The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-14


ter Of the situation, and lead to the substantial
adoption Of his policy. foreign and domestic, in
the action Of both houses, beginning with the
admission Of the members from the late rebel
li0us States. n
SECESSION SPIRIT SoUyH-NE0Ro WORSHIP
NOR1H-The action Of the conventions and
legislatures In the Southern States reveals tho
fact that there are still q few persons who
retain the old secession spirit and attempt to
carry il out The opposite extreme is also
held and pressed with equal pertinacity by the
negro worshippers Of the North African
slavery is at an end In this country, and the
sooner all classes in the South act upon it the
better for all concerned. But those who ex-
hibit . hesitancy or unwillingness to recog-
nize this fact and manifest an opposition to
| the Presidents plan Of reorganization in the
| Southern States, are no worse opponents Of the
early reconstruction of the country than Wen
dell Phillips and that class Of men, who, having
secured the abolition OF slavery, are now con-
stantly harping about negro suffrage, and de-
| handing the adoption Of other extreme
measures Both Of these classes are enemies Of
the country, and would, If they could, keep us
in an unsettled condition for years to come.
The Southern people should, however. bear
the Presidents policy, and delay in complying
with the demands which he has made, they are
simply standing in their own light-increasing
| and extending their own troubles, az well as
| endangering their own interests. President
johnson, 10 a simple and concise form, has
| stated what they must do to be restored to all
their rights in the Union. His statements
have been 80 plain that no person can
mistake his meaning. The sooner the
| Southern conventions and legislatures comply
with these requirements the sooner will their
representatives be admitted to Congress and the
organization of that body, with a restored
Union, be perfected. IF the Southern people
are sincere in their professions they can GER
tanly do everything that President johnson
has asked them to do without any hesitancy.
All such questions as negro suffrage are out of
the way. II matters not how much the radicals
may harp upon it. Universal negro suffrage
has nothing whatever to do with the Presi-
l
forms no part of his programme, and If it did
| il would be repudiated in the North, as the
| election in Connecticut and the canvass in this
State clearly prove. Let the Southern legisla-
lures repudiate, and not repeal, the secession
| ordinances and the debt incurred in the rebel
| lion, and adopt the constitutional amendment
abolshing slavery, and they need have no
fears but that their representatives will be adj
mitted, no understanding the bowls of the radi-
GALS
! AMERICAN CORRESPONDENTS IN EUROPEAN
EXCHANGE OF CouRTEsEs.-A European CORE
spondent Of one of our contemporaries has just
been arrested and imprisoned by the English
| authorities. His crimes were that he had on
| his person some notes or memoranda which
the English officials were not able to under
stand, and that he carried very small re-
vOlyer. For this an inofensive traveller ia
seized and imprisoned in what is commonly
called Tree country. No more outrageous
piece Of despotism has been perpetrated in
Russia, Austria, Turkey, or even in the realm
of the wonderful BOmba, whose acts the British
government is, perhaps. eager to emulate. Sup
pose we had acted during the war, or were to
act now, towards the correspondents of English
papers in this country just as the British gov
eminent acts towards this correspondent of an
American paper. How the English papers
would below their denuncations Of that high
handed outrage! What an arbitrary measure
that would be! What violation of personal
liberty Yet these English correspondents gave
us good reason to arrest them, and the Ameri.
hardly one correspondent here during the
whole war that did not villify and misrepresent
our government, cause and country in the most
malicious manner Heart and soul they we're
against us, and wrote against us; and now they
are doing their utmost by misrepresentation
and falschood 10 stir up new rebellion. To
apply the rule 10 another European Power:
have we not, according to this European
method plentiful reason to suppress the French
paper here and TO imprison all its editors, That
sheet sssails government and country with the
vilest mendacity on every occasion, and II we
should apply to il this European conduct
towards the press we need not hesitate an
hour. There is ample reason in it, open hos
tility for the arrest Of its editor, and there is
also ample reason for the arrest of oil the Eng
lish correspondents that are now going over
this country merely in search of some new
theme on which to lie about us. We need only
act upon the English example to put the whole
crew in Fort Lafayette.
The MUSICIANS AND THE MANAoERs.--Accord-
ing to the statements Of their own organs the
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