The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-24

Ustera noes or PubIio mcn-rAe Really
Great and the Abundant Littic.
Beecher. Weed and Seward have just favored
the public with their opinions on several topics.
Stewards opinions were given in speech do
livered at Auburn, Beecher's in speech deliv-
cred from the pulpit at Beecher's church, and
Weeds In letter in relation TO the dignity and
inluence Of the high and mighty I. ". And
it happens that just at the period when all
these grandil0quent manifestoes see the light
there appears in tho papers, modestly enougn's
short account Of certain utterances OF Andrew
Johnson-the report, acknowledged to Dc true
Of what he said in the course Of an hour on the
great question Of reconstruction now before the
country. The differences between these three
manifestOss on the one hand and the simple
report on the other are instructive.
Stewards was aggressive, difhse, rambling,
loose jointed, magazine article. It's pith was
in two or three sentences. It was like the
conversation Of Gratiano in the Merchant OF
venice-"an infinite deal of nothing And
Stewards reasons are, like Gratiano's, "as two
grains Of wheat hid in two bushels of chafR'
You shall seek all day ere you find them and
when you have found them they are not worth
the search" II was all chaf but the few sem
tences alluded to, and those have been fully
dirested by the public thousand times over.
II was merely an exploitation Of Stewards
vanity before his Auburn neighbors, telling
them what a great big fellow he ia Beechers
speech was also ON exposition of personal
vanity, congratulating his Brooklyn congrega-
ton upon having such great man for parson.
~ have never felt" says Beecher, "the slightest
inclination TO marry black woman" and
hence he argues that INCORPORATION Is all
fudge, acknowledging that he would certainly
have felt the desire II any white man did.
This is the only modest part ofhis speech. All
the rest is vain and useless tumble Of words.
words, words, without a single new idea or
any especially forcible expression Of an old
one.
ThurlOw Weeds manifesto Is the worst Of all
the trash with which that fluent parsonage has
lately astonished the public But there is at
least something amusing in its impudence. II
denies once more the imputation that Thurlow
Weed is not the most spotlcssly honest Of
human creatures, and even coils attention 10
the fact that the Catalina contract story had
been disproved. 1t lets the country into the
little secret who il was chat saved the Union,
and shows by compact argument that Thur
low Weed was the man. 81 set myself fear
lessly and constantly warning the people,"
says Thurlow, that the ultra abolition and
secession elements must be checked. They
were checked accordingly, and to that fact
"are we indebted for the men and money tina.
enabled the government TO save the Union"
labor such nobodies as Slocum wcrc away off
out Of the way somewhere, fighting little con-
temptible battles at Richmond, Autietam, Get
tysburg and other places Of no note.
Each of these three men is merely doing his
utmost to keep his little light from getting
under bushel--to keep himself before the
people and make . noise. And thence tie rig
marole Of words without ideas. How different
figure does Andrew johnson present in the
few and simple sentences with which he comes
before the country and discusses and deter
mines the very questions that the men of words
70 round and over and under and never touch.
He speaks with dignity, authority and ease,
without flourish or nonsense, and goes straight
to tho point His account Of the position Of
the democratic party, his illustration Of the
position Of the States, his reference to treason
and traitors, to State rights, to negro suffrage
and to the principle Of representation arc adj
mirable. He touches here on every topic Of
interest to the country, gives distinct express
sion to noble ideas on each, and in how few
words. He does 1t all in half column, and
Seward, Beeoher and Weed take eight columns
together for all their trash.
Johnson is called practical man, and the
others mon Of ideas. This Is nonscnsical
Henceforth let the distinction be between prac-
tcal men and men Of worda Practical men
are the real men Of ideas.
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