The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-24

policy with regard to the slaves" The "pre-
Use policy" demanded Is the fomenting Of =
'ervile insurrection, after the example Of the
tragedy Of St Domingo and the raid Of John
Brown st Harper's Ferry; and from the hour OF
The PRONUNCIATION Of such policy we are
yravely assured, "ths rebellion would be DOOM
3D." The article concludes with the following
sanguinary appeal .6 @o
new year ID about TO open. Lat II open upon
national policy it, adoption and PRONUNCIATION have
Deen already too long postponed Lot all who desire the
triumph Of tho nation consider simply what policy will
rally additional four 4ios Of stout hearts and sroMS
aws' 70 tAe side gtAe nation, and thus end ts
Here is nothing short Of proposition to pro-
claim freedom to the four millions of Southern
slaves, and put arms in their hands. The i'm
practicability Of this fanatical scheme can be
only equalled by its cold-blooded, savage afro
city, and It is worthy Of the journal that advised
the breaking down Of the entertainments Of the
Mississippi, in order to overwhelm in Its waters
all the white women and children, together with
the negroes, inhabiting the States lying on ito
shores-the journal which exulted in the pros
pect Of "the wives and children Of the whole
Southern people being reduced to beggary and
covered with rags" The national policy"
recommended for the new year is tho inhuman,
barbarous policy, revolving to all civilized
Christian nations, Of arming the blacks for tho
destruction Of the white race, men, women ana
children, Of our own blood. This ia . policy
of wholesale MURDER and it is only hends incar
nate that could propose or sanction it.
twas the same satanic course, pursued by
England in the war of the Revolution, which
gained 50 many friends for the colonies even In
England itself. The red savages were taken
into alliance with that INSCRIPTIONS Power, and
their bloody massacres of unarmed men, women
and children have not been forgotten to this
day. They are treasured up in everlasting re-
membrance against Great Britain. 1t was her
employment Of the scaIping knife and the toma-
hawk of the Indian against the white race in the
colonies which induced Lord Chatham in the
British Senate to declare that if he was an
American, as he was an Englishman, he would
never lay down his arms as long as one hostile
foot tr0d American soil. And would not thou
sands a. the North now give utterance to SINH.
lar declaration if the national crime should be
committed of putting arms into the hands of the
blacks?
The object of the war is not to NEEDLE with
any Southern institution, much less to extermi-
nate the white race, but to restore the Union
ocJ %ho Tadnro1 ou<hor;tu IN he roholl;Oue
States. By destroying the South we destroy one
great source of the prosperity of the North
By creating eternal enmity in the hearts of the
Southern people we lose the objects of the war.
and render the Union impossible. There i
no need of any ''policy"-no need of legisls
result of the war. The duty Of the President
is plain. 1t is to uphold the constitution, as ht
is sworn to do and any policy inconsistent witt
that would be perfdious. Neither he nor Con
gress has any constitutional power to inter
ferc with slavery in the Southern States. Hi
power is limited to bringing back those
States to their allegiance. He canno
abolish their State institutions. To do 81
would be fragrant violation of the fun
damental law of the land. The attemp
would be failure, and is, besides, needless
For if our armies should 50 penetrate to thu
heart Of the Southern confederacy that the.
come in contact with the four millions of ne
groes, the rebellion is already crushed by tn.
very fact, and we have no business with th'
slaves. If our armies cannot 30 penetrate, pro
CARNATIONS could not reach the blacks and th'
only effect of them would be to nerve the whit
population to more desperate resistance. Ant
this is the tendency Of the policy of the North
ern rebellion-it is to unite the South as on
man, and to divide and distract the North.
is to prevent the Union men of the South having
any ground on which they can stand, and it i
to alarm the constitutional loyalty Of the North
and repel or ALLEVIATE it's support of the wal
Thus Phillips, Greeley and the other radical
are playing into the hands Of the Southern
rebels and the British government at the sam
time. They are conspiring against the govern
ment at Washington, and particularly its head
Mr.. Lincoln, whose moderation has disappoin
ed the extravagant expectations Of the 70
bid fanatics. The President has done wei
throughout, and he ought to be sustainet
by the whole people against the abolition rebels
If the North. The idea Of Mr.. Lincoln, as an
nounced in his proclamations and messages, i
that the Union must and shall be preserved
The idea Of the fanatics is that it must not b.
preserved, but destroyed, by turning the wa
for the Union into war Of ideas and abstrac
tions. "All wars" says the Tribune, " must
henceforth be in large measure wars Of
opinion-this one is prominently So" It il
no such thing. It is simply war for the pre-
servation Of the integrity Of our political OF
ganization and the President or Congress
might with equal propriety make 1t wa
against all property, war of religion--Pro
testant against Catholic--or war for the aboli
ton Of all religion, as to make, It war for tn,
abolition of negro slavery. Such war woult
be only the revival Of those conflicts which
desolated Europe in the dark ages and are now
exploded in that section of the globe, as incon
sistent with modern civilization. Is it 70,
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