The New York herald., 1863-02-07
ccnfederacy. Louis Napoleon y weil served.
His agents act even In advance Of his policy.

oonfederscy. Louis Napoleon i we'll served
His agents act even In advance Of his policy.
The Radicals OF Both Parties Threaten
| Ing Bioodshed.
The Tribune and Express represent the two
political extremes. The Tribune is the organ
Of the radicals Of the abolition party. The
Express Is the organ of the radicals of the demo-
cratic party. Both of these radical organs are
now threatening bloodshed and melting rsvo-
luton. The Tribune presses upon the admins
traaon measures which it knows to be offen-
sive to the people. The Express constantly
urges the people to resist these measures by an
armed revolution against the government The
Tribune has made it part of the abolition
creed that all conservatives are traitors, and
insists that democratic editors shall be arrested,
democratic papers suppressed, democratic Off
GERS dismissed from the army, and democratic
soldiers forced into the ranks alongside Of negro
comrades, and under the command, perhaps, Of
negro captains and colonels. The Express re-
plies by stimulating the people to oppose these
proceedings, If the administration shall attempt
them, by bloody resistance Only day or
two ago, in answer to one of the most insolent
articles of the Hon. Horace Greeley, the Hon.
James Brooks responded that il he were arrest
ed Greeley would be arrested that if the En-
press were suppressed the Tribune would be
| suppressed that gun would be met by gun
and bayonet by bayonet, and that, in short, a
sanguinary conflict between the national and
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| tration should follow the 1ribune's advice To
this furious manifesto the Tribune will probably
retort by something still more bloodthirsty and
| grandiloquent.
Now, every one Of any common sense knows
that the Hon. Horace Greeley and the Hon.
James Brooks are Illuminating absurdities, and
are incapable of executing their threats The
Hon. James Brooks has only to look out of his
office window and read the signs of the de-
funct Day Book and Daily Ne,os to learn that
the suppression Of . petty paper is not always
followed by the annihilation of country.
Those signboards are little tombstones
over the graves of dead journals, and, like
other tombstones, they have moral which
the Hon. James Brooks would do we'll to take
to his heart. Of course it may have been il
legal to suppress those papers, and to deny
the Journal Of Commerce access to the United
States mails. That is point to be settled in
our courts Of law when the war il over.
the administration as an outraged and
insulted puplic opinion which squelched
the peace organs. Had 1t been otherwise-had
those papers possessed the sympathy Of the
people-had they represented, instead Of Of
Tending, the public feeling in regard to the
war-no administration would have dared to
interfere with them It is the weak point in
the Hon. James Brooks armor that his Express
now stands in the very position which the
Ne,os, Day Book and other peace organs occu-
pied some months ago. The people do not
sympathize with him in his ridiculous rage. He
has no popular support in his clamors for blood
and barricades. The citizens Of New York are
not anxious to have the war transferred to their
own doors. The Hon. James Brooks neighbors
do not wish to pop at him with rifles or re-
volvers as he pursues his daily walk, nor do
they desire the Hon. James to run muck up
Broadway staying as he goes. The people
consider their lives, limbs and property too
precious to be risked for the sake of gratifying
the Express. Consequently Secretary Stanton
might suppress the Hon. James Brooks and his
paper without fear Of anything but the law.
Nor is the Hon. Horace Greeley, ex-Congress-
man. any better of in this regard than the Hon.
James Brooks, NJ. G. The Tribune, like the Er.
press, is paper which has no public conside-
ration and influence. Even by his own political
associates the Hon. Horace Greeley is regarded
as lunatic, who does more harm to his friends
than to his foos Just at present the Hon. Horace
is in strait waistcoat Of adverse circumstances,
and his rawlings are frightfully ferocious. He
has succeeded in running both himself and the
republican party. He has forced the admins
tration into such predicament that its failure
is inevitable, whether it endeavors to continue
the war or to arrange peace. Turn whichever
way he will, the Hon. Horace Greeley knocks
his poor, weak. bewildered head against stone
wall. Naturally enough, he screams, and yells,
and tries to tear things generally. He sees that
his party has lost the confidence Of the people,
and that he has lost the confidence of his party.
He sees great conservative revolution APP
preaching, indicating itself by the recent State
elections, the elections of United States Senator'S,
and the ovations to Mcclellan in the very citadel
of abolitionism. He sees that every hour Of war
| increases this conservative deluge which
will overwhelm the republicans at the
| next Presidential election With the usual
cunning of the insane, he changes his tactics,
therefore, and to avert the gathering storm he
begins to clamor for peace, not yet fully COM
pretending that "the best attainable peace"
will be equally fatal to his party, and that
there is absolutely no escape for himself and
his faction. There is an old story Of o prisoner
confined In cell the walls Of which contracted
hour by hour, and, in spite Of his frantic strug-
giles, remorselessly crushed out his life The
Hen. Horace Greeley is In . political cell Of