The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-09
Let the Pre.iaen, Resign:

Inc lOliucai war ms AT ienstn reacDeu tnat
point where a strong, bold movement on the
part of President Johnson is the only thing
that viii restore the country to peace aud
prosperity The radicals have struck blow
after blow at all the intelligence of the country,
until they threaten to level it with the vilest
standard that the land can produce. To obtain
political victory il matters not how many
cherished principles they trample under foot;
how many safeguards Of our republicanism
they tear down; how thoroughly they obliterate
every element of stability in the country; how
near to the verge of military despolism they
drive the car of ale. They are bent on win
ming the race for party, and they have sunk
country far in the back ground, as considera-
ton of little importance in comparison. To
defeat them, 10 restore our republican inst-
tutons, now becomes with US the mighty
problem. To do this we must dive down
below the radical froth, and in deeper cur
rent seek safety in the almost buried common
sense Of the people. To make the people feel
the full import of that which rests so heavily
upon them, Andrew Johnson should resign and
appeal to them. Let him resign and demand
that convention of all the States be called to
take measures against this political ruin that
Congress is hurng against the republic. Let
him tell the people that he finds il impossible
to ress. entirely this attempt Of Congress to
assume die atorial poyer and inaugurate new
revolution. Let him show to them the political
picture as it exists-commerce wrecked the
Treasury Department in ruins. the revenue
administered tor the benefit Of those who hold
the offices, the wealth of the nation squandered,
an exhaustive Indian war on hand for the
benefit of agents and contractors, half the
States under military dictatorship, the other
BALI threatened with a similar government,
corruption everywhere, vice making throne
of virtue, and the country driving madly
through the same political phases that pre-
ceded the French Revolution.
Are the people prepared for all this? Are
they prepared to see the negro element set up
at auction as the instrument through which the
unprincipled politicians may ride into power?
Do they taste the bitterness in advance of what
such future has in store for them! If they
do not, then is the country already dead and
naucht but long night of anarchy and
revolution can awaken it from its letbargy.
The negro to shape our political future to
drive our great republic to its destiny Are
we so lost to all respect Of race and brain
power that we can settle down before this
radical idol and see in its biackness the glory
of the land, instead OF its ruin! Let Mr..
johnson look to this, and let him rise to the
demands of the time by throwing himself into
the arms Of the people, who, nauseated with
this radical rule, are ready for change and a
reaction which will restore health and vigor
to the land. The President, leading in the
movement, may form new party, and,
through the overwhelming votes of the intel
lgence Of the country, be restored to the
executive power. The country wants in such
a party no narrow platform OF faction, but
the great and broad elements of action that
will restore the nation to its former vigor.
Finances and progress must be the moving
forces The rebellion must be forgotten, and
universal amnesty must cut the South aloof from
the proconsulships that threaten to advance
northward. The radicals must be taught that
there is something besides party ambition for
the spoils to give motive power to political
faction. They must learn, too, that the nation
in terrible reaction will hold them TO account
for the desolation which for two years has
marked their political track. The negro, too,
filed with false ideas of the role he is to play
in the future, must be placed on the level of
his intellectual ability; and, with every
guarantee of freedom, let him work his way
upwards to the full extent Of his powers.
Now is the moment for Mr. Johnson to seize
fortune ut the food. The reaction is coming.
Let him resign and lead ii.