New-York tribune., 1867-09-25
THE PRESIDENTS PARTY.

sufficiently amusing, and never more so thah
when they undertake to furnish certain lnior-
nation of Mr. JOhnsOn's most uncertain move
ments According to the latest intelligence, he
intends to give to the Republic fresh, new,
and vigorous party, which will spring, all armed
and resistless, like young goddess from the
brain of the White House Jupiter 1t is the
coolest proceeding upon record. Inc eoou
man getting up in the morning, while shaving
and washing and putting on his pantaloohs'
and criticising their fit with a professional eye
concludes to have party-a handy thing 10
haye-with an ultcriOr intention, We presume
of beinp elected to the next Presidency-a nice
thing to he elected to. He has hardly swallowed
his first bottle of soda water before his plans
are all finely cut and charmingy dried; ana
he is bursting with impatience to commuhl-
cate them to five thousand confidential friends
and all the newspapers. We can imagine MN
saving: MY dear friends and ~" -o,,,7nns
having observed the situation, which, indeed,
"it seems that the Union being in danger, ana
$50 we must fall back. my friends, upon the
"C0nstitution, and will vindicate the flag OF
"our country, which have always vindlcated
"and mean to vindicate, even after L lay
sleeping in peace in my tomb, where L shall
"not hear any more addresses, and prayers, ana
"bymns, being one OF the ilustriOus dead, but
"mean now to live in friendship and peace,
"and as it wcre,r &C., &c, &c. After this the
party will be formed, and will march to trlum-
phant victory in all those States in which 1T
does not march to dissolution pretty nearly
congenital. Then it will sleep silent in its
"a ,,,,n ell in, cila
"after the earnest conflict has ceased-yes, 1T
"will sleep silent in its tomb"
The now party, if we understand the matter,
is to be an amalgam of rehabiitated Rebels
and of Northern Democrats supposed to be
invincble by themselves upon the strength OF
a recent gain of about 1000 votes. But there
is nothing specially novel about this. Put all
the Rebels and all the Democrats together and
the "demnition total" is nothing more than
the old Democratic party which for years has
been almost a nonentity. IL you take out all
the Northern Democrats who are dead, or have
become Republicans, and all the Rebels who
are dead either physically or politically, 1T
seems to us that the prospects of the Johnsonian
party do not become any roster for the sub
traction. The old Democrats were beaten
without much difficulty in the full flush of
pretty extensive vitality. Where is the evil
dence that they cannot be beaten again,
although they take to their reviving bosoms
all the Rebel vipers, all the recreant Republi-
cans and all the Johnsonian nondescripts in
the landi Perhaps the Presidents recent ne
geological studies have given him ideas some
what over-livcly of the chances of calling the
dead to life but we can assure him that
though there may be a resurrection of men,
there can be no resurrection of parties. His
faith is charming, but he must not trust in it
too confidently. lie should not be so sure of
the dead when he cannot even be sure of the
living.
His Exccllcncy has, no doubt, heard in his
day of squeezed oranges. He has seen the dry
and discarded fruit rotting in the cutters,
dcspiscd of the hungriest boys and rejected of
the least fastidious beggars. He may not know
it, but very soon he too will be a squeezed
orange; the Democratic vampire, ere long,
will have absorbed all his juices, and he will
be tossed into Tennessee to grow old at his
leisure He does not believe it now; he would
not believe it now, though the Angel Gabriel
should come down to impart To him the dis
tasteful information; but his political demise
When he comes to make his mixture, he will
find that one of his ingredients is suddenly
missing
The Northern Democrats may be. willing
enough to unite with the Rebels, but it will
not be under the leadership of Mr. Johnson.
Would he like to know the reasons9 Well,
one of them is that he doesn't know enough;
another is that he doesn't carry guns enough
n third is that he isn't respectable enough.
Still another is that he has professed to be
Republican. Lastly nobody would vote for
him. The Democratic leaders are too shrewd to
commit themselves to the support of q rene
gade Republican; and the gentlemanly Demo
cratic magnatcs will like to have a candidate
who is also gentleman. Mr.. Johnson they
will use; we expect them to use him; but
Benz +. Buffers chance of their nomination
for the Presidency is as good rs his. Some
mournful day, in his retreat, when he has
nothing better to do he may read this predic
ton, and, with tears in his eyes confess that
for once we were right.
Meanwhile, we shall await the birth of the
new party with considerable interest, and shall
watch with anxiety for its christening, should
it live, poor thing to be christened at all We
have seen many brats of this sort in our time
various were their names, and curious their
constitutions; but they were all as short-lived as
the flea, without exhibiting the fca's energy.
Number Three always comes to grief and Num-
Der Three, Mr.. Johnson's party will certainly
be; while Number One must take such excel
lent care of Number Two that its alliance shall
hardly be worth asking for. Politics promise
to be a little confused; but we rely upon Re-
publicans to keep matters mainly right.
We observe that Gen. IIallecll's orders date
e 4. l.