The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-08

Usee. &M# 1910
~ nssiessl cspifni. wisA The rsassmbline
~ csnvr-~>. ~ sscoms IL csstrzl point 70
shiek ne eyes 81 tA< whole country arc now
iirecsnA TIE people u the NORTH. aflcr their
smrbauc juaxn~nf on Sesthsrn reconxsrcsiou
- pFvncune~a IN The sAe elections, are look
nag 70 he two houses ii Congress with hope
and eemhdewee. not unminxied with doubts
aaa sAri~tsc-, vhl's he saresiored people Of
sAs SosAA regard ths preliminary movements
~ me exsrsme radicals with fear aud trem-
bling. Th< sepasilcaa party. 'like . gian,
refreshed win nov vine" r~isices 10 In new
lesss II power and sr~ms DISPOSED 70 exercise
n n ~ fullest extsnI This would b. wcll
ssosrh u ~ guidiag principles of she party
we're In AZ shlaxs ths interest of the country
and the good a The people. Bot unfortunately
The spirit u vengeance against President John
son. ~ ue have already seen In various pitlfal
and ridicslors exhsbisioas, appears 70 enter
too largely Into The programme Of both houses.
The republicans seem 10 he acting under the
deIusive IDEA thai their nrss duty h the punish
meal Of Andrew Johasos, chapter and verse,
for Me alleged manifold sins and trsssgrss-
sionA Such violent ulirAs AZ Stevens, Inger-
soil. Kelly. Williams and others ol Ne House,
and sumner and Chandler. Of NE Senate,
would In order - be revcngcd upon Andrew
johnson, reduce The Presidential once 10 .
cypber and the President 10 mere sutoma:oa;
and in pursuing their chosen victim they seem
70 be controlled by something Of thai blind
rage and fanaticisia with which the isrocions
Jscobins pursued poor Louis XVI 10 the
guilloiine.
II Is against any such Wild excuses ihal W.
would warn the controlling spirits OF Con-
gress. Here. however, lies the great dagger
to new parties rising into power from the
masses Of the people over the ruins Of hostile
AMI oppressive aristocracies In this view
the blunders OF the Jscosins were a. bad Is
their crimes. and the follies Of England
fansti Puritsns In their day OF power
became as obnoxious to the p.ople "a the
usurpaions and double-deaiing trcacherSes
Of Charles l. With the overthrow IL our
late Southern institution Of slavery and the
slave power as the Gro xning result o. our late
civil war, powerful and dom'necriag aris-
tocracy in our political Affairs has ben cast
down.and broken up with its idols but still
neither the vengeance OF the Jasohins nor the
holy wrath Of the snivelling Paritans j. The
policy for Congress.
We have passed through the Asst stage OF 4
mighty revolution in the consummatioa OF the
work Of tearing down the political fabric
reared upon the institution OF African slavery.
building our political system ON the broad
foundation stones of universal liberty, Is nov
upon US. Here we begin q new epoch, which
will no more resemble tho epoch down 10 1860
than the English Commonwealth rcscmbled
the monarchy which II displaced. In fact, the
change from ths United Colonies TO the United
States Dr. America was hardly greater than
that which must inevitably follow the over
throw of Southern slavery, considering the
causes and the collision by which It was
destroyed. What, then, is the paramount duty
devolying upon Congress! II is no longer The
duty of tearing down, but the duty Of building
up again, and on the new foundations Of the
pending constitutional amendment.
To this end, therefore, II the unrccognixed
States remain intractable, as now organized, let
them be reconstructed by Congress n Terri
tories on the basis of the amendment after IL
shall have become part and parcel OF the
supreme law Of the land in being ratified by
three-fourths of the States recognized and
represented in the government. This ratinca-
ton may be reached before the 4th Of March,
aud with this term Of grace accorded them the
excluded States may sin be brought TO that
sensible frame Of mind disclosed within the
last day or two by Governor Patton, Of Ala
bama, in favor Of the amendment
Next in order will properly come the recon-
struclion OF our financial system and the settle
mant Of our unsettled foreign accounts on q
basis of treaty stipulations adapted TO the rank
and dignity Of the United States among The
great nations Of tho earth. Here is line OF
policy upon which the republican party may
reconstruct itself so as to withstand successfully
all hostile political combinations for twenty
years to CONE. No better evidence could be
given the South OF the utter helplcssncss OF the
disjointed Northern democracy than Is afforded
in the fact that with all the assistance vouch-
safed by the administration II was more dsas-
even in the second election Of Abraham Lin.
coin as peace party in the midst Of the war.
Conviction, therefore, must speedily come upon
the South with the Northern ratification
Of the amendment; and the other ways aud
means TO successful exercise Of its power by
Congress will not be found in the persecution
or prosecution Of President johnson, but In the
reconstruction Of our financial and foreign
affairs
JuDaE BARNARD ON OFFICIAL CoRRuPrIos.--
In his charge to the Grand Jury, on Thursday
last, Judge Barnard stated that he had been