The New York herald., 1862-10-09
The signs Of tho Tiaas.

nous and startling. It would seem, in fact, that
we are only in the commencement of our
troubles. Madness rules the hour. 1t was sup
posed that the civil war would be confined to
the rebellious States. There is now every rea-
son to believe that the loyal States will not be
exempt from the usual calamity of civil war,
which is to visit every portion Of the country
in which it breaks out.
The address of Cassius M. Clay, delivered in
Brooklyn on Tuesday, and published in yester-
dsy's HERALD, is most significant Mr.. Clay was
recently the American Minister to Russia, and
from this very fact must be regarded as a re-
preventative man, entitled to express the views
Of his party. What does he say?
So far from finding fault with Abraham Lincoln, he
the habeas corpus by dash of the pen but by he
A. voIcE-We'll hang them yet:
Mr. CLAY-Yes sr-he hanging OF such men as Seymour
ana Wood woud have saoed thousands of honest lines.
\ a volcs-That is SO.
aughter.)
Quite in keeping with this Robespierreian de-
claration is another from the same expounder
of the abolition programme. He Says
was delusion 70 suppose that liberty could be
tabiished on this continent Ohes the President of the
United States and the people of the United States had not
General Boyle; spot the President of the United States;
spot tho heads Of departments your military chief
tains spo. those oho would haze sthe Union as Il uas"
and free yourselves from responsibility,
He goes on to say
Let US not have pray you. tho Union as it was
The Union it waswhat did it bring but rebellion and
bloodshed, war and desolaton
From the foregoing it would seem that to
President Lincoln alone we are indebted for
the preservation Of the government from total
overthrow; its salvation hitherto against the re-
voutionary designs of the radicals, who are
driving him on from point to point, but have
rot yet succeeded in forcing him to the last
point, of hanging all who differ in opinion from
them.
The views of Mr.. Clay correspond exactly
with the opinions promulgated in the radical
journals and at the public meetings of the fac
tion to aid the election of its candidates. So
emboldened are these men that they openly
announce their designs, no longer caring to-
conceal their bloody programme For in
stance, at meeting of theirs held in the Fif-
teenth ward, at which Henry j. Raymond and
Charles A. Dana were present it was proposed
by George w. Blunt, and resolved, that every
vote given for Horatio Seymour is vote for
treason;" and Erastus G.. Benedict proclaimed
Seymour as 'the traitors nddate" These
are the principles on which this sanguinary fac
ton hope to be successful, and the principles
which they will undoubtedly carry out if sue
cess should crown their struggle. The people
have fair warning But SO apathetic are they,
and SO little alive to danger, that we have rea-
son to think they will let the election go by de-
fault As in other revolutions, violence pre-
walls, and wisdom and moderation are trampled
under foot. The men who start revolutions
seldom have the privilege of guiding them to
their destination. The French philosophers
who originated the Revolution of 1898, and ;he
republicans Of the Girondst school, who mere
ly sought reforms, were swept away in thou
sands by the radical Jacobins, who went ahead
Of them, and the guillotine had no rest by night
or by day. 1t was the same in the case of Crom-
we'll, whose army demolished the Parliament
which had beheaded the King, because it did
not 60 far enough for the ideas of the Round
heads
1t will be the same with the radicals; and
when they dare now to appeal to the peo-
pie on the principles and IDEAS they have
announced, what may we not expect when
they obtain full possession of power in New
York. Pennsylvania, Illinois, and other States
once conservative? Let us look out for scenes
as bloody and as dark as any which appalled,
the world during the despotism Of Cromwell or
''the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.
We warned the moderate conservative republi-
cans that they would be forced forward by the
fanaticism behind them, and that the time would
come whom they would have to play the part OF
bloody, remorseless revolutionsts, or be crushed
to atoms under the wheels of the car of the
abolition Juggernaut. Those predictions are now
receiving remarkable fulflment Mr. Sew
ard, and other men Of his stamp, scorned
the very idea Of the fanatics ever obtaining
the control of the federal government or Of
the State governments. But what has that
heartbr0ken statesman to say now? Is he
not poweress to arrest the fearful progress of
the revolutionary tempest that RACES over the
land, and threatens all things with desolation.
The politicians played with abolitionism They
only sowed the wind; but now they reap the
whirlwind. From all that we can see, the radi.
Gals in the ensuing elections will make a clean
sweep of the whole North. Then may we ex.
pect the price Of hemp to go up; and when
hanging fails to cut short the existence OF
enough Of traitor democrats, other processes,
like the ''noyades of Nantz" and the fusillades,
will be resorted to, and the horrible scenes Of
the French Revolution will be re.enacted in free
America. 1t is very evident that after eighteen
months Of a terrible civil war we have only
re ached "the beginning Of sorrows."
OUR IRoN-CLAD FLEGr-This morning another
of the Ericsson gunboats-the Montauk-will
be launched from Mr.. Rowland's Continental
Works, at Greenpont. This will make the fifth
Of the Monitor feet which has been completed