The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-20
10 put his head into any trap they could bait

There may De some little risk that the Ben
Butler Jaoobins on one side and tho Monroes
and FORESTS and Dawsons ON the other may
incite unthinking people here and there TO vio-
late the law and create riots, a. they did at
New Orleans and Memphis; but such out
breaks can only end in unnecessary bloodshed
and the slaughter Of a few infatuated victims,
and they are easily subdued. Something OF
this kind may spring from the advice of the
Northern radicals to the Baltimore Police
Commissioners to resist a plain law and
rebel against the constitutional authority
of the Governor Of the State OF Mary
land. If so, Il will be speedily checked
and the guilty parties brought to punishment.
But so far as any serious trouble to the coun-
| try may appear to be threatened by the vio-
lence of the radicals on either side, the public
mind may rest at ease and feel satisfied that it
is all balderdash and that the nation was
never more secure against any rebellion than
1t is at the present moment
A political revolution must, however, take
place shortly that will mark the lines of par
! ties for the next quarter Of a century in this
country. In the Southern States there will
spring up two distinct factions, the one oppos-
| ing the constitutional amendment, and the
other favoring that settlement of the question
| Of restoration. The former will embrace all
the old fre-eaters and WORKOUT political hacks
who are set aside by the constitutional amend
| ment and who desire still to figure on the
public stage and feed at the public crib. The
latter will comprise the new generation--the
young men Of the South who went into the war
through reckless gallantry, and the quiet,
respectable citizens who desire to see peace
and prosperity restored to their States. These
parties will contend for political mastery at
the South among themselves, and it is easy to
predict which side will win. In the Northern
States the lines will be drawn between the
radical Jacobins and the republicans The
former, probably at the next session, or GER
tainly in the next Congress, led by Butler,
Phillips and Stevens, will proclaim their pro-
gramme of abolishing the constitution. placing
the executive as well as legislative power in
the hands of Congress, and Selling upon the
governments Of all the Southern States and
holding them as subdued provinces. The
republicans will draw Off in distinct conser-
vative party against the Jacobin radi-
Gals, and the late democrats, totally demo-
lished and wiped out as an organization in
the elections of this year. will select their places
in one or other Of these new divisions. Even
tually the Southern constitutional amendment
party will combine with the republican party
and form tho great national organization that
win elect the next President and rule the ma
ton for the next quarter Of . century.
This breaking up and reformation Of politi-
cal organizations will DO more complete and
distinct than anything Of the kind that has
occurred in this country since the formation of
the old republican and federal parties II will
be greater and more sweeping than that, as
the nation Is more powerful and the issues
more vital than they were in those early days
of the republic. This is the revolution that Is
in store for N. II will he peaceful one; but
who can estimate the Importance Of its results!
A REMEDY FOR MEuco.-H is stated in a
Boston paper that the government ID ready to
adopt . plan to put an end to the Mexican
muddle, by paying the French debt, allowing
Napoleon to withdraw his troops and accept
ing from Mexico certain territorial acquisitions
in Lower California, Sonora, chihuahua and
other Mexican States ~ an equivalent for our
interposition and protection. II is said that
these terms have been agreed upon and will
soon be announced.
II is a very simple and effective method of
settling the Mexican question, and IL is the one
we have repeatedly urged. II will not be ne
cessary for US, Of course, to pay all the claims
Of France arising ont Of the war Of usurpaton.
She would not expect that; hut we might stand
a respectable sum, say from fifty to hundred
millions. We need not point out the advan-
tages which these northern Mexican Territories
would he to us, by putting us in possession Of
the Gulf Of California, with valuable seaport
and naval station on that coast, an inland COM
munication with our own mineral Territories
which can now be only reached from the Pacific
through Mexican territory, and IN opportunity
10 construct a railroad from the navigable
waters Of the Rio Grande to the head Of the
Gulf OF California. This would be the most
splendid as well az the shortest and most
economical route to the Pacific. BY the line
now in course OF construction vast expense is
involved in tunnellipg and building through
and over continuous ranges Of mountains,
while on the line which we suggest through
the newly acquired Mexican territory road
can be run ct comparatively small cost over
the plains which lie at the southern slope Of
the mountains, through a country Of almost
equal temperature in winter and summer, and
entirely free from the obstrucdons Of SHOWS and
storms. II would also shorten the travel to
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the Pacinc BY fifteen hundred miles. Then by
the accession Of these northern Mexican States
we obtain the most valuable mineral lands per-
haps on the American continent, which only the