The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-19
THE "NEw CRISIS" AND THE NEW
YORK HERALD.

| Our conservative friends, $50 called" NIL
through the South, arc highly delighted with The
acrobatic performances of that Bkillrul vaulter
tho New York Herald Every dny, for over n
week past, this versatile journal Inns had henvy
political lender OH the situation, lauding the
President, md denouncing the Ratlicnls, and
especially Tho negroes, yet protesting all the
while, too, to fnvor reconstruction On the Con-
gressional plan. How il can do this consistent
ly with the advice il dnily urges upon the Prcsi-
dent to relieve the five military commanders
of the Southern States, we cannot see. Tho
President according TO the Herald, must ro-
place these fvo commanders by others Of n
conservative stripe, and carry out the recon-
struction measures in n liberal spirit. Unless
we are very much mistaken, it was some such
motive that elected Attorney General STAN
BEnr's opinion Two months ngo, which, SO fnr
from being regarded in accord with the will Of
tho Northern people, caused general outcry
against "stanbcrying' the Acts of Congress.
The special session in July, and its more strin-
gent legislation wns the consequence of this
action on the part Of the President.
Now, no sooner has Congress adjourned,
| than the President though unsupported by the
Northern people, and impotent in the Inst re-
| sort, rs had been proved again and ngnin in
| his conflicts with Congress- reopens tho strife
with not one whit more probability of being
nble to cnrry out his views than he WIS Inst
year. or the year before. What reason is
there to suppose that the Northern people will
bring in n different verdict this year from what
| they decided to be tho sense of tho nation last
year? We have still lively recollection of
certain Philadelphia Convention, held just
about twelve months ago, nj The suggestion, it
was understood, of the President. A great re-
action wns prelcated upon it; and along with
tho Democracy, i'll solid phalunx, in that Con-
vention, were found large number of Con-
servntive Republicans sea rcely one of whom
now sides with Mr.. JOHNSON. This Conycn-
lion, in which the lion and the limb Law down
together. "South Carolina and Massachusetts
entered arm in arm," proved full of sound and
fury, signifying nothing.
The ''rcturning sense of justice" had not
come. The elections almost every where went in
favor of tho Republicans, and by much larger
majorties than before. Now if This proved
anything, beyond the shadow OF doubt, it is
that the people of ths Norih-thcy who at
present rule the desinies Of this Continent
desired TO express, in langungc not TO he mis-
understood, TINT they disapprovcl Of the
policy inangurnted by Mr.. JomSsoS, AMI TINT
they ratified the measures of reconstruction
proposed by Congress-.
So from any signal revulsion of feeling hav-
ing since nken place oil this subject in The North,
the evidences nrc NIL of II contrary character.
Every time their representatives have spokcn
since, in questions benring upon the South,
they hnye increased the pnins and penalties
because of our recnsancy. II is not our prov
inco, and this Is not the plncc, TO discuss the
right and the wrong of the ma,ter; whether or
not these Acts arc constitutional; whether VIC
arc in the Union or out of the Union; whether
tile heel OF the negro is longer or shorter, and
his blood thicker or thinner than that of the
white man; side issues, which have much ex-
ercisel Mr.. MuNagG, Governor PEnRY, Messrs.
Hill, JOHNSON, PIKE, TooMus and others.
Nor is it pertinent 10 the question TO affirm, as
many do, that our acceptance Of the Constitu-
tionnl Amendment (Articlc XIv) would not
have ended tho pending difficulty would not
have caused our Representatives and Senators
to bo admitted into Congress. There is no au-
thority whatever for such assertion; and we
should not have alluded to il here wcro il not
that the same assertion is now again repeated.
in reference 10 the present construction
Acts.
But to return 10 the great change in North
ern sentiment. Whnt proof have VIC that such
revolution of opinion is in progress? Why,
the New York Herald, about week ago, COM
menced publishing series of sensation arti-
cles on its editorial page, veering clean round,
and saying and advocating just the very oppo
site from what had been advanced in those
same columns two weeks before. How long is
it sincc tho Herald, every day, had one or two
editorials demanding the impeachment Of tho
President? IL it not we'll known that the
Herald is consistent in nothing save in incon
sistency' Has it not again and again boxed
tho whole political compass Has il not been
on ovcry side Of every question that has agtat-
cl the public mind during tile past ten years
But il is said tho Herald is great reflex of
public opinion, and would not have taken this
position had II not been perfectly sure that
the public mind Of tho North was ready for
such change Now we should hail such
change in The Northern mind as much as any
ono. Bnt we can see no advantage TINT can
nccrue to onr people from wilfully dcceiying
themselves on q matter 30 important nnd vital
as that one that now occupies our attention.
II is no business Of ours 10 question the
motives Of tho Herald But VIC cannot holp
asking if the Herald ia such an infallible index
Of public opinion al tho North, how was IL Il
mado such an cgregious mistake in tho i'm
parchment question? Tho Herald Is nothing
if not sensational, and IL matters but little
what tho subject in hand is. Only few weeks
ago this "Napoleon of Tho Press" allowed
himsclf to he loaLed by an Associate Press
Dispatch about Russian Intervention in Ire
land. The Herald wns the only paper in the
country that gulpcd this so-called diplomatic
note In perfect good faith, and based an elabo-
rate editorial on Il. 80 much for the judgment
and political wisdom Of the New York Thun-
deror.
We must be excused, therefore, II we prefer
to wait for surer auguries and better author
ity, before We put implicit faith In the advent
Of The new, political millennium, the great re-
.vulsion Of Northern feeling.