The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-14

digious effect in bringing out an overwhelming
popular Union reackon throughout the cotton
| States.
The planters Of Beaufort district are the
| Fifth avenue aristocracy of South Carolina; but
| they. regard our Fifth avenue people with somo-
thing of that supreme and naughty contempt
with which the Emperor NichUias regarded
Louis Napoleon-as an outsider and q par
venu. But let General Sherman try his hand
| upon these proud and conceited rebel aristo-
Gratis Of Beaufort, and he may bring them to
their senses Let him seize their lands and ne
groes and turn them over in liberal parcels to
good Carolina Union men, and from Beaufort
to the Belize the nobility Of King Cotton will
tremble, repent and knock under to "Honest
Abe Lincoln" Thus cotton and slavery may
| both be turned against the sinking despotism
of Davis without disturbing the integrity Of the
peculiar and indispensable institution of the
cotton States, politically, economically or so
| cially considered.
| But whatever may be the policy Of General
| Sherman on the contraband and confscation
questions in Beaufort district we are quite sure
| of one thingto wit: that in his Judgment in
the very heart Of the aristocratic slaveholding
region of South Carolina we have given this
South Carolina rebellion heavy shot between
wind and water. The people Of Charleston and
Savannah should now be able to understand
the handwriting on the wall. We read it as
signhying that those two cities, if they much
longer persist in this wicked rebellion, will
hazard The dreadful fate of Tyre and Carthage,
in being "atterly spoiled and utterly de-
stroyed" Baltimore, plucked like brand
from the fire, has been saved, and from her pre-
sent allegiance to the Union she is promised a
new career of prosperity and happiness. We
commend her seasonable repentance and abso-
luton to Charleston and Savannah They may
be saved or they may be destroyed. utterly de-
stroyed, and the choice is in their hands.
We are now practically commencing the
work Of putting down this rebellion. II is Civ
ing way, and soon the whole fabric will fall to
pieces. 1t is giant OF brass upon legs of clay.
1t must come down. 1t cannot survive the pres
sure of a Writer campaign against it by land
| and sea. Submission to the Union is the only
| way Of safety to the South, and the sooner the
better for our suffering Southern States, cities
and people, and the sooner the better for South
| ern cotton and Southern slavery.
| The Effect I'm England of the Naval Vic
tory I'm South Carolina.
| The effect in the free States of our great ma
! val success in South Carolina will be like cleo
tricityit will fire the whole North, as if with a
] flash OF lightning, and another great uprising
! will take place. But the effect in England will
be equally decisive, and be probably attended
| with far more important consequences. The
news of this event, and of the other simulta
| neous victories, taken out by the steamer which
left Boston yesterday, will fall like a bombshel
| in the midst of the British aristocracy and gov
| ernment, who have been secretly intriguing fol
the last thirty years for the disruption of the
republic and the destruction Of democratic
! government.
| The echoes of the guns which silenced Forts
Walker aud Ecauregard, waited across the ocean
| will sound as the death knell of their hopes
and not without good reason; for if the blow
struck on Port Royal Island be followed
! up vigorously by the War Department, and
| that be made the basis of operations
| against Charleston and Savannah, taking
the Notifications Of those cities in the rear. the
heart Of the rebellion will very soon be broken,
| and deep will be the disappointment of the
British oligarchy who in their blind zeal against
popular government, and their narrow minded
jealousy OF the maritime power Of the American
b,y
success Of the insurrection, whose continuance
is calculated to inilict great injury upon the
commercial and industrial interests Of England.
The masses OF the people in that country under
stand this very we'll, Notwithstanding the false
teachings Of the presses in the interest of the
aristocracy; and the effect upon them of tho
success of our arms will be Of highly rcvolu-
| tionary tendency. Their sympathics are with
! the American Union and in favor of democratic
institutions; and unless by the vigorous prose
cution OF the war the question Is settled BY the
LIST OF May or the 4th Of July, which would
have the effect OF restoring her lost commerce
| to England. and giving her idle manufacturing
| population employment once more, we would
not be surprised to see as great revolution in
| the British islands, arising from the present
American war, as was produced in France
three-quartcrs Of a century ago by the Revolu.
tionary war in this country.
This is now the third revolutionary war upon
which we have entered with the English arts
tocrac, and the hearts and hopes of the Eng
lish democracy are all embarked in the unity
and success Of the American republic. Let its
arms be triumphant over rebellion, and heavy
blow is struck at the ruling class in England,
who would take advantage of the failure of re-
| publican government on this continent to throw
new obstacles in the way of the progress of de-
mocracy at home and to secure new lease to
the power and privileges Of their order. Let
the insurrecton in America prosper, and demo
cratic government be destroyed then is fatal
blow struck against democracy in Europe
The struggle here is therefore watched with
deep interest by the popular masses of Euro
| pean society. 1t is warmly discussed every
where, and the present news, together with the
presence of the official and amateur diplomats