The New York herald., 1863-12-07

Have Accomplished.
Dun ng the past week the abo litionsts hs
been bo ding sort Of jubilee at Philadelpt
Accordin to all accounts they have had
pretty goo d time of it. The abolition press
felicitated q 'em. and they have felictated the
selves. upons The great work they have aoco
plished and the great success they ha
achieved. The 7ritrmc claims for them IL
they elected Pre-, ident Lincoln in 1860, al
states that opostcn ty will do them justice
Contrary to its usually 'abit' The Tribune is alt
gether too modest tn. aooiitionists have O
compished a good deal n 'ore tnan the electi'
OF Lincoln, and, in the mat er VI doing the
justice. we shall proceed to sA uc'pate posterit
| In 1860 the American aboF'M 'hiss, pure an
simple numbered about one baaA dfed thousan
persons. La 1910, when they ~ ! Mr. Blrnl
for President, the aboltionists 20. 1ed seve
thousand votes In 1874, with the ssA ne cand
date, they pOlled sixty-two thousand vol eS'
lS48 they interm'Dgled with the free 49, Ter
and grve Van Buren, three hundred thcuA III
votes From that tim5 forth the pure abA
ton vols Is 80 mixef up with the free
soil vote and the republican vote that we
cannot get al it with mu.h accuracy Still,
we believe iLst one hundred thousand is {: fair
estimate of the number of true, radical ssSoii-
tionists who have followed the Gag Of Garrison
and Phillips and who are entitled to share in
the credit of the abolition work and in tae
glory which now crowns the labor In this
number we include all such old women az
Greeley and such young women as Tilton.
What these one hundred thousanc' abolition
lists have accomplished may be stated5in In very
few words They have accomplished the pres
ent war. They have worked for il thirty
years, and here it is. They have wrecked a
powerful, peaceful and happy country They
have arrayed brother against brother, father
against son, children against parents. They
have filed the land with widows and orphans.
They have transformed the country into vast
graveyard. They have shed an ocean Of blood
and squandered mountains of money They
have made the ar heavy with the shrieks
of the wounded, the groans of the
dying and the lamentations of the
mourners They have devastated the fields
and plantations Of the South and destroyed the
check to the progress of civilization and demo-
cratic institutions from which it will take years
to recover All this they have accomplished
in thirty years One hundred thousand fiends
let loose from The lowest hell and inspired by
the most Internal malice could not have ac-
complished more mischief in the same space of |
time. If this be anything to rejoice over, let |
IN al
q monument to perpetisste the remembrance OF
their triumphs, our battle fields will furnish
them with enough human skulls for pyramid,
nd Wendell Phillipsor Beecher would be only
, happy to deliver ths address at the laying of
b Q corner skull.
tDuring this abolition war at least one hum
rs thousand men hare been killed, four hum
slf million have eeen subjected to death,
'ewA ds, and to sicknes, worse than wounds, in
re sn mics of both sidos:- What amount of hu-
ran misery has occurred beyond and behind
,e arm lies we shall not now inquire The
mount of propsrt y destroyed during the war
ay be rou ghly ea timaSsd at five hundred mil
ons Of doNars. Tho injury indicted upon
IT commence and carrying trade may be stated
one hundred mi lliono of dollars. This is
,ther under than bovs the mark; for the rebel
aft asserts that b alcnehas destroyed eleven
illions Of dollars worth Of ships and cargoes,
la Semmes has cer.aisiy destroyed much
ore. The war d ebt Of, the North and South
mounts to about We ttossand millions of dol
Irs If the war ends by the abolition Of
avery we shall hare to heep standing
rmy OF huI ldrGdn thousand men and
ipport two or three millions OF INDECENT
egroes for sever al cara. But we will leave
,at probability, out Of the account, and will
leo refrain from. estimating the millions and
illions OF dolla RS which the now impeded IN
cstry of this our Try would have produced
ad not the abol itionists caused this war. We
Iish to confne ours alves to facts and figures Of
,disputable au ther Ecity. And what do these
acts and figure sh,wf Estimating the white
opulaton Of thu United States in 1860 at
mi llion,-aud this is within few
undreds of the official figures-we find tha t
he abolitia iists have bsen instrumental
ausing the. deati Of onS man Out Of every " 70
hundred Az sixty peoQle. and the crippli ng
IT otherwise disabling Of one nan out Of ev cry
ifty-two people. Also, thas the abolsior lists
ave cavscd the destruction Of property Va ued
It six hrndr, millions Of dollars and war
expenditure Of about five thousand mil .lionts
II these arc things 20 he prond of, lei iha abol.
Iiontsts he'd perpetual Jubilee.
Taking the abo re statistics as basis, a.. very
simple process Of arithmetic will aemoDtreAe
that ca b one O. our one hundred thousand
aboitionists has caused the death Of one rian and
the lie long disability of four men, anil has al
ready cost the country dfty-sx thovsani dol
laIs Wha. are the erNeties and tb. expenses
of slavery when compared to this' II Is very
evident. however, that the loss of lie ssd limb
and monxy during this war should nos be so
equally divided among our one hundred
thousand fanatics. Individual atSiitionists
have been more or less guilty accord.
.to;, onnortpntiaa and tho;r In