The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-26
Shameful Attacks or the English Press
and Politicians upon Our Institutions
and President.

Shameful Attacks or the English Press
md Politicians upon Our Institutions
! and President.
| The sneering hostility of London journals
against the free institutions of the United States
| appears to grow more and more envenomed and
| bitter, as the prospect increases that rebel
lion is about to be brought to an end, by the
decision and energy of our sagacious and clear
headed Chief Magistrate. Americans are repre-
sented as slaves, grooming under military des-
| pOtism. akin to the widest reign of terror, and
congratulations are banded backwards and
| forwards, that the American republic has be-
| come"a spectacle to make men mock and
angels weep" The suppression of seditious
organs in the loyal States is characterized as
| blow from which liberty never can recover
and citizens of the republic are declared to have
sunk to the same brutal level with Mexicans
] longing for the relief of an irOn-handed auto
cracy, as a lesser calamity than that which is
enguifing in ruin every material and political
! interest of the land. A correspondent of one
ultra tory paper writes from New York -
"Poor Lincoln is nearly maniac, overwhelmed
with trouble. One moment he talks wildly, and
| cries like a child in another he gets into vio-
lent Mysteries, and has to take composing
draughts of powerful strength" and it goes
on to conlide to its creduous readers It's own
malicious comments upon snch talsehoods.
1t is true that the United States are engaged in
q momentous civil warfare that newspapers in
the free States are not permitted to aid and
nbet the enemy; that the writ of habeas corpus
has been in some few instances suspended;
that close upon half million of men have
been summoned from their homes and are
g, ,ledged to q life and death struggle against
roh,, m; that martial law prevails in dsaf
f.ctoa 5;s,,,c,- and that naval expeditions are
fitting cut upon 6n,>,s.~ss 70 sum- .r.I
into the hcagts of those who are seeking to
rend the country; In pieces. II is equally clear
and undisputed that President Lin coin stands
at the head of the vast and stttpendo. $ move
ment which has interposed between utt, 7 RUN
and the preservation of the sacred legacy pc
queathed to us by our forefathers; but tn
course he has taken was dictated to him by the
millions upon millions of his fellow citizens,
who are his constituents, and he has done no
more than obey mandate which it wonld have
disgraced him forever to have neglected. Just
as the ancient Romans, in times of extraor-
binary peril entrusted the entire welfare of
the State to one man, with the power of die
tator, the American people have given unlilnt-
cd control Of their affairs, in the present emer-
gency to Chief Magistrate, who has proved
himself worthy of their confidence and equal to
the cxigencies of the epoch.
Commerce is reviving; trade is on the in
crease; want is once more banished from among
the households of the poor. and there is every
likelihood that the Union element will be
speedily emancipated in the Southern States
and that the war will come before long to an
suspicious close. The strength of the loyal
portion of the confederacy is arrayed against
scdtion in the North as well as in the slave
holding States, and the English element of
treason, in the hands of abolitionists, which has
been growing in presumption for over thirty
years, is equally with Southern secession, re
ceiying an effective check. President Lincoln
has had the wisdom to appreciate the necessity
of setting his face in opposition to insurrec-
| tionary tendencies enkindled by British jea-
lousy, and paid for by British gold, no less than
! against the demagoguesm of Jefferson Davis and
| his associates His rebuke of General Fremont
| is an ample guarantee of his intentions, and
though occasional failures may ensue. in conse-
| quence of such want of knowledge, or lack of
zeal and energy, as have led to the surrender of
some of our troops in Missouri, these evils will
be speedily repaired and cannot materially
prolong the war.
AT the present hour, while our patriotic Pre-
sdent is suffering from the abuse and malig-
nifty of British newspapers--the organs of
an eifete and degenerate aristocracy-
the United States are multiplying their
exports Of breadstuffs to such an extent
as actually to fill the mouths of the masses of
the people, in the very kingdom which is raising
such an cutlery against us. Shortly they will
be vociferonsly demanding supply of the cot
ton which the success of the federal army can
alone procure for them. Let them remember,
however, that when the termination of our civil
conflicts shall have arrived it may be the turn
of our foreign enemies to suffer the conse-
quences of the mischicfs they are attempting to
do u.s. Four hundred thousand thoroughly dis
ciplined troops will ask for no better occupa-
ton than to destroy the last vestige of British
rule on the American continent, and annex
Canada to the United States.
GREAT REVIVAL OF TRApE.-There is recently
q wonderful revival of all kinds of trade The
best test of this is the extraordinary increase of
advertisements in the HERALD which nearly
equals the greatest prosperity of former times.
The cause of this revival is the expenditure of
fifty millions of dollars, the first instalment of
tue new loan, and the energy of the govern
ment. Fifty millions were loaned on the 10th
Of August, the next fifty will be takef on the
! 1st of October, and the third instalmenr on the
lst of December, Immediately after which Con-
gress shall have met and made such further
provision as may seem proper to the emergency.
The circulation of fifty millions through the
whole community has given tremendous i'm