The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-07-21

| cannot stand. Twelve months ago both houses
Of Congress, in response to the Presidents mes
| sage, adopted resolution defining the objects
| Of the war, which were constitutional and le-
| climate. By the sinister influence and insane
counsels of the radicals, this programme has
been departed from, and the sad results are
union ct the South division and apathy at the
North, and disastrous reverses to our arms. Lot
the people therefore throughout the Northern
States take up the manifesto of the border States
representatives the basis of their political &C
ton. Let it be the great issue in every State
election, and let an incorporating war be
waged against the radicals and abolitionists
Delsndo est Carthage. Thus alone will tho war
be made successful and peace and the Union
restored.
The Connscation BAN and tho Radical
Press.
Now that the radicals are fairly bafled by
the bold and patriotic course Of the President,
their organs, particularly the Tribune, are try
ing to break the fall Of their defeat by pretend
| ing that the negroes may now be employed in
war-that is, as fighting men. It is true, they
| may now be SO employed, and it is equally true
that they might have been organized into regi-
merits from the beginning. There was nothing
in the constitution or laws to have prevented
the President from adopting this course. He
had the power: that he did not exercise it was
because he concluded with St. Paul, that all
things which are lawful are not expedent Mr..
Lincoln wants to save the border slave States
to the Union. The radicals want to drive them
out. The bill does not compel him to employ
the negroes: if it did he would have vetoed it
at once. 1t merely gives him discretion which
he had before as Commander-in-C Chief He will,
no doubt, use that discretion as he did before
the passage of the bill in the army Of General
Mcclellan, by employing the negroes in the
trenches, and thus saving the troops; but he
will not put arms in the hands Of the blacks
! for many reasons.
First, to do so would be disgraceful in the
| eyes Of the civilized world, if, being more than
| two to one in white men, we could not whip
| the Southern rebels without the aid Of blacks.
Secondly, it would more thoroughly unite
| the white men Of the South against the govern
ment. aA
Thirdly, it would inaugurate servile insur
rection, and conflict of races in which the
poor negro must perish without any fault Of
his own. Stolid as the African is he must see
that determination is his doom if he turns his
hand against his Southern master when he is
outnumbered more than two to one and has no
arms. In St. Domingo the case was different;
for there the black race far outnumbered the
whites. Yet the abolition donkeys cannot see
the difference. and are driving matters to that
point at which, if they should prove successful,
must be sacrificed the whole negro race for
whom they profess SO much philanthropy.
| The utter extinction Of the blacks, with bloody
massacres Of white women and chill dren would
! be the tragical result. The recent riots in the
| West are ominous of the fate of the negro in
| the event Of collision. A more sweeping
| destruction than that of the Indians would be
| his inevitable doom.
Fourthly, to arm the negroes on the side OF
the federal government would be to array
at least ten blacks to one on the other
side, and the Union arms would decidedly lose
by that policy. Hitherto the negroes at the
South, with few exceptions, have shown no dis:
position to back the Northern white man
against the Southern white man. They cannot
appreciate the freedom which we can afford to
give them and in truth they would be better
on in every way in the mild servtude Of
Christian masters which gives them rights if il
eyaets labor--than in the mock freedom of a
system which would compel them to work for
precarious living. and vet secure them no GER
tain support, while they would enjoy no politi-
cal or social privileges whatever.
race Of the North will never consent to have
blacks their political equals Massachusetts,
alone has admitted them TO level
| noninally, but with such reservation
| socially as only renders the position OF the
| negro like that of Tantalus in the internal
| regions-eve psrched with thirst, while cooling
streams aud delicious fruits teem within his
reach, yet elude his grasp as soon as he puts
| forth bis hand to partake Of them. The course
| Of Illinois, which excludes them from it's Dor
| ders, may lie regarded as the almost universal
| sentiment Of the North. The blacks are more
happy aud contented in the Southern system OF
slavery than they can ever be under the illu
/ sorry name of false and treacherous freedom
which means nothing good for them. They
can have no political rights al the North, and
| therefore it would be unjust to ask them to
| risk their lives for white men.
| Lastly. even If they were permitted to arm
| one white man would he at least equal TO three
| of them. II would, therefore, be waste Of
arms, ammunition, provisions and resources to
organize blacks while we have more white
men than we can ever need who are able and
willing to fight for the restoration Of the Union
| But in the trenches and as laborers generally
! for the army the blacks are most valuable, and
| as such they ought TO be employed, and get
their freedom" IL they desire it. No doubt
they will be so employed as they have hereto