The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-20
~ prom The New York Herald.
The Late ElcctlOna--.Thelr Lesson TO
the Administration.

When Louis Napoleon, In his bril-.
liant Italian campaign Of 1883 reached
the famous Austrian QuadTilateral
and discovered there that with a fnr-
ther advance the war must assume
proportions which he was not, pre-
pared 10 meet, he wisely sounded 4
pariey. arranged an armlsll1e, ana
made treaty Of apeaoe. inns ~ lhp
lesson which the late elections convey
10 the Administration rms lesson ID
the browning result Of these elections.
They mark the line OF another quad
rilateral beyond which 10 IN dangerous
10 PASS. They call for parley, an
armistiee. and treaty OF peace with
| Congress. President johnson, In his
late campaign through Pennsylvania,
Ohio. and Indiana, en- the merits of
his controversy with Congress, left
the Constitution, from point 10 point,
In the hands Of the people aud the
people, from the SchuylkiIl TO the
Wabash, have emphatically decided
the case IN favor of the Southern
restoration plan embodied in the
Constitutional Amendment Of Con
gress. s ~ u.ff
The case, we say, il decided for all
that the elections Of November will
run in the same channel as those Of
September and October, and with
more powerful current, there il no
reason to n0nbt. What, then, ii the
course which President johnson
ought now to pursue in Difference to
this overwhelming pressure of North
ern public DpinionY lii Is fixed that
the next Congress will hold to the
Congress, so that in continuing his
fight all the odds will be against him
TO the end Of his term of office, and
his administration will hardly take
higher rank in history than those of
poor Pierce and Buchanan. But we
regard ID aa impossible, that a states
man of the strong practical common
sense and large experience of Mr.,
johnson can adhere TO line of policy
which, has manifestly failed beyond
redemption. The comp Il etdt ma
lieioualy limited at in the late Phila-
delphia gold gambling eanard is an
entirely preposterous idea and yet TO
do away with such wicked inventions
and such unjust suspicious Ii becomes
the imperative duty of the President
TO the country and himself to place
himself no once On rapport with the
will of the people.
We are pleading in behalf Of the
administration. With or without its
support the amendments must prevail.
Mr.. Johnaon, however, by cordially
falling in with ID, may still secure the
lions share of the glory of complete
restoration of the Union. In this
view surely the appropriate hour has
at last come for reconstruction of
the Cabinet, and new departure and a
bold and vigorous domestic and for
eign policy, including the Constitu-
ti0nal Amendment, the reformation
of our financial system and decisive
settlement OF our outstanding bal
ances against England and France.
La this inviting field there ia ample
scope and verge enough" for the high
est ambitien of an active statesman
desiring to leave an enduring mark OF
honor and glory in connection with his
name, But the frat essential step
towards the broad and comprehensive
domestic and foreign policy thus sug-
geated ID reorganization of the Cabl-
net
The decline and fall of Cardinal
Wolsey from the gracea Of " bluff
King Hal was not more painful
than has been the fall of Mr.. Seward
IN the public estimation. From that
ill-starred Chicago pilgrimage he has
returned an old mar. worn ont BY
the storms Of State, reduced to the
dwellings of mountebank. HUI
mainly in his case requires his re-
lease, while sound statesmanship de-
mands Bismark in his place in the
nAintehanco and expansion Of the
Monroe doctrine, Nor in Mr.. Me
Culloch, with his limited and technio-
al notions of banking and brokerage,
the man competent TO grasp the man
agement of our financial syatem m
Secretary Of the Treasury. In word,
a new Cabinet, from stem 10 stern, ju-
dioiously selected, would be n master
ly stroke of policy for Mr.. johnson at
this crisis. Starting from the initial
point of the late elections aud from
the apparent public sentiment or the
country, in reference TO England and
France, tho Cabinet adapted TO the
ends in view may readily be found.
Nor are there any other landmarks
by which the shoals and breakers of
perilous coast may be avoided than
the lighthouses set up in the late
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The constitutional Amendment In
the South.