The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-04

Formation OF the Ruling National
Party for tho Next Ftfsy Years.
We are In the midst Of q great political revo-
luton. We see 1t in the ruins Of the rebellion,
in the work of Southern reconstruction, in the
embarrassments Of the politicians and in the
drift of our old, disjointed political parties.
The Southern democratic Bourbon dynasty,
founded upon African slavery, has passed
away. new order of things, on the basis OF
universal liberty, must take its place. We are
about to enter upon new career of national
unity, prosperity and power, such as the world
has never seen. We must first, however, clear
away the debris OF the late national earth
quake and re-establish the disorganized South
ern States in full communion in the Union
before we can cross the threshold to this new
epoch Of national harmony, strength and
glory. The war is ended, but we have yet to
bury the politically dead and remove the
wounded from the field before we can enter
into the joys Of the Promised Land.
We are now in the transition state from the
cocoon to the butterfly. "The Union as It was,"
and parties as they were, are impossible things.
The administration party and the opposition
party Of tomorrow may not be those parties OF
to-day. They may stand as they are, or they
may change places with changing events.
President johnson Is master Of the situation.
The politicians on both sides are perplexed,
but the people rest in confidence upon Presi-
dent Johnson. Outside of New York neither
the republican party nor ~ democratic party
occupies anything but a dubious position re-
specting his Southern reconstruction policy.
They support him with saving clauses and loop
holes of escape. They rather like him; they
pat him on the back; but they are still suspi-
cious. 1t is only in New York that the manag-
ing politicians on both sides fully comprehend
the popularity of Mr.. Jnhss65hh's Southern
policy; and hence it is only in New York that
we find both parties planted upon the same
platform. The New York republicans are de-
lighted with their President; he is the very
man they wanted to step into the shoes Of the
lamented Lincoln; while the New York demo-
Gratis contend that they alone have rendered
him hearty support without reserve or
equivocation.
How the approaching fall elections may 60
in other States will be matter of small i'm
Der will be Of some moment, as indicating in
the judgment of the people the party entitled to
their confidence as the party Of the administra-
ton. This is the great issue in New York. What
the result will be is doubtful. The republicans
have the advantages of war which was not "a
failure" and of the occupation Of the Cabinet,
Congress and the State. The State, however, is
close, and this election may be decided by the de-
lection of Greeley and his abolition radicals on
the one side, or Of Ben Wood and his disguised
copperheads on the other. Mantilini Marble
and The shentper-shent Chicago troupe, having
failed to get into the White House kitchen, may
also be missing at the eleventh hour; but in
any event Andy Johnson in November will be
emphatically endorsed by the Empire State.
This result, no matter which party may win,
will bring powerful achievements to the adj
ministration, but it will not of itself reveal the
dominant party Of the future. Something more
to this end will be required than success in our
November election. President johnson has
fulfilled his role as a republican. The mission
of that party, so far as he was pledged to it,
ended with the suppression Of the rebel
lion and the abolition Of slavery. He is
now perfectly free to stand upon his
own platform and build up his own party His
platform is before the country, and his party,
by hundreds and by thousands, from all the old
parties in every section, are gathering upon it.
All the Southern States are and will be with
him, and the Northern party which adopts him
now as its candidate for the succession, will be
the party Of the future, and to the end of the
nineteenth century and beyond it.
This is the test which will make the repub-
licans or the democrats q unit with the adj
ministration; this is the one thing needfnl to
prove the sincerity OF the professions of slip
perry politicians. If the republicans believe, as
they profess, that President johnson is the man
Of all men for the crisis, why should they hesi-
tate to proclaim him their candidate for 1868,
in order that he may have "scope and verge
enough" for the great work before himf IF the
democrats really believe that he is man after
their own hearts, democrat Of the old school,
with "all the modern improvements" why not,
by q dexterous flank movement, capture him
and make him their champion for the success
sion against the field? The SeJmours, the VAL
landighams, the Comstocks and the Cassidys,
the war, the peace and the shentper-shent
democracy, all swear by Andy Johnson. What,
then, Is there to prevent bis nomination, right
away, as the democratic candidate for 1868?
This is the test. President johnson, we say,
is master Of the situation. The party which
adopts him. therefore, as it's ticket for the sue
cession will win the succession and will be the
ruling party Of the future Are the republicans
or the democrats ready to take him ups That
is the question.
PREPARATIONS FOR Political FIaHT IN THIS