The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-11

abolished, and every negro should be reclaimed
and set to work by his old MASTER to said
negro's infinite comfort and blessing. But the
universe still rolls onward, and we can afford
to leave Mr.. Johnson's obstinate misconcep-
tions TO be corrected by the resistless march of
events. "The stars in their courses" still
shine, and light comes to each of us, quite in
dependent of his will
President johnson la the Present Crisis,
From the ". y. Herald.
A golden opportunity is now before Presi-
dent Johnson to make himself the undisputed
master of the political situation and his admin
istration positive power in the land. If he
has any pluck, any sagaoity, any clearness of
vision in perceiving the advantages of his
present position, he will readily understand
what is required of him to reach these advan-
tages and to turn them to good account. The
great central States, through the voices Of
Pennsylvania and Ohio, have spoken on this
radical ultmatum of universal negro suffrage
and negro supremacy, and it has thus become
manifest to all eyes that we are on the verge
of one of the greatest of revolutions in the
annals of our political parties. Mr.. Johnson
may now do much to give cohesion and direc-
tion to this new uprising of public opinion
is the first essential to meet the demands of
this crisis.
In beginning a new administration with an
cid Cabinet, Mr.. Johnson undertook a very
difficult task; but in attempting, from time to
time, to adapt this old Cabinet to a new order
of things, by patching a patch here and
patch there, it was cloves labor lost"-an
experiment not only prOftless, but so fruitful
| of disasters that he may be thankful it has not
cost him his official head. But if, in an official
sense, he has escaped the last misfortune of
| Charles the First or Louis the Sixteenth, it is
because his mistakes have served the pur-
poses of his adversaries, and they have pro1ted
by them. Now, with their own heavy budget
| of blunders, condemned by the popular voice
of the Northern States as far as they have ex-
| pressed themselves, Mr.. Johnson may turn the
| tables upon the baflled and astounded radicals,
and identify his name, his policy, and his ad-
| ministratiOn with the great majority Of the
| loyal masses of the loyal North.
| To this end he needs a new Cabinet, begin
| ming with the State Department. Retirement
would not now be an act of cruelty to Mr..
| Seward, but an act of kindness. He has out
| lived his day of usefulness in public life. He
| belongs to an age and generation, to political
| system Of dOgmas and ideas, that have passed
| away. The best that his faithful, good man
| Friday can now do for him is to glorify him at
the expense of Mrs. Lincoln, and in mean and
scandalous tattle about her little bills as lady
of the White House. To get rid, therefore, of
the master, in order to be relieved of his mau
would be of itself good move on the part of
the President; but much higher and larger
considerations call imperiously for a new Sec
retary of State.
The same broad and general reasons, to a
greater or less extent, apply to all the other
members Of the existing Cabinet, including
old Mr. Welles and his ring of spoilsmen
under the care of Mr.. Fox. We understand
| that Mr.. Johnson has been medtating for
some time past upon such stroke of policy
and il has been intmated to us from Wellin-
formed sources at Washington that he WILL
in all probability, under the encouragement
of these late elections, proceed, without fur
ther delay, to active measures. Let him do
so: but let him, in the reconstruction of his
Cabinet against the implacabe radicals, be
careful to avoid the other extreme of iucurable
Copperheads. He wants no such official ad-
visers about him as either of the two Sey-
mours, or the two Woods, or Mayor Hoffman,
Voorhees, or Vallandigham. Such dead weights
would soon sink Mr.. Johnson beyond the reach
of resurrection. He wants men thoroughly
identified with the Union cause in the war
men of whom the loyal masses of the North
are justly proud, and yet men who are not
committed to the revolutionary schemes of
radical fanaticism-not visionary, but clear
headed men-such men, if you please, as
Grant, Thomas, Sheridan, Hancock, Farragut,
and Porter.
In the intermediate course thus suggested,
Mr.. Johnson may now do a great work in
fusing the conservative Union men of both
parties into the victorious party of 1868, leav
iEg Northern radicals, fanatics, and Copper
heads, and all the disturbing factions of the
day, North and South, high and dry, like the
driftwood left on both sides of a great river
from heavy flood. We may say too, that if
the revolutionary programme of the last two
sessions of Congress stands condemned by the
| people, the constitutional amendment upon
! which the elections of last year were contested
| stands emphatically endorsed. Cabinet
| therefore, and message to Congress, framed
upon this issue, and especially upon the suf-
frage settlement embraced in said amendment
would make at once diversion in both Houses
of Congress as fatal to the radicals as it would
curing the legislative balance of power. Mr..
Johnson will do well to understand that the
people have not been following him, or fighting
his battles in these late elections but that they
have been pronOuncing judgment against the
vicious negro schemes of radical fanatcism, as
they pronounced year ago in favor of the fair
and acceptable scheme of Congress which the
radical leaders in their inflated folly and self
conceit abandoned.
The Elections and the President.
from the ~ Y. Times,
The Express has the following as a special
despatch from Washington:-
WASHINGTON, Oct "a conference of lead