New-York tribune., 1867-08-30
4 NEV REVOLUTYON.

A NEV REV0LUTION
A Western paper assures MS that down Ill
Maryland-in the neighbOrhOOd of SurrattsyiHe,
we supposc-thcre are sundry Rebels who are
waiting for Johnson to proclaim revolution
and dispcrse Congress. The Ncir- J Ork Herad
insists that if the President would be success
full he should issue a proclamation declaring the
Southern States in the Union, and directing
them to hold elections. Mr. Black OF Pennsyl-
yania, confidential adviser of eX-l'iesident Bu-
chanan, a lawyer who did not see enough
law in the Constitution to put down
rebellion, is said to urge his EXcellency
to take this step The FreeD0H's journal of tins
city passionatcy demands that hc shall take the
rcins ia his own hands, and appeal to the coun-
try. The men who surround President johnson
are adycntTcrs-in many cases needy, unsclu-
pulous and pcmiless. They belong to the class
that assisted the third Napoleon IN his comp q
ffof. 1t would not be hard 10 find another
Flcury and Magnan, another Maupa5 and II.
Anaud. in the daily visitors to the Presidential
mansion. In two essentials the comparison
fails. johnson is not Bonapartc and this
country is not France.
Therefore, we dcridc this proposed revolution.
1t would bc a pity to dsappoint the citizens OF
Surrattsyile, The NeW- York Herdid, and Mr.
Black, but we shall have no revolution. The
attempt would form an amusing page of his
tory. Andy as Andy is incompatible, his own
parallel original, unrvalcd, inimltable. lie IS
as distinctive among Presidents rs SOulOuque
among Empcrors. But Andy in the part of
Cesar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon, would be n
mere imitation As student of history, we
NAV dwell upon the tableauX that would thus be
presented. In the first place, we can fancy him
ntoga and ALL the civic crown upon his brows, and
the baseball club badge upon his breast, thrice
refusing the crown from the hand, of Randall,
and Wcllcs, and COylc. Or better still, rs CrOm-
well. prancing through the ROtunda, and enter
ing the House, stornly frownng upon the placid
Coliax, or trying to look the benignant Stevens
or the sunny Ben. Butler ont of countenance
We hear him summOning his guards--COl.
O'Bcirne, and the regiment of Colonels who act
rs Secretaries, under the lead of the gallant
Rou,scau-to arrest the members, and put them
in iail. Or, if he preferred the Bonaparte plan,
we should have dOmicliary visits, Broadway
massacre, and the suppression OF the newSpa-
pers. SO far as this newspaper is concerned,
he has begun that job already by refusing our
correspondent any news. Who would be his
Cabinet and who his mobiles Mr. Seward we
had hoped to have Duke of Walrussla, with
Mr. Wcllcs rs n Marquis, and Mr.. Randall rs
Count. These men, however, have served their
turn. and may 90 ont to the commons and die.
The new Bonaparte reserves his cOrOnets for
other brows Mr.. Bennett, at least, will go
down to the grave with an escutcheOn, leaving
his intrepid heir Baron of Spuyten Duyyil
Mr. Brooks may crafty his arstocratic
tastes as the Lord OF anything
he pleases and the venerable editor of The Post
will have an opportunity of adding noble
author to the list of American poets. Me
Crackcn, McGinuis, and OttcrbourS the three
diplomatic mysteries of this incomprehensible
Administration, will be sent to France, En-
gland, and Russia Grant, and Sheridan, and
Sickles will give place to Rousseau, and Custer
and Granger The Empire will be peace; and
under the blessed reign of Andy l., by
the Grace of God Sovereign Lord
of the United States. WalruSsia,
and the Bay of Samana, we should have the
millennium So earnestly crayed by Mr.. Carlyle
Theodorus, King of Abyssima, and descendant
of Solomon, would be pinchbeck compared to
our sublime monarch. There would be an end
of what The Herald calls "nigger supremacy"
Their schools would be closed, and they would
be set to work Every member of the Phila-
delphia Convention would be pensioned We
should have no more mileage charges upon the
Treasury; no more Senates; no annoying cleo
tions; no pcrplexing laws. We should swing
around the circle in a condition of millenlal hap
piness.
These visions come to us as we read the de-
mands of Surrattsyillc for IA revolution. We
fear they will never be realized We are all
shooting over Niagara, as Mr.. Carlyle would
say, and we fear we have gone too far for
even the Imperial Andy to prevent it. The
country is upon the verge, and his mighty soul
will be sorely stressed to save it. His friends,
however should remember that the verge of
Niagara is ut best dangerous spot. How If,
in his mad effort to drive Congress over he
should 90 himself
Tho Atto,mov m tho Ronrl of EyciSe tells n