The New York herald., 1862-04-05

both houses, the country would derive high
degree OF satisfaction from his reaifirmatiOn in
this case Of the ruling idea Of his late emanclpa-
ton message, to wit-the submission of this
question of the abolition Of slavery to the peo-
pie directly concerned.
Poor PIERCE TRIUMPHANT AT LAsT.--Dr Hop
kins, of Detroit, in November last procured
for himself free lodgings in Fort Lafayette by
OVERRIDING a practical joke in the shape Of
mysterious letter. full of suggestive insinuations
and initials, and dashes and signs, in regard to
reasonable league of the K G. C's knights
of the Golden Circle) in Detroit and there
abouts Some of his initials in said letter,
when examined by the State Department, were
supposed to apply to ex-President Pierce, and
forthwith, from the Department, letter was
addressed to poor Pierce, calling for an ex-
PLANTATION. Poor Pierce was not slow to answer
1t, and in his correspondence ON the subject he
pays off Secretary Seward with considerable
interest. In fact, poor Pierce, in this matter,
has enveloped himself in the first positive blaze
of glory by which he has ever been surrounded.
He did nothing in the Mexican war, and nothing
: "AAA0 NO Woo i0skuCHtt W c0shoty Vouy ~AIss
there was such good stuff in him. He leaves
"Old Buck" at last completely in the shade as
a man of pluck and spirit.
As for DR.. Hopkins, having caught himself in
his own ingenious mousetrap, he has doubtless
learned by this time the good old maxim that
''fools should not meddle with edged TOOLS"
We presume that as he has made full confes-
sion of his folly, he is out upon his parole; and
we recommend him now to proceed to the
organization Of new golden circle, the Knights
Of the Golden Ass, and that Senator Chandler,
of Michigan, be made the Grand High Priest of
the order, and Bull Run Russell the Grand High
Corresponding Secretary LID. and ASS.
GREELEY SEcEssIoNIsr.--Poor Greeley
seems TO have periodical fits of penitence, and
rushes to the confessional to try to atone for
months of misdemeanors by a moments frank
ness He issued his Z" Just Once" confession
during one of these lucid intervals. and in
Thursdays Tribune he repeats bis doleful pee
cavi. The poor fellow writes q long and un-
necessary letter to the Hon. Garrett Davis, and
prints it in the Tribune, partly because he feared
that the gentleman addressed would return it
unopened and unread if it were sent through
the Post Office, and partly because of his ire
sistible propensity to trouble the public with
his private correspondence In the course OF
the letter be says;-"I am one of the few
Northern men who, to avoid this war, would
have preferred that the cotton States should
leave US in peace" This Is a very candid con-
fession, and we congratulate poor Greeley
upon having made It, But what can he say
now to the repeated denials the Tribune has
given to us when we made just the very charge
against him to which be now pleads guilty. All
abolitionists are secsssionists and disunionists
as matter Of course, and Greeley Is not only
one of the Northern abolitionists who ad-
vocated disunion, bat also one of the few men
who unhappily escaped Fort Lafayette for their
treason