The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-27

and che Crisis.
No events have TRANSFERRED, since the com
mencement 0 I difficulties between the NorFh
and South, so distressing as the bloodshed, and
subsequent anarchy, that have been witnessed
in the city Of Baltimore, from no other cause
than the "taking Of things into their own
hands," by the people, which Mr., Law would
have initiated on large scale. IL
will be the result of mere accident,
if the horrors OF mob law are not per
petuated there, and if scenes Of violence do
not still take place, without a parallel in the
history of the United States. There is 40
government, no order, no authority and the
martial law which has been proclaimed il
merely armed lawlessness, and systematized
reign of terror. Respectable citizens have lied
for their lives; there is nosecurity for property;
commerce is annihilated; bankruptcy stares
business mon in the face; and shock has been
given to confidence, in Maryland, from which
it cannot recover in years. The frenzy OF some
drunken, excited horde, may lead to an attack,
at any moment upon Fort McHenry, the effect
of which would be- that Baltimore would be
reduced to ashes.
Such have been the consequences Of depart.
ure from the established order OF things in
place numbering but two hundred thou
sand inhabitants. And it is appalling to re
member that. within little more than
week, this city, from different causes, was
menaced with similar misrIle, and the I'M
claiming of elements, whose rage would
have reduced our metropolis to q pande-
mOnium. There is no doubt that plans
existed to destroy newspaper offices, injure
individuals, sack private residences; and hat
the days succeeding the bombardment of Fort
Sumter, had very nearly proved to be The be-
ginning Of an epoch OF wretchedness which
would not have ended until banks, ware
houses, the mansions of the rich, public build
ings, and the accumulated wealth Of our mer-
chants, had become the prey of savage ey'
cited mob, who would have regarded every
thing they could lay their hands on, rs legiti-
mate plumber.
Secret organizations, and the incendiary
language of that portion of the republican
press, had prepared the way for, and in
stigated, every species of airociiy, blindly ig-
noring that although the first effect of their
Vaccinations might have been injury to those
whose prosperity and enterprise they envied, the
confagration would not have ceased, until they,
also, and all they possess, had persisted in it,
Experience has proved that the people Of New
York, are, in the main, order loving and peace
full but, with a population, including Brook
Ign, of considerable over a million, there must
ever be a sufficient number of rutfiaus TO turn
disorder to their own account, and paralyze
immediate attempts to reduce them to subms-
sion. ~
1t is exclusively owing to the wise, prudent,
and patriotic course of the conservative por-
ton of our public journals, that scenes hide
Gus TO contemplate have not been. witnessed,
and acts frightful to imagine, have not been
perpetrated, in the city Of New York For
months previously, they had advocated peace.
Deprecatng civil war; condemning seces-
sion: appealing to the people against
extremists in the North and in the South;
they had striven to avert the storm
which darkened our political horizon. But,
with the bombardment of Fort Sumter, an epoch
of aggression opened which they were the very
first to comprehend the iniquity of; to de-
nounce az ii deserved; and to call upon the
long as there was hope Of avoiding that most
fearful of calamities-a bloody sectional con.
fict; while chance remained of inducing the
States that had rebelled to return to their allie
glance, they urged forbearance, and believed
that delay was wise. With the first sound of
cannon, and the cowardly assault by eight
thousand troops upon seventy starving men,
they Immediately raised the flag Of the Union;
assumed the position that belonged to them OF
leaders in an inevitable war: and summoned
the administration to energetic, vigorous.
prompt, and decisive action.
The conservative journals of New York city
have effected what no other influence could
have achieved-they have rendered the North
a unit, in the present crisis. They have poured
oil upon the troubled waters of local party
strife. and have succeeded in causing minor
issues to be buried out Of sight until the flag of
our country shall wave victorious, over every
fortress, custom house. arsenal and post Office
OF which possession has been usurped by revo
lutionists and misguided men. They have
caused the hundreds of thousands of people in
New York, to feel towards each other, once
more, like brothers, and to direct all their hos
tilites against common foe. It is good
that so enviable unanimity prevails, and
it is the determination of the people to sustain
the government OF Mr.. Lincoln in its efforts TO
suppress rebellion and restore the flag Of the
country to the position il has lost. Should the
IL.
are proper and legal methods of stimulating it
to more efficient action; but it would render
confusion worse COMPOUNDED, if suggestions like
those Of Mr.. Law were listened to-
A SPECIMEN OF THE Cool influence or THE
SEcEssIoNIsTS Alexander H. Stephens, of