The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-02


important correspondence between Mr.. Bergh,
President Of the society for worshipping
animals and Professor Agassz, Of the Hub Of
the Universe Professor Agassz says that the
turtle has tender feelings and does not like to
be dragged from its home and laid upon its
back Whether or not it likes TO be eaten the
Professor does not inform us On the whole,
there Is more gas than turtle b. The cor
re spondence.
The Radicals o. Recenstructisa-A Isist Ter
the South.
The Rev. Twaddling Tilton Is young man
who lives by his notoriety and gains his noto-
riety by his extravagance. His aim in life is to
make q sensation, and he has not enough
sense to care how the sensation is made. He
began bis public career by letting his hair
grow until it was as long as the tail Of Barnums
woolly horse. As this long hair attracted con-
siderable attention, especially among the
BARRIERS, the Rev. Toddling Tilton imagined
that it exalted him above his fellow men, for
getting that any woman could excel him in his
capillary display. Then he set himself up as .
second hand Henry Ward Beecher, and tried
hard to initiate this divine in his speeches and
writings, but lacked the brains to succeed.
Through Mr.. Beecher's patronage he was in
troduced into colored society, and. soon
eclipsed his great original in the Violence Of
his views; By and by, prcsuming upon
his Popularity with the more ignorant
ciacks, he undertook to instruct Mr..
Beecher as to his duty; but he re-
ceived q public quietus in the lecture room
of Plymouth church and subsidized for CON-
siderable period. Mr.. Bcecher's withdrawal
from the Independent opened the way for the
Rev. Tatling Tilton to secure the editorshp,
and since then he has been fooling more out
rageously than ever. He was as full OF fight
during the war as an egg is full of meat until
he was drafted. and then he decided to stay at
home and wear "the white feather" Now that
the war is over he thirsts for slaughter again
and is ready to shed any amount of other
peoples blood 10 annihilate the South. He s
the person who walked arm-in-arm with Fred
Douglass at the Philadelphia black and white
convention, thus getting mis- name IN ali the
papers. Fred Douglass rewarded him by de-
clarng that he was the finest young fellow
that had lived since Jesus Christ, which is pre-
cisely the sort Of compliment that the Rev.
Twiddling Tilton is silly enough to accept.
This preliminary sketch Of the present
editor of the Independent is necessary in order
that our readers may understand the drift OF the
article which we repubish in another column.
Nv.n T. 7x.1 - -
Scripture by serving both God and mammon,
mixing piety, politics and patent pills, divinity,
dry goods reports and quack DOCTORS stuff, in
q irong dose for religious radicals. Although
it pretends to be . church paper, no one need
be at all surprised to find its leading columns
devoted to review of the recent address of
the Republican National Committee. The
article is rs long o. the Rev. Throttlns Tilton's
hair, and is spun out for the same reasou-to
attract notice. He takes two columns and q
half to tell US what everybody knew before,
viz that the ultra radical leaders are opposed
TO the constitutional amendment now
before the States. As it was upon
were beaten in Congress it does not re-
quire the Rev. Trotting Tilton to tell us that
He says thathe knows personally the leading
radicals, 10 and out Of Congress, and that they
shave no intention Of making the amendment
the nnal measure OF admission" OF course
not Neither Thad Stevens, Ben Butler, Rev.
Pitchpine Brownlow, nor any of the rest OF the
radical gang are in favor Of admitting the
South ct all but the conservatives defeated |
them in Congress with this very amendment, and |
they will defeat them In the coming elections |
on the same ground. The radicals are in q |
hopeless minority in Congress- in the republic |
can party and in the country. Their intentions |
are Of no consequence, one way or the other. |
The Rev. Thinking Tilton. and the prominent |
radicals whom he "knows personally" are |
mere niger worshippers and represent |
nobody but themselves, for even the in |
tclligent darkeys repudiate them. The
National Committee, not the Rev.
Tonsorial Tilton, speaks for the republican
party upon the subject of reconstruction, and
that committee promises that the Southern
States shall be admitted so soon as they adopt
the amendment
Here is q strong hint for the statesmen of the
South. The amendment which the radicals SO
bitterly oppose is the very thing for them to
accept. They ought to seize upon II at once,
without further quibbling. When we first res
cued 1t from the obscurity to which It had been
consigned by radicals and democrats alike, q
great many persons were inclined to think that
the HERALD, too, had become ultra in it's views
But the most conservative man in the South
must now zee that the adoption Of this amend
ment lie the simplest, the surest the safest and
the swhtest means Of reconstruction. The
terms may not be just what we could wish, but
they are the best that the South can obtain. |