The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-11
Probnt,i. CONNIE "a meut of the CivN
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Was 40 Last.
The feverish excitement Of The last few
Days VIII probably have given place, be-
fore The lapse Of many hours, TO that STUNNED
-epsation If horror which follows every Terri
ole, ireparable catastrophe. The die has, per-
DADS ere this be- n east, and the groans of the
a. ing, the shrieks Of the wounded, and the
hicoous spectacle of maneled limbs, have been
inv okod TO mark the stage at which " irrepres-
sble coufiet' has arrived, IN it's Internal down
wWd progress FIRE. rape and slaughter"
viii be next sumuoned to the wake OF the
black flag that ba~ b.. untnrled. and the sui
cidai programme laid down ny the Stewards
Lincolns, WAGES, Summers, Kings, Phiiips.s,
Fts,epdeos, GIeeteys, Garrisons, BIairs. aud
Cbas,s Cf the Mas scousetts school of aboli.
iioni,m vii, be- carried out, rs far as il is la the
power Of the inceaGssri-ts a. the head Of the
government to do so Cfaftly and stealtbly
the preparations tor impending ruin have
be- msoe. il csnIot be denied that repu blicsn
49, anti tlsvery leaders have given warning Of
their inteutions. Even Mr.. Sew Ard did not
hesitate 70 issue tie fiat that battle " should
be the resort to which his party would at last
appeal, and to declare that "every one VINO
hou'o result, oppose, or staod 10 the way of"
the tiuitioD OF abolition labors. during the last
thirty years, should be- swept away. Gas moths
disappear before he whiriwind" Mr. Lincoln,
day or two before, had clearly iotimated,
At Indianapolis, bis intention of "ret .king
southern forts and properties, aud of in
vaoibg South Catolina" Wendell Phillips,
he orator, par erceHence, OF Northern sec
uonsiism, one month ago proclaimed his
'joicing and triumph In the disasters that he
'oresaw were impending. He exclaimed, al
can imagine the scebes of blood They are
dreadful; bat l 90 not shrink from the senti-
nent that there are scenes Of tremendous hor-
or which ! could smile at by M-rcy's side"
Weigh OUT he continued, the fifty thou
sand hearts that have beaten their last pulse,
amid agonics Of thought, and suffering fancy
tsints To think of, aud the ffty thousand mo-
,htrs. Who. with sickening senses watch for
the footsteps that are not won't to tarry long in
heir comipg-adi all toe misery of cities sack
I'd snG lands laid waste, and what thens
They catnot "claim tear when compared
with the system Of slavery la order to ex-
unguisb slavery, the dragons teeth Of destruc-
ion have been carefully and deliberately sown,
ard they are beginning to bring forth their
fatal crop Of fruit
Cen DnJ thiug be imagined more atrocious,
more bearhenning, than this steady roll on
ward of the food, which has begun to devour
before IT every trace Of our past prosperity a.
a na'iopg The stupendous treason, which has
,nsioiously, slowly, but surely, worked itself
into q divicicg line between those who have
cherished the institutions Of the country, and
the traitors, Eor'h and South, who have been
resolved TO destroy It, In At leog'h contaminated
Brothers are armed against brothers; fathers
against sons; United states feet, with every
implement of destruction, has been sent TO
bound to US by the most sacred ties, and the
siqrat for massacre has, In all likelihood.
ALREADY been given To such depth Of degrs.
cation have bigotry, fsnaticism, and ruthless
intolerance, reduced country which. a year ago
was the wonder and admiration Of the civilized
world. A little while longer. and we NAV
zee armies sprngine up in Virgins, Mary land
'b. seat OF government forcibly driven from
washington; hosts pouring into the slave States
from the North and Northwest, under a dozen
different lsscers; hostil, ARA, of troops wepd
Ing Nor'hwa'd irom TIE Csroi,nas. Miss;ssiopi
Georgia Louitisna and Alabama; the border
States swollen with the Implements Of wholesale
sla' pbter; commerce, trade, manufactures ANA
agriculture FRUSTRATED; no national capital, n,