New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-10-06

| for the sum OF one penny II, ,r,.
| This was the beginning oi the agency caied INC
| N,o Yoyk Herald IL took it's part IN the Slavery
contest always on the Slavery side, noidng up every
leader 10 the nt.Slayery movemsntihe Pure-nlinueu
Phillips the earnest Garrison the CONSCIENTIOUS lappeu,
and the good men aud good women VINO loI1Wsu ulcI
resf,res base beyond conception, cannbals living
on blood the deyotees Of horrible supersiton. for
20 years this agency continued its words OF scorn and
| contumely until thousands began TO believe that
! America would have no peace untl Tue Anu'oIa'eiy
| wolves were driven out Of society ana siAih'
What THs Herald was 20 Slavery the influence OF
Tax TRIBusg ia It's humble way was To- anti-SaVery;
IL endeayored 10 seek out the heart OF tue naon ana
lead ts advance in political and social thouRht 10
attain perfection in human happiness ana make men
better and wiser; to hate war with horror that al
feel when shrinking from bIoodshcd Underline seeing
in il only devastation Of h0mesi tie paralysis OF M
dusry; the destruction OF commercei the grown ol
evil passions-ths the policy Wnch conroleu l.S
! columns 1t opposed the Mexican war WIN earnest,
| implorine, unreientng enmity. Beyond the glamour
of war bulletins, aud military trumphs and cities
falling before tho Yankee coDquerOr 1t saw beaut
| full country in desoati0n, our countrymen dying WIN
malarious tropical fevers men slam IN the interest OF
| the slave power and no possible gain but an empire
for slavery 1t did not believe that God could be hon
Ored by hewing Agag TO pieces that we were to has
| ten the good time by smting every unbelieyer hip
and thigh. There was good in Agagif we could only
find il out, and the Southern people might be induced
to be loyal without throatcuttng. The influence OF
| the American press may best DO Understood by OBJ
serving that of The Herald in favor of Slavery and
| Of THB TRIBUNE opposing it.
We are now in the Winter of 1861. The Rebel
leaders hold high carnival The ballot-box has spoken.
| and there il no appeal but to the sword. Abraham
Lincoln of Illinois is President elect. Puritan in
teect has at last gained triumph worth the hundred
| victories Of Slavery. Little was known Of this
Abraham Lincoln, but in his character exists
an eternal enmity to Slavery. There were men
| whose hearts saddened as they picked up the
| mr. inc m tha Summer found
| one Abraham Lincoln of Illinois bad been NOM
| mated by the Republican Convention for Presi-
| dent. Did anybody know hint What merit
lay in the coarse lines of his hOmely, rugged face.
| He had served ono term in Congress, but made so
little impression that President Taylor would not give
| him a small bureau that he crayed. lie had beaten
| Douglas in local campaign, and delivered sensible
speech in NewY York but were these qualities for the
| Presideneyi He was not known in editorials, or
local items. Congressional Globes, or telegrapbc
] reports. American iame-the fame OF the newspaper
/ aud conyention-was foreign TO him. Surely,
men said bitterly, republican institutions have again
failed and again we have shown our ncapaclty Tor sell
| government Can asatesmen never become PRESIDENT
Must our chief rulers always be Of the arrsons, the
| Taylors, the Pierccs and Lincolnsl Can We never
| get positive leader Here is Seward the Chief OF
the great partyi and Sumner, the sturdest soldier
that ever carried the banner Of Freedom; the usr-
Gus Chase; lusty Ben. Wade, If man is wanted with
| marrow in his bones Banks, who led the Republican
party to its frs. national victory in 1854 and Bates of
Missouri who has the merit OF not beng Seward (and
| behind whom stands The IRIBrSE), and twenty other
| men, all Of whom we know-and yet this Lincoln
| The divine instinct of people, which gives moro
than proverbs truth 10 the sentiment that the voice
of people il the voice of God never acted more wisely
than when il took this Lincoln from village court OF
| Illinois aud anOinted him leader OF the people.
| Coming from old Puritan stock, and representing
| the faith of tho Puritan intellect a. well a. the
| strength and freedom which came from Western
education, be was the truest American we have
seen for many long years. Ii is too soon TO
| draw him as be was, fol- we have not ceased
to feel the influence Of tho quaint majesty Of simple
manhood which clothed him with dignity more en-
| during than any than kings could give-the sadness
| of a martyIdom which has made one holy day IN
American history! A time for this when the dirses
| have ceased TO sound aud our sorrow has lost It's
| freshness.
The sorrow and discomfort Of that dreadful Winter
The Republicans in the agony Of triumph that could
only be enjoyed with bloOd-the Rebels yindictive.
stern busy. Lincoln-Presiden, clect-remaneda this
! country homc-keeu, wachiul, silent. No word from
that most rcticent Of men, Buchanan seemed only 10
write study for precedents and arrange compromises.
He,had seen such troubles before, and knew how to
manage thcnl-iOr was Is not o Tlpe statesnan-I1pe
| and mellow and full Of expercuce-sometbng fne and
dry Ike the rare old Madeiranghich was said TO shed
lis fragrance over Presidential banquetsi The veneer
| able Cass iTetted in the state Department, and
| ef in sonowfu despair The remainder OF tho Cab
met, with the exception of Black, who assisted tue
President with his wine ana rhetoric, were busy ar
| ranging the Administration" for Mr.. Lncoln's
| advent and making all the hay that could
be girneTed in the few remaining weeks OF sunshine.
Toucey was sending shire to Africa. Floyd was sup
plying the Rebel leaders with loyal guns. Cobb was
endeayoring to advance Southern State securities,
and borrow money on the national credit at dis
count No Jay Cooke in those days to strike the
| rock of national credit aud make the stream gush
| forth The Rebel Congressman were firing the
Southern heart, and devising new g truees and
schemes Of delay Old gentlemen Ike Cnttenden
were laborng with their poor reeds OF compromise,
hoping to induce q complete surrender ON the part OF
the North. Power had made radicalism eonserva-
tive and the Republican party remained quiet, COM
pact anxious awed it were Dy the very eestacy OF
| triumph. Over everything, the gloom OF an Arctic
night had fallen Nothing near but STRIFE treason,
cowardce Nothing beyond but war II Providence
would but permit this cup 10 pass from the nations
| lips!
The voice of one man came out Of the gOom-a
rugged voice, harsh and jagged, yoluble, gwen TO
| periphrasis, not choice III English but emphatic,
| easily apprhended, speaking reso ute nouns and
adestives that burned and seared full OF hate snd
anger and withal very sweet in the hour OF yearn-
| ing. The JOY Of that rough voice! Tie man who
| speaks stands clone amid his class. Senator
Of the ohiyalrous South he boasts that he is pie.
bean man Of Tennessee pre- udices and notions,
who sees value in the negro save that OF money,
he bonors labor when it is white, forgetting that the
dignity Of labor does not come from colori that the
| sweat rolling from the black mans brow is as
| blessed as that which trickles down his own pale
face good deal Of Cromwell about him, rude de-
votion TO God, especially the attributes OF wrath,
faith in predestnation, much as that OF Jackson when
old decrep graye.mody, he crept into the bosom of
the Prosby terrain church and found consolation "Our
country" said this Senator on one occasion, "must
have been in the right, or the God of battles would
| sometimes have been against u.s. Mexico must have
been in the wrong-she is doomed nation. The right
red arm of angry God has been suspended over her
and the Anglo-Saxon race has been selected as the
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