The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-04-23
NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 2s 1865.

Deem very careful in avoiding all rash expert
ments; careful, while adhering to the logical
and legal results Of the war, to stick to the
text Of the constitution. The only question,
therefore, Is, Has he gone far enough in his
conditions to the States rescued from the re-
bellion The public sentiment Of the country
responds yes; but Congress Indignantly cries
no! The spirit of the rebellion has not yet
cooled down; the temper Of the Southern
people still disqualiAes them for voice in
Congress. 1t would be unjust to the blacks
and the North to give the excluded States the
whole mass Of their black race for representa-
ton in Congress without the equivalent Of
black suffrage. Therefore the excluded States
must still be excluded.
On the other hand it is contended that sub
mission to the terms imposed and to the con-
stitution and the laws Is all that we can justly
require of the South; that If there have been
any just grounds of complaint touching the
civil rights Of the negroes they are now se-
cured in the Civil Rights bill, and that negro
suffrage and the enumeration of the blacks for
representation in Congress can be regulated
hereafter, bat that it is matter of the utmost
Importance now to the Treasury and the flnan-
cial interests Of the country that the Southern
dustry, public confidence and the full develop
ment of their great commercial staples. This
is the argument in support of the Presidents
policy, and it cannot be successfully answered.
Now, assuming that between his policy and
the do-nothing policy of Congress the issue is
carried before the pc ople in our approaching
fall elections, how is the President to be sus-
tanned, with the managers of the republican
party against him? He cannot go over to the
party of the Chicago Convention, the peace
party of the war. 1t is impossible that he can
identify himself with that organization. It
of the rebellion after the capture of
the right and centre The battle of President
johnson is still within the lines Of the Union
party Of the war, right and left, North and
South, and the way whereby he may defeat the
radicals is very plain and easy. We will
sylvania. The republicans there have nomi-
mated for Governor a good and true Union
man Of the practical johnson school, in the
person of General Geary. The democrats have
set up peace man Of the Vallandigham type.
Geary, therefore, is the man for the johnson
Unionists but they have wide margin for
initial movements in regard to congressional
and legislative candidates. Here they may flank
both Thaddeus Stevens and John W. Forney.
To this end President johnson may do much
in his dispensations Of patronage; for surely he
may use all legitimate means at his command
to strengthen his position and his supporters
within the lines Of the Union war party.
The johnson republicans Of Connecticut are
entirely right in avoiding any entangling
affiliations with the copperhead Chicago demo-
cratic party. That party, from its opposition
to the war, must 60 the way Of the old federal
party. It is under the ban Of a popular odium
which cannot be revoked. II is q party which
dug its own grave at Chicago, and which, If
not yet dead, must die and be buried. Then
that portion Of the people identified with IT
crystalizing around the new Union party Of
the administration will powerfully assist in
building up the great party Of the future. On
this road lies the victory for the administra-
ton, beginning with the October election in
Pennsylvania. The administration and the
Union Is the ticket.