The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-29

his projects in Europe.
How Extrs mes Meet-The Dfsuni0n Teach
fngs OF the Hem. BENJAMIN Wood and
the Hon. Massa Greeley.
Under the kindly teachings of the HERALD
the Hon. Massa Greeley has recently exhi-
bited symptoms of humanity, which we trusted
would prove an earnest of slow but sure re-
covery, from the bloodthirsty spirit which he
infused into his paper, few weeks ago. We
even entertained hopes of public retracton
of his cruel wish, that "mothers of the South
might be reduced to poverty, and their children
to rags" But, since Sunday, Massa Greeley
has had q relapse. The disease has broken out
as badly as ever. Some OF his delirious utter
ances, are as frenzied and lamentable as any
that have preceded them in the journal he con-
trolls A litQe while since, the Hon. Massa
Greeley wan Baltimore laid in ashes, and an
indefinite amdlht e hanging, shooting and in
surrectionizing to ~ dona-eyerywhere, South
aroused against Alexandria. 1t is not enough
that the murderer of the gallant and heroic
Ellsworth, was killed on the spot where he per-
petrated his crime; but hecatomb or two of
slaveowners, Massa Greeley thinks, should be
sacrificed to his memory, or as he expresses it,
'the avenger' must march into Virginia. and
"call for summary retribution on the city of
the assassin" And further:-"An adequate
penalty should fall on the place where such
crime could be committed. A heavy pecuniary
mulct-two or three hundred thousand dol
lars-should be imposed upon it, and, failing
thereof, the portion of the city where
the crime was committed should be le-
yelled with the ground Let the barba-
rians be taught that we are in earnestw We
have heard that it is a practice in the Fejee
Islands to slaughter, and sometimes devour, the
friends and relatives of an individual, in hos.
tile tribe, who has been guilty of homicide; but
we can scarcely credit that the Congressional
experience of even the Hon. Massa Gree
ley, would have prepared him. if in his sane
senses, for the introduction of similar legisla-
ton into the United States. We fear we do not
err, in supposing that the health of Massa Gree
ley needs looking after.
The Hon. BENJAMIN Wood is as much
IN want Of tonics, as his Congressional prede.
cessor is of an effective sedative. He cannot
perceive why anybody should be punished for
political crime at all. He calls the endeavor
of the 10y States to put down treason, and
restore the integrity of the Union, IAN avenging
hirst for blood, by wolves in sleeps clothing,
who, with Tophet in their hearts, yet dare to
ceface the mission Of the Prince Of Peace lie
oevotes column aud half to an essay on
Christian charity, which eliminates in deplor-
ing the "grizzly, CHASTITY irony what an
dea with which "spoliatons, hangings,
irowniDgs, poisonings, assassinations, &C., are
manufactured by tomenters of civil discord,"
who represent their Southern brothers as ca
long, lank, Drawn co4ored, tobacco chewing,
shiskey drinking, overbearing, rude, vulgar,
combination of bully and BLACKBOARD, bran
dishipg the lash of a long oxwhip over the
backs of few poor, half starved, covering,
trembling negroes" or else "swaggering about
barroom, with small battery of six-shoot-
ers and bowie knife, daring all the world to
fight, and running away the moment he finds de-
.erpined adversary, or, by some cowardly ruse,
assassiDaiing him and carving out his entrails
with cemoDisc glee, or dancing around The
corpse Of some unfortunate slave, &c &c u
Wbee! Was ever the terrible made more
ridiculous II is hard, thinks the Hon. Ben
jsmin, that people who have been pounded
with so many adjectives, should be put through
the ordeal of musket bullets besides There
tore he is opposed to the war, and strenuously
advocates a peace policy. The Union, he is
manifestly persuaded had better be dismem-
bered than reconstructed al the fearful price
Of human blood.
The Hon. Massa Greeley, wishes to trample
on the constitution and the laws, for the
sake Of the niger, though, oil things equal,
he would be glad to have the Southern States,
which he once believed could not be kicked
out Of the Union" Ego In peace" The Hon.
erjsmin Wood, excldims;--" Let them 90
in peace, anyway So extremes meet. Neither
is willing to aid in preserving our glorious go
verpment legally, from pure love OF the country
Of their birth. They are both practical dis
unionists, and their teachings tend TO encourage
traitors. Nevertheless, as the Hon. Massa
Greeley is irresponsible for much that he
utters, and as the Hon. Mr.. Wood errs on
the side of all sucking philanthropists, we re-
commend neither to the tender mercies OF the