The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-16

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The Administration and the Railing
Party OF the Future.
The administration of Andrew johnson, we
have every reason to believe, will go down to
history in admirable keeping with that Of the
lamented Abraham Lincoln. The name of
Lincoln is linked with immortal glory in the
suppression of the most formidable rebellion
the world has ever known and so will the
name Of Johnson, we believe, become an en-
during name Of honor and renown in COM
plotting the great work left upon his bands by
his lamented predecessor. Amid unprece-
dented difficulties and complications, striking
out bravely and boldly in his policy of South
ern restoration, no President in the history of
the country has gained more rapidly than
Andrew johnson the respect and confidence OF
the great body Of The people, North and South.
The managing politicians of both the great
parties of the day recognize his popularity and
the danger of breaking with him. few
weeks ago there were substantial reasons for
the opinion that we were on the verge Of a
fatal disruption Of the republican party on
negro suffrage, confiscation, &c. The empty
boasts and boisterous threatenings Of the abo-
lition radicals, however, have proved not half
SO dangerous as they at first appeared. Their
impotency has been conclusively established
in the late Massachusetts Republican Conven-
ton. The President of that body was Charles
Sumner, conspicuous light among those inn
plncable fanatics who would visit upon the
subdued and submissive South the revcnges OF
Marius and Sylla, of Rome, the sweeping
punishments of William the COnqueror, or the
blind and reckless fury Of the French Reign OF
Terror. The studied address of Sumner was
! that of Jacobin, and the audience most
likely to adopt bis bloody instructions was
Massachusetts convention Of his own party.
But the resolutions of the convention tell
different story. The republican party of Mas
sachusctts have rejected the teachings of Sum-
ner, and have i" cordially" endorsed the South
ern restoration policy Of President johnson,
past, present and prospective.
II such is The course of the dominant party
of Massachusetts, where the democracy have
no hope of u resurrection, we may safely con-
clude that the sagacious managers of the re-
publican church throughout the country will
take good care to hold FIST TO the buttonhole
of Andy johnson. Such bigoted, malignant
and sanguinary radical leaders as Sumner,
Thaddeus Stevens, Wendell Phillips, The saints
Of the Independent. and the abolition negro
suffrage directors OF the Boston Board of Trade,
will be cut loose aud cast adrift At the same
Tho Of hp dayno W
in this State, that State and the other, will keep
the party In hot water and at cross purposes
Tor some time longer. The conservative rcpub-
licans, thus holding the vantage ground OF
| occupation, will form, around the nucleus OF
| the administration together with the conserva-
| tive Union elements Of the South. the ruling
| party of the future. The abolition radicals, in
their efforts to supplant President johnson in
1865, are proving "a impotcnt as in their
efforts to supcrvede President Lincoln in
1864. Their outside movements against
Mr.. Lincoln for the Baltimore Convention
were apparently ct first very power.
ful and very extensive from the noise
they made; but when put TO the
test of State convention, East or West, they
proved to be mere fuss and fury, signifving
nothing" So il Is now with all the noisy
threatehings Of this noisy radical faction
Their sanguinary teachings have been rejected
by every republican State convention yet held
and the bulk of the party, East and West, as il
adhered to Lincoln adheres 10 Johnson. II
will not sacrifice the substantial power, profits
and advantages of The administration for the
questionable honors Of The Jacobin club.
We conclude, therefore. as the Southern
restoration policy and the foreign indemni(ica
lion policy Of President, Johnson command
the confidence Of the country, aud as the con
sentative elements of the republican party are
with the administration and intend TO stick t.
ii through thick and Thin, that they. with the
conservatives of the South, under Andrew
Johnson. will be moulded into the ruling part,
of the future. They hold the ground, they have
the power and The materials for this command
ing organization and they know that Andrew
Johnson will stick to them IL they stick to him
They are bound together by the strong bond
of four years of bloody war. aud by Johnson
humane and conciliatory policy of Southern
reconstruction. which broadly reflects the gen
erous teachings Of Abraham Lincoln. Aboli
ton radicals and implacable seccssionists an
coppcrhcads will be cast out Of the new pol
teal church. II will be a solid and homogt
neous party of Union men, upon The new pla
form of universal liberty and constitutions
law
In this view we see from tho results Of tn
. Maine election thai new recruits oannot. hol