The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-14


Thus our federal Executive by following in
the footsteps Of General jackson for the main
tenance of the Union, stands endorsed by Con-
gress before the country, and every loyal voice
in the Union will say amen. But still our dis
affected and hypocritical and hidebound old
party organs of the North preaching "peace,
peace, when there is no peace" are crying out
that we are under military despotism; that an
obedient Congress has become the mere tool of
military usurper; that the constitution has been
destroyed, and that the civil law and its minis
tiers, and the freedom of speech and freedom Of
the press, are put down at the point of the
bayonet. In Congress, too, this has been the
cry, from day to day, and every day, on the part
OF such immaculate advocates Of constitutional
liberties and popular rights as Burnett, of Ken
lucky; Vallandigham, of Ohio, and half dozen
others of the same school, who, instead of being
commissioned to Washington, should have been
sent off to assist in the deliberations Of the
Corps LegislatD of Jefferson Davis.
What, then, are the facts concerning this mill
tary despOtism of Abraham Lincoln? 1t is
surely the mildest and most lenient of all the
military despotisms ever established. Under
it our Northern allies of Jefferson Davis and his
rebellious and spurious government are per-
mitted as freely to ventilate their wrath
against LincOln's usurpations in the capital at
Washington as they could do in the rebel Con-
gress at Richmond. And while thus freely ex-
ercising the freedom of speech, these complain
ing members are paid for their services at the
rate of three thousand dollars year, under the
ment. So much for the freedom of speech
''under Lincoln's despotism." Next as to
the freedom of the press in the North, we need
only refer to the New York Tribune, Times,
Daily Ne,os and the Journal of Commerce to
show that if the cause of this Southern rebellion
is without party in the North, it is
not because the press has been denied the
liberty by "Lincoln's despotism" to criticise,
misrepresent, abuse and villify his administra-
ton without stint.
But how shall we describe the reign of this
rebellion over the Confederate States?" If a
Richmond were to attempt such speech
against the despotism of Davis as those INDUCED
in by Vallandigham against the despotism of
Lincoln, we apprehend that his life would be
the forfeit of his temerfty. If any newspaper in
Richmond, or Charleston, or Memphis, or Mo-
bile, or New Orleans, were to attempt the free
dom of the press against the rebel government
of Davis, as that freedom is exercised In New
York against Lincoln's administration, the first
number Of the journal thus offending would be
the last. We know that Northern Union man
in the revolted States, however prudent and in
offensive his conduct, is in great danger there,
and that if he cannot escape from the domnions
Of Southern violence with his worldly goods or
a change of clothing, he is happy to be allowed
the privilege Of escaping with his life. We
have the testimony of cloud Of witnesses from
all parts of the South that all the outragss
against individual liberty, life and property, Of
an unrestricted reign Of rudianism and terror,
are in full force from Norfolk to Texas. We
are thus assured, and can fully believe, that
hundreds Of thousands of the very best and
most substantial citizens Of all the revolted
States while helplessly submitting to spola-
tions, c0nscriptions and contributions for the
armies Of Davis, are anxiously expecting the
hour Of their deliverance by the armies Of the
Union.
Hence it is that, dispassionstely considering
the blessings Of the government Of the United
States we look upon this war for the Union as
nothing more nor less than war to restore to
the people Of the revolted States those manifold
n ~ oh hax hnnp IoI Inv
this ill-starred Southern rebellion. The case
appears to us as clear ss the sun, under the
existing state Of things between the loyal and
the revolted States, that while the early sub
mission Of the latter to the Union will restore
to them its blessings of law, order, constitu-
tional liberty and security proiongation of
this war beyond the present campaign will
bring upon them irrsparable disasters. This
war, then, on the part of the government at
Washington, is prosecuted to save the South,
and not to destroyit; to restore to the revolted
States all their constitutional rights, and not to
subjugate them. Above ALL in its Importance
to the South, that peculiar institution of
.slavery-the cause Of this war-can only be
!ssaved from ruinous Generalization by sea-
sonable return of the rebellious States to the
Union. Should their armed resistance be con-
tinued even three months longerwe can di s.
cover no way Of escape to them from an over
whelming invasion, which will leave behind 1t
and carry before it a ruinous state Of anarchy
to Southern institutions and Southern society.
In word as matters now stand between the
United States and the Confederate States, we
can discover no alternative except Q restoration
Of the Union in its integrity, or bur degrade
ton, North and South, to the hideo0s and help
less anarchy Of MexicQ.
HOTEL LvNa.-Among the many reforms
which the ordeal through which The country is
now passing will bring about will be the dis
enlargement Of what is called hotel life. Moth
Ing can be more stupid or dsmoralizing than
the habit that our people have fallen into Of
congregating in monster hotels, whose only re-
concentrations to their patrons would seem to
be discomfort and extravagancs. There 10 GER
tainly no way in which money is spent with less
enjoyment or satisfaction. TO foreigners Il has