The New York herald., 1862-03-18
The Party OF Blood and BrutaIity-The
Tribune and Liberat0r It's Organs

The Party OF Blood and BrutaIity-The
Tribune and Liberator Its Organs.
In every revolutionary civil war there is
party which takes advantage Of the general
s'riie and confusion to crafty its Unsuitable
iussI blood and crime. Rome had such q
party during the contests between the patri
clans and plebeians. England had such party
during that series of civil wars which cuImi
mated in the execution of King Charles First
France had such party during those revolu
tions when the dull thud of the guillotine kept
time to the savage music of the sans culottes
the best blood of the nation deluged the streeta
of Paris, and every lamp post was an extern
pore gallows. Its peculiarities are disregard
of all principle, an irrepressible relish for
slaughter, and fendsh disposition to war
upon the weak, defenceless and womanly. Most
significantly the French call this the party Of
blood. During our own civil war we call this
party the abolitionists
If to the brutality of the Roman gladiators,
the relentless fanaticism of the Puritanical
Roundheads, and the fsrocity of the Parisisn
gdplinS, you add as much cowardice as cruelty.
the American abolitionist is complete. Indeed,
the abolition party is composed mainly of dis
clples of the Puritans and students of French
red republicanism; but the personal bravery
which distinguished, though it could not re-
deem, the cruel excesses of the Roundheads and
the red republicans, is altogether omitted in the
CHARACTER Of an abolitionist. The abolitionist
would have blood, but he is not man enough to
shed it in fair fight as did Cromwell's bigota
and the heroes of the barricades. The aboli
tionists demand that the hearthstones of the
South be desolated with fire and sword, and
denounce General Mcclellan for accomplishing
will not find the abolitionists in the army; and,
much as they desire blood, they risk
none of their own in battles for the
Union. They prefer rather the safe car
mage of the pen or the rostrum, and war
only upon those whose sex or position makes
blood is composed of such men as those whe
mangled the dead bodies of Marie Antoinette
Madame Roland and Charlotte Corday. Wo
men are the chosen objects of their vengeance
They revenge themselves upon those wha
thwart them by attacking mothers, wives anl
daughters-not men.
In another column, this morning, we reprinta
few of the many slanderous articles, published
by the abolition press, under the lead of the New
York Tribune, in regard to the wife Of ths
President If we could spare the space w
might fill our columns with just such insulting
ovts al fka
President of the United States faithfully Oh
serves his solemn oath to support the con
stitution-because this war is conductoe
conservatively, and is designed not h
destroy, but to restore the Union
therefore the disunion abolitionists are in
fury of rage. They are neither numerous
nor brave enough to openly attack ou.
statesmen and our generals. They dare no
write down President Lincoln, and even the
Tribune contented itself with insinuations ans
inuendoes against General Mcclellan unit
he left Washington for the field. But th.
wives of the President and his friends are pow
erless to retaIiate, and upon them the abolition
lists take revenge for the firm resistance of the
President to schemes for slave instructions
blood and disunion. They have the will, q
they but had the power, to supersede the Presi
dent-as the Times and Tribune once advo
cated-create q dictator and erect gallow,
for every man who is guilty of fidelity to thu
Union. Not having this power, however, they
attempt the same result by other means. The
press il their guillotine, and by it they try Il
break hearts, since the cannot chop off heads.
Our readers have but to glance at the ex
tracts to which we refer in order to discover ths
motive and the manner of these attacks TheiI
occasion was the recent reception at the White
House, when Mrs. Lincoln, in accordance with
all national etiquette, extended her hospitalite'
to the representatives of this and other nations
Mrs. Lincoln and the wives and daughters Of
the generals, senators and representatives pre-
sent at their reception are denounced as heart
less, immodest and unchristian !; their dress
manners and society are savagely criticised, and
they are pronour ce l, in the plainest terms, te
be unfit wives, mothers and women. Thus one
abolition harpy calls the reception can
entertainment for men and women Of
questionable virtue" and another com
pares it to "revolting orgies and mad
carousals." Mrs. Lincoln is choioely
termed "Delilah," and an "object Of reproach
and disgust" The guests are described a.
''merry with wine," 'mad or demented," and
conducting themselves with "devil-me-care i'm
becility." We might charitably suppose that
these Jacobins are as ignorant as they are bru-
tai, and have used words of which they did
not understand the scope and meaning. but
truth forbids such an excuse The abolitionists
talk much more than they dare write, but 1t 10
in the same strain. The Hickman Committee
meant only this when it insulted Mrs. Lincoln
even in the presence of death itself. There
can be no mistake about such facts as these.
1t goes upon record as part OF the history OF
this rebellion that the abolition party, unable