The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-05-14

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tfon 20 President job nson's Admiuistra~
tion by tine New York Press.
During the past week the entire press Of New
York, with the exception Of the HERALD, haa
combined In . most violent attack upon NE
administrator Of President johnson. Extremes
have met I'm this congenial business. The COP
perhsad Journals, Hike the World, Meas and p.
prsss, have united with the niggerhsad journals.
like the Tribune, Times and Post and even the
soilhcad journals, like the Journal Of Commerce
and the Cbmmeroid Advertiser, have joined in
the hue and ory. Each Of these papers has
attempted to outclamor all the rest In rabid do
nunciations Of the Presidents advisers. Some
even assail the President himself, and threaten
him with the block, like King Charles the First
No extravaganza Of language, no vigor Of
invective, no coarseness Of epi<het is spared.
Day after day the crusade incrcasesin fury, and
every article Is more abusive than ito prede-
cessors.
The pretext for this violent opposition Is the
military trial now in progress at Washington.
We say the pretext, because ii really is nothing
more. There is nothing so strange and start
ling in the fact that those csnspirators who as
sassinated Mr.. Lincoln, tried to assassinate Mr..
Seward in his sick bed, and designed to assas-
sinate oil the other members of the government,
including President johnson and General Grant,
should now be tried before military tribunal
There Is nothing in this fact to justify or ex-
cuse the attacks made upon President Johnson
and Secretary Stanton, who are acting under
the advice of Judge Advocate General Holt
upon whom the responsibility of the military
trial rests. Beall and Kennedy belonged to the
same gang of conspirators rs the wretches now
on trial at Washington. The ST. Adams raid
and the plot to burn down New York were pre-
pared in Canada and approved at Richmond,
like the assassination scheme which they pre-
ceded and foreshadowed. Yet Beall and Ken
their crimes deserved without any of this cutlery
from the copperhcad and niggerhead press.
They were tried by military tribunals, and yet
there was no clamor about despotism, and no
threats Of beheading the President in conse-
quence. The conspirators at Washington are
not mere murderers. They are hired assassins |;
they are guerillas. PROFESSIONALLY they ought
to be tried like Beall and Kennedy, and hung
like Beall and Kennedy. The fact that the very
papers which raise such dismal bowls over this
trial made no noise whatever over the trial Of
other conspirators proves the hypocrisy of their
present violence, and slows that the whole
thing is q pretext.
What, then, is the real reason of all this froth
and fury! We find 1t in the recent visit of an
agent of the Blair family to this city, and in his
consultations with the managers of the copper
head and niggerhead journals, beginning with
Barlow, of the World, and ending with the in
dicted publisher of the Post The Blair family
are determined to control President Johnson,
and in order to accomplish this they want to
clear out his Cabinet. They pay Secretary
Stanton the compliment Of regarding him as
the strongest man in the Cabinet, and so attack
him first, although they know that Holt, not
Stanton, has charge of the trial Of the con-
spirators. But, besides being used by the
Blairs, the newspapers rage and rave from pri-
vate motives Of their own. The Tribune seems
to be conducted lately by inmates Of the Bloom
ingdale Asylum. The Times is too imbecile to
know what it means, or to mean anything in
diligently. The Post, which is under indict-
ment, through it's publisher, for defrauding the
government is, of course, opposed to trials in
general, and hopes to help itself in its own par
ticular trial by aiding the Blairs TO manage
President johnson, with single eye, perhaps,
to pardon or postponement The copper
head papers, on the other hand, are more
guilty than we can allow ourselves to believe
the Tribune, Times and Post. They seem de.
termined to glorify Booth and make martyr
of him. Just as they laughed at the diabolical
attempt to burn down New York city, so they
now try 10 argue away the assassination. They
would almost persuade US that President Lin
coin was not murdered; that we did not see his
body borne sadly through the streets; that
Booth was not guilty Of the crime for
which he died. II we are to believe
them, President Johnson and Secretary Stanton
are the really guilty parties and the real con-
sprators. Thus do these copperhead organs
glorify an assassin, defame the administration
and endeavor to inaugurate that era of assassi-
nation which the Times predicted.
Had we not grown accustomed TO the utter
ances Of the rebel press Of the North during the
war, the efforts Of the journals of this city to
defend President Lincoln's murderers before
the grass is green upon his grave would be
even more shocking. But bad as these utter
ances have been heretofore, they are now per-
fectly outrageous The copperhcad papers
actually come before the pubic as the volunteer
counsel Of conspirators and assassins They
discredit the explicit statement of President
Johnson that JEFF Davis and the rebel