The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-30

Cubas full prices. Coffco was Hrm while sales were
light. Freight engagements somewhat less active
while sales were without change Of Importance
Another Masked Bnttery-The DisuniOn
Efforts OF the Inccndiary Press.
The secessionists of the South, with their at
tacks upon the government through their mask
ed batteries and their allies, the incendiary jour-
nails of the North, are all aiming at one and the
same result, although apparently travelling DIFF
ferent roads. They are each fighting with
masked batteries-the former using powder,
lead, grape and shell; the latter stealthly, I'M
der the plea Of friendship, are at work under
mining the constitution, bent upon the destruc-
ton of the hopes of all Unionists at home and
abroad, and sending despair to the hearts of all
lovers of democratic institutions the world over
The Southern leaders are rallying their armies
to fight the gallant men enlisted under the ban
ner of the Union, whom they hope to draw into
their disguised batteries, while their incendary
allies Of the North-the abolition agitators-are,
serpent like, drawing their coils around the ad-
ministration, endeavoring to force the govern
ment into their traps, thus weakening their
hands by dividing the supporters of the
constitutional government-thereby furnish
ing the rebel army an easier and more
thorough victory than they had at Bull
rum A few days since we exposed
significant and dangerous masked battery
from the Tribune, laboring at its old game--the
breaking up of the Cabinet; to-day we place
before Our readers an attack upon the Cabinet
by our Quadrilateral contemporary, the Times
riding roughshod over portion of the Cabinet,
especially Secretary Cameron, although the
"little villain declares that his luminosity
''takes no definite shape, fastens on no specific
acts"
Thus that class of journals-the Tribune and
Times and their co-laborers-havc been at work
from the very commencement of the war to
divide, break up or destroy the government.
Immediately upon the heels of the Baltimore
riot, when the administration needed all the
assistance that could possibly be given to it by
the prompt and united action of the entire
cry and appeals to supersede the administration,
by driving the President and his Cabinet out of
Washington and appointing dictator in their
place, and even nominated that patriotic blum
derbuss, railroad and steamboat speculator,
George Law, for that position. The public paid
noattention to this bloodthirsty appeal. Defeated
in this French revolutionary plan, they opened
their batteries upon the military leaders and
endeavored to destroy public confidence in
their we'll earned ability; then, again, attacking
the President, next the Cabinet in bitter
terms; but finding that their discharges made
no impression on either of those points, they
commenced their howl, Coward to Rich
mond," until finally the army Of the Potomac
was forced to march into the masked batteries
of the rebels at Manassas, resulting in a dis
astrous rout and fearful loss of life adding at
least six months to the war, to say nothing of
the millions upon millions Of additional ex-
pense and the increased prospect of q war with
European Powers.
That disaster removed the mask from the in
cendiary journals, revealed to the public their
real objects and showed to the world their COM
plicity with the secession leaders. For awhile
they manifested wonderful amount of peni-
tence, and pretended to humble themselves In
sackcloth and ashes, bat their anxiety to under
mine the constitution soon got the bet
ter of them, and they commenced throw
ing out their feelers, and growing holder
by degrees. When their masked batteries
again belched forth, it was in demand
that emancipation should be the bat
tie cry of our armies. If this had been &C.
coded to by the administration the rebels, instead
Of being compelled to fight the loyal North and
an army numbering its hundreds Of thousands,
would in q short time find the government
supported only by a handful Of abolitlonists,
with no funds to back it-thus in one fell stroke
sealing the fate of our glorious Union, leaving
to JEFF. Davis and bis subjects only the duty Of
holding q jubilee over their victory. The au-
thorities at Washington, showing no disposition
to thus deliberately surrender to the rebels,
these journals have again changed their tack
and are now directing their masked batteries
againsa the individual members Of the Cabinet
especially the Secretary Of War, although they
! declare in the same breath that they DOM
know what Cameron has done 80 awfnlly
wicked as they would have us believe. The
| most curious of all this, and we might say sug
gestve of their real purpose is the fact that they
demand the appointment Of Mr.. Holt Of Ken
lucky, the man who was at the head Of the Pos
Office Department for six months before he dis
covered the defalcation Of Fowler -.
The integrity and the unity OF the Cabine
during a crisis like the present are Of the great
est importance, and we are happy to inform the
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better united or more unanimous in their labor
to suppress the monster rebellion than at thu
present moment Neither are those clamorinl
fer a change able to point to one single act jus
flying that demand Cameron is man of grea
business capacity and wonderful energy. Having
been fully initiated into all The workings Of thu
! department, his removal and The substitution