The New York herald., 1868-03-21

by the Cromwell line, will sail from pier No. North
river at 3 P. NJ. to day for New Orleans direct
The steamship Rapidan, Captain Checsman wiil
leave pier SO North river at =. M, to-day for
Havana and New Orleans.
The stock market was duh, but steady yesterday.
Government securities were strong. Gold closed at
13SH 1857.
Congress Jcn Davis aud Andrew Johnson
A Public Disgrace.
At the end Of the year 1860 and in the
early days Of 1861 the air Of the whole
South vibrated with the preparations for war.
1t was war to be waged against the Union
war for the destruction of the government of
the United States. In those same days every
stone in the Capitol echoed the valcdictory
eloGuence of the Southern leaders, men leav-
ing the very halls of the national Legislature
to 90 and head the reasonable movement, in
sulting the common sense of the country with
parade of the reasons that impeled them to
strike at the nations life. Prominent ih the
number of these men was JEFF Davis. He,
with his confederates, played this part Of the
denouncing the constitution and boasting what
should be done to destroy it-boasting the
way in which he would return. Catalne
to the very letter. None stepped forward
to impede his path. Nay, he went with
the appreciation and encouragement of the
men who became the great leaders of the re-
publican party. He went with the applause of
Mr.. Chase, now Chief Justice of the United
States; Of Horace Greeley, the restless, vtu-
perative and inconsequent agitator Of the radi
cal press; Of Mr.. Stanton, the oily-tongued
plottcr for power. All these men argued
for the right Of jeff Davis to go and do what
he might for the destruction of the government,
as covered by ''the sacred right of revolution
against tyranny" claiming that to prevent or
oppose him would be inconsistent with the doc
trines of the Declaration of Independence.
Davis, thus applauded, thus stimulated, thus
encouraged to believe that he was heading
movement as noble as that which made the colo
nics free, went out to organize and conduct the
internal work. Davis went out thus and every
| Southern man of political note went with him
| save one. One man alone of the representa-
| tivcs of Southern Constituencies in the United
States Congress did not sympathize with the
purposes of the shareholders to establish an
aristocracy on the ruins of our freedom. One
Southern man prominent in the world of poll
tics adhered earnestly, unfalteringly, with all
the intense fervor of positive nature, to the
canse of the Union; and this man was Andrew
Johnson, one of the Senators from Tennessee.
He denounced the whole reasonable attempt
from the first blow No whisper Of tolerance
for it ever passed his lips. From the United
States Senate he went to Tennessee-nearer to
the rage Of battle. lie was made Military
Governor, and ruled the State with uncon-
querable will and unchangeable fidelity to the
cause the nation had at heart. He was thus
participating in the dangers and savage turmoil
Of the struggle, while the radical leaders were
making plans at Niagara Falls for surrender
to the enemy, plundering the nation in
the issue of ruinous contracts to poll
tical adherents, and breaking down the
barriers that guarded popular rights by
arbitrary arrests Of inofensive persons. Such
were the relative positions of men through the
terrible four years, until the soldiers and
own generals and admirals, ended the war:
and the attempt that Davis had led, that Chase,
Greeley, Stanton and Gerrit Smith had encour-
aged-an attempt that came nearer success
than ever did such revolt before-ended in
failure, thanks to the people, to the man of the
apple tree and to the ''hero in the shrouds."
Peace came and the country breathed free in
the anticipation of returning happiness and
prosperity. Over the whole land men had the
same hope, INDUCED the same rejoicing that
the trouble was over. Wisely generous, the
people would have shaken hands with the
South at once and taken il without reserve into
full fellowship, conscious that the men who
had felt the war in their homes, and the bitter
ness Of the failure in their hearts, needed only
their own memories to keep them from
renewing the great attempt. But as there
are over righteous men, SO there are men who
have more than the normal quantity of patri-
otto spirit and both classes are very nice on
particulars. IL turned out there were num-
Der Of superabundantly patriotic men to be
heard when il came to settling terms. They
were the men who had helped Davis to make
the war-the extravagant abolitionists who
could yet so sympathize with slavery as to
justify its revolt on texts from the Declaration
of independence. These men had not been
the absolute and earnest enemies of the South
ern effort till it had failed beyond redemption,
and then their cnmity blazed out all the fiercer
for being so new and coming SO late. These
men would not hear Of peace on the terms the
people declared for. They made difficulties,
insisted on conditions and made the nigger the
basis of all propositions; and thus they have
kept up till now we have reign of anarchy.
But even yet they will not consent to the
punishment of the greatest criminal of the
age, aud jeff Davis Is now at large. with the