The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-17

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The Restoration or the Union, and Our
DisOrg anfzing Abolition Faction.
From the very interesting letters Of our New
Orleans correspondent which we publish to
day, our readers will perceive that under the
firm, vigilant and sagacious administration OF
General Butler the work Of the restoration OF
the Union in that quarter goes steadily and
cheeringy on. Trade is reviving; large quanti-
ties of cotton and sugar are coming forward
for shipment to the North life and property
are fully protected; the provisions supplied to
the suffering poor by General Buffers orders
are gratefully accepted; the secession ladies OF
the city are becoming more amiabls, while
those of the Union party are manifesting their
patriotism in the fabrication Of flags for our
Union volunteers; the monetary affairs of the
city are steadily improving; confidence be-
tween man and man is reviving, and, underlying
and cropping out through all these wholesome
changes, the paramount idea of the downfall OF
the rebellion and the supremacy Of the Union
is becoming more and more apparent from day
to day.
In the city Of Memphis, which, down to the
day of its occupation by our troops, was one Of
the rankest hotbeds of secession violence and
ruffianism, the same salutary reconstruction of
public affairs is going on. In fact, from every
quarter of the rebelious South excepting
South Carolina) which has fallen under the
control of our advancing fleets and armies, our
advices satisfy us of broad underlying Union
sentiment, awaiting only the opportunity
when, without the hazard of secession vio-
lence, it may manifest itself. Our readers will
remember that when our visiting feet, some
vile, Florida, the people of the town,
en- masse, welcomed our sailors and
soldiers as deliverers, but that SUBJ
sequently, our feet being called away, the peo-
pie of the town, en- m0sse, in order to save their
lives from the violence of band Of secession
msrauders, were compelled to fly to the North.
With the repulse of General Banks from the
valley of Virginia, many Union citizens of that
valley followed the protection of his army into
Maryland but let the inhabitants of Virginia,
North Carolina or any other Southern State
| (not excepting South Carolina) be convinced
that they are placed beyond the reach Of the
armed forces of this rebellion, and we shall
very soon discover that the Union is still the
paramount wish and hope OF q substantial ma
jority Of our Southern people.
We are entirely confident that with the fall
Of Richmond, and the capture or the rout and
dispersion of the officers Of the rebel govern
ment with its last remaining army. the work of
the restoration of the Union will be substan-
TALLY accomplished; because we believe that
with the last army Of this rebellion, and its
government, and its financial paper system.
broken up, the moral power Of the rebellion
over the minds and bodies and pockets Of the
| people of our sO-called Confederate States
will be destroyed The only serious impedi-
ment to an immediate and overwhelming
popular Union reaction throughout the South,
with our occupation Of Richmond, is the
disorganizing, fanatical, radical, nigger-wor-
shipping disunion abolition faction Of the
| North.
We believe it was Hon. Owen Lovejoy who
| expressed the apprehension the other day that
this rebellion will be put down without putting
| down slavery. This is the fear Of all the radi-
cal abolition tribe, of which Lovejoy is an
anointed apostle. The grand scheme of these
disorganizers comprehends the extirpa-
ton Of Southern slavery by fire and
| sword, the reduction Of our rebel
lions States to the crude condition OF
Territories. the obliterston of their boundaries,
and their restoration TO the Union under new
| boundaries, names and local institutions, and
under new federal government, upon the inn
possible platform of negro equality, political
and social. This programme, which, if entered
upon, can only result in the disruption OF our
| whole political fabric, and in q war Of races,
| sections and factions ~ endless as the revolu-
| tons Of Mexico, is the entertainment to which
| our radical abolition faction insist we shall be
invited. Could anything be imagined more
beasty and horrible than the degradation Of
| this war for the Union into war for its recon
strction upon this abolition basis Of the poll.
teal and social equality Of our white and
black races7
And yet this is the only danger which we have
now to fear II is well that in President Lin
| coin we have found the man who has thus far
been able to grapple il successfully The time
has come, however, when the conservative
Union men Of Congress and the country should
rally earnestly to his support, and no longer
stand as Indifferent spectators Of the bold and
daring efforts Of our abolition radicals to make
the Union, the constitution, State institutions,
and the whole order Of our society, subordi-
nate to this one idea Of negro freedom and ne
gro equality. We call upon our honest Union
men Of the North and the South to gather
around our honest President, and 70 strengthen
his hands, so that in dispensing the last great
rebel army Of the South he may have . free
course before him in carrying out his wise and
bsnefcent policy Of the restoration Of our 70.
VOTED States to the Union, with or without