The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-07
The Jacobin Clubs Organizing Against
the President.

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League" was held at the Cooper Institute in
this city, attended by Dr. Vincent Colyer, H.
II. Helper, Rev DR.. Tying. Hon. Henry J. Ray
mond and others of the same abolition stripe.
The club was addressed by Parson Tying and
| by Homicidal Border Ruffian Jim Lane, whose
| equal for violence and bloodthirstiness could
| scarcely be found among the demoniac charac
tiers who figured in the French Revolution.
The theme of the speakers, the burden of their
song, was denunciation of Governor Stanly, of
North Carolina; and the design of the move
ment is, by fair means or by foul to subvert
the conservative policy of the President, and
with it the constitution under which the coun-
try has prospered and grown into a greatness
without parallel in the history of the world.
Among other things contended for by Lane
was the claim that the black race is superior
to white. He says black babies are superior
to white, and the only reason why they are not
superior when they grow up is the lash of the
slaveowner. Upon this opinion about negro
superiority he POUNDS the necessity of emanci-
patton, and holds that no slave State can be
received back into the Union. DR.. Tying asks
for what, If not for emancipation, have fifty
thousand Northern freemen fallen in the pre-
sent war, and he announces that the principal
object Of the Emancipation League is to pre-
vent any State now in rebellion being recog-
nized as . member Of the Union, except on the
condition of emancipation. This is known to
be the plan Of Mr.. Secretary Chase, and by
various intrigues he is laboring to carry it out
in opposition to the policy Of the President
He has been mixed up with the mission of
Pearce to South Carolina, and with the raid
of Colyer into North Carolina; and we have no
doubt that he is at the bottom of the Emanci-
patton League and the Jacobin meeting at the
Cooper Institute. Mr.. Chase has not act
ed in good faith. When the war be-
gan he came to New York city and
applied to the conservative merchants
for money to carry on the war. He OBJ
tanned it on the faith Of the Presidents pro-
clamation and his own endorsement of its
views. It was to be war for the restoration
Of the Union as it was before the war began
But no sooner does he accomplish his object
than he turns round and goes to work to make
the war war of abolition. If he had declared
this purpose at first, how much money would he
have received? Not dollar. Very different has
been the course of Mr.. Seward, Of whom, though
we have said some hard things, we must con-
fess that since he entered the Cabinet he has
displayed the highest craftsmanship. His opin-
ions, and, indeed, the opinions Of the whole
Cabinet, excepting Mr.. Chase only, are entirely
at variance with those of the latter gentle
man, which are supported by the New York
Tribune, the Times, Post and other Jacobin
journals.
1t does not appear that Raymond spoke at
this reasonable meeting, whose declared OBJ
ject is to prevent the restoration of the Union
and to supersede the constitution; but yester-
day morning, in leading article in his jour
nal, he endorsed its principles and threatened
the President. He charges Mr.. Stanly with
enforcing laws which shock the public sense of
justice and disgrace the civilization of the
age;" and he intimates to Mr.. Lincoln that if
he does not repudiate the action of the Military
Governor of North Carolina he will speedily
PEELED to answer at the worlds bar for per-
hitting its existence" The President has So
lemnly sworn that he "will faithfully execute
the Office of President of the United States and
will, to the best Of his ability, preserve, pro-
tect and defend the constitution of the United
States" Now, Abraham Lincoln is not
President of q part, but of all the
United States-as much the President of
South Carolina and North Carolina as he is
Of New York and Massachusetts-and he is
bound by his oath to carry out the constitution
in the Southern States as well as in the North
ern. The constitution knows no North, no
South, no East, no West. II recognizes no
distinction between slave and free States
When the constitution was formed there was
only one State in which slavery did not exist.
1t has been abolished in a majority of the
original thirteen States by the action of the
State Legislatures, the only way in which it
| could be abolished. The constitution ex-
pressly recognizes the right of property in the
services of slaves under the State laws, and that
right the President has sworn to protect and
defend The Emancipation League, Jim Lane,
| DR.. Tying and Henry j. Raymond, propose that
lie turn traitor and perjurer together, casting
his oath to the winds, usurping the sovereignty
Of the people and changing the form of the
| government. Because certain Southern men
have proved traitors, therefore Mr.. Lincoln
ought to excel them in treason, and delibe-
rately destroy whatever interest the people
have left in the Union Of coequal States
founded by George Washington and the
patriots Of 1776. And IL Mr.. Lincoln will not
commit this crime he is menaced with being
compelled to answer at the tribunals of the
Jacobins, who, Immediately after his Inaugural
ton, gave him to understand, through the
editorial columns Of the Times, that he would
| be superseded" if he did not commence hos
tilities. AT that time the obligation of his oath
| to maintain the constitution was urged by the
/ sama men who are now calling upon him to