The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-06-12

NEW YORK HERALD, !
| fined issue brought in SO son before the
President Johnson, as against Congress, can
m Ike no fight against this platform, for 1t is the
Presidents own pol cy. 1t is compromise
platform against which johnson republicans
cannot even quarrel with the radicals before
the people, although the hatred of the radicals
against johnson may continue as intense ~ ON
the eve of the late Connecticut election.
The Presidents reconstruction policy thus
being appropriated by the radicals as their
own thunder, what is he 10 dot How is he to
escape the inglorious fzzling out of Tyler and
Fillmore, those accidental men who stand in
history a. instructive monuments of the folly
Of ambition without sagacity or plucki We
can tell him. President Johnson may
fully retrieve himself in q bold stroke in
his foreign policy for q new and popular
issue. Let him advise Mr.. Seward, as
President Lincoln advised Montgomery Blair,
that his time has come; and let the other
members Of the present Cabinet be given
gentle hint to the same purpose; and then give
us a new Cabinet adapted to the new dispcn-
sation. Senator Fessenden, in reducing the
crude and iUpracticable reconstruction scheme
of Thaddeus Stevens to practical shape,
and. in his mastery report on the sub
ject, has shown that he is practical states
man and near enough in principle to the
administration to be advanced to the State
Department Let him, then. be so appointed.
In the next place, in consid ration OF his pub
lie services, let Mr.. Seward be sent to
take the place of Mr.. Adams as our Minister 70
England, and with the alternative to that gov
eminent Of the payment of the indemnisies dye
for the spoliations o. Anglo-rebel cruisers upon
our commerce or his imm sdiate return hom,.
This will bring the money or mike popular
payment, all that the President will have to do
to raise for his admin stration powerful par y
will be to submit the facts to Congress, with a
recommendation for the seizure OF the Canadas
in the way Of reprisals.
By this course Of action President johnson,
instead of fizzlng out like Tyler and Fillmore,
may rise in the support Of the people to the
towering altitude of Old Hickory. Great men
rise from the seizure Of great oppor uniies,
and here is one for President johnson, upon
which, if boldly seized, in the midst Of all tho
stirring events and excitements of the day, he
may ride the popular whirlwind and direct the
storm. A settlement with England Of this
character would net only rally the three hun
dred thousand American Fenians in support Of
the President, but the great body Of our native
born citizens of all parties. What is President
Johnson's policy in regard to those Anglo-rebel
spoliationss The country would like to know.
The Fenian Movement and ITS Probable
Results.
The Fenian movement ON Canada, which was
designed by the leaders as base from which
to carry ont their plans for the liberation Of
Ireland, has failed for the present. The United
States government, by the rigid exercise Of
the neutrality laws, accomplished what in oil
probability the military power Of the British
government In Canada would have failed ID
do. There appeared to have been no want O.
men, nor Of determination, nor Of the necessary
supplies, on the part Of the Fenians; but while
The men reached the frontier in large numbers
their munitions, arms and provisons-amount-
ing, it ID said, to fifty thousand small arms and
| eighty tons Of ammunition-were seized by the
ofacials of our government and the men were
| therefore left powerless. We cannot ba sur
prised that under these circumstances the
Fenian movement ON Canada has collapsed.
It would be too much to expect that the
| Fenians could contend successfully against
| two powerful nations. Such Of tho British
troops as they met on Canadian soil they de-
feated at Limestone Ridge; but the United
States regulars, provost mlrshals and distric,
attorneys and detectives in the rear were
| too much for them. From all the facts
| developed in this case 1t seems evil
dent that had it not been for the
interference Of the government there would
have been fifty thousand men thrown
into Canada; that Montreal and Ottawa would
have been in possession of the invaders be-
fore this time, and that in less than six months
there would not be a British flag flying upon
British soil in North America. There would
not have been a foothold left from which to
start bank robbers, hotel burners, asslssins
or other emissaries to aid in the destruction
Of this government, all OF which Canada fur
nished with SO much alacrity during the rebel
lion.
However, the government saw fit to show Its
magnanimity and set an example to other ma
tons as to what strict neutrality really means,
and hence it laid heavy hand upon the Fee
mans just at the moment when they were about
to pay of the old score. The leaders Of the
Fenian movement, and perhaps nine-tenths Of
their followers, too, we're men who fought under
the flag Of the republic against the rebellion.
The leaders, being loyal citizens md good SOL
diers. who did as much to maintain the exist
ence OF the country in the late war ~ any
other class Of the community, did not wish to
come into collision with the government and
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