The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-03-27

pohicai folly His course has certainly been good
ground for inducing the Southern people to hope that he
intended TO WELD the sword in their behalf And we
think yet that there has been az times such an idea
lurking in bis bosom But hesiiaed he dallied, and
proved himself bastard; he doubted and is damned.
Thank God for it The spell is broken-ths illusion 10
gone Ahars~ u lacked the nerve to 40 what anarew
ceised. Let them profit BY their dearly bought expe-
the West like OF the mad prairie bulls Of that great
section. now roars gently a. any sucking dove
,h n Thunder which ne poured agans. IRON
wckan thunder so far as Congress Is concerned but
has recoled with deadly effect upon "ths Presidents
Andrew johnson, in his veto Of the military BILL says
this measure Ii " without precedent, and without au-
Of the constitution, and utterly destructive 10 those
great principles Of irbsrty and humanity, for which
our ancestors on both sides Of the Atlantic
treasure. After painting the absolute monarchy"
and "mitary despotism" IN each Of the ave districts
full coIors mako the blood curde in the and
strike terror into the heart Of every man, and
sms After exciting the South ern people almost 70 acts
OF rebellion against the provisions Of the military
act he now turns round and tells he hopes this
SIous Reconstruction act" will have the effect Of ae
waiting much Of the bitterness caused by the and
he twill faithfully execute" what he SAYS subver-
sion Of the government and constitution which he has
taken oath to support and defend And such is Pesi-
dent the man who has ured on to our
Lot have done with all this knavery and folly We
prefer trusting our fate to open enemies to trusting II to
false friends We prefer old Ben Wade old Thad stew
ems and old Horace Greeley johnson Of Tennessee and
johnson of Maryland True, the President has talked
nney in our behalf and so has the itte villain Of the
SO johnson has at least acted for Let him his
ways The South can trust him no longer We must
ma other guarantors for safety and that safety
must ma with the republican party or not at ALL Presi
dent johnson has strength, moral political phys-
CAL He represents nothing and he represents nobody.
Let him CO. like ''the Confederate note,'
ARar,a sN.a
And naught in the waters below It,"
:. But We have to complain Of the democratic party
North as much as we complain Of President Johnson
Next 10 PRESIDENT johnson owe all our present irou
bes TO sthe unerrfed"-Ihe iron ribbed democracy. y
In the first place the Northern democrats always agreed
with us IN ideas concerning secession and often
couraged rs TO exercise right. Many Of them de-
ciared that the South could be coerced only their
dead bodies. And il was go but not in tho sense in
which they intended understand their declaration
The Sonth was coerced Of their dead bodies
but they had enough living bodies left to enforce tho
ercion.
Since the war Northern democratic journals have con.
tinuay fed US the false hope that tho democracy in
rights, If need be- with the bayonct Witness the
ultra democratic journals the Day Book, Metropolitan
mors ,ha S sna ay me ana inc
"Out on such friendsi'-friends who us to
get into trouble and then whip for doing what they
told us to do.
Senator Sherman declared that If the Southern people
complained that the military act was harsh they had
their Northern democratic friends to thank tor it, since
they had voted down an amendment, which was quite q
mitigation OF the severity OF the original bill.
This Is So and we have a good many other things TO
thank our Northern democratic friends for We have to
thank them that they encouraged secede and
whipped us for doing We have to thank them that
since the cessation of the they have again fed
upon false hopes We have to thank them for keeping
up the evaporation Of the Northern people against
Some republican remarked in Congress that the more
the democrats resisted republican policy, the more de-
cded and emphatic that policy would become. Brooks.
of New York, recent convert to democracy answered
that this might be true but the democrats would
tnue to resist Bully for Mr.. Brooks Living in q
resis;" but his lniquities be visited upon tho
Southern people He can pursue his partisan policy
with mpuny, but The South 10 20 be made the victim
Party tactcs mako II necessary for the democrats
Y Csnssew = defeat, i pcsibss, such thing
policy geueraly 10 the meantime the most vital in
terest Of the Southern people 10 tho plaything Of the
politicians, The shuterock that u tossed back ami forth
between the 6attedcses Of tho two opposng factions
football that Is kicked about BY two hostile parties
the unhappy gst that ground beneath the upper and
neither milistones.
or this tired in the superative degree Presi
dent johnson has tried to sreconsruct has most
sgnay failed acknowledged his defeat and surrendered
| at discretion The '.I,te villain" OF the New York
Times and men Of his ik cabre and kidney with theiI
milk and cider policy, have also tried and failed
The Northern democracy have lent helping hand
wherever failure has been certain 70 be the result
now the EFFICIENCY demands men, new measures
and new policy. Men who formerly led At the south
not up TO the demands of the crisis We need nfu
SION OF new and vigorous young blood into tho veins
our government p0licyblood that has been generated
under the present crcumstances-our immediate sur
roundngs The old fogy politicians and fo.s remains
OF an antquated press not capable OF apprecatna
our present position Nourished In their infancy and
fed In their primo ideas which have been forever
destroyed they are starving in their old age, by
deavorng TO live upon the shadows that yet nger be-
hind the substance which has euded their grasp.