Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-09-27
RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1866.
President Johnson---Isis Trip and
His Policy.

The President has completed his tour
TO Chicago and returned to the national
capital, and for 1t, If for no other of his
acts the Union loving men of the coun-
try owe him debt of gratitude. The
trip has revealed, in advance OF the fall
elections, the sentiments of the people
OF the States through which he has
passed, and by so doing, has had the eff
feet to place on the side OF freedom and
Justice that class of politicians and
Journals who, like Micawber, are con-
tlnually waiting Cor something to turn
up. that they may take the side likely TO
be the most popular, and whose twinges
of conscience are most severely felt
when they find they have mistaken the
current of public sentiment, OF this
class We may mention that within few
days, the New York Herald, Henry Ward
Beecher the New York Evening Post
Gen. John c. Fremont, and even the
New York Times, though still pretend
ing to keep up respectable appearance
for my policy have virtually aband-
oued the sinking ship, and espoused the
Congressional plans of restoration and
reconstruction. Gen. Grant and Ad-
miral Farragut, too, who have been
claimed by copperheads as friendly to
the Presidential course are known to
have no sympathy or respect for that
official or his policy other than as their
commander-in-chief.
During his trip to Chicago, the news
of the Vermont and Maine elections, cast
q gloom over the prospects Of the new
tangled party started at Philadelphia,
of which the President is the head
along the route he was greeted with
sentiments Of displeasure and dissatis-
ton with his course towards Congress,
and to cap the climax Of Presidential de-
feats, just as he reaches Washington, the
news CRATES harshly upon his ears, that
New Jersey,-a State hitherto almost as
rebellious as South Carolina,-has rati-
fed the Constitutional amendment pre-
sented by Congress, and elected Radi-
cal Republican to seat in the United
States Senate rom that State.
The Presidents policy was right for
time. In setting aside the seeded State
governments and organizing new ones,
in promising that they should be gov
erned by loyal men, in requiring the alb
clifton of slavery by them, in declaring
that treason should be made odious and
traitors punished, he did well, and met
with the hearty approval Of the party
which elevated him to the second Office in
the gift of the people. But when he said to
Congress that he had done enough, that
neither that body or the people should
30 further, and by his mulish adhesion
TO this decision, he committed the error
for which he is to-day as thoroughly
despised by the masses OF loyal hearts
in the country, as is the arch traitor in
confinement at Fortress Monroe, and an
insulted people will place in power for
the next Congress a body Of men which
will be even more radical than the pres
emit, ana in sufficient numbers, too, to
pass over the veto of Andy Johnson all
measures which may be deemed eXpedi-
ent for the nations welfare. The only
remedy left Tor him, in order to main
tain a show Of public favor, appears to
be to cast aside his present policy and
favor the admission of the late rebellious
States upon the plan adopted by Con-
gress, and that plan only. If he does
this, he may still have party among
loyal men, he may even be powerful in
that party. But we have no idea that
he will attempt to do this until it is too
late. Indeed it is for the interest Of
Radical Republicans that he should not,
for if he succeeds in prolonging the re-
lection by the seeded States of the Con-
gressional policy of readmission beyond
the middle Of the next session, the radi-
cal plans OF reconstruction will be en-
sured, and the accidental President will
be allowed to take the position in ma
tional affairs assigned to dead ducks. "