The New York herald., 1861-12-07

good request Sugars nr with sales Of some 800
hhds Coffee was quiet, but firmly held. Freghts were
toeraby active, but rather easier for Liverpool.
The Satanic Abolition Element I'm Com
gress and in the Press.
The fanatical and domineering spirit OF the
abolition element in Congress cannot have es
capped the serious attention of our readers
Since the meeting Of the two houses their daily
sessions have been monspolized by abolition
propositions and harangues, all directed to the
same common object-the overthrow of Presi-
dent Lincoln's war programme for "ths integri-
ty OF the Union," and the substitution of war
for the extirpation of Southern slavery. Our
Satanic abolition presses, meantime are actively
supplying the fuel and tanning the flame Of
this new and ominous abolition agitation. Read
the extracts which we give to-day from thsNew
York Tribune and the Independent.
The letter from the special Washington cor
respondent of the Tribune is doubtless an au-
thortative exposition of the views Of the radical
abolition faction of Congress, the leaders Of
which in the House are Thaddeus Stevens and
Owen Lovejoy, and in the Senate Sumner and
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Important, in the announcement that the aseii.
tionists in Congress have declared war against
the administration and its conservative policy
and that Congress, sustained by the pe~ple,
will probably prevail-' We are told that as the
war is now conducted it is for "the prescrva-
ton of slavery" that we are thus "fghting on
the side of the insurpectionists quite as vehe-
mently as we are fighting against them;" that
we are fighting "with our hands ted" trying
to walk swiftly "with clogs upon our feet and
that the test vote taken in the House. on the
first day of the session, in sentiment "was by no
means in accordance with that which the ad-
ministration' Displays" Enlarging upon this
idea, the Independent says that the Presidents
Message falls, "far short # the just expectations
of the loyal portion Of the nation;" that it is
thoroughly tinged with the colorphobia which
has prevailed SO long im Illinois, and was so
strongly developed in the odious black laws Of
that State;' andthat, ''under the frivolous plea
of necessity for its own existence, this Christian
nation Of thirty millions iaurged to the inhuman
act Of banishing four millions of her indus
trious poor because they are black" Finally,
to cut short the argument, the special tele-
graphic correspondent Of the Tribune, under the
inspiration Of Senator Trunbull's late abolition
speech and coniiscation bill, says
No intelligent could have gone out Of the Senate
chamber this morning without the conviction that the
Conscrp Fathers had silently pronounced the doom Of
slavery this continent. An Of Congress will
questonably strike the shackes or the Africans every
State OF the Union before the next anniversary of Wash
ington's birthday.
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Aadical, sweeping and destructive revolutionary
measure which the wit Of man could devise.
It is one thing, however, to illuminate, and
another thing to execute, these sweeping aboli-
tion DEGREES. We. pronounce them impractical
BILE, preposterous and reasonable. The Presi-
dent is right aud it there be a majority in Con
gress in favor of these extreme abolition pro-
ceedings it is majority which does not repre-
sent the sentiment Of our loyal States This
Congress was not elected upon the issue of
war for the abolition of slavery; and the sub
mission Of this issue at this time to our loyal
States would bring out nine-tenths of their
popular vote in favor Of the Union policy Of the
administration, and hardly man in Congress of
this ultra abolition faction would escape crush
ing rebuke from his constituents. In our army,
too, the supporters Of Mr.. Lincoln's policy-ola
line wings, old line democrats and conservative
republicans in an overwhelming majority,
beginning with General Mcclellan.
We say, then, that this threatened act of uni
versal emancipation is impracticable, because
our loyal people and our loyal armies arc on
the side Of the President, and that, thus sus-
tanned, should this act Of abolition be passed, he
can and will put his veto upon it, as upon an
inexpedient, unauthorized and unconstitutional
act. Slavery is State institution and within
any State Congress has no more authority over
the subject than over the municipal affairs of
this city. But suppose that, under the authority
of Congress, General Sherman, for instance,
as a war measure, were to proclaim
the abolition of slavery throughout the
State Of South Carolina, what would his edict
be worth? It would be good for nothing be-
yond the lines Of his army. Suppose he were
to occupy the whole State, and liberate all its
slaves, would not the State, by this occupation,
be restored to the Union, and to her absolute
control of this local institution? Clearly So
and simple State act declaring null and void
General Sherman's emancipation orders, and in
viting the slaves to return to their masters,
would bring the bulk Of them back again.
Hence this idea of the abolition of slavery by
act Of Congress is not only impracticable, but
preposterous, unless we choose to merge our
federal constitution, all our State institutions,
and our whole political fabric, State rights,
State lines and all, in . military despotism.
In this view we may truly denounce all these
violent revolutionary schemes of the Satanic
abolition element as reasonable. JEFF. Davis
and his confederates, now on the verge Of
despair, would be invigorated with new hopes,
and strengthened by the energetic support OF
all classes in the South, against anything like
an act of Congress for the general abolition OF
slavery. Under such condition Of things, instead
of recovering any Of the seeded States, as we
have recovered Maryland from the very jaws Of
secession, we should, perhaps, lose oil that we
have gained in Maryland Virginia, Tennessee
Kentucky and Missouri The South would be.
come unit against u.s. and the war on their