The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-01-20

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brother, the assassin, and we can easily 40
count for the throngs that attend this theatre.
The ovation to Edwin Booth reminds US Of
the ovation to Orsini, which took place In this
city soon after the news of his execution reached
us. Orsini attempted to assassinate Napoleon,
and was executed for his crime; and bis adj
mirers here contrived q magnificent midnight
funeral in his honor. There was dinner, and
there were speeches, and then the vast process
sion moved to solemn music and the glare Of
torches The streets were damned with peo-
pie anxious to witness the imposing display;
but how many of them had the slightest SYM
patty with Orsini and bis plots OF the same
class was the immense funeral of Bill Poole,
the pugilist, who was killed in barroom fight
with another rowdy. Thousands of persons
followed him to his grave, inspired more
by morbid curiosity than by any respect
for him or regret for his fate. The audi
ences at manager Stuart's establishment
are moved by the same impulse, and
we acquit them, as We acquit Mr.. Booth,
Of any intention to glorify assassination. Rich
ardson, the celebrated strolling manager Of
England, used to declare that no play
would draw the people unless 1t were full Of
murders and ghosts. Our Bowery managers
have always been Of this opinion. The writer's
of sensation novels trade upon this popular
craving for something sanguinary. Manager
Stuart, however, has vastly improved upon this
old idea. He does not depend for his attrac-
tons upon the mingled horrors and poetry Of
Hamlet alone, but he engages the brother Of a
criminal, and thus surpasses all rivals. We
learn that manager Barnum is doing an exces-
sively bad business, and we recommend him to
initiate manager Stuart's shrewd example.
Let him ascertain If one of the other asssssins
of President Lincoln-Surratt Atzerott, Payne,
Spsngler, Mudd, or any Of them-has not
sister who will consent to appear as the Feejee
Mermaid, or brother who Is willing to be
hired to play the Woolly Horse. The same
causes that crowd manager Stuart's establish.
ment will then crowd his, and he can got up
similar ovation. But Barnum will have to
make haste and bid high, or some Of the other
associated managers, who are equally in want
of an attraction, will succeed in obtaining The
start Of him, and he will be forever undone.
BEN WADE's OpMI0Ns.-Ben Wade admires
Mr.. Johnson's action on reconstruction so far
as 1t has gone. He thinks that Mr.. Johnson's
views on the subject are better than those Of
Mr.. Lincoln were indeed, that they are "a
klo ~xsn 20 In
dents predecessor. he d satisfied that Mr..
johnson requires that the South shall abolish
slavery, shall repudiate the rebel debt, shall
abandon iAe right Of secsssian and accept the
constitution ~ II d. All this, says Wsts, y
fsh4 sxssllsnt- jast-ss II sAouid BE-, AnAA;
great deal better thaa Mat NJ. Lincoln pro-
posed. But thers Il ono point that Wade docs
mot md in tho President's plan, and 20 he
objects to oil the rest. IL give the President"
says the Senator, "full credit for all he has
done, and honor him for the manner in which
he has insisted on tho great guarantees have
already alluded to. He has commenced 70 COM
piete this great arch Of freedom right He has
laid the foundation deep upon the road ofjpaiss
and right He has demanded that before the
law oil men shall be equal. he has demanded
that slavery shall b abolished. agree with
him 20 far, and honor him thath he stands firmly
wnsrS b does But hs has aailed 70 put tie
keystone upon the sfch be has built; and If
you leave It whore It Il II win 60 to ruin"
Men Of ordinary intelligence would suppose
this to be very good reason why the arch
should not be lefs o. II IL. and why Congress
should take hold and finish II, and put the
keystone In ih place, rather than throw
the whole fabric down to start new one.
This keystone IN negro suffrage. Wade
is satisfied with every point and part
Of the Presidents plan except that he
does not require the South, as condition Of re-
construction, TO give the suffrage to the negroes
What right has the President to require that OF
the South' He requires Of the South the things
that the constitution enables him 10 require,
and II he goes further he transcends his power.
This thing that Wade disputes over Il In the
provinces Of Congress, and Wade simply rejects
the Presidents policy because the President
has not assumed the powers that belong 10 the
National Legislature. Wade even answered his
own arguments before he sat down. Later In
his spsecb he ssyss-'H there evar was quss-
ton IN Congress HAT h peculiarly our own II
Is tAia We arc the only men who ought In
free government to declare pcQp vbst any
State outside Of the government, or that has
forfeited its position, shall be admitted 10 itr
The President made Of the South all the re-
quirements that the constitution permitted,
and Wade praises him for IL; he stopped just
where the powers Of Congress began, ss they
are defined BY Wade, and Wade finds fault with
bis stopping. The President has not the con-
stitutionaI power to put on the keystone, and