The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-15

Senator Sumner ON tne NampaSo'
We have recently been favored with noble
and patriotic speech by President Johnson, on
the reorganization Of the South, which has cleo
tri6ed the whole country. We have also
had TRADE from Thad Stevens, in which the
whole nation is pictured as going to ruin,
unless Sambo is magnanimous enough to
step in and rescue it. We now have an
essay from Senator Sumner, who, mounted on
his I" bay horse" makes furious assault upon
the President and his policy, and in fact, every
body, except the blacks in the South. The
very commencement of his speech indicates
three months, and has just awoke, or else be
has been closeted all this time in some distant
province preparing this essay. He ia plainly
ignorant of recent events, and has not heard Of
the great progress made by the Southern States
in restoration. The rebellion, he declares, is
not ended, nor slavery abolished. If he means
by the former term Northern rebellion, he Is
not far out Of the way for it is very evident
that rebellion has commenced in the North,
and has been inaugurated in Massachusetts,, with
Senator Sumner as high priest and prophet.
This may account for the sudden transhipment
of niger troops from the South into that
State, where they can at once suppress the re-
bellion before it assumes more formidable
dimensions
1t will be seen by the extracts from Mr.. Sum-
ner's speech which we publish elsewhere that
he advises the adoption Of the most extreme
course. The negro is the burthen of his essay
from the first to the last His greatest fears are
that be will not be the idol of the country in
the future The occasion which calls out these
utterances is the assembling Of the Mas
sachusetts State Republican Convention to
nominate a candidate for Governor and
lay down platform. Among the del
egates elected was a colored clergyman
from Boston; and, were it not for the fact that
the speech was prepared beforehand it might
be inferred that the enthusiasm Of the radical
Senator over this ebony colleague was the
cause of the extended reference to that race.
he marks out the course for the radical faction
to pursue, and declares "we must follow Con-
gress in the present exclusion of all rebels
from political power" To Congress he urges
them to look, (which" he adds, "has plenary
power over the whole subject" Having thus
marked out the dangers which he imagines
threaten the negroes, and the course to be pur-
sued to protect them, he turns and lectures
the President, directing him, with great gusto
to "follow Congress" In conclusion he de.
clares that his course is fixed. Others may
hesitate, but he will not he is deter.
mined to fight it out if it takes the remainder Of
his life. The public now know his position
and just what the J0cobins intend to do. The
President can also understand the nature of the
opposition which he is to have arrayed against
him in the next Congress- He can foresse the
effort which will be made by the radicals in
that body to delay the work Of reconstruction
as we'll az to retain the country in an unsettled
and uncertain state for some time to come. All
this may be very pleasant to the radicals; but
we imagine that it will not be very palatable
to the taxpayers, when they come to see, as they
will, that the success of the radical Jacobir
policy will necessarily swell our debt to ar
enormous figure and increase largely theil
| taxes.