The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-14

the city Of Mexico this rupture between
the Legislative and executive depart
ments of - government is supposed
to mean another civil war. Macmillan, a.
our special correspondent at the Mexican CAPT
tai has informed us, ON reading that President
johnson had been Kissed and ho0ted at some
way station on his late prohtless pilgrimage to
the tomb Of disappointed politician ct Chi
cago, Macmillan, who ought to have known
better, exclaimed, /" All! this is good for usw
meaning that we are on the verge of another
civil war, as the natural elimination of this
rupture between Congress and the President,
and that therefore we shall have no time to
spare and no power to intervene in the settle
ment Of the Mexican question.
Such are the absurd but humiliating ideas
created in foreign countries by the conflict be-
tween the President and Congress and their late
violent denunciations Of each other. We dare
say, however, that the recent elections will
convince the English bondholders of the rebel
cotton loan, including the unlucky Morgan
yond remedy, and that the Canadians will not
" send over few Armstrong guns TO assist the
copperheads to break up the Union,' and that
poor Max win pack up and pack of from
Mexico as fast as possible. Still the duty none
the less devolves upon President johnson of
the world in reference to this conflict with Con-
gress. BY yielding to the pronounced popular
Judgment in these late elections, and by pro-
claiming his adoption of the policy Of Congress,
he can and he should put an end, without fur
Their hesitation, to all these outside opinions,
conjectures and conclusions so prejudicial to
his administration, his character and the credit
and character of our government.
Results Of the Elections Their influence On
the Future.
While politicians are twisting and turning
the figures in the late elections to suit this
party or that and endeavoring to extort con-
ISOLATION and hope out of pretended gain of
a few hundred votes here and there in some
forth before the world that. the people of
every Northern State that has spoken
through the ballot box have declared
in favor of the principles of the republi-
can party and Of the policy Of that party
as laid down by the majority in Congress.
place indicate with unerring certainty the
result Of those which remain to be held in
November. As Pennsylvania and Ohio and
Indiana and Iowa have been carried by the
republicans, so will the remaining Northern
States give their verdicts in the same direc-
ton. The question Is to the past and the
future Of political organizations may therefore
be considered as in reality settled, although
the bulk Of the State elections yet remain to
be decided.
We End, then, on looking over the field, that
the last remnant of the democratic party is ut
terly and totally annihilated. The silly attempt
to revive that organization on the strength Of
dissension in the republican ranks has proved
. signal failure. Everywhere il has been
secuted by the people. The aid Of the federal
patronage has been powerless to impart to it
even temporary vitality. 1t has not foot
hold in . single State government. Ont Of sixty
Representatives to Congress Il elects ten, or at
the outside, twelve. The democratic party is,
therefore, as dead as Julius Cesar.
We find, as further lesson of the elections,
that the people Of the North, after conquering
the rebellion at so heavy cost, will not con-
sent to be debared from demanding any terms
at all from the rebel States precedent to adj
hitting them to full share In the government
they attempted to destroy. They are resolved
that the terms shall be in harmony with the
constitution that they shall not be subversivs
OF republican form Of government that they
shall not evince malignant spirit Of hate that
they shall be such as will not humiliste and de-
grade the conquered people but that, while
satisfying the stern demands Of Justice, they
shall partakc Of the generosity and magnanim-
ity of a great and powerful nation. But they
are resolved that terms such as these shall be
required of the South We find. also, that
vast majority Of the Northern people approve
the plan of settlement embraced in the con-
stitntional amendment proposed by Congress,
and have by their votes issued their in
structions to their Representatives to firmly
adhere to and carry out that policy.
In view Of these facts the problem Of the
future construction Of parties is easy to be
solved. The democracy must accept the ver-
dict or the ballot box, because they cannot
help themselves, and must and will make up
their minds to bury the offensive carcass Of
their dead organization out Of sight. They
will be left without single Northern State
and with ouly handful Of Congressman to sit
in their places at Washington and watch the
current Of events, powerless to control them
in any degree. The radicals will not accept
the verdict, emphatic as II is. They are new
party, ambitious and unscrupulous, and heated
by the fire Of fanaticism. They will lead of