The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-05

| Madness of tho Republican Party Leaders.
The radical journals and party leaders are
beginning new revolutionary programme
and endeavoring, by their violent appeals, to
lead the country on in a whirl of excitement
to anarchy and ruin. They are repeating the
policy pursued by the ultra pro-slavery poll
tici ms of the Southern States for year or two
before the rebellion, and are seeking to raise
storm OF passion and prejudice violent enough
to carry reason and common sense before it,
Cool judgment and firm action are more than
ever needed at the present time in the admin
istraton Of our public affairs. The South is
undergoing military process of reconstruction
which will result in giving the control of the
local governments of ten or eleven States o!
the Union into the hands Of the negroes. This
will oblige US to establish a permanent
military police In all the reconstructed ter
ritory, and to maintain standing army large
enough to hold possession Of the Southern
States and enforce the authority of their civil
governments by the power OF the bayonet.
To give up the South 10 the political rule OF
the negroes, and then to withdraw the pro-
lection of the United States army, would be
simply preparing the way for war of races
and general massacre. We are in as much
confusion and trouble financially as politically.
The Treasury Department Is assailed by the
most damaging rumors and charges, and the
general impression is that our whole financial
system is rotten to tbs core. The national
credit is suffering, and nothing will remove
the feeling OF apprehension aud insecurity
that prevails except thorough change in
the Treasury Department and exhaustive
investigations into all its transactions for the
past four or Eve years.
In such condition Of affairs, as we have
said, we require broad statesm ,nship and calm
judgment to guide us safely through our diff
culties. And yet we find the executive and
legislative branches Of the government, oil re
publicans together, striving which can increase
in the most violent degree the m dness Of the
hour. The radical faction, in their family
quarrel with their own President, appear to be
getting perfectly wild and reckless. Some of
them seem to desire the Governors of the seve-
raj loyal States to lead the Grand Army OF the
Republic down to Washington and seize pos
session Of the government. Their org MS and
party leaders brand the President Of tue Unite l
States as drunken loafer but the fact is, they
are oil drunk together. Greeley's article In
the Tribune yesterday, like Wade's speech in
Ohio few days since, must have been melted
by the fumes Of whiskey, and very bad whiskey
at that The accounts from Washington every
day show that all the affairs Of government are
in terrible state OF Generalization, and off,
Gals, high and low, civil and military, appear
to forget that we live under written cor. titu-
ton, which assigns to each department of the
government its legitimate functions and au-
thority.
Is it not time for the rank and file Of the
republican party to withdraw their counte-
nance from the violence and recklessness
which mark the conduct of their leaders! The
steadfastness of the republican masses carried
to successful issue the great objects Of the
war, but they can have neither part nor sympa-
thy with the men who are tearing at each other
like savage beasts In their struggle for the
spells of office. They should repudiate them
and their doings altogether, and take the
power they abuse out of their hands. The
country is getting heartily sick and tired of
such dsgraceful brawls, and q well timed
movement on the part of the respectable por-
ton of the republican party, will easily carry
the next election and sweep away the entire
breed Of agitators including Johnson, Greeley,
Wade, Stanton, and the whole radical Congress,
who are oil drunk, revolutionary and mad
together.