The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-10
The Extraordinary Coun.er-Revolu,iou.

70 ten years mprlSOnment mas applied IcoaSe
on writ Of habcas corpus
The Extraordinary Counter.R volution.
We are hurrying onward to our political
Niagara copperheads, radicals and oil the ia
natical elements are sweeping down the rapids.
Up to the time that Congress passed the consti-
tutional amendment, and including that action,
the people were satisfied. But when Congress,
installing the will of the nation, loses its
balance upon its giddy summit Of power, then
it is proper that the people should again rise
and assert their will. The people, watching
with intense interest the restoration of their
social and progressive welfare, see no hope
unless they draw the curb upon the power
they have invested with authority. The situa-
ton is easy Of analysis for, with all the finely
woven radical theories of black and white
equality, we want to see those practical results
which demonstrate that our legislative action
has been productive Of good. Search where
we may, we can find no evidences of good re-
suits; the attempt to reconstruct the South
has gone on from bad to worse, until the ten
unrestored States drag like dead weight
upon the progress of the nation. Here, in the
great republic Of the nineteenth century, we
60 back for precedents in government and find
that the Roman system is the only one to
which we can adapt ourselves. Thus 1t is an
open acknowledgment that our territorial ex-
tension imposes upon US the necessity Of .
great central force, governing, through . pro-
consular organization, all the States that can
in any way make healthy opposition to its
power. This principle once well rooted, it
takes no prophetic brain to predict the sue
ceeding phases which attended the same sys-
tenn in Rome.
Our people are too sensible to let
the power slip out of their hands so
quickly. The elections in California and
Maine denoted the fact that the people
were beginning to reason over the mad acts
could not understand their desires The two
States named were only the preface to the tell
ing rebuke which we are now giving to our
unworthy rulers. Pennsylvania and Ohio, po-
tent in the lists, wheel into line and add their
voices to the general cutlery against misgov-
eminent. New York, soon to come to the
trial by vote, will doubtless follow the EXAM
pie set by the former States. The whole coun-
try, in fact, is tired of this crushing process Of
reconstruction, which weighs with equally de-
structive power upon both North and South.
The Warren Hastings rule Of India may have
suited that country the Roman provincial
system may have been adapted to the ignor-
ance Of two thousand years ago but those
were cases where force placed pressure on
ignorance. Intelligence cannot and will not
bear such rule. There have not been men
wanting in the radical party to recognize that
could throw some great ignorant element into
the existing intelligence Of the country. This
element, the negro, they have seized upon and
have, by superhuman exertions, foated him to
the surface. Less buoyant than the elements
around him, he can only be held up until his
own specific gravity overcomes our power to
sustain him. That failing, he must sink to the
level to which his talent fits him, and from
which, little by little gaining light he may
rise by his own intrinsic value. To cling to
the negro we must sink to his level by doing
which we shall not elevate him but debase
ourselves. 1t has taken some time for the peo-
pie to appreciate these facts, but that they now
are fully alive to them Is undoubted. They see
that they have been deceived by the political
demagogues who have held the negro up as
the main element in our revolution when he
was only minor ISSUE The revulsion of
feeling, we regret to say, will, for the moment,
be unfortunate for the black man but this is
the fault OF his fanatcal friends who have forced
him upward to point where he cannot bal
ance himself
The action Of the radical party has not been
the creation Of civilization Tor the negro, but
an attempt to turn the white race back to .
barbarism which we have been trying to shake
OF and from which we have been emerging
for more than twenty centuries. 1t must be
understood that our people are awakened at
last and are little inclined to march In
retreat. The elections Of Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania fully demonstrate it Let it not be sup
posed, however, tina! these elections denote .
victory for the old democratic party, whose
principles, as shown by the rebellion, were
"rule or ruin.r IL shows, on ,tbe contrary,
thai the republican element Of The country,
tired and disguised with the radical pro.
gramme, have, for the moment, stepped aside
to give rebuke to their leaders and show them
that the intelligence OF the United States Is
not willing to accept q rule that cannot stand