The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-16

grades, and at 71c SIC for grocery goods Included
in the sales 80 hhds Porto Rico at $40 Coffee was
steady with sales of 200 bags Of Rio in which were
included 100 bags Of the Solfernos cargo at c and
$50 do at 1885, with l. 100 mats of Java at zoe.
Freghts to English ports frmer while engagements
wore moderate To Havre wheat engaged at 2c per
bushel; -four at SOC. por Dbl.
The Abolition Incendiaries Conspiring to
Overthrow the Union.
In another page we reprint an account of an
abolition meeting held at the Astor House, pub
lished by the New York Tribune and 1imes-the
incendary organs of anti-slavery revolution
who are in conspiracy with the Northern ia
natics, acting in concert with the Southern rebels,
to permanently overthrow the constitution of
the United States, to defeat the legitimate OBJ
jects of the war and prevent the restoration of
the Union as it existed before hostilities COM
meneed. AT this reasonable meeting were as
sembled all the old leading abolitonists, with
Lewis Tappan at the head and John Jay at the
tail; and we are much surprised that the pro-
prietors Of the Aston House would permit their
respectable establishment to be used for pur-
pose so illegal and SO embarrassing to the 60
vernment.
BY the wisdom and patriotism of the Presi
dent and his administration on the slavery
question, much had been accomplished towards
disabusing the Southern mind as to the hostile
intentions of the government touching the pc
culiar institution of the South The manifesto
the proclamation of Gen. Fremont, qualified
by the letter of President Lincoln, have an
nounced to the world that the rights of loyal
shareholders in the Southern States will be
respected, and that only in the case of rebels
in arms or proved traitors will the rights
guaranteed by the constitution be taken away
1t was thus distinctly understood that depriying
rebels and traitors of their slaves was an ex-
ccptional policy, and intended only for state
of war-that there was no authority given by
Congress, and no right by the laws of war, to
deprive non-combatant, peaceful Southern citi
zens Of the property they held in the services
of their slaves. The effect Of the PRONUNCIATION
of these principles of action was to save Ken
lucky to the Union, as we hope it will save Mis-
souri,, Maryland and oil the border States
But in the midst of the fruiton of the happy
results of this sound policy the cup is rudely
dashed from the lips by the abolitionists and
their twin organs the Tribune and Times In
league with the Southern rebels, they get ND
meeting in New York, whose manifest aim and
tendency is to mar the good effects of the pro
carnations of the government, to embarrass and
distract the government itself and the people at
large by rendering uncertain and visionary the
objects of the war; Their course is calculated
to prolong the exhausting struggle by changing
the issue from one of human law to put down
rebellion and treason to one of "a higher law"
" the law Of God" to abolish negro slavery
throughout the land by the strong arm of the
federal government, making no distinction
whatever between the friends Of the govern
ment and its enemies, between loyal citizens of
the South and traitors and rebels in arms II
needs no ghost to tell us that the effect of such
policy as this would be to unite the South
as one man, and thus take away the main
ground of hope on which the war was inaugu-
ratcd-the adhesion of the Union sentiment of
the South to the federal cause, so soon as the
progress of our arms gave it free utterancc
Again, the effect of the abolition fanaticsm, if
adopted by the government, would be not only
to unite the South, but to disunite the North
The masses of the people, who are jealous for
the war for the Union and for the honor of the
flag, would be chilled to the heart by the idea
that it was to be q war of in ustice-a fanatical
abolition crusade against those undoubted
rights which are reserved by the constitution
tbo orl, 81 Tn;o
is the condition of loyalty; for protection and
allegiance are reciprocal, and the latter cannot
exist without the former.
1t is thus evident that the antislavery
fanatics are doing their utmost to injure
the cause of the Union, both at the
North and at the South; and while they profess
that their movement is for "liberty and Union,'
their Interpretation of liberty is the emancipa-
| ton of the blacks involving the amalgamation
| of races and the deterioration of our Anglo
Saxon blood by mingling it with that of the
| negro-the chief cause of the misfortunes and
| degradation of the Mexican, Central American
and South American republics The fanatics
| and the demagogucs who lead them want Glib
erty" for blaoks-the liberty not to work-at
the expense of the liberty and rights of the
white man; and the Union they desire is Union
for the accomplishment of this unholy object,
not the restoration of the Union established by
our ancestors. 1t becomes the duty of the 60
vernment, therefore, to put down all such meet
ings as that held at the Astor House; to seize
the ringleaders and send them to Fort Lafayette,
and to suppress their organs-the Tribune and
Tsn,es-and the whole tribe of incendiary jour
nails represented at the late abolition gathering.
| GREAT BRITAIN AND THE Observation-Disclosures
| the American Revolution of l776 broke out
there existed in France the most despotic mon
archy in the world. Yet France favored the
celonists in their struggle against the oppressive
authority of Great Britain, and the French PEG.
pie gained new idea by the example Of revo-
luton in the New World, which not long after.
wards developed itself in their own great Revo.
luton, which swept away that kingdom and in.
augurated new era in the history of France
In the same manner we now find England giving
| sunnort tn tho insurrectionists instha preeeni