The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-18

uahu WIN sales OF 100 hhds and BOXES at terms
given in another column Coffee was frmsr and higher,
with sales Of $500 bags Rio and $50 do Maracaibo
terms given in another place. Freight engagements were
moderate and rates unchanged.
Congress and tho Wharf.-The Administra-
ton Observation-Disclosures Rebuked.
The two houses of Congress, since their meet
ing on the 4th instant, have done an extra
ordinary amount of substantial legislation in
behalf of the vigorous prosecution of this war,
according to the conservative Union policy laid
down in the Presidents Message. The measures
acted upon comprehend authority to the Pres-
dent to call out five hundred thousand mon, a
Loan and Treasury Note bill of two hundred and
fifty millions Of dollars, appropriations for the
current necessities Of the army of one hundred
and sixty-one millions, from thirty to forty
millions for the navy, and various correspond
ing incidental measures relating to the two war
branches of the public service.
Senator Wilson's resolutions, approving the
warlike responsibilities assumed by the Pres-
dent in the absence of Congress- have been the
regular order in the Senate from time to time,
and will come up again as the special order to-
day, when they will most probably be passed.
When last up they were discussed at great
length by Senator Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
in opposition to their adoption. He la
bored very earnestly and ingeniously to
show that, in establishing the blockade
of the ports of our revolted States, in
his engagements of the army and navy, and in
his suspension of the writ of habeas corpus,
without the authority Of Congress, President
Lincoln has been guilty of usurpations of
power which Congress cannot justify. Mortified
at these proceedings, and at the consenting
spirit betrayed in Congress, Mr.. Breckenridge
despairingly exclaimed, awe are rushing, sir,
and with rapid strides, from a constitutional
government into a military despotism."
But the most remarkable feature in this very
remarkable speech of our eloquent ex-Vice
President is the ingenuity which he has dis
played in ignoring this gigantic Southern re-
bellion. 1t reigns-a palpable and terrible
military despOtism-over more than one-third
of this Union. Regulating the constitution,
the government and the laws of the Union, this
despOtism has arrayed in arms against them
rebellious revolutionary force of two hun
dred thousand men. Disregarding the
rights of property and the claims of honest
creditors, this despotism has seized upon the
property of the government, amounting to
several hundred millions of dollars, and has
confiscated Southern private debts due to
Northern citizens of many millions in the
aggregate.
Nor is this the worst of it. Had President
Lincoln, in the presence of this formidable re-
belion, stood upon constitutional technicalities,
and waited for the meeting of Congress to give
him full power to grapple with the dangers of
the crisis it is morally certain that our capital,
our constitution and our government would
have been all overthrown, at least temporarily,
by revolutionary seizure of Washington. But
all these Overshadowing facts, patent to all the
world, are studiously ignored by Mr.. Breckin-
ridge. He reminds us of the learned Bourbon
Jesuit who, in writing history of France, omit
ted the republican revolution against Louis
XVI, and the Consulate and Empire of Napole-
on. as matters not belonging to the legitimate
records of the nation. Never was there such an
example as this of the Senator from Kentucky
of the reading of the play of Hamlet" with
the part of Hamlet left out. The only trouble,
the only question before us, is this heaving and
roaring Southern rebellion; and yet the Senator
would have us believe there is no such thing
1t is gratifying, however, to perceive that the
day has gone by for such old party Bourbons as
Senator Observation-Disclosures men, who "never
learn anything and never forget anything" and
for such purblind old party hacks as the Hon.
Ben. Wood, and Burnett and Vallandigham, who
believe that the spoils-giving democratic party
is only asleep, when it is dead and stinks in the
nostrils Of the people. We say it is gratifying
that these obsolete politcians-so far behind
the age, and so stupidity blind to the great facts
of this crisis and the drift of passing events
have become utterly powerless among the repre-
sentatives of the American people at Washing
ton. 1t is equally gratifying to find, in mi
nority quite as contemplate, in each house of
Congress, our disunion abolition fanatics of the
school of Lovejoy, Sumner, and Pomeroy, of
Kansas
Between the two extremes of sympathizing
submissionists to this rebellion and our crazy
and venomous abolitionists preaching and urg-
ing the determination of Southern slavery by
fire and sword, the two houses of Congress are
steadily pursuing the even tenor of their way in
support of the conservative war policy Of the
administration. This is right and in this policy
we are assured of the final triumph of the con-
stitutfon, and all our civil, State and popular
rights under it, North and South. Upon Pres-
dent Lincoln's policy of limiting this war to the
suppression of this armed rebellion, the cause
of the Union and the constitution cannot fail.
He is fool or knavc who seeks to divert us
from the fact that our government can only now
be saved by the strong hand of war he is prac-
ticallY a tra tor who now seeks to divert the