The Indianapolis daily herald., 1865-11-09

that restoration shall Immediately take place
without any Of these conditions, and that oil
that shall be required OF those States shall be a
conformity in their Constitution and local laws
to the changed social condition and nothing
more. As TO the subject of suffrage. the States
South are a. we'll a. North, shall each for them
solves control the elective franchise. and while il
10 our earnest desire that al no time, present OF
future, shall the African race be admitted to po-
litical right and power In this country, We do
not desire that the Federal Government shall at
tempt. either directly or indirectly. to influence
the decision OF that question, least OF all ths.
there should be any smendmen. 10 the Federal
Constitution. designed TO compel the adoption OF
negro suffrage in any Of the States.
The two greA, parties of the country being At
issue on this subject Il IL not to be wondered that
the present attitude Of the Administration is
looked to with such absorbing interest, and when
We consider the antecedents of President Jous.
son. a. we'll as the circumstances under which he
cane into the Executive Chair, we can readily
understand the causes which leave his positions
aud future policy. TO some extent, mystery
Tha, President JOHNSON stands opposed TO the
radical policy il we'll understood. There are
those irreconcilable differences between him
self and the radical members OF the Republican
party which necessarily compes strife. His
theory Of the status of the Southern States. as
announced on more than one occasion. is that
the Union has never been dissolved AMI cannot
-. -. 18th nd hat ant IL.
the States Of the South have never been out OF
the Union that force for time disturbed the re-
lations between those States and the Federal
Government, and now that force is no longer
used to resist the Federal power. a restoration
may take place with no other changes than such
ss the war has wrought. In this, President
JOHNSON is but expressing the ideas upon which
his faith as a Democrat has been formed.
The Radicals in assuming that the Federal
Government may treat the Southern States as
conquered provinces, admit that they have, as
States been out Of the Union and, therefore. that
they have the power to secede That the ques-
ton is not one of restoration" but the admission
of States to be hereafter formed out of Federal
OF plans and purposes can take place between
him and them. and consequently they have com
menced on him In their usual style of denuncia-
ton, in the hope Of driving him where they can
not lead him, ard If they fail in this TO break
him down altogether. But the other wing of the
party has not given up the idea OF 80 arranging
their present attitude as to harmonic at the pres
snt time with an Administration they have been
Instrumental in calling into power, and so not to
lose the profits of the political victories they
achieved over the ballot-box in the Presidential
election of last year. The policy men OF
the Republican party. as we have already stated
do not differ from their radical brethren except
Is to the time aud means. But by their show OF
moderation, aud the readiness with which they
accommodate themselves to LOCAL feelings and
prejudces. more dangerous at this time than
their more outspoken and honest radical breth-
rem. whom. from policy. they pretend to de-
nounce.
The opinions and purposes of the conservative
wing of the Republican party have recently been
set forth with great elaboration in the speech of
their present leader in this State. Governor Nor
TON, delivered at Richmond, Indiana. Why
Richmond was selected as the place To deliver
this carefully prepared speech. it would be diff
cult to say. unless il to give to his apparent
in that hot-5ed Of radicslism il is neither the
present or former residence of the Governor. 1t
has been called by some of his most ardent sd-
mirers, his Great Speech" In this they do
him injustice. While We are not one OF those
who believe Governor MoRroS to be inspired
We have no hesitancy in ascribing TO him talents
of q high order. and we have no doubt of his
ability on q subject not full of contradiction
a. the one he was treating of, to write much
better speech than the one delivered at Richmond
AS this speech is put forth ss containing the ar
guments of the conservative Republicans on the
questions Of the day. we will notice some of the
most prominent features.
In the FIRST place the Governor enters into 4
lengthy argument TO convince his audience thai
the policy of ANDREW JOHNSON Is but continu
alton of the policy of the late administration o
President LtScoLS, or, il there was any difference
il was more radical than Mr.. LIScoLSs
This would seem TO be heavy task, an'
Governor MoKToS evidently felt II TO b'
so. and be tries 10 verify his state
ments by a reference 20 and quotations from Ger
tain of Mr. LINcoLNs proclamatons and speeches
made during the continuance of the war: but th'
radical defect in the agreement is in the fact tina
Gov MoKfoS does not in his comparison Of thes'
Two distinguished men and their measures, dull.
onsider their different relative positions {,
the questions with which they were dealing ap'
more than all other things, the difference between
The two men themselves. and their political ante
csdents Mr. LINCOLN was of the Federal schoo
of politics and without doubt believed in all th,
leading dogmas OF that school. With him Cd,
Federal Government was everything, the States
nothing at least nothing but it, creatures calleC
into political existence by IT. upheld aud sup
ported BY IT, Such at least have been the sent.
men,s OF some OF bis leading state papers
DIR. JOHNSON on the other hand has been
lifelong Democrat. and is fully imoued with al
the leading IDEAS OF that party la his view th'
Federal Government vas created BY The States
and the people thereof. for the common weiiAr'
and protection Of all the States. That II fcrmeC
the head. the States the body-the supporting
columns and that consequently when any OF thI