The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-26

i pOriziuG cOppernea0e ana Oouoervouvos nave
less respect for each other than for Stevens,
and thus he uses the one faction or the other
a. occasion may serve him. The radical fao-
ton rule Congress because they are united,
bold and aggressive. Their purposes may be
bad. their measures may be vicious md revo-
lutionary; but in their fight they show those
qualities Of courage, skin, tenaeity and energy
which invariably command respect and give
even to . bad cause more Or les Of popular
strength "s''s
Thus the President has failed in Congress TO
secure party capable Of accomplishing any
thing. Hin professed and noisy sdhsrents have
their own axes to grind, their own selfish or
paltry party purposes to serve, and they are
like Joseph's cost Of many colors. Hence,
against the radicals the opposition elements Of
Congress are a. powerles a. 30 many squads
of bushwhackers against the advances Of reg
ular army. Hence the necessity Of bold a.
gressiye movement from what Stevens calls
"tbe other end of the Avenue" President
johnson must advance bis standard, in view Of
an appeal from Congress to the people. He
can do this BY reconstruction Of his Cabinet,
from the Secretary of State down to the Attor-
ney General. Let him try the experiment, and
give Ms q new Cabinet from the leading heroes
of the war-soldiers, sailors and civilians-and
the Union war party will rally around him and
his policy. This 10 the way to commence an
effective organization of national johnson
Union party, and in view Of . wholesome rev.
olution in our fall elections. Meantime we
would suggest the propriety and advantages
of johnson Union meeting in this metropolis,
10 strengthen the Presidents hands and to en-
courage him TO take the initiative against his
enemies, not forgetting the decisive step Of a
complete reorganization Of his Cabinet
The Ohio Dcmocracy-Their Now Wine
I'm tho Old Bottle.
The democracy Of Ohio at their recent State
Convention adopted, in part, n new platform,
in resolution that "thcy will cordially and
actively support Andrew Johnson as Presi-
dent Of the United States in all the necessary
and proper means to carry out his policy" for
the restoration of the Union, "and especially in
securing immediate representation in the Senate
and House of Representatives to the eleven
States from which it is now demonstrations
ally and arbitrarily withheld, unless on the
degrading condition Of inferiority in the Union
and Of negro political and civil equality, en-
forced by the federal government"
This cordial and active support of President
johnson is good. 1t places the democracy of
Ohio on substantial footing; but in their very
first resolution they repeat the blunders Of
their New Jersey brethren last fall Of adher-
ing to the exploded heresies Of the Chicago
Convention. They declare "that the demo-
cracy of Ohio will adhere in the present and in
| the future, as in the past, with unfaltering
fidelity and frmness to the organization of the
democratic party aud to its ancient and wen
settled principles as enunciated by Thomas
Jefferson, the moral apostle of American do
mocrncy, and as acknowledged and accepted
| by the party from the foundation of the govern
ment.n The beginning Of this resolution is
substantially the beginning Of tho Chicago
| platform; and no wonder, for Mr.. Vallandig-
ham, who was the Trainer of the Chicago reso-
! lutions, was the head of the committee from
which emanated these Ohio resolutions. 1t.
seems TO us very strange, and it is certainly
very unfortunate, that the Ohio democracy can
do nothing without yallandigham and his ex-
ploded distractions. yaH
| Now what are those democratic principles of
Jefferson to which the Ohio democracy intend
10 adhere with "unfaltering fidelity and firm
ness?" They are those pernicious State rights
resolutions of 1898 and '99 used 50 success
fully by Jefferson in Kentucky and Virginia,
and in the South generally, as hobby upon
which TO ride into the Presidency. Having
served their purpose in his election Jefferson
cast them aside; and from that day down to The
quarrel and rupture between Calhoun and
General Jackson--a period of thirty years
or so--httle or nothing was heard of them.
Then Calhoun revived them in his State
rights doctrine and experiment of nulliA-
cation Of the federal tariff law of 1928;
but Old Hickory put him down. Then
the great apostle of South Carolina democracy,
rs Jackson had predicted, turned his State
rights dogmas upon the slavery question, the
right Of secession and Southern confederacy.
Those ideas, indus!riously diffused over the
South and fostered and strengthened by the
subservient Northern democracy, eliminated
in the late rebellion and went down with II in
a deluge of blood.
This is history; and yet these are the princi-
Piles which Vallandgham brings from Chicago
and fosts upon the Ohio democracy as their
abiding platform. Thus bound to the dead
carcass OF the old pro-slavery, State sovereignty
democratic party, the support of President
johnson by the Ohio democracy, we appre-
bend, will be Of very little practical value. Not
until these old hide-bound copperhead leaders
are set aside and the democracy begin to COM
prehend the fact that there has been deluge
will they be able to retrieve their misfortunes
as the peace party Of the war. Under the BAN
ner Of Andrew johnson vallandigham is not
the proper apostle for the Ohio democracy.