The New York herald., 1862-04-02

government, and, therefore, will not be labor
in vain.
The AboIitionists and the Mobs.
In commenting upon the recent mobbing Of
Wendell Phillips, at Cincinnati, and of Samuel
Aaron, at Burlington, our contemporaries appear
to be in dense fog to the cause of these popu-
lar outbreaks, and seek in vain to discover
the philosophy of the proceedings Thus the
Tribune declares that it can see no reason why
Phillips was mobbed and asserts that he did
not advocate treason; while the Times, in q
long and labored article, endeavors to argue
that those journals which denounce the aboli-
tiOnists are responsible for the mobs. The
assertion of the Tribune is falsified by Phillips
himself, who said, at Cincinnati, thst he chad
been for thirty years an aboltionist. and nothing
else, and for sixteen years a disunionist." The
theory of the Times cannot be true; for if those
who expose criminals are responsible for the
crimes and their results then is every one who
denounces treason traitor. The truth Of the
matter lies in a nutshell, and is just this:
The abolitionsts are disuniOnists; the people
are beginning to find this out; and mobs are
therefore melting out that punishment which the
government ought itself to inAict.
For thirty years the aboltionists have been
assailing the Union. For sixteen years their
attacks have been confessedly directed towards
so irritating the South as to effect dismember-
ment of the republic. The Tribune has been
aiding these schemes for nearly twenty years;
the Times for nearly ten. When South Carolina
seeded the abolitionists saw their hour Of
triumph and exulted accordingly, Wendell
Phillips and the Tribune leading the van.
State after State followed South Carolina into
the outer darkness Of secession, and the aboli-
ti0nists redoabled their rejoicings. All this
while the government stood inactive, as il
doubling its own power; the people were amazed
and apathetic, as if distrusting that the mad
ness Of the South could 60 50 far. Observant
Europe decided that the North would submit TO-
the disruption Of the Union, so intense was the
calm Of our government and our people, and
so slowly was the great fact of secession appre.
ciated At last, in April, the thunder Of the
rebel cannon, aimed at Fort Sumter, broke the
spell of inaction and initiated the storm of civil
war. The people arose like one man andcom
PEELED the government to. call out troops, to'de-
fend Washington and to begin Immediately the
work Of subduing treason. Before the patriot
ism of the people abolitionism was dumb,
and no voice of party or faction disturbed tho
harmony of cheers for the Union and its accom-
paniment Of the steady tramp Of Union sol
diers.
BY and by the abolitionists took courageand
joined the organs of the peace party imam at
tempt to divide the North. The peace organs
attempted to impede the army; the abolition
organs more shrewdly tried the other extreme,
and hurried it onward towards Richmond. be-
fore it was prepared. The people raised mobs
and suppressed some of the peace organs, and
the government was forced by popular clamor
to suppress the rest, just as 1t had been forced
into action against the rebels a short time be-
fore. Still the motives of the abolitioAists were
not understood, and they were still permitted
to urge on an untimely and disastrous advance.
To this end the abolition organs assailed tho
President and our generals, and even threat
ened to abolish both and make military dicta-
tor Finally, stung by abolition taunts and
inuendos, the army was pushed forward to Ma
nassas. and our brave soldiers were foolishly
and uselessly massacred. Then came the hour
of danger for the abolitionists. Every
corpse on that fatal field. Of Bull
run pointed its CHASTITY finger toward the Offices
of the abolition press. The Tribune alarmed
and menaced, issued its "Just Once" confession
and implored the HERALD's mercy. The peo-
ple, still slow to believe that abolitionism' was
so vile and traitorous thing as it appeared
lust as they had been slow to- believe in tho
reality of the Southern rebellion-were easily
appeased, and thus abolitionism obtained a,
new lease. Of life. Since then it has grown
bolder and bolder, until lately it has attacked!
the President, slandered tho Commander-in-
Chief. uttered its treason in the very
shadow of the Capitol and in every possible
way aided the rebels and weakened the Union,
cause.
Now what follows? Simply that alb, litioR-
ism has proved itself practically dis
unionsm, and that the people are begin
ming to fully appreciate this fact. Tho
people see that the abolitonists furnished
the rebel consprators. with the only pretext
with which they could entice tho South out Of
the Union. The people see that abolitionism is.
impossible without disunion; for the South is
worthless without les slave labor, sndlwithout
| the South and its oad institutions the Union 10
divided and obsolste. THIS negroes are leaving
| the South by hundrcds, and with them. goes all
Southern industry, capital, produce, commsSca
and wealth. The negroes are coming here by
hundreds, and with them come amalgamatiOn.
increased taxes, crowded poorhouscs, q surplus
of black labSrers, the substitution Of blacks for
whites in many departments Of industry, and
consequent distress, misery and starvation
aruOng oar poor whites. The people see
ttat, bad as slavery may be, there is no posi-
sae way Of getting rid Of II just at present
without the utter ruin of both North and