The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-12

Canada Assassination fund, or TO that $5O,OOO
check given to him the other day by Comptrol-
Ter Brennan for hiding the Corporation sd-
vertisements In the obscure columns Of his
paperf
The Peoples Importantly and Governor
Fcnton's Opportunity.
The people of this city have not yet grown
accustomed to being plundered. We complain
of the highwaymen who knock us down and rob
us in the streets, and we complain Just as loudly
of the municipal highwaymen who garrote us
with the tax levy and empty our pockets at the
collectors Office. For years we have suf-
fered from these outrages, and no one has
answered our cries for assistance So-called
reformers have offered US relief, but we have
always found them the hungriest and greediest
rogues of ALL Associations, formed ostensibly
to aid us, have turned out TO be mere "rings"
for increasing the tax leves and raising the
price of gas. We have appealed to the Legis-
lature, but the Legislature is controlled by the
lobby, and the lobby leaders are our greatest
thieves. From Governor Seymour we could
expect no help. He was surrounded by lot
of rascals who wanted to pull other peoples
hands out of the city treasury 80 that they could
put their own in; and those of his politi-
cal staff in this city who could not get
O chance to steal the peoples money were
very glad to take some of Jake Thompson's
assassination funds From Governor Fenton,
however, we have right to hope for better
things and we can now show him good reasons
r.. uicin al
affairs.
Governor Fenton is radical republican.
His wing of the party is about to make most
determined effort to carry the State at the next
election. It is a matter of life and death to
them that the radicals should win. But we can
tell them in advance that they cannot carry the
State against President Johnson upon the negro
suffrage question. If they try that they will be
thoroughly beaten. Only recently the people
of this State voted plumply by rous-
ing majority against negro suffrage, and
they have not changed their opinions. AS
for President johnson, he is now quite as pop
ular as President Lincoln ever was, and can
poll an almost unanimous vote in favor Of his
policy. The only hope of the radicals, there
| fore, is to make one of General Grants flank
movements. They cannot resort to their old
trick of buying up the ultra copperheads to
make noise, and then slip in between the
copperheads and the conservatives. That trick
has been played too often. The copperheads,
just at present. had rather 60 with President
johnson than against him on the negro suffrage
question, little as they like his summary deal
| ings with traitors. II Is in vain, too, for the
radicals to offer the copperheads universal
pardon in exchange for universal suffrage.
President johnson holds that matter in his
| own hands, and can either outbid
the radicals or break them down. Governor
Fentons wing of the party has only one
chance, and that is to raise new local issue
| Let him make that issue upon our municipal
abuses, and the people of the whole city and
lect this opportunity for a brilliant flank move
ment, and risk direct attack upon the Presi
dent and his policy, will be fatal.
The first blow being half the battle, Cover.
nor Fenton should strike quickly. He has a
proposition before him to remove the Mayor
Street Commissioner, Comptroller City Inspec.
tor, Corporation Counsel and the Croton Board
and he should dispose Of them all without
, any more delay. The Comptroller defantly
| demands an investigation--let him have
il. The Street Commissioner says that
10 cannot be rcmoved-show him his
mistake. The City Inspector claims to have
been untouched by the legislative committee
condemn him or acquit him. The Corporation
Counsel offers to throw open his Office for exa
rainahon let us see what is in it. The Croton
Board is disorderly and ineflicient-reform il
altogether. The Mayor is a copperhead Of the
worst dye, and his head should be at once
chopped off by the Governor to cleanse THU
loyal city from the disgrace he inficts upon 1t
Turn them all out, root and branch, and The
people will celebrate the day of the event as /
It were another Fourth of July. No matter
whom we get in their places we cannot have 6
worse set than we have now. The whole State
will rally around the Governor upon this issue
az 1t rallied to aid the republican party il
the fight against Fernando Wood. The
horrors of our municipal misrule ard thu
honesty and courage of the man who ends then
will supply political capital for half dozer
campaigns at least Never had Governor {
more glorious opportunity, and never was {
Governor 30 importuned to do right and serve
himself and his party at the same time.
It will not do, however, to indulge in hal
measures. Some of these heads Of department.
may be personally unobjectionable, but the!
are all 80 linked together that they must stant
or fall in company. One department hinges OF
to another, and one man is often slowed away
in dozen different nests There, for instance
is Mr.. Deputy Tweed, who hides himself behint
Cornell in the Street Commission so tina
nobody can get ct him, but who is th,
knot which holds this municipal string o