The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-16

see arrive, and which, in connection with Presi-
dent Johnson's sound policy, may soon be
brought about,
The Negro Suffrage Radicals and Their
~ Senseless Fuss and Fury.
The negro suffrage radicals, stunned for
few days by the late Connecticut election, are
recovering their wind, and returning to their
huc-and-cry against the administration. They
are harpng again their noisy chorus on "hu-
man rights" aequal rights" manhood suf-
frage," Justice and political equality" tina
tional degradation" "colorphobia," the 'en-
franchised rebels" and "discarded loyalists
Of the South, and upon immediate and uncon-
ditional negro suffrage in the late insurgent
States, as the only thing that can save the
country
The radical trumpeter Of the Tribune, when
ever he finds himself in a corner or band OF
his brethren OF the faith in difficulty, Issues
proclamation defining his position or instruct
ing his disciples in their line of duty. The
Rev. Brother Beecher and his associate politi-
cal clergymen of the Independent have adopted
this custom Of the Emperor Of China and the
Tribune philosopher, in a especial edict" to
their "fellow countrymen." Hear them:-"We
crave your sober attention on the state Of the
country" and they straightway proceed. to
anything but sober onslaught upon President
johnson. They say that, after all his promises
of punishment to traitors, he is working them
off at the rate of "from one hundred to five
hundred pardons day !" that after promising
that the rebellious States "should be moulded
by loyalists and not misshapen by rebels" he
has, in The reconstruction of Alabama, South
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana,
"denied the rights of loyalists and legalized
the usurpations Of rebels-trampling justice
under foot and framing iniquity into law"
that President johnson has thus become "the
champion Of the Chicago Times, John Van
Buren,, the Daily Ne,os and Fernando Wood
and, therefore, say Beecher and his reverend
brethren of the Independent, Eve feel con-
strained to put our hand to the rope and ring
the alarm bell-arouslng the party Of justice
to the perils Of the hour"
What are these "perilss" They are the
perils threatened to "equal suffrage" and
.'equal rights" from President Johnson's
Southern policy. II, says, the indignant Beech
err president johnson had wished to invest
the negro with the citizens right to the ballot
he has had and still has the logical argument,
the moral duty and the political opportunity.
This is the greatest duty which he owes to the
republic, and this duty will be required at his
hands," Mark the words-"will be required"
These radicals have resolved to make him toe
the mark; and Wendell Phillips having sppa-
rently retired in disgust, Brother Beecher adj
vances to lead the forlorn hope. Greeley
wbines and scolds, but he is trimmer.
Beecher is the man to "ring the alarm bell"
And all this fuss and fury against President
Johnson is because he has thought it best in
his work OF Southern reconstruction to leave
the question Of suffrage to be regulated here
after by the several States concerned, each for
itself, according to the constitution and the
usages Of the country. This policy is all wrong,
according TO Beecher and Company. The
Southern negro must forthwith have the right
Of suffrage or the country goes to the dogs.
But why stop with negro sufrages If the
seven hundred thousand black men Of the
South just released from the darkness of
slavery, who hardly know their right hand
from their left, are now necessary at the ballot
box 70 save the country, has not the time come
for .equal rights" to the ten millions Of white
women Of the North Il not Anna Dickinson,
for instance, o. well qualified for manhood
Suffrage or "equal rights" as Uncle Tom,
These radical clamors against President
johnson are, in fact, only notifications Of
Garrison's old war cry that The constitution
sis league with death and covenant with
hell" "No union with slaveholders," &c. Such
disorganizing reformers as Beecher, Cheevsr,
Phillips, Thaddeus Stevens and Sumner would
turn the country upside down in their schemes
of fanatcism. Their ideas of manhood suf.
frage" and equal rights" are monstrous per-
versions Of the terms. Rational, thinking men
shrink from them, while Satan and his imps
shake their sides and wag their tails with JOY
They like the agents Of wickedness, strife and
confusion, such as those reverend and impious
agitators Of immediate and unconditional ne.
gro suffrage. The Presidents policy for the
restoration Of the South Is wise, humane, safe
and sound, in view Of the interests and harmo-
NOUS association Of whites and blacks. It
meets the approval Of the country, North and
South, and public opinion will shape the policy
Of Congress.
STEAM AND CANvAs-The decline Of sailing
power on the advance Of steam power on the
ocean is strongly manifested by the fact that
on Saturday twenty steamships left this
port-two Of them for Europe and eighteen for
our own Southern ports, to aid In the work Of
reconstruction II Ia an evidence, also, Of the