The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-27

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the centre around which the other Churches and
sects of Christendom would gather, and out OF
which would grow the universal and undivided
Church Of the future.
Now ideas Of the Age-Speechcs Of Wado and
Train and a Letter from Wikon.
We publish to-day the speeches and opin-
ions Of three Of the greatest statesmen of the
age-Munchausen, Miss Nancy and Machiar
velli Which is Munchausen, which is Miss
Nancy, and which is Machiavelli we leave the
public to judge for themselves.
Two members Of the Congressional Western
excursion party have lately exhibited feats of
ground and lofty tumbling, strange antics and
fantastic tricks, which put to the blush both
the Japanese and the Arab acrobats, with all
their marvellous vitality and suppleness. Ac-
cording to the prediction Of the Merry Andrew
of the party the newspapers have enabled five
million readers to assist at the curious spec
tacle.
At Lawrence, in Kansas, Senator Wade, Vice
President Of the United States, after saying that
he had kept in advance Of the people in the
great strife between free om and slavery, de-
clared that he meant to do the same thing in
the contest which had just commenced for
extending the right Of suffrage to women. He
repeated that he intended to keep in advance
of the people on this subject, and that che was
now ready to take another jump forward, If
necessary" Whereupon he jumped. He
thought that radicalism upon this and all
other questions was righteousness, while con-
servatism was hypocrisy and cowardice. He
unfolded his views upon the new order of the
day. The question of slavery has been dis
posed Of, and now that Of labor and capital
must pass the ordeal" "Property was not
equally divided, and more equal distribution
of capital must be wrought out In short,
without citing the text which Proudhon bor-
rowed and made famous-la propri6H c. est le vol,
property is theft-he yet boldly proclaimed
himself an ultra radical and preached as
righteousness the widest and most agrarian
doctrines Of French socialism. In the great
radical game of leapfrog he cleared the heads
of Thad Stevens and Wendell Phillips at
single jump. He now wants the American
people to play follow your leader !" but If
everybody werc to follow the possible Presi-
dent of the United States we should all fall
plump into social and political chaos. Why
need these radicals and ultra radicals clamor
for confscation and even for an equal division
of property The war has anticipated their
wishes, as far and as fast as It is possible to
realize them. It has already distributed and
scattered wealth with vengeance. We are
now paying the piper " in the distribution Of
the national capital at the alarming rate Of
five hundred million dollars year, and but
very few years will be required TO consummate
its Wholesale confiscaHon. Why cannot Mr..
Wade and his friends rest satisfied with this
cheerful prospect? The extravagant ideas
which Senator Wade has expressed can have
been generated only by the pure and rareded
air on the Western prairies or on the Western
mountains, by mountain dew"
When the excursion party visited Pine Knob
Chevalier Train stood and spoke aloud on the
summit Of the mountain, "seven hundred feet
above the plain below" As Bowery b'hoy
would ask, "Isn't that hight" But this con-
tractor for railroads and ramrods, organizer Of
| political parties, fifth wheel Of the Fenian
| coach, puffer of water-cure establishments, and
ubiquitous traveller, was on tiptoe for yet
higher flights. Excelsior" is the text which
he took for farrago Of nonsense and self-lau-
dation. He whirls his kaleidoscope around 50
rapidly that bewildering confusion makes it
difficult at first to see what he is driving at
But with little patience we discover that he
deems it necessary TO deny that he Is "a id
fool or . lunatic." In his own opinion, ut
least, he is afflicted, not with softening Of the
brain, but only with hardening Of the heart.
His cry is, "Down with England, and up with
America" He advocates high tariff saying,
he "could forgive the bounty bill, the confs-
cation threat, the military reconstruction,
and the impeachment fzzle; but there is
no excuse for Congress playing into the
hands Of England on the question Of
life or death to America" He asserts, cor
rectly enough, I" that Columbus was right about
the short road to Indis, and that America could
build, while battle fields we're red with blood,
great railway across the empire" He recog-
MICS woman rs man and brother. To sum
it all up, he concludes by exclaiming, "If |
were a demagosue my platform would be,
woman suffrage, Reputation and hell nrew
We know nothing which resembles in alb
surdity what Chevalier Train calls these Iron
Mountain ideas, and what Senator Wade jumps
at as the new ideas Of the age,r unless il be
the folly Of Gerrit Smith and Horace Greeley
| in going bail for JEFF Davis at Richmond. The
former are absurd in theory, the latter absurd
in action.
The letter Of Chevalier wikof requires no
comment We mus. say, however, that it is
refreshing to turn from such ridiculous de-
monstrations as those Of Senator Wade and
Chevalier Train to this lucid and forcible ex.
position Of the actual political situation, Of the