The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-20

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The Tribune and the Object OF the War.
The New York Tribune, the organ of the fanati-
cal abolitionists solemnly promised some time
ago that it would no longer embarrass the ad-
ministraton by its " Onward to Richmond" cla-
NOR To this promise it was compelled by the
pressure of public opinion too strong and too
plainly manifested to be longer disregarded.
The CHASTITY reproaches of the dead at Bull run,
the decrease in circulation and advertising con-
sequent upon the public disapprobation of the
lribune's course, the popular Indignation
against the abolition organ, as the responsible
author of the Bull run disaster, all combined
to inspire the Tribune association with such
fear, that Greeley apologized for and vowed to
change the tone of his paper, and that a mes
senger was sent down to this Office to beg us to
cease remarking upon the Tribune's sins, as it
was dreaded that the Tribune Office might be
mobbed!
1t is perfectly evident by this time, how
ever, that the promised change in the 7ri-
Dunes tone was neither change of policy
nor of purpose. Long ago it adopted as
its motto "No union with shareholders" and.
finding it impossible to abolish slavery, it
deliberately set to work to abolish the Union.
BY its TRADES against slavery it infamed the
passions of its readers. By its imaginary re-
ports of Southern cruelties it attempted to ex-
cite hatred of slavery and shareholders alike.
by its articles, designed to prove that the North
would be richer and better Off without the
South, it appealed to motives of cupidity, the
lowest, basest and meanest. By its representa-
| tions that the election Of Lincoln was a triumph
OF abolitionism, it forced the South into revo-
| luton. This revolution the Tribune fostered
and developed. Its correspondents conveyed
information to the rebels of government move
ments. Its editorials, day after day, urged
peaceablc separation. By every possible means
it attempted to divide the Union.
This plan of peaceable separation
falling, the Tribune attempted to distract
the North by advocating dssensons in the
Cabinet by talking of superseding President
Lincoln, by attacking the Union policy and
the Union generals, while it praised the eff
cheney of the rebel forces. 1t was the aim of
the Tribune that the North should be beaten in
the first conflicts, SO that defeat would result
in separation. For this purpose the 1riJ,ue's
Washington correspondent sent information to
Charleston of the approach of our fleet, and
the capture Of Fort Sumter was the result
For months, it proceeded, with devilish cunning,
to taunt our army into an ill-timed advance. 1t
urged Senators and Congressman to work upon
the President. 1t excited members of Mr. Lin
coins own Cabinet against him. General Scott
was compelled to give way to the storm, and
! Greeley Co. took command of our brave
army and led it into the Bull run trap, thus
numbering uselessly hundreds of our bravest
soldiers.
| But this disaster almost succeeded in destroy
| ing, not the Union cause, but the dsunion TIL
Dune Its scheme is again working, however,
and in still different manner. Day after day
We look in vain through the 7ribunss
columns for single patriotic sentiment. We
find nothing but abolition rawlings For the
sake of abolition it endeavors to induce Ffe-
mont to mutiny. For the sake of abolition it
defends Fremont even at the expense Of attack
ing Lincoln and breaking up the government
| For the sake of abolition it attacks GEN Mans
fields order in regard to fugitive slaves, and
| asks, What commander who has any heart
in the Union cause will give or sanction any
such order as the above?" For the sake of abo-
lition it thus endeavors to excite mutiny in our
army, and by innuendo, by the publication Of
abolition correspondence, by articles designed
to prove that the Roman Catholics an abolition
Church, by editorials with double meaning.
but with single abolition end, it continues to
embarrass the government and obstruct the war.
In short it is abundantly evident that the Tri-
bune, falling to avert this war by peaceable
disunion, Is trying to use the ,oGr as an abolition
crusade and to lead the ,ohole country into Bull
run trap; for euen # zoe succeed IN the ,oa; it
soW be a barren success if it gives US, al the
Tribune designs, not The country and the Union as
il ,oas, but only abolition, oiM its couatless evils.
| This is the aim of the Tribune, and of all the
abolition leaders from Cheever to Phillips, and
it is therefore that they acquiesce in the war.
They know that if they can make it a war of abo-
lition their schemes will succeed equally we'll,
whether the North triumphs or not. They would
let loose upon the North the hundreds Of thou
sands of slaves whom they have taught to re-
gard the North as paradise, and whom nothing
could keep away from the North if they were
once liberated. They would throw these poor
negroes upon us, to compete with our white la
Dor and to fill our poorhouses They would
ruin the South by freeing the slaves, and the
freed slaves would soon ruin the North.
They have pronounced our constitution 30
league with death and q covenant with