The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-03-06


in huge fashion. We have the largest Park
on the continent Let Us 60 to. work, then, In
like spirit, and on . big scale, and al up tho
quota Of men required Of Us, and spare The me-
tropolis the dishonor Of . CONSUMPTION.
The End OF the Dslusion-Rsbsl Promises
and Performance.
II was not without immense effort that the
rebel leaders in the South got the people In
any numbers to follow them. And 1t was only
by promising them short war, II any, and an
easy conquest Of the North, that they worked
up their courage to the sticking point Even
then It was thought doubtful whether the
masses could be kept up to the work, and 1t Is,
therefore, recorded fact that at meeting Of
these leaders at Montgomery, at an early period
Of secession, it was deemed necessary for the
prosecution Of their plans that "blood should
be sprinkled in the faces of the people,"
= In very able article on this subject, attri-
buted ct the time Of its publication (July 81,
1869 to Mr.. Donnell, Speaker Of the North
Carolina House Of Commons, 1t Is stated that
several distinct promises were made by the
rebel chiefs TO their deluded followers. The
first was that secession would be peaceably
effected; the next, that II q war took
place 1t should be q short one-not Of
more than six months duration at the far
thest; next, that all the slave States except
Delaware would join the confederacy. Again,
that the new government should be only q con-
federacy of sovereign and equal States, entirely
free from all central despotsm," and that it
should become the best, freest and wealthiest
government on the earth. These glittering gen.
eralities were accompanied by various prom
ises in detail, and arguments in small, to give
them consistency and finish Thus it was de-
olared that the Yankees would not fight and
that one Sontherner could whip five Yankees;
that France and England would certainly in
tervene in their behalf, would raise any block
ade that might be attempted Of the Southern
ports, and that cotton was king and would
bring the world on its knees before it.
Such were the inducements by which the
Southern people were led to make war upon
the North, to violate their obligations to the
constitution and the Union; to shed seas Of
blood, and with 1t, incarnadine their souls for
ever. And what has been the RESULT Instead
of attempting peaceful solution of secession,
they preferred and inaugurated an appeal to the
sword, commenced hostilities, and sought the
effusion of blood. Instead Of six
months war, they have had an exhausting
one Of four years, to which their re-
sources have proved entirely inadequate;
instead Of maintaining the area Of the confed-
eracy in its original quantity, four Of the slave
States have refused the alliance and arc still in
the Unioa; not single rebel State preserves
itself intact; the whole power and vitality Of
the rebellion are now confined to q patch of
ground between Charleston and Richmond; mo-
where else has the confederacy ON iota Of polit-
ical power. and this is very shortly to be
crushed out by our victorious arms.
The "central despotism" Of Washington has
been replaced by monstrous tyranny in Rich
mond, such as the corrupt and cruel dynasties
of imperial Rome never equalled, and the wealth
and stability they reckoned on rs q nation are
as baseless as the fabrics Of all their other
dreams. We must not forget that, under the
sions of the rebels chiefs could not have been
resisted by their unhappy victims; that the peo-
pie, SO down-trodden and betrayed by Jefferson
Davis and his followers, have been stupefed by
their dangers and their suferings into silence;
but no persons know better than they that they
have been grossly wronged and injured by
their rulers. The North is full of unhappy re-
fugees, too happy to escape even with life from
their former hemes; and tho army Of Lee itself
is losing regiments by the week Of men who
will fight like fools no more.
Beyond oil question the South would have
abandoned the contest at the time the article
alluded to appeared in the North Carolina pa
pers but for the aid and comfort received
from treason in the North, sympathy in Canada
and open advocacy in England. The blood
shed of the last two years Is to be laid at the
door of these three interests But, nevertheless,
the promises originally made by the Southern
rebel leaders to their ignorant followers were
not founded on fact, not justified by experience,
and not within the possibilities Of performance
This, from the first, has been the opinion Of the
most profound thinkers in Europe and America.
TIE INAUGURATION IN WAsHNGToN.-We yes
terdny published o synopsis of the inaugura-
ton proceedings in Washington on Saturday
last To-day we give complete report Of tho
ceremonies. The account will be found inter-
esting. The contrast between the Presidential