The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-20


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THE Hon. MAssA GREELEY AND TIE Hon.
BENZ. WOOD THE ADVOCATES OF ANARcHY.-The
Hon. Benjamin Wood, in view of the rapidly
approaching Fourth of July, when he will,
for the first time, make his appearance at Wash
ington az national legislator, and Influenced
doubtless in some small degree, by the heat of
the weather, has through the fundamentally of
"the ten or fifteen able writer's" whom he boasts
Of possessing, a. mediums to convey his seces-
zion prcclivities to very email number of sub
ser;beIs, go intensified the ferocity of his Or
gan, in favor Of peace, that he may be considered
as positively blocdtbirsty advocate Of the
mos. ultra doctrines Of the non resistance So
ciety. "Our day." he says, sis one of peace
gatherings rather than wars," and he invokes
some new John the Baptist, to "cry out into
the wilderness the rather thickly populated
wilderness, that is, of New York city-in favor
of letting the Union be dismembe into
thousand pieces, rather than draw a sword, or
level musket to cave it. Peter the Hermit,
the four Gospels, the Court of Versailles, and
into the service Of anarchy, and the public are
assured that States ought to be permitted to go
OIL! Of the Union, counties to discover their con
reciion with States, and, "a logical go
quence, townships from counties, families
from townships, and individuals from fami
liss with perfect impunity. Not many
months since, the Hon Benjamin's Or
gan was loud in its demands that the
city of New York should raise q separate
flag. and start up national existence on its
own hook. Why may not, with equal proprie
y. he Sixth, Frat, Twelfth, Fourteenth, or any
other ward, issue its declaration Of indspen.
aence, and proclaim some grogsery demigod
to be its khan, cacique, or emperor.
The most distinguished auxiliary of the
Hon. Benjamin Wood, in behalf of the gene
raj breaking up of the bonds which hold
society together, and make the United States
powerful and q civilized nation, is the Hon.
Massa Greeley. Extremes meet, and the
e2-CoDgressman, from his point of view as an
abolitionist, arrives at an identical conclusion
with the embryo Congressman. If anything
Mas:a Greeley goes farther than the Hon.
Benjamin. The latter would merely hang
every one who believes in suppressing rebel
Ion; the former considers it to be mere ques-
ton of brute force whether or not the loyal
States shall, or shall not, submit to an Infamous
and d.shonorable peace. eve are for peace"
he says, con their terms, rather than useless
continuance of the war, if the traitors prove
fOO RI no ,s,Hy o%o5 Thok =,
err mothers must be reduced to poverty, and
their children to rags" if we can manage it:
niggers must be formed into regiments, the
property of Southern owners must be indis-
crimiaately confscated, and their cities be
sacked and burned, if we are sufficiently pow
erful; but, if it should turn out that they can
whip u.s. we must crouch down on our marrow
bones, and swallow any amount of indignity
they may see fit to impose upon u.s. Abstractly,
Hon. Massa Greeley subscribes to the doctrine of
his colleague the Hon. Benjamin, that seces-
sion is allowable and right. Not to deem it so,
he thinks, would be subversive of the theories
which justified the Declaration of Independence
in l776, and, therefore he 'avows and defends
bis preference Of disunion to civil war;" Only
he would so love to strike an effectual blow for
his old friend the niger. Yet, on the whole,
thrashing, or the chance of one, is too painful
for the Hon. Massa to think about, and
he gives in his verdict to let the county go to
ruin, and everybody do as he pleases, rather
than have risky fight.
The great uprising Of the people of the
Northern States, during the latter weeks of
April, owed its origin to the imperishable love
of the Unicn which dwells in the hearts Of ali
good, farsighted, and patriotic citizens. The
instincts of true men everywhere, pointed in
the same direction. The law Of elfpreserva-
ton alone taught them that if the principle of ma
tionality could be once violated with impunity,
it might always be trampled on; that the same
standard which would suffer Jefferson Davis to
divide the United States into two republics,
would justify its partition into thirty or three
hundred; and that if the hydra, instruction,
were not crushed, in this first display of its
hideous power, its heads would multiply
beyond the faculty of counting, and the
prosperity of the land be annihilated forever
Hence the roll southwark of legions of SOL
diers, to put down rebellion. Hence the ready
prefer Of millions Of treasure if they were
needed, and of all the sinew and intelligence
of the country to the government, to preserve
its integrity. And it is only on the part of
individuals like the Hon. Massa Greeley and
the Hon. Benjamin Wood who are the real
allies of the secession movement in the loyal
States that any signs of vacillation or any pro-
tests against the war have been displayed The
teachings of both have, from the outset been
tainted with treason, and though we are charita-
BILE enough to hope that they may escape hang
ing, we have no hesitation in saying that they
have aided the cause of the Confederate States
to the utmost extent of their power, from the
incipient stages of their secession up to the
present time.