The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-07

benefit of having one good sober Sunday. 1t
will be good thing for Jersey.
Saturdays Debate In COngress-The
Wrath OF tho Radicals Against Andrew
johnson.
Saturday has become q day in which the
House of Representatives, like steamboat
tied up at the dock, has its valves opened to
let of from its boilers their useless but still
accommodating volume Of steam. Thus the gen.
eral debate in the House on Saturday Lost was
chiefly devoted to the discharge of the accu-
mulated wrath Of the radicals against Presi-
dent johnson. In this salutary and refreshing
pastime Mr. Ingersoll, of Illinois, led off in the
peculiar style of prairie radical. According
to Ingersoll the patriotic people Of the North
had now not only the defeated rebels and their
Northern allies to fight, but the Executive, with
all his power and patronage; but the Southern
aristocracy and the President to boot would
have to succumb to Northern patriotism. can
drew johnson never had been with the Union
republican people at heart" "Andrew John
son was essentially Southern man, with the
prejudlces, the animosities, the hatreds and the
superstihons of the Southern people," ale
was to-day filed with the poison Of the ma
laria of slavery, which he inherited in his
infancy and in the ripening years of his life."
He chad talked loud about the blackness of
treason;" but now that he "looked to be re-
elected in 1868, he whispered in the ears Of
was mere CANNON, intended for New England
and Illinois" "The President had pardoned
his old friends and betrayed the party which
gave him name. He had given the lie by his
own actions to the sentiments which he had
expressed"
Such disgracetul language as this from a
member of Congress on the floor Of the House,
in deliberative debate, against the head of the
Executive department of the government is, if
we are not mistaken, without precedent in
the history of this country. But, having dashed
himself into fury, this excited Illinois radical
did not stop here. He went on to say that che
would wager all he owned that Andrew John
son would never have JEFF Davis tried, or that
ii Davis were tried and convicted Andrew
johnson would pardon him. All that traitors
had now to do was to scrape mp money enough
to come to Washington and apply for pardon,
and they got it; or if they did not present their
applications personally they could do it
through the mail just as, we'll" Here a MEM
Der of the House interposed, cor the females"-
a remark which excited an outburst of laugh
ter. Adopting the hint the gentleman from
Illinois repeated, "or through the females"
which was regarded as SO exquisitely spicy that
the House again broke out into laughter.
Now this scandalous inuendo may have been
very amusing and grateful to the radical fa-
natics of the House sharing in the sentiments
of this insane man Of Illinois, but we can only
regard such assaults at this crisis upon the
President in Congress as significant of danger
to and revolutionary troubles in the govern
ment. It appears, too, that with this Illinois
radical fre-eater the question seemed to be
son was to get the thanks of the Southern
rebels for the crumbs and loaves they were
throwing to them on every side. He ginger
solD had not the least particle of faith in either
Of them-not a particle. He believed that w.
II. Seward was running o race with Andrew
Johnson TO see which would have the support
of the Southern people in 1868, and that they
were crawfshing also in the Northern States to
see il they could not get votes enough to be
elected" and 50 on for two mortal hours,
when, relieved Of his explosive steam and gas
and exhausted in his efforts, this model Illinois
radical took his seat.
This two hours TRADE Of Ingersoll "was
glory enough for one day." but an extra allow
ance was given in q somewhat similar speech
from Mr. Lawrence (republican), Of Pennsyl-
vania. His variations were, first, a showing up
Of Hester Clymer democratic candidate now
in the field for Governor Of Pennsylvania, as a
man who had denounced Andrew johnson two
years ago cas- rufian, an incendiary, hire
ling and an sbolitionist and utterly unworthy
the confidence of the democratic party y and
secondly, a showing up Of the Blair family,
sometimes on one side and sometimes on
another" Thus, through the democratic and
Blair influence q man had been appointed
United States Marshal for the Western district
Of Pennsylvania who had been tried by court
martial and dismissed the service for frauds
committed on the government" And so,
between Ingersoll and Lawrence, Andrew
Johnson would, perhaps have been utterly
snnihilsted, had not one or two democrats,
including the indomitable and always ready
Mr.. Rogers Qamilisrly known as Jack Rogers,
OF New Jersey, come 10 the rescue. Otherwise,
from the dead silence Of Mr.. Raymond and all
the other republican conservatives Of the
House, such as they are, the President would
have been condemned without . word in his
defence.
Now, we must repeat our apprehension that
these violent outbreaks in Congress signify
that serious and revolutionary troubles are
ahead. II In evident that the radicals are