The New York herald., 1867-02-11

DOaIo average Ir0eumens iaDOf In tue
South also with board for the same tme nine dollars
and hfty cents.
The Halt on the Impeachment encral
Banks and His Flag OF Truce.
Five hundred thousand Union soldiers Of the
war, we are informed by the "Peeping Tom"
of copperhead journal, have been organized
as q benevolent society to back up Congress,
If necessary, in the impeachment and removal
of President johnson. This half million Of
"boys in blue" is doubtless designed as an
Offset to the round million in gray promised
by Captain General James Brooks in support
Of the Executive. From present appearances
however, there will be no occasion for the
services of these warlke legions on either
side. While the House chairman on the Judi
ciary is at work upon his impeachment inves-
tigation the chairman on Foreign Affairs. Gen.
eral Banks-wh0 ought to knows satisfied
that Mr.. johnson begins to see the error of
his ways; that his backbone, like that of the
that he is ready to meet Congress more than
halfway; that satisfactory capitulation can
be secured before the 4th Of March, and that,
accordingly, that last cruel resort of impeach-
ment may be indefinitely postponed. Allah
mashallahl God be praised!
In this view the compromise proposed by
General Banks is offered and it really involves
the conditions of a complete surrender. His
bill, avoiding the technical difficulty that the
rebel States, beaten in the battle field, are in
the condition of Territories wrested from a
foreign Power, and starting with the State of
Louisiana, simply assumes that its present local
government, not having been recognized by
Congress, Is illegal and calls for reconstruc-
ton. He next proposes special
commission Of three members. one to
be appointed by the Senate, ono by the
House and one by the.Secretary of War; that
this commission shall proceed to Louisiana and
get up registry Of voters, including whites
and blacks heretofore admitted as voters, or
who have served in the Union army or navy,
and all other loyal men, Of all colors, who can
read and write, or who own property to the
amount Of one hundred dollars but excluding
from the suffrage all those classes of rebels
excluded by the pending constitutional amend
ment Next upon this registry Of voters and
the iron-clad oath Of loyalty convention is
to be elected, which is to reorganize the State
and then, with the election of Legislature
and with the ratification by it of the great
amendment, the State, with the approval Of
Congress, shall be fully restored to her. consti-
tutional relations and rights in the general
government
Such is the plan Of General Banks, and, If
proposed by authority from the White House,
it does involve the surrender at last of the
President to Congress. The plan which he
lately submitted, with the advice and consent
of his Southern Governors, proposed that sort
of impartial suffrage, on reading and writing
and property qualification. which would ex-
clude nearly all the blacks and most of the
"poor whites" and further proposed to re-
move all restrictions against rebels, great and
small, SO that they would reign again more
powerful than ever from Virginia to Texas,
yea, from Bull Run to. Brownsville. Now, it
would appear that Mr.. johnson falls in with
the restrictions of the amendment against lead
ing rebels that he gives up his Southern Gov
ernors and sends them adrift, hangs out the
white flag of submission, and is ready to turn
over this whole business into the hands of
Congress. We read all this in free transla-
tion Of the speech and plan Of General Banks
in behalf Of q treaty of peace. Rarey, the
tanner of fractions horses and mules, has evil
IDENTIFY revived, and disguised as General
Banks has been with "the man at the other
end Of the avenue" Ashley meantime holding
the sword of impeachment over his head as by
a single hair.
"Wcll WE'LL, as the old farmer said to the
boy In the apple tree, If Andy Johnson "
has at last agreed to come down we can cheer
fully forgive him. He might have done better
by coming down earlier, but the good book
tells us that even the eleventh hour man got
his penny. Moreover, after playing the role of
an Emperor in pulling down and setting up
States and Governors, and in furnishing his
enemies and in receiving and rewarding his
worshippers, Mr.. Johnson shrinks from the
idea Of exchanging the White House and its
glorious excitements for the solitary confine-
ment Of his cottage among the mountains of
East Tennessee. "Old Dick Johnson who
had seen the troubles Of jackson, said that the
Presidency was not thing to be sought, but 1t
was not to be declined John Tyler in the
White House was "the happy man." and he
had reason to be; poor Pierce in "the old
barn was troubled with the summer draw
back Of fever and ague; but still he wanted
another term. "Old Buck +" set down the estab-
lishment as an almshouse where broken down
politicians swarmed for the spoils, and ss
public hotel where the traveller had nothing to
pay; but still "old Buck " left 1t with many
sighs, groans and lamentations. Even Honest
Old Abe," who cared nothing for Its silks and
satins, bellies and butterflies, fuss and
feathers" fnery and hummery, chcerfully
accepted his election for another term. And
now. since "A has hoon fnrniahcd and frescOed