The New York herald., 1862-03-18
THE PARTY OF BLOOD.
The President and the Abolition Org gsns.
From Garrison's Liberat0r.l


The President and the Abolition Org ans.
From Garrisons Liberator
"ARs. LINcOLE's GRAND BALL."
10 TWO or three consecutive numbers OF she daily
Tribune OF late there have been particular and special
edto a appeals for contributions 10 the United states
TreasuTy-at least loans-on however large or small
A. Important ter crisis ss and @ ns.r n one Of
the same papers was report Of the generosity poor
lrishman and his wife feeding hungry soldiers the wo-
man refusing pay lest should burn her pocket one
nocturnal carnival, under the name Of
irScoIs's GRAND RAIL.
eas as 5 se were e and
Lincoln stationed themselves In the of the East Room
and as Assf ss 2
band stationed In their usual position began playing ope,
p,Tmsn' W.: thrown twelve osiess with an
considered one O the finest displays Of gasronome ar.
srIed tables fairly ben. sa
WAS thrown open for inspection and guests passed In and
About eleven Gen al mc6Isllan and lazy and General Mar
sy and daughter An border STATE senators md
members senators from the Northean States Nearly
dressed to the height Of fashionable exlavagance.
The NEW YORK HEsAD describes Lady Iincoln's dress
thus, which 1t styles "simps and elegant
sns white sss ns black sa, sa
sage trimmed with black lace, and bouquet OF cape myrtle
white flowers with bunch cape myrtle the right
side The only ornaments we're neckane earrings brooch
When million Of husbands sons ana brothers under
the dOngs snd dictates of barbaroas institution,
relic o barbarism, are msrshasd in the heidof mas
and der thousands of them rsing and dying
OF disease, other thousands mainled and mangled,
agonzingin the hospitasto say nothing Of the other
thousands still, in preferable conditions, shot down,
bayoneted down, butchered down, trampied down,
any way got down. to immediate death wives, mothers,
daughters, sisters, lovers sveywhers in trembling
any Ntatv nd aUarV m
most unfeeling and nhunian hardened and made such
by that inhuman institutionin doubt and dread TO
the future short when nation is convul3ed with
painful forebodngs and plunged in abyss Of horrors
and frighfu exposures by its slavery and its saverys
war; is less strange that SO weak woman as has got up
this costly and dsspatg carnival should have acted her
part the matter and that should have been sustained
in II by a the border State Senators and members and
their ladies' and by "nearly all the generals who have
hitherto conducted our that She should have had
the counenancc aud sanction of most OF the members
and Senator's from the Northern States and that the
port Of the abominaton should have found place in the
Tribune without denuncation without rsbuke without
the least criticism Is this the fitting time gst up the
.'irst ball ever given in the White House, and at the
expense Of thousands on thousands OF dollars
Last March the inaugural ball. under the conductorshp
Of Secretary Seward said TO have cost twenty five
thousand dollars Since that time hundreds OF millions
oil the peoples earnings and thousands Of the peoples
lives have been squandered chiefly to keep in safety the
place where these mianieh reveres and midday rong
to match carried on. Will the readers Of the riot
ngs in Rome in the days Of her decadence tell me how
far fall short OF having returned to those barbarous
thinking dreaming but that development had
carried thousands of ahead of the possibility OF
subjection 70 such exp9enceY
II is worthy woman whose sympathies are with
slavery and with those who are waging ruthless,
bloody, brutal war; in behalf Of slavery, against the
rights and liberties the human race II s worthy
of woman with open 10 the walls OF the be-
reaved throughout the country II is not worthy Of
woman with susceptible heart--with sympa-
thetiC heart-with heart OF woman man. At such a
time and such circumstances, il is not fit per-
formance for womon fit to be in power Ht to be
people OESON 8. MURRAY.
FosrxH's CROSSINGS Warren county Ohio, Feb To- 1852
While was copying the foregoing the following
10 hand, in the TriislRe for February IL
We decline publishing Of the numerous letters
'ent US in ., wast The Wies as
briefly thessFirs we DO not Judge for others at
friends; second ourcolunns pre9ecgpied with maer
hch seem 70 us more third there was no ball
II appears that numerous others among the readers
Of the 7uae were, with myself unfavoraby impressed
BY its report OF this banquetng and ievery among
rulers during this time of anarchy and ruin The
rendered by tho Te for the suppression entirely
insufficient. They valid reasons at ali. They
10 reasons. They very bad pretexts.
The Trte does 'not judge for others ut what time
what manner they shall entertain their friends" Did
lot the Tittae udge for the wife Of Daniel f. Sches
Washington? And who will pretend that the example,
,r the influence any way, Of her entertainment, under
he circumstances harmed human interests thousandh
part much this cnterainmebs given by Abraham
lncon's wife, and received by most OF the members
Senators from the Northern States with the
lion OF such papers as the T'ibunef Has the Tribune
nothing to say by way Of 'julging forn General Stone
md ohers OF his Sort 10 the manner which they
nay "entertan their friends" the Southern con.
,pirasorsY AS to "the time'-suppOse Sunday |
% have been chosen by our banqueteis and revel- |
srs, would the Tribune, as q relgion,st, have had
sunday to ihis daS Of nsona caamity Ian or SUPPOSE
TO have been the day OF the Bull run battle Of the
Bals Bluff battle, with full knowledge OF tho processes
lud results those batesas there full knowledge
the misery and suffering a tho land 10
lusncs slavery and slavery conspracyat the time
Il this 1t has been abuudantly declared
md never. that have seen, conradiced that the wife
,f Abraham Lincoln is in full sympathy with slavery
and its conspirators. 1t IS not to be believed that
with other sympathes would have given such
entertainment et such y time.
Tho Tries second pretcx for suppresing the senti.
ents Of its readers in numerous letters in deprc
cation Of this dsmorszing entertainment, Sour
columns preoccupied with matters which to
more momentous." But they not preoccuped
with matters momentous than afford that dis
gusting and corrupted affair naterng, sanctonpg,
The 7S,t,nss third text is-"There was no bail and
no dancing at tho time and place In question" But th
Tribune say that the entertannent-then
nal rcyel-was different thing detail from what its
made y e os % EsG.n under the
when ths Marine Band began playing opcratic airs Of
the nnest scripton, ;, and "Mr. Lncon gave his arm
10 Miss Browning and Mrs. Lincoln with Senator brown
ing Others followed, and they passed through
andtnr0vgh the different roouns," they had taton q
'.quiek step .'doube quickn--hnd hoped III
ness OF the performance? With the rational, nothing.
And the T,ibnnc careful not ~ tell u whether or
IL would that have "udgsd for" them that they
had thus transcribed bounds Of propriey The 2itss
will day have occasion TO see that IL has made too
''rnomentous "natter" Of sustaining adoinistra-
ton whose sympathies with "loya sav vehoders'-
slavshoders loyal to Union that is sIaverys guarantee
according the showing Of Senator Seward and tho
manifestations Of all willy and nvctera.e shareholders
O.sM
fFrom tho Adams Transcript
FIDDLING NERO AND BURNING ROME.
The first bali given At tho White House cams on
last Wednesday evening. The Cabinet both Houses o
Congress- many Of the army'ocsrs, foreign Ministers,
leading citizens, &c. TO the number Of five hundred
were present with their wives and daughters. Tho
ladies dressed in the highest style OF fashion md
extrav agance especially Mrs. LiDco,n- The genteuca
were generally very plainly atsrsd. About twelve
oclock the supper room was thrown opsn and exho
one Of tho finest displays OF gasrosonic ever seeu
in this country--a temple Of. Liberty fost and war
steamer admirably moulded in candy, and Of tur-
keys, ducks venison; pheasants, psstridsss &C., all
e1qunitsy prepared by Maillsrd, Of rev York, a a
cost Of thousands Of dollars. While the country is
shaken o. by an earthquake by the mightiest ana
most unnatural civil recorded in history and On the