The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-08-21


was held hrmer Groceries were quiet, but steady.
On Change sound low grades OF -four were some.
what hrmer; but otherwise the -four market was
unchanged; demand only moderate. Wheat ruled moro
active at advance OF &c. &C. Corn was lie. a &c.
higher with active demand. Oats nrmer. Pork was
Grmer and more active. Beef steady. Lard,
though quiet was firm. Frcights very firm, bat
quiet whiskey dull and nominal
The Now Organization of Parties The Fall
Elections.
Some of the leading orators and organs of
the radicals profess to be sanguine of carrying
the elections for the next Congress, soon to
come of, by substantially the same majorities
by which they carried the existing Congress.
They expect the same causes to control the
elections Of 1866 that carried those Of 1864.
Such calculations, however, must fall very
| wide of the mark. The party organizations,
with the party issues of 1854, have ceased to
exist. The democratic party, which supported
| Mcclellan, has been cut up and killed off by
| the intolerable copperheads, and the republic
| can party, which elected Lincoln and johnson,
has been demolished by the implacable revo-
lutionary radicals. The contest has ceased to
be between the republican party and the de-
mocratic party, and is now between the con-
| servatives and the radicals.
The late democratic party was merged in
| the great Johnson-Union movement of the
| Philadelphia Convention. The delegates chosen
as democrats to that Convention appeared
| therein, and came from 1t as Union conserve
| tives on the johnson restoration platform.
In that Convention there were no republicans,
no democrats; they were oil conservatives,
all Union men on the johnson platform. Here
was the Inauguration Of great national party
from the old broken-up parties Of the country,
on the issues which have arrayed President
Johnson and Congress, the executive and legis-
lative departments, against each other. The
conflict between Andrew johnson and Thad-
deus Stevens, between a quiet and harmonious
restoration Of the Union and o radical and
revolutionary system Of reconstruction, in
short, marks the dividing line between the two
great conflicting parties of the present day
The universal and all-absorbing issue oil
ceased 10 be an issue with the termination OF
the war; and the paramount question among
the masses of the people Of all sections and
parties was changed to vigorous prosecution
Of peace and the complete restoration of the
lately rebellious States to their constitutional
relations with the general government.
In all these relations, except their restora-
ton to Congress, the lately rebellious States
have been reinstatcd through the wise and
effective reunion measures adopted and put
into practice by President johnson. But the
radicals OF the present Congress have pro-
claimed that until these lately insurgent States
shall have done this thing, that thing and the
other, to prove their repentance and their
loyalty, they shall still be excluded from Con-
gress. The radical ultimatum, In other words,
is the exclusion indefinitely Of said States from
the two houses while the Johnson conservatives
hold that those States, subdued and submissive,
are, from what they have done, entitled TO their
seats in the federal assembly, and that 1t is I'M
just and unlawful 10 impose new restrictions
and conditions as the price OF their restoration
This Is the main question upon which the
people will have TO decide in the approach
ing elections for the next Congress: Shall the
excluded States be restored, or shall they be
stu excluded for here Is the great issue be-
tween President Johnson and "Old Thad Ste
vcns." "Old Thad's" policy and purposes are
pretty well understood. He would, II he could
push his vengeance against the South 10 the OK
tremity Of the determination of the white race
or the universal connscation Of their property
for the benefit OF the blacks; and in his mildes
moods the least he has promised is, that when
any one Of the excluded States shall have rati-
fed and conformed its local legislation to the
new constitutional amendments emanating from
Congress such State may be readmitted, but not
before.
II. in the coming September, October and
November elections for Congress, therefore, the
people desire 10 secure complete restoration
Of the Union without further waste Of time, they
will support those candidates who stand by the
policy Of the administration. II, on the other
hand. the people desire the continuance of tbc
radical policy Of Southern exclusion, Southern
agitatlons, Southern conflicts OF races and fac.
tons, and Southern mobs and sangunary riots
and oil the revolutionary troubles incident 10
this unconstitutional policy Of the radicals
this desire may be gained by the election Of
another radical Congress. Another like the
last, however, will be apt 70 satisfy even The
radicals themselves with the elements OF dis
cord and instruction, and blood and revo
lutionary anarchy.
Believing, however. that the great body o.
the people wish TO bring 70 an end the radical
reign OF terror, we trust II will suffice TO tell
them that the coming elections for the mex
Congress will settle the question one way OF
parties beginning in tho city OF New York
10 every city and county In the country, should
proceed to get up their mass meetings TO ratify
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