The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-29

Tho Cssdisisn sf che Csuary-O Order Againss
IN Anarchy. N
In all great revolutions, rapidly developed,
next to tho dangers Of direct defeat are the
dangers Of success. The confusion which fol-
lows violent overthrow Of an old and long
continued political system necessarily results
in q violent clashing of parties and factions,
ideas and theories of reconstruction, against
which the only remedy lies in fixed purpose
with the party in power and in steadily work
ing for its accomplishment The opposite
course, Of too much haste and too much of
bloody repression, diverted the first French
Revolution from republic Of "liberty, equali-
y and fraternity" to the stringent military
despotiam Of Napoleon. Our danger, however,
in pursuing the same methods Of reconstruction
is not 80 much the despotisn Of France a. the
anarchy Of Mexico; but still, ~ with France,
our peril is in the Jacobins.
The advanced pioneer Of our Jaoobin 70
formers Is Wendell Phillips. He belongs to
the progressive school OF Danton, Marat and
Robespierre. He believes in the short cut Of
the guillotiDe. He can see no way TO tho
success Of the republic but that which
leads over the politically dead body Of Presi-
dent johnson. He must be brought to the
guillotine Of impeachment, or the liberties of
the country are gone. Here we have some
thing Of the rabid fanaticism and savage per-
sonal animosities which marked the recon
struction policy Of the French Jacobins. Nor
is Phillips without considerable body of sup
porters at his back. His programme is echoed
by an extensive faction and has Its advocates
among the leaders Of our national assembly.
Such, too, is the conflict between Northern
fanatics and Southern fire and birthstone agi-
tatOrs Of the old secession tribe that 1t is diff
of all this clamor and confusion.
The late Southern rebellion was the result Of
a thirty years. agitation Of the slavery question
between Southern propagandists and Northern
abolitionists- between the State rights South
ern confederacy leaders Of s9pth Carolina and
Virginia on the one side, and Of the Northern
emancipation and disunion agitators of Mas
sachusetts and New England on the other. If
Barnwell Rhett and Henry A. Wise preached
disunion to maintain slavery, Lloyd Garrison
and Phillips denounced the constitution as "a
league with death and covenant with hell"
in their crusade against slavery. IT. UNDER the
laws Of South Carolina, free colored citizens
of Massachusetts,, in violation of the constitu-
ton, were clappea in Jail on touching at
Charleston to keep them from contact with the
slaves Of the city, Southern masters in pursuit
OF their fugitive slaves were, in violation of the
arrested in the North by personal
liberty bills; If suspected Yankee commercial
travellers were tarred and feathered in vicks.
burg, Southern slave hunters were booted
through the streets of Boston. All this cul-
minated in the late rebellion. The aggressive
blow came from slavery, and slavery has been
as the armed enemy of the Union.
A third party-the great Union party OF the
war, the party of Lincoln. Grant and Farragut,
mas stepped in and settled this disunion agits-
ion on the slavery question. We have had
enough from the Puritan fanatics of Massa-
,husetts and enough from the State rights and
secession anarchists OF South Carolina Tho
ideas of the great Northern Cen
rial States, from the Hudson to The Mississippi
md the great dominant party wirich they com
nand. must now shape our national policy and
he dcstinies OF the country. Sosrth Carolina
md Virginia have had their day
II power, Massachusetts, aud New Eng
and have had their day, and New York,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois must
low speak the voice Of the government Tie
var has given new Interpretation TO the
ii is embodied in the pending
and 1t will surely be carried
through. II the republican party follow the
cad OF Phillips and Butler ia the impeachment
# the President the party will be broken up;
T the Northern democracy continue TO follow
Inc teachings of Southern ire-eaiing revolu-
tionists they will never rise again from the
dismal swamp In which they now lie founder
ng. Order il on the aide OF the amendment
against anarchy, and the Union. law and order
will prevaa. The Presidents policy is de-
eated, his impeachment il not demanded, and,
as needless outrage, il would only result in
mischief. The policy Of the amendment must
be carried out, because II is the win Of the
loyal States and the great Union party Of The
war. II Is their decree, and il must BE- obeyed.
what Il she Union Democracy Gosns to DO.
The old political hacks Of the democratic
organization are busily engaged all over the
striving to do something to retain
their standing in the party and set IL again on
its feet Mayor Hoffman, after his failure in
the State, sets himself to work to draw back
all the eguerillas" into the Tammany camp,
and al the same time ndiscreesly exposes the
filth and mud of the broken down concern to
public view. II is time for the Miles O'Reilly
democracy only live organization in the
city-to be up and doing, Everywhere the
old democracy is utterly routed and democrat
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