The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-30


There were twenty deaths from yellow foyer in New
Orleans yesterday.
General Pope has suspended newspaper in Georgia
for disloyalty.
The brig Nellie Mitchell recently put into kcy Yves.
after drifting about fourteen days with all board
down with the foyer.
Tho summit Tunnel through the Sierra Nevada noun.
tans, in California. Is complete
81. Louis records still another suicide
Tho Revolutionary Middle at washtngtoa-
Arc We to Have Change Of Government.
The revolution presses rapidly to focus.
AT the mad pace we are now driving it is evil
dent that the people may soon be called upon
to determine whether they will support the
President and upheld the republic, or merge
the three branches of power into q military
dictatorship. The difficulties which threaten
to destroy harmony Of action in the Executive
Department are to be attributed not to Mr..
johnson nor yet to General Grant-tha y are
the fault Of neither. The form takes the
constitution of the United States, which is
placed In his hands as his political guide,
and reads -" The President shall be Com.
manderin-Chief Of the Army and Navy Of the
orders to his General-in-C Chief, who has been
taught by Congress, in the Army Appropria-
ton act, that ''all orders and instructions re-
lating to military operations issued by the
President or Secretary Of War, shall be issued
through the General Of the army, and in case
Of his inability, through the next in rank. The
General Of the army shall not be removed,
dad II
signed to duty elsewhere than at said head
quarters, except at his own request, without
the previous approval of the Senate; and any
orders or instructions relating to military ope-
rations issued contrary to the requirements of
this section shall be null and voidn The peo-
pie demand that the President execute one
law. Congress-, in Its enactment, evidently
our subordinate officers that to disobey the
orders Of q superior is virtue to obey them, a
crime heavily punished by the provisions Of
this act In the Capital no one appears to I'M
derstand the problem. The President waivers
in his assertion of the dignity Of his Of
fee and Its fundamental power, and slowly
feels his way in the dark. General
Grant, uncertain where he stands, makes
protest as Cabinet officer, and reluctantly
obeys. Far more soldierly had 1t been had he
obeyed without question; for the President is
responsible to the people through Congress-
not through General Grant
If we are to have o dictator, let us have
General Grant We prefer him to any other.
He Is mild and generous in his nature He
would appoint the proconsuls who are to
govern the several districts from our best army
officers These perhaps, taught insubordina-
ton, might soon free their districts from the
irksome authority Of the central power and
give the people an enlarged liberty. 1t took
seventy years Of civil war in Rome to culmi-
nate in q dictatorship. We may boast that,
with telegraph, railroad and steamboat, we can
move faster. We may bring ours to a focus in
seven yearsror even less. This will prove how
rapidly we have advanced in civilization.
Rome went on from step to step until poll
tical necessity forcel Cesar to the surface.
The wars Of England produced Cromwell be-
fore the mad passions resulting from civil
turmoil could be quoted. The French revolu-
ton ran its race, and was only forced into
regular orbit by the strong hand of Bona
parte. In the United States we have gone on
in our republican theories until we have,
North and South, engrafted upon our political
tree enough ignorance to uproot It in such
q gale as that which we are trying to
weather. Intelligence is no longer the foun-
dation principle Of the republic for, with the
ENGRAVING Of the negro element upon the igno-
rance which already existed, we have given
ignorance the power-the majority rules
Shall we halt and try to correct our mis-
takes, or march forward to q military dictator
ships II Grant were TO carry out the orders
of Congress in the spirit which dictated them
he would Immediately become the exponent
Of usurpiug power. Fortunately, thus FAR our
great General obeys orders General Sickles
gives place to Candy, and General Sheridan
reports, in accordance with the orders Of the
Commander-in-Chief president Johnson) to
relieve General Hancock The latter will
assume command Immediately at New Orleans
and carry out the reconstruction laws of Con-
gress
II is impossible for Congress to strike at
the executive power without giving worse
thrust at the vitals Of the republic. so long
as we desire to uphold the present form Of
government we must sustain the President in
full executive authority. II he thwarts the
laws made by the people through their Con-
gress, then impeaoh the Presden. Do not 60
behind him to teach characterization and over