The New York herald., 1862-01-26

atoned through cowardicc-two qualities that usually
cohere, but make each other doubly detestable
There has been nothing in conduct OF the warand
our soul swells with pride and gratitude as we say It.
there has been nothing part justify or TO suggest
such atrocous nhumantes our enemies are guilty or
The prisoners hOm we have taken have recognized
as SUCH when they had played the part OF rene
gades 20 their allegiance We have proposed to make
changes, and whatever the contempt we could not but
feel have condescended 70 allow 20 Lincoln the
back arrangement for this purpose which his shame
and his necessities have driven HIM 10 ask.
We have disdained TO war on women and children. We
have, with generous magnanimity, which has indeed
provoked much murmnrins from those among ourselves
who take counsel Of their resentments refused
the citizens Of the North whom the bursting OF
the found within lines We have given all these
leave TO retire, We have conducted them our lines
and delivered them to their friends We thus sent
wives to her husbands and husbands to their and
What has tho North dones Let the citizens saw who
seized by treachery or by virtue of accident
gush IN their prisons Let C. j. Faulkner and let Austin
L. smith, and let others like them say who returning
TO render that account Of their which honest
men feel TO be due were perhdously seized and mpri.
soned. Their feay to the sentiment Of honor should
have been shield and panopy, sacred flag truce
Lincoln has acknowledged 1t with a felon cell.
The stone neet enormlty is fresh the public mind
II IS drawing down the censures OF the world From
across the waters the indignant excam up that
is crime against mankind. Yet how very cooily and
with what luscious elaboration the story is recorded
and with what delight they gloat the fancy OF har
bors forever destroyed and people forever ruined DO
ehey blot that daboical vengeance the rulers of c
zsns whom they seek to bring back their embrace
Is as their ensmesS Do they seek to destroy while
What atrocious f0ly-what foolish atrocity. The Pei-
ades who shrunk from she brutal woong Of the abho.red
Orion were sheltered by the gods from his pursuit by
being established the beauteous constellation OF
the skythus speaks the fable Under the favor hea
ven we will make u prophecy, and prophecy fulfilled
Sooner than unite with the North again would wed
the dead and tho thought Of being subdued by dsspo
ism so hisous awakens the utmost thrill resentment
and the utmost energy OF opposing
such are the people who are seeking to subdue
such faint picture Of their cnmtes. We do not pro-
duce TO infame the passions Of hate, but
the energies Of resistance 1t is duty remember and
often TO review the issues wh stake
zeal should forget and should therefore anguish
hghting for everything that people hold dear We
are lighting against everything that people should
dread Our resolution Is confirmed, zeal is quick
ened and souls fired by every element disgust
IN the character OF our enemies, and by every
stance OF tyranny and every device Of malevolence
their conduct They seem like him of old who had lost
his reason and possessed of devil Let not im
tate them but let US resist them by land and by water
by mountain and by valley by night and by day, in
ter and IN summer in heat and in cold in prosperity and
IN adversely. and out OF Us resist
them as duty owe to the momory OF fathers TO
our manhood and dignity, to the affection bear
to our children, and a duty to mankind. In such
cause our zeal should tag. aud can
doubtful