The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-14

thousand dollars. will prove total loss The crew were
saved Two schooneB were sunk by the ice in Provi-
dence bay Monday night; but no lives were fost
The Right Reverend John b. Fitzpatrick, Catholic
Bishop of Boston, died Monday night at the age Of
hftythrec years sketch OF the life of this eminent
divine given in another portion Of present issue.
The Next Presid ency-Mr. Johnson's Po-
sition-The Radical Chase Movement.
President johnson is not q candidate for the
succession. The summit of his ambition, he
has publicly declared, has been reached. His
personal aspirations are satisfied. He has now
no desire as public man beyond the consum-
nation of the work of restoring the Union, $50
that we can once more proclaim peace and
good will among all the people of the United
States" He is thus free to sink the partisan
in the patriot, and this is the line of policy
which he has adopted and is now pursuing.
He stands, in reference to the Presidential sue
cessiOn, as Abraham Lincoln stood at the end
OF the first year of his administration. Mr..
Lincoln was not q candidate for another term,
and at that time it was generally supposed
among the rank and file of the party who elected
him that there was hardly chance of his be-
charging in its proportions until it became
manifest that there could be no Union and no
peace short of the suppression of the rebellion
by force of arms and the extinction of African
slavery, the reelection of Lincoln came to be
regarded as the only course of safety to the
loyal States.
His claims were opposed by most of the re-
publican leaders and by the leading republi-
can journals East and West, and this opposi-
ton continued down to the Baltimore Conven-
ton of 1864. He was the favorite of the masses
of the party, however, and thus, without an
effort, all the well laid opposition schemes of
his Secretary Of the Treasury, Chase, and his
co-laborers, and of Fremont and his radicals,
were broken mp. The party State Conventions
held in reference to the national gathering at
Baltimore, one after another, showed that Mr..
Chase and all the other leaders DESTROYS Of
change had been counting without their
host, and that their intrigues against Lin
contemplate. His own illustration, that the
people of the loyal States did not think it safe
to swap horses while crossing flooded river,
was the ruling popular idea. In other words,
the people thought it best not to change their
experienced pilot at the helm for q new and in
experienced one while the ship was struggling
among the breakers.
Upon that one all-absorbing and all-sufi-
cient idea, the suppression of the rebellion, Mr..
Lincoln secured his denomination and re-elec-
ton. President johnson now, in regard TO the
succession, stands, we have said, as his prede-
ccssor stood at the close of his first year in the
White House. Mr.. Johnson is not candidate
for another term; but circumstances, as in the
case OF Lincoln and as in the case of Jackson,
may override him. His reconstruction policy
may make him the candidate of the admins
tration party in 1868. But, instead OF single
and all-absorbing issue in this next contest, we
shall have several important issues on the
negro question, the money question, and upon
questions affecting our foreign policy.
Chief Justice Chase may still be, considered
the Presidential champion Of the republican
radicals. Upon the negro question his
co-laborers in Congress ara carefully plant
ing their stakes to hold their ground
against the old pro-slavery elements of
the country. How far they will succeed in
this direction time and experience only can
tell. Upon the money question apowertu, sys-
TEN of political machinery has been established
which il will be difficult to shake before the
Presidential election of 1872, assuming that
neither Mr.. M'Culloch nor Congress meantime
will attempt impossibilities. Upon the shaping
nf oil in Wi tha
of Southern reconstruction and restoration, will
depend fhe candidates and the issues for the
next Presidency.
President johnson, as the champion of q new
conservative Union party, may be set up for
another term. Chief Justice Chase, as the can
didale of the republican radicals and money
changers may be set up in opposition to John
son. But what of the army? What of the mil
lion of Union soldiers returned from the war,
and the hundred thousand sailors OF the
navy? What can be done with them, should
they set up the army and navy ticket of Grant
and Farragut? This is question worthy the
attentive consideration of politicians on all
sides. In any event, President Johnson is right
as he stands, and will be supported by the
country in regard to his reconstruction policy,
and all the more cordially because of his en-
phatic disclaimer Of any design or desire for
another term OF office.
The FIGHT ABOUT THE HEALTH BnI--The
small politicians are in a terrible hubbub
about the Health bill-not because they are
very greatly concerned about the public
health, but because they are very much exer-
cised about the disposal of Offices and patron
age. 1t is little amusing, though good
deal disgusting, TO see the way Thurlow Weed
and Greeley are pitching into each other on