Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-09-28
SIGNIFICANT ARTICLE FROM THE NEW
YORK HERALD.
Congress Right-The President Wrong
The Only Hope or the South is the
Congressional Plan - The con-
stituti0nal Amendment will
at.. 20 Through. .1-

sition which the New York Herald
may assume on political questions,
(says last Tuesdays Chicago Journal, J
except what is due to its well known sa-
gacity in detecting the drift of public
sentiment. Thoroughly unscrupulous
| in politics, with no well-defined and
consistently maintained principles on
any subject, its course in any great
public emergency has precisely the
same significance that the desertion of
a sinking hulk by an army of rats has.
1t is in this view only that we attribute
| Importance to the desertion of the cop
perhead Johnsonian ship by the Herald,
as indicated by the following from that
paper of Saturday last; .."r .,sss.~t
1.-THE fogs and clouds in which the
great question of Southern restoration
has been covered up since the adjourn
ment of Congress are ct length break
ing away. We know what to do. We
have been taught by the famous mari
ner, Daniel Webster, after drifting
about ~ many days in thick weather,
and ifis.n unknown sea, to avail our
selves of the first glimpse of tho sun,
for an observation and a reckoning, i'm
order to ascertain how far the winds
and the waves have driven us from our
true course. We thus find from the
bearings of the Maine election that the
true course for the Southern States and
the Administration is laid down in the
constitutional amendment OF Congress
In other words, we are convinced from
the significant results of the Maine
election, that this amendment will car
ry all the Northern States yet to come,
aud that against the solid North any
! further resistance from the Admins
tIation or the excluded Southern States
will be waste Of time, foolish and sui
! cidal to all concerned. ..t .,t
We would therefore urge upon
President Johnson the statesmarlike
policy of truce with Congress, and an
active cooperation with the fixed and
| predominant public opinion of the
North, in behalf OF the immediate res
4 toration of the South on the basis oil
this constitutional amendment. We
have shown that there is nothing in it
which the President has not himself,
at Onetime or an other, recommended rs
essential to the security of the Union.
1t is not the radical plan; it is not SO
near, in fact, to the rebel disabling and
confiscation plan of neutrality-suspicious.
as the propositions put forth from time
! to time by Andrew Johnson.
g IT is a compromise which the Pres
ident ought to have adopted in coop
Grafton with Congress, and which he
ought TO adopt at all events, because
his conflict with Congress, if persisted
in, will be most emphatically decided
against him. 1t cannot be otherwise.
/ The inevitable result is as clear to the
1 searcher forth true situation of things
as the light of the sun through the
breaking clouds. Not one of the States
which voted for Lincoln and Johnson
will fail to adopt this constitutional
Amendment, since New Jersy, the on
ly Northern State whose vote was
against them, has led off for the North
in the ratification. -... ...
The policy, and the duty Of Presi-
dent johnson, therefore, are as clear as
a mathematical demonstration, and
equally clear is the policy of the still
excluded Southern States. We have
earnestly advocated the Presidents
policy; but after the verdict of the jury
the argument is at an end. The eX-
ample of Tennessee, in the ratification
/ of the amendment is now the only al
| tentative for the other Southern States
tennessee, IN ratlfying the amendment,
opened the door to the admission of
J. her members into both houses of Con,
gfesS.
"Thls amendment is going through.
There is no other settlement for the
South. The Governors of the Southern
States ought, therefore, to call their
Legislatures together at once and ratify
this amendment, SO that with the
meeting of Congress in December they
may be all restored to both houses. In
this way they can at once secure the
balance of power in Congress and put
an end to any further attempt of the
radicals to apply new restrictions of
State restoration. The Southern States,
too, will thus be put in a position to
take their ground and shape their
course to some purpose In view Of the
Presidential election. What has been
done in the case of Tennessee amounts
to the adoption of q rule of admission.
The way is plain, the door is open, and
in this simple act of ratification the
South will be restored to its balance OF
power. 1t is the ultimatum of the vie
torious North, and the South will lose
much and gain nothing by delay in its
adoption"