The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-09
The Abolition Inventions Against the
Administration.

property.
The Abolition Inventions Against the
Administration.
That persistcntiy mischievous abolition jour
nal, the Independent, which is still permitted to
circulate through the mails, is growing, from
week to week more bitter against the admins
tration, and violent in its attacks upon Presi
dent Lincoln for remaining faithful to his oath
of Office, and his determination to maintain the
supremacy of the constitution and of the laws
1t recently put the story in circulation that
the Secretary Of State had avowed himself
favorable to peace with the South, and divi-
sion of the United States into two natonalities,
provided the English government should carry
its sympathies with the rebels so far as formally
to recognise the independence of the Southern
confedcracy, without waiting for the close of
the war. 1t moreover insinuated that Mr.. Thur
low Weed was on the eve Of departing for Flu
rope, with instructions to sound the intentions
of foreign Powers and especially of the Pal
merston Cabinet. OF course such absurd false
hoods were manufactured out Of whole cloth
but their tendency is to distract the loyal
masses at the North, and TO paralyze the ener-
gies of the Washington authorities
The Tribune and the Times, which never lose
an opportunity of Selling hold of such rumors as
may SOW discord in the North, of course adj
mitted to their columns the vile inventions
which they fonnd in the Independent, though
with ostensible manifestations Of dissent and
disapproval. The transparent motive of both
of these abolition journals however was to
give the utmost possible publicity to whatever
can create distrust, in the public mind, of the
President and his advisers and contribute to gra.
tify their malevolence. The Tribune as every one
knows has strenuously advocated the creation
of an independent Northern republic, in which
slavery should be unknown, and, last winter, at
the time OF the secession of South Carolina had
even the audacity to say that the people Of that
State were merely carrying out the principles
of the Declaration of Independence, and that
the other Discontinued members of the United
States confederacy would do we'll to follow its
example. The Times has been less boldly
and more sneakngly than the Tribune the ad-
vocate Of anti-slavery dogmas, tending to o
dissolution of the Union; but both of these
papers have from the commencement Of the
war, striven with might and main to prevent
its being properly carried on, in hopes that
failure would react fatally upon the present
heads Of the national government From the
period of the permcious ''On to Richmond"
fnror, which ended in the disaster at Bull run,
down to the crusade in favor of Fremont, WHO
has been so wisely removed from command in
Missouri, the entire antislavery press of the
North has co-operated with the Independent in
giving indirect aid and comfort to the rebellion
and weakening the hands of the government.
The causes of the animosity of the various
abolition journals against Mr. Lincoln and his
Dune and Times are simply disappointed Office
beggars, and rail as Justify as they dare at those
who, having the distribution of patronage under
their CONTROL failed to bestow sufficient por-
ton of it upon them. The Independent is, on
the other hand, wildly fanatical, though the
Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, who has hereto
fore been one Of its principal columns and sup
ports has become, we learn, so terrified at the
prospect Of a popular ontburst of wrath, in
consequence of his abolition course that he is
on the point Of leaving for England to deliver
lectures, in which he will unquestionably emu
late the misrepresentation of Chcever and
"Uncle Toms Cabin" with regard to the institu-
tons of this country. The continually increas-
ing malice and bitterness of all of these enc
mics of the government, ought seriously to be
taken into consideration by the government,
and so far as they tend to obstruct the pro-
gross of the federal arms, or damp the enthu-
siasm Of people of the North, they ought to be
treated in the same manner as secessionism
ITSELF The war that is being carried on is for
the restoration Of the integrity Of the Union,
| and nothing whatever ought to be allowed to
interfere with the attainment of that sacred
end