The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-31

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time immemorial, and fifty years ago they gave
England more cotton than did the United States;
but In the cleaning of it they are not SO expert
as Americans. And then the enormous cost of
conveying it to port has kept it out of COMPETE
ton with the American staple; but system
| OF railroads is about to be established through
the interior Of the country, which will remedy
this difficulty and open to Great Britain the
wealth Of her Eastern empire 1t thus appears
that England begins to feel that she can do
without Southern cotton and in the language
| Of the London Times, "if the civil war should
! last another year the cotton trade will probably
be revolutionized, and with it the fortunes and
destines of States"
The Abolition Hounds Again Upon the
| Heels OF the Adm In istratiOn.
The public are familiar with the recent course
of the abolition agitators, and we'll remember
that they, through their journals, led off by the
Tribune and Times of this city, bounded the ad-
ministration with their cry Of "OnwMd to Rich
mond" until they actually forced our army into
the trap set for them at Manassas Junction, re-
sulting in complete rout, attended with enor-
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fed with the injury that they have thus inflicted
upon the Union cause and that of their country.
we again find them at their old tricks, bent upon
running the army, precipitating the entire coun-
| try into anarchy, and destroying the hopes of
| the Unionsts everywhere. They have, it is true,
| changed their tack, but are laboring for the
Same result by necessarily calling upon the adj
| ,;,,e 4 tho or q,
emancipation. Thus Greeley, who exhibited
great penitence over the injury that he had done
by bis Coward to Richmond" cry, published
his confession; but while the contents of that
card are yet fresh in the public mind, be, in
connection with the Times, starts out, first with
masked batteries, but finally openly, and both
are now strenuously laboring to force the autho-
rites at Washington to inscribe upon the ban
| ners of our armies the watchword "Emanci-
patton"
| Ever since the formal secession Of South Ca
rolna, down through the adoption of that heresy
| by eleven of the Southern States, the demoraliz-
| ing rout at Manassas, and even to the present
! time, the Tribune has been putting forth every
effort within its power to bring about the total
| destruction Of our ship of State, with it's pre-
! cious cargo; adroitly advocating the doctrine
| Of secession, or in favor of letting the cotton
| States 60 by themselves, until public opinion
| rebelled against snch injurious policy; then de-
| nouncing all compromise and laboring to pre-
| vent the Peace Conference from adopting any
compromise measure that would prevent the
border States from seeding and virtually con-
| fine TIE war to the remote Southern or cotton
| States. We next find the same journal and its
! incendiary co-laborers taking long step in the
same ruinous path by uniting in the cry "Down
| with the administration" and demanding mill
Larry dictator. Failing in this bloodthirsty
programme, their columns were filed for
months with bitter denunciations of Gene
raj Scott and the President and their
Coward to Richmond" cry, until our army
| took up its march and found its Manassas
| and now, not satisfied with the disasters and
| shame brought upon the country, they are en-
deavoring to prepare another Manassas, not
| only for the army, but the government, by their
| emancipation appeals. Still clinging to the
| Chicago platform-the rubbish of the past
| they are belching forth their heresy, first in
masked batteries and then without any disguise
and are to-day pursuing policy thousandfold
more injurious to the true interests of the Union
than their secession arguments, military dictator
| appeals OF Coward to Richmond" clamor all
| combined.
| In the controversy now going on between
| Greeley and Weed on the part that each played
during the labors of the Peace Convention at
Washington, we find Greeley classifying his own
record, and still unwilling to learn wisdom from
the bitter experience of the past In Tuesdays
Tribune Greeley announced that ''we wish it dis
| tinctly and forever held in remembrance that
the Tribune believes in the principles enunciated
| in the Chicago platform"-evidently unable yet
| to comprehend the fact that in the rapid
| changes and the enormous revolutions that
have swept over the country since last No
! vcmber, we have as a nation, travelled fully
century, and that the famous Chicago platform
| is among the exploded ideas of the past and
belongs, as it were, to another century from that
in which we are living at the present time
Weed, with statesmanlike sagacity, saw long be-
fore the Inauguration of Lincoln that the success
of the republican party had swept from exis-
tence that platform; be therefore advocated con-
cession, that the civil war, then inevitable might
! be confined to the cotton States. Greeley, on
the other hand, declaring the Chicago platform
his Alpha and Omega, advocated secession
rather than the abandonment Of one plank, the
! destruction Of the constitution and the Union
before he would depart one iota from the party
creed laid down at Chicago. He labored inces-
sanity against all concessions and compromises
| by the Peace Convention, although at that time
the compromise proposed would not call for the
abandonment of single party creed, for Con-
gress had already organized all the territory
without regard to the slavery question, and had
! left tho antira ouastiou within tho