The New York herald., 1863-05-15

THA PEACE MOVEMENT AND THE RADICAL Or
aANs-The chief organ Of the radicals in this
city comes out iercely against the peace move
ment calling convention of the democrats of
| New York State to take measures to put an end
to the war. Now it 80 happens that Greeley,
too, has been intriguing for the same object
through Colorado Jewett Mercier, the French
Minister at Washington, and the Emperor Ma
poeon himself, and correspondence has taken
place on the subject The Tribune, indeed, be-
fore the war began. strongly advocated the
right of the Southern States to secede, on the
principle of the Declaration of Independence,
and contended. with John Van Buren, that those
"wayward sisters" ought to be allowed to de-
part In peace. This was before blood had been
shed; but many times since it has reiterated the
same sentiments. We should like to know what
Is the difference between Fernando Wood and
his faction calling for peace and Horace Gree
ley and his faction doing the same thing.
Almost everybody is In favor of peace. The
terms are the only question. No matter how
long the war lasts, peace must come in the end.
For any one, therefore, to declare for peace is
like man pronouncing In favor of the rising
and the setting of the sun, the flow and the ebb
of the tides and the succession of the seasons.
At present there appears little likelihood of
peaee yet the war cannot 60 on forever, and
must have termination when one OF other of
the two belligerents is fairly exhausted, and
has come to the conclusion that the further
prosecution Of hostilities will not pay.
~
SAUCE FOR THE GANDER.-While Mr.. Vallandig-
ham, of Ohio, has been sentenced by court
martial to two years imprisonment, involving
hard labor and association with criminals of the
lowest kind, on the island in the Gulf of Mexi-
co known as the Dry Tortugas 1--WE wonder he
was not sent to the Wet Tortugas), for making
a speech against the administration, Wendell
Phillips, who has recently made worse speech
| against the government, insulting to Mr. Lin
| coin and his Cabinet, aud denouncing the two
Senators from Massachusetts, is still at large,
and neither provost marshal nor squadron of
soldiers has been despatched to arrest him. In
his late speech he has said more against the con-
stitution, the supreme law of the land, than all
that Vallandigham ever said in the whole course
Of his life. Why should any distinction be
made in the two cases? What is sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander. But we are Op-
| posed to any such arrests Liberty Of speech,
liberty of the press and trial by jury are among
the sacred institutions of this republic solemnly
guaranteed to all its citizens.
| BEAsrI.Y DEGRADATION OF THE WHITE MAN.
Every day the abolitionists are proceeding from
bad to worse. This is always the case with "a
naticism. No longer content to claim for the
negro equality with the white race In mental and
moral capacity, the leaders OF the faction are
now beginning to assert his superiority. Rev.
Theodore Tilton, in ono Of his recent speeches,
declared the negro not only equal in all re-
spects to the white man. but in many respects
his superior. This is the most beastly utterance
that has yet reached our ears. Probably the
next announcement from the oracles of the
abolition frenzy will be that the negro is
equal to God himself and that he ought to be
set up for public worship in all our churches,
after the example of the crazy Robespierrean
madmen of Paris in the French Revolution, who
placed on the altar Of the Cathedral of Notre
Dame nude courtesan, to be worshipped as the
Goddess of Liberty. The only tendency of this
attempt to defy the black is to degrade the
mean, dirty white men concerned in it. Natures
laws are not reversed by any amount Of IA
naticism.
| The TRIBUNE THROWING HOOKER AND Stone
MAN OvERBOARD-The Tribune Of yesterday
| again throws Hooker overheard as failure
says be has not advanced since he retreated,