The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-01-19

in the fnal success Of President johnson, bu!
that there is sort of league or understand
ing among them en- rapport With the admins
tration.
What can this understanding or this general
expectation be! We infer from the late
decisions Of the Supreme Court and from the
hints thrown out by some Of our Soa'hern ex-
changes that the ruling Southern politicians
rely upon some further decisions from this
court which win amount to the complete up
setting Of the pending amendment and the
theory that the excluded States are moi, as they
stand, restored to all their rights as members
of the Union. Under such encouragements to
adhere to the Executive it Is not surprising
that the rebel States should stand upon their
dignity and their reserved rights under the
constitution as expounded by Calhoun and put
into practice at Fort Sumter II the Supreme
Court, then, shall next decide, In deciding the
Alabama appeal case now before it, touching
the status of Alabama, that she is State OF the
Union, entitled to all the rights Of . member in
full communion, and If President johnson shall
accordingly proclaim this decision Law OF the
land, overriding the laws Of Congress, and shall
proceed to execute 1t in fulflment of his oath
of Office, what can Congress dot We cannot
answer; but as to what President johnson is
expected to do by over confident and unrecon-
structed Southern rebels we have, perhaps, an
answer from Kentucky.
We refer to the suggestive telegram pub
lished yesterday from Frankfort, stating that
in the Kentucky State Senate, on the 18th
instant, Mr.. Helm "made long speech in favor
of proposition to raise ten regiments of Ken
lucky infantry for the purpose Of resisting all
aggressions and to maintain the principles OF
State rights" State rightsl The old story of
South Carolina. And this Kentucky Senator
"desired that these troops should at any time
be subject to the call Of the President of the
United States" Now, when it is remembered
that the Governor of Kentucky threw back into
his face the frs. call of President Lincoln for a
few regiments Of troops to assist in putting
down rebellion striking for Southern con-
federacy, and looking at Kentucky neutrality
during the war and at the Kentucky Legis-
lature since the return Of peace, we can under
stand this State rights proposition. 1t is
movement to put Kentucky in the vanguard Of
another fight for Southern confederacy or for
"the Union as it was" State rights, slavery,
bred Scott decision and oil.
This skeleton outline Of the Southern situa-
ton and its Northern Affiliations we believe
is not overdrawn. 1t is apparent, then, that
Congress, charged by the loyal States with the
enforcement Of their ultimatum to the South,
must proceed to decisive measures, or that the
fruits Of the war, like the beautiful apples of
the Dead Sea, may turn to ashes upon our lips
Can any one suppose, then, that the movement
for President Johnson's impeachment will not
be carried throughi No. The republican
party, all-powerful in Congress and in the
loyal States, and with no reliable footing in
the rebel States will remove President John
SON in order to reach those States. His scheme
Of re-establishing the Northern democracy on
their old Southern balance Of power was started
too soon. With the restoration Of the South
on the ultimatum Of the North the mission Of
the republican party will be fulfilled. This
party will then be broken up, and q scrub race
in 1872, like that Of 1924, will probably mark
the first step to reorganization Of parties.
Meantime the party In power will tolerate no
stumbling blocks which it has constitutional
authority to remove.