebellion, but the
abolition secession journals ought to be in
lcludcd in the suppression. They are all dis
)unionists alike. The New York Tribune and
Independent, the Boston Liberotor, and all the
Journals of that ilk, ought to be sauelched
and the whole of the antislavery leaders, be-
ginning with Wendell Phillips and ending with
'the little villain" ought to be arrested and
sent to Fort Lafayette to keep company with
the Baltimore rebels. Nothing would so
strengthen the hands of the government as this
Vigor is the one thing needful.
No Changes IN THE CABINEr-THE PRESIDENT
PUTs HIS Foor DowN.-The intriguers from
New York who went to Washington to break
up the Cabinet have failed in their mission, and
they might as well have remained at home.
The President has put his foot down, and will
make no change. He is right. This is no time
for change. The whole trouble has arisen be-
tween the friends of Seward and Chase, the two
most prominent candidates for the succession
in 1864. Cameron and Smith and Welles are
merely brought into the quarrel as foils, and
for the purpose of throwing dust in the eyes of
wondering outsiders who are not in the secret.
The real issue is between Seward and Chase
and their respective retainers, who have keen
eye for the spoils of another lustrura, not con-
tent with the feast of fat things provided for
the present term. The followers of Chase are
working like moles to drive out Seward and the
troop Of Seward are laboring like beavers to
drive out Chase.
1t is curious quarrel as it stands, consider
ing that the enemy is in view and may soon BE
laundering about their ears in the White House.
We are glad the President is determined to
put stop to this internal fight till the external
is first disposed of. The Cabinet will do well
if there is only little more energy infused
into the War and Navy Departments. As for
Seward and Chase, they may save themselves
all trouble about the succession. Neither of
them has the ghost of chance of it. The next
President will be taken from very different class
ofmen. The war will determine who is TO be the
man. The age of politicians is gone, and an era
of warriors has succeeded to it. The candi-
dates, therefore, will be the young generals,
and the fortunate one he who most distinguishes
himself in the conflict with the Southern
confederacy. Not by the arts of peace but by
the art and SCIENCE Of Wxg u the 1reGidsptia