The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-23

Nv 0xth AJItA1lD, GAL
placed the tops While crossing bridge severs
Of these persons struck by the tmben and sweep
off, three being killed and others injured.
An iron foundry and machine shop 1t Lousvi,
were burned early last Tuesday morning, entaing
loss of upwards OF thirty thousand dollars on wh,cl
there insurance Of eight thousand dollars, ST,
thousand Of it being in New York and Brooklyn Offices
BY the cayng in Of wall of the building destroyed thre
nremen injured, two Of them seriously The nr,
was evidently incendiary in its origin.
The following New York Offices had insurances OF
property destroyed the great fire at Augusta Me-
the nth inst Home $50 900; Niagara $1,000 and thu
Morris $500 a
The stock market was more active and higher yester
day Governments were steady. Gold was steady ant
closed at 143X. t se.s
There was fair degree Of activity in commercial
circles yesterday, and there was more buoyancy and
hrmness than for several days. Nearly all kinds Of
foreign goods held higher and In cases. alto
getner above the views buyers Groceries were steady
Cotton was unchanged. Petroleum was active. On
Change -four and grain were higher. Pork was dull
Beef was active Lard was higher Whiskey was firm
The Comma nding Position OF New York
I'm support or President johnson. N
The Empire State, through the action ei
both her great political parties in support d
President johnson, occupies lofty and com
manding position before the country. For the
first time in the history Of the Union since
the days Of Monroe both parties have met on
the platform of the administration as II to inau-
gurste another terra Of good feeling" We had
something like this in 1852, when the wings
and the democrats adopted the same national
platform in support of Henry Clay's great
compromise measures of 1850. Thus both
parties in 1852 trimmed their sails to the popu-
lar breeze; but the people, while believing in
Clay's adjustment, distrusted the disturbing
abolition affiliations of the wing party, and 60
poor Pierce was elected by an overwhelming
majority of the popular and electoral vote
North and South. That election was the death
Of the old wing party; and in behalf of the great
compromise settlement eliminating in this
remarkable event, the State of New York led
the way. 4pWi
Had poor Pierce shaped his policy according
to the instructions Of the American people so
emphatically pronounced in his election, he
might have re-established the democratic party
in power for half century longer But he
was pulled up with his self-conceit; he WAS
weak and foolish; he turned his back upon the
people, and was led by clique of Southern
conspirators into the rash, bloody and disas-
trous experiment of that Kansas-N Nebraska bill.
From that day began the dissolution Of the old
Jacksonian democratic party, which was con-
summated in the revolutionary rupture of the
Charleston Convention of 1860, and confirmed
in the irrevocable split few weeks later at
Baltimore. All these things, eliminating in
the late sanguinary rebellion, may be traced
directly to the weakness, faithlessness and
criminal folly Of poor Pierce. Against him,
and in the tremendous Northern anti-slavery
reaction thus brought about, the State of
New York led those resistless columns which
cast the democracy out of power and into dis
grace in 1860. There, excepting the lucid in
terval Of 1852, the party has since remained,
in consequence Of its adhesion to its incurable
copperhead leaders.
New York, with the signal from Fort Sum-
ter, led Off in the war for the Union and in
every great political revolution or reaction OF
the country we find that New York has exer-
cised the influence which properly belongs to
the most powerful State of the Union. II is
in this view that we attach the highest i'm
portance to the present attitude Of both par
ties in this State, in reference to President
Johnson's domestic and foreign policy. By
their Official action, as we may term 1t, the
democratic party and the republican party
stand upon the same platform In reference to
their principles and their candidates there il
hardly anything to quarrel over between
them. The intolerant abolition radicals threat
en- q bolt against the doings at Syracuse, and
the intractable copperheads are disguised with
the doings at Albany, and of these two small
discordant factions the opposition elements to
President Johnsons policy are composed
II the republicans are defeated in November
1t will be in the house of their radical friends
il the democrats fail to recover the State they
may charge the account to their copperhead
brethren. In either event, however, the ad
ministration will stand endorsed by New Yorl
and by both parties.
The moral effect of this emphatic approval
of President johnson by the masses of botf
parties of this State will be felt in all the otheI
States, and will be recognized in Congress n
true development Of the public opinion o
the country at large. The members Of thu
new Congress, like Andrew johnson with Presi
dent Lincoln, were elected upon the allah
sorbing issue last year of the subjugation o
the rebellion and the extinguishment Of slav
cry. The rebellion has been since put down
and slavery has been abolished. Presiden
johnson has thus been left perfectly free to take
his own course in the great work OF Southern re
construction. The course which he has adopted
meets the approval of the people North and
South. The party that elected him and tn
party that opposed him last November viii
both in the coming November elections
especially in New York-stand upon the John
son platform Of Southern reconstruction.
In il not fair, then, to infer that in obedience