The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-07-06


and memorial tributes at the cemeteries the pccu-
liar features OF the day in Richmond The negroes had
procession and festival and took entire possession OF the
Capitol square. parade of freedmen the principal
demonstration in Augusta, Georgia
Secretaries Seward and Weles, Commodore Rsdford
and Senator Dooittle made excursion TO Fortress
Monroe Cd the Fourth.
General Sweeny publishes address to tho Fenian
Brotherhood in America in which he defends his course
In the recent raid on Canada. He recommends the re-
organization OF circles and the formation Of military
companies by the members under their chosen leaders
He dates the address at ST. Adams, VT, July4
Political RccOnstructi0n-Ths Organic q.
ton of New Partics-A New Epoch.
Dead elephants, enormous monsters, covered
with hair, have been found among the icebergs
which fringe the outlets of the great rivers Of
Siberia. Skeletons of the extinct mastodon
have been dug out Of the swamps Of New
Jersey, and in the lower end of the State they
have their dealers in the well seasoned lum-
Der of subterranean forest at this day. The
different strata which form the crusts of our
planets mark each some geological period dis
tinguished from the rest by different climate,
races Of animals and orders of vegetation in
the same locality. Here we have the records
Of the wonderful commissions, changes and re-
volutions which the earth has undergone in its
progressive developments of vegetable and
animal life Next, from the pyramids of Egypt
to the ancient temples Of Yucatan, we have
series Of lessons in the relics of kingdoms
and empires, equally instructive as to the
yicissitudes and changes to which all created
things are subject Still contracting the circle
Of our observations, we learn from the rise,
development and decay Of the political parties
Of every age and every people, that under
different notifications we have been and are
going through the same processes of rcvolu-
ton and reconstruction.
Thus in the political parties and factions
that we road Of In the histories Of the ancient
Israclites, and Of every intervening country
thence to the British islands, we may find
something resembling our original federal
and republican parties. our old whig, demo-
cratic and abolition parties, and the republic
can, radical and conservative factions, and the
war and copperhead peace factions of the
democratic party, and the ultra Massachusetts,
negro equality faction Of the present day.
Great convulsions in the natural or political
world bring about great changes from the old
order Of things. Against these changes old
parties, and factions that have fulfilled their
time may struggle, but they will struggle in
vain. Change, for instance, field Of tobacco
into field of Indian corn, and the tobacco
worm will be superseded by another insect
So with the abolition Of Southern slavery; the
old pro-slavcry and no-slavery parties must
take new shape, as did the old National
Bank and anti-bauk parties with the death of
Biddle's monster. The present republican
pose, was appointed by the people of the
North to put down q great Southern rebellion.
In doing this work this party has fulfilled its
mission. 1t Is not adapted to meet the new
conditions Of a restoration of peace. Nor is
the peace party Of the war. New issues call
for new ideas, new platforms, new organiza-
tons and new leaders. The radical republi-
can leaders cannot be made to believe that
the war is over; the old hide.bound. shent-per-
shent democratic leaders still believe that the
war was failure. They are the Bourbons
who never learn anything and never forget
anything; they are the old English Jscobites,
who have but one idea, the restoration Of their
worthless King James, who has been cast out,
never to return.
Macaulay says that under William of Orange
"England's great and glorious revolution was
completes" but under the good and lamcnted
Abraham Of Illinois we have accomplished
much greater revolution. We must have,
therefore, . more marked reorganization Of
parties The tenacity Of the republican party
and its discipline are great, but fate is against
it. From is very excess Of strength II 10 fall
ing to pieces, like the old democratic party OF
1852 and the old whig party Of 1910. The
Doolittle and Dixon call for . conservative
national convention at Philadelphia marks
positive disintegration Of the republican party.
The manifesto Of the democratic members Of
Congress (the authoritative high priests Of their
church,, in urging fusion of the democrats in
this Philadelphia movement, proclaims the
democratic party disbandcd in view of q new
and q broader and stronger and more elastic
national party. The most powerful parties,
like the most powerful nations, are made up Of
apparently the mos! incongruous eleme nts.
Look at the British monarchy and our great
American republic, and the materials which
have made them.
Why, then, may not this conservative Philadcl-
phia movement result in the dominant party Of
the future, In absorbing en- nsosse the demo-
cratic party and the best materials Of the repub-
lican camp' There appears to be every rea-
son for tho prediction that this thing will come
from the experience OF parties gone by and
from all the signs Of change and reconstruction
TO which we have referred. We must remem-
Der, too, that disintegrsuon has sct In at both