The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-06-16
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Polfticul Pa rftea.

Negro oraiixation OK Our
Political Parties.
The Hon. John Sherman, OF Ohio. q brother
Of the famous General Sherman (who goes the
other way, and a leading republican member
of the United States Senate, recently delivered
a speech at Circleville, Ohio, on public affairs,
in the course of which he pleaded not only the
power and the duty, but the necessity, of grant
ing the elective franchise 10 the loyal blacks
in tho reorganization Of the late rebel ous
States He has very little faith in the success
of President Johnson's plan in this business of
limiting the voring to the loyal whites con-
cerned. He fears that The spirit of the rebel
lion is too deeply rooted in The vast majority
of those who have taken or may take the oath
to make them good citizens. Senator Sher-
man, therefore, urges the right of suffrage for
the loyal negroes; end at least as to some Of
the Southern States he would hold them under
military rule "until they provide our only Sc
curity for the future, that the negroes shall
have their share in reconstruction, as they have
borne their share in the fighting"
will follow from the denial TO the blacks of the
right to vote. For instance, he says that "the
Southern States gain by the freedom of their
slaves fourteen new members Of Congress and
as many electoral votes Not thrce-afths of the
blacks, their late slaves, but fve-fifths must be
population. IF you give the same men who
revolted this increased political power, what
safety have you? Suppose ten years ago they
had had this political power Kansas would have
been slave State this day; and they would
have had ample political power to subvert your
government without q resort to arms. We
must have security for the future. All tho evils
that perceive may arise from mixed voting
population are insignificant when compared
with the only two alternatives the restoring to
rebels vast political power, and the danger and
vast expense Of military governments"
These orc Senator Sherman's views upon this
important question of negro suffrage. The
leaveh thrown out by Chief Justice Chase is
rapidly dlffusing itself among the radical ele-
ments of the republican party. Senator Sher-
man we have always ranked as conservative;
and, II he goes this road, may we not expect
that the bulk of the republican members Of
both houses Of Congress will be with himf In
this event all the labors Of the Executive in the
way of reconstruction in the long interval to
December next may be rejected, and such
condition of parties may follow at Washington
Is will keep the rcbcllious States in the nurse
ry for ut least two years to come, involving
'the vast expense" of continued military gov
crnments. In some way or other we must have
this question settled in advance Of the next
Presidential campaign, as there is reason TO
fear that while the democrats against negro
suffrage will absorb On masse the vote of our
Irish and Catholic citizens, the masses of the
Protestant churches, from sheer antagonism to
This II division Of parties of which the country
has had quite enough, in the vicious Know
Nothing, dark lantern movement which followed
the dissolution Of The old whig party, and all
honest and falr-minded men Of all parties desire
20 avoid . repetition Of this scctarisn folly.
lIenceforth from sectional and sectarian parties,
good Lord deliver US.
We know Of no better way whereby to reach
the safe intermediate ground, between the radi-
cal negro suffrage republican leaders on the
enc side, and the ultra democratic politicians
on the other than In the organization of that
citizen soldiers national party to which we
have already called the public attention.
spoils and plumber through long series of
years sappcd and brought down in ruin The old
national democratic party but the leaders Of
the remaining Northern remnants Of this party
are ~ corrupt aud reckless as ever The
enormous sccessions OF power, spoils and plum
der, counting by thousands of millions, which
the war threw into The hands Of the republican
party have utterly corrupted and dcmoraized
a. dispensers and receivers of the spells. Be-
sides, ma the democratic party, with It's Chicago
platform. Is high and dry on q Ice shore, and MS
the republican party las finished It's mission,
we must inevitably have q new organization Of
parties, aud they who are FIRST In the field with
a good Ieaping machine, In the shape Of new
national platform, win get the cream Of the
harvest Hence we call upon our returned SOL
dicrf, officers and privatcs, TO take the initia-
tive In the organ nation OF anew national party,
and 10 shape their course from their knowledge
Of our national difficulties, derived from their
experience In the war. From such q party
Prce:dcn. Johnson would receive efficient as
sxlance In all saluiary measures, and the radi-
cal politicians OF both extremes could be
fankcd and captured or dispersed without o
battle, as easily as the rebels were aankcd out
at Charleston.
THK Nrw GoysENro CrAS.--For many
ycnrs we have had governing class, distinct
from The people, in the pothouse politicians.
These fellows. by the man1uvres Of party
machinery, managed TO control entirely the
power that belonged 10 The people. But the
events Of the war have changed that, and there