New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-04
THg HERALD AND TRE REBEL
LION,

TIE ~ Y. Herald has for weeks past been
calling upon the Government to suppress THE
TRIBUNE, The Times, The Independent, and other
Journals, hoping, perhaps, that its persistent
appeals for that purpose would at least stir up
a mob against some of these establishments.
That it has been successful in neither Objects not
strange; that il should have utterly oycrratcd its
own influence is nothing unusual, for we do not
hesitate to say--and little reflection and the
evidence we shall produce presently of its i'm
potcuco VIII con,iuce the reader that the re-
mark, if novel, is perfectly true one-that
there il no daily paper in the country less
Influential than The Herald, no journal
so universally wrong in its Judgment on
public affairs, and none 80 invariably found to
be on what events have proved il the unPopu-
lar side. II always advocates tue election OF
the candidate that does not succeed; II always
proposes the candidate that has no chance OF a
nominations: it either abandons the right man
at the wrong time, or comes TO the help "a
the wrong man at the exact moment when bis
case is hopeless. This was strikingly true in
regard to the two last Presidential elections.
Nor ha. il been less true with regard to the
progress Of oveuts; aud we need 60 back only
a few months, as we will do presently, 70
show this in remarkable manner.
Ia its paper of Sunday last, The Herald says,
in an article on The London Quarterly:
Nor Ls, any right TO make such uufouldsd statement
a. that rAs ~ a. Hsyqid wes nobb.d ard corI-.rd T.
eaton was ct s1oa BY HE TEruSE Nor have changrd
or cou', Wo l'yr been egasi'tsi Cor q, s'sns!s5
Its whether the South orst the North r'h,y weo
the nd followers Of NaHcey aud Davis or u Greeley
and GsTris0f'
We hardly remember ever to have alluded
TO the event The Herald here SAYS was our
"fabrcation;" bat that The Herald Office was
surrounded by crowd of many hundred per.
sous on the 10th Of April last, who demanded
that the American flag should be shown from its
windows, is as much historical fact rs the fall OF
Sumter Aself 1t is also q wel!-known fact that
Mr.. Bennett sat pale and trembling in his office,
listening to the cries Of that excited throng;
that there was 10 American flag in the build
ing, aud that one was borrowed for tie oc-
casion; but that there was at the moment o
full set of Secession Gags somewhere about the
premises, which had been ordered in enticpa-
ton Of revolutionary Increment in this city
and its declaring its adhesion to the Southern
Conederacy, a cause which The Herald,
in that blind faulty which always char
acterizcs il, had long before advocated.
Ii was this aud the uniform sympathy which that
journal had shown for the South, and it, uniform
protestalion against the exercise Of any "ccer-
"con" 10 suppress ipsurrectiOD, that had woa Tor
il this distinguished call from ts fellow citizens on
that eyentlu morning. And we hive no do4bt
that very little proyocation would have led
that excited aud indignant crowd to the cont
mittpl of such acts of outrage and violence as
would have been lasting stigma upon the name
Of this city. It il not pleasant, even at his dis-
lance Of time, TO recall the very narrow escape
cur neighhOr had on that occasion, for we doubt
il he himselfis at all conscious thoroughly fright.
ened as he was, Of the extremity If his danger.
TIE Hcro!Fs denial however, Of the mob is
logical for the fact Of q mob hecssstates
predispo.iug cause, while TO ignore tie mob
strengthens the assertion Of the non-eXisteHce
OF the cause that led TO it. +" We have not
" changed our course; We have been consistent
" from the beginning; wo have ever been for
" the Union, and against all secessionists," is
the present declaration Of that journal paying
its readers the poor compliment of suppoaing
them so stupid as to believe it. Let u give a
mere glance at the record.
Ia. .ka, ufv..,z Grab
considering whether the insHrectionists should
DO compelled TO return 10 their duty, this wsS
the tone of TIE Herald, as we find in its edito-
rial columns Of the I'd of that month:
There party IN favor Of no compromise and risd CO.
eIcion even 70 civil Many 81 the dOgy belong to bi
pIry aud hope II there over should BE- civil va they
party l. eIisemey small ard daily growing and l,ss"
But why did The Herald set its face against
coercion Because it had tender regard for
its friends, the Secessionistsi because it be.
Loved tho Union was dissOlyed and because
it thought the attempt to save it was not worth
the shedding Of a drop Of blood. The next
day, on the Sd of February, it said:
"f the Union 4. AopsieIly divided bere 70 Be- lei
urge upon this Border State Conference a
tho FARsvOUST DUTY OF tuEgsns to ways and
mean. OF the ptdceGbe Teogaifon az The southern CoJed
eTao a. tie only escape fsom general and unous waf'
Nor did it leave the country in the dark as
to how, in its opinion, that paramount duty"
was TO be fulfilled. In another article Of the
same date it said:
oar ns,ions !.PTePnlye, must cSnssss al :hs. a.
Lincoln do make up their minds 90 ooHcedc cre
thing dt The Sgnh a'k no resource remains creeping ds,
rypfon Of e CoJcderdog civil war VIII tho people Of
~. MI hn,.unr nnrmlt civil KHT1 We anaMeT NOD