The New York herald., 1867-02-19

ducing large knife snobel stabbed Jacob Henry To
the heart, and then turning upon Elizabeth and her
inflicted upon them very severe wounds Jacob died
instantly his wife, 1t is feared, will not survive The
murderer taken into custody by the TWEEN
tieth Precinct police.
Southern Reconstruction and Rcstoration--A
a Decisive settiemeut.
"Land, hop waking up from an ugly dream,
'1and, ho" shouts Greeley. "a CLEAN of day
lightp' in feeble voice responds Raymond,
over the new Senate bill for the reconstruction
and restoration of the rebel States; and when
such doubling Thomases are satisfied we must
be near the Island of San Salvador. In truth,
this Senate bill gives us simple, complete,
comprehensive and decisive settlement of this
whole Southern difficulty, starting with the
collapse of JEFF Davis at Appomattox Court
House, and covering the whole ground to the
readmission Of the regenerated rebel States
into full communion In Congress.
In the first place all the Southern legislative
experiments of President Johnson, from the
beginning, are swept aside, experiments which,
as experience has proved, have been the only
obstructions in the way. In the next place
Congress, assuming its full authority. proposes
the temporary re-establshment Of martial law
over the ten outside rebel States, thus placing
them back at the point of the Presidents un-
authorized departure. Next, on a basis Of
universal male suffrage, excepting such
persons, guilty of rebellion or other
crimes, as may be disfranchised." the
bill provides for the reorganization of
said States and next, on the basis of the
great constitutional amendment, when it shall
have been proclaimed part of the supreme law
of the land, those States are to be restored to
Congress. "Death and destruction" cry the
intractable copperheads life and salvation to
the South, say we, are embodied in this
measure. "Negro domination" exclaims Sena-
tor Salisbury. But why should he be alarmed,
when, by his own testimony, "the negro never
has been the superior of the white man, and
prevent him Cthe Lord be praised) from ever
becoming his superior" "You propose to
organize hell in the State Of Louisiana" says
Mr. Doolittle but, Mr.. Doolittle, this bill really
proposes to do much the other way. 'This is
war;" be again exclaims but. Mr.. Doolittie,
you are again mistaken; for it IS peace
Remembering that Southern slavery and all
its political safeguards "a mighty mass of
broken rubbish) have been consumed in the
fires of war, the bill takes the Southern blacks
out of the field Of Northern politics and places
them under the care and control of the Southern
whites. II ends the negro agitation IN
bringing the negrO 10 tho political efatus 1
whioh he must ultimately be grnnsed
and tn harmnaizing the isscresas Of both
races Soath ks sill abrtng them into . happy
accord. Otherwise, ia Tho effort T. Fehaild
upon the laws and prejudices a. slavery. Of \
caste and color, tte two races, though relieved
OF slavery, must drift to the bloody scenes OF
St Domingo from the same indictments Of
political inequality. If the Southern dominant
white race, therefore, will only recognise their
present situation and act upon these ideas with
q will, they may, under this ultimatum of Con-
gress, still be restored in season to WELD the
Southern balance of power with the aid Of
election. The choice will rest with them to
come in or remain outside till they have
learned their lesson.
The alternative presented to Mr.. Johnson is
equally clear. He must cut loose from the
malign influences that have led him astray or
walk the plank. His Mephistopheles has been
Mr.. Seward, who, with his "good man Friday"
Weed, has been working his wires
mainly to coatroi the New York Custom House
and tho other federal spoils and plum
der here without much concern for
Mr.. johnson. When Mr.. Seward, on
that deplorable Chicago pilgrimage, pro-
claimed his adhesion to Mr.. johnson, as
President or King, sharp eye would have
seen the danger Of such blarney and turned
the INSCRIPTIONS sycophant adrift But Mr..
johnson may still repair all bis damages in
yielding gracefully to Congress- A veto Of
this bill, or anything like bad faith in execut-
ing il, when il shall have been proclaimed
law, will bring him before the Senate as high
court of impeachment, where, for certain
"high crimes and misdemeanors," he will be
tried, convicted, condemned and removed, and
Chief Justice Chase. as presiding Judge, will
pronounce his sentence. 4
The. case, with the South and with Mr.. John
son, is foreclosed and admi. of no further ap-
peal. His appeal to the people last fall,
though he would not believe their verdict, has
settled the question. He ought then to have
acted upon the tailor's sound maxim that "a
stitch in time saves nine." But still he may
save himself and his administration in doing
the work cut out by Congress. The Southern
State rights coat Of Calhoun is too high in the
waist and too short in the tail for the present
fashions, and to be ''sound on the goose" il is
no longer the style to "damn nigger, any
how" This fact is beginning to be under
stood by the Northern democracy. They are
almost ready to admit that negro suffrage will
not destroy sthe constitution of our fathers0