The New York herald., 1866-09-18

Our country has the misfortune at this time
of being obliged 10 bear the iniiction Of two
extreme parties inimical to lis interests and
aiming to attain the same object, namely, to
distract IL not TO discover the Union. These
parties are the radicals Of the North and the
radicals Of tho South. The radicals Of the
North comprise such violent mon as Sumner,
Wade, Thad Stevens, Schenck, and others in
Congress, with Wendell Phillips Horace Gree
ley, Rev. Drs. Bellows and Chesver, Theodore
Tilton, Fred Douglass and others Of thcir COM
plexion. a. the outside shows to the regular
menagerie. These Northern radicals com.
menced their crusade against the South during
tho sittings Of the Reconstruction or Destruc-
ton Committee last winter in Washington.
The only olive branch they had 10 offer the
South was . frebrsnd In other words, the
''torch sndAurpentine." They declared for con-
fscation and destruction. To burn and de-
stroy and to obliterate the Southern white race
was the plan OF these extreme and vindiclive
men. By their efforts the issues became 80
mixed up that 1t was difficult TO dlsentangle
them-to draw out rom the knotted mass the
thread Of the real issue between the North and
the South on the subject OF restoration. II
thus required no little effort 70 view In the
Congressional amendment now before the
country fitting panscea for the disorders
which oppress the nation. This measure
was not the offspring of the ultra radi-
GALS II was adopted in Congress In
despite OF them, and they are now the
bitter opponents Of . policy endorsed BY
republican Congress. While the radicals Of
the North arc thus lsboring to obstruct tho
work Of ofrestoraion the radicals of the South
are striving to reach the same end by means
equally AS violent and reprehensible. The
Southern radicals may be divided into two
classes, the copperhead fire-eaters, like those
represented by the Richmond Enquirer, the
Mobile, New Orleans and other journals, who
want no reunion whatever with the North, and
those stumping itinerants, like Brownlow,
Governor Hamilton, Judge Yarmouth, John
Minor Bolts and others, who are going
about the North kindling the worst pas
sions and melting the Northern people
to renew the war and 10 initiate the horri-
ble tragedies that crimsoned the career
Of the French Jacobins. This wing OF the
Southern radicals do not hesitate TO proclaim
their policy TO be the utter devastation Of the
South, burning and rapne, and the division
Of the lands between the negroes and the
Northern conquerors. While the rebel papers
in Richmond and other Southern cities, with
the exception Of those In tie city Of Charles
ton, are more intolerant and violent than
before the war, these stumping Southern radi-
Gals are more inHammatory in their language
than they we're At any period while the war
was being wagcd.
The difficulties surrounding the question Of
restoration can never be amicabiy settled II
such men as we have described have the
arrangement Of them. The last Congress re-
jecied their schemes and adopted the consti-
tutional amendment This Is tho real issue
before tho country. By II the question Of
negro suffrage IL lef. with the States, their
representation In Congress TO be governed
accordingly. This was President Johnson's
original policy, and 1t Ia the best policy for
the South that can be expected at this time
The radicals viii endeavor to mystify the
question; but the true method Tor the sincere
friends Of speedy aud harmonious rcstora-
ton Of the Union 10 adopt is, 10 have .ais
question put bluntly 10 every candidate for
Congress this fall ;--"Are you in favor OF The
constitutional amendment II the answer be
yea" vO,c FOR him. IL "Lsv." vote aoainst