The New York herald., 1868-04-30


1t is now manifest that the excesses Of radi-
calsm tend to no less portentous result than
change in the form of government which we
had inherited from the founders Of our repub-
! lic The virtual abolition of the executive
/ power vested in the President of the United
! States, and the removal of Andrew johnson as
an CONSTRUCTION" to radical despotism; the
conversion of even the Supreme Court into
mere court of record for the DEGREES of direc-
tory pretending to represent the people; the
expulsion Of members Of Congress who ven
ture to oppose the dominant party; the total
exclusion from Congress of representatives Of
ten States of the Union the subsection of the
white population of those ten States to the
control of military satraps, carpet-bag Office
seekers from other States, and an ignorant
mass of negro voters who have just emerged
from centuries of bondage, with all it's disquali-
flying influences for the high duties Of citizen
ship, and who nevertheless vastly outnunber
the few whites admitted to civic privileges as in
the case of South Carolina, where the dispropor-
tion Of registered voters has reached the figure Of
eighty thousand blacks to forty thousand whites;
the direct encouragement extended to negro
outrages on white men, women and children
by the indammatory harangues of partisan
cmissaries, the founding Of Union Leagues and
other dangerous secret organizations through
out the South; the resolute determination of
the dominant radical party ''to hold the South
as the Metropolitan Police hold New York;
"to do its police in it's own behalf and in be-
half Of its black population the utter pre-
sent forgetflness of what wisdom there
is in the following words of the radical writer
from whom the above phrases are quoted -
"We want regular soldiers for the cause Of
order in these anarchical countries, and we
want men in command who, though they may
be valuable as temporary satraps or procon-
suls to make liberty possible where it il now
! impossible, will never, under any circum-
stances, be dlsloyal to liberty, will always op-
pose any scheme of any one to constitute
military government, and will be ready, when
the time comes, to initiate Washington y the
Inauguration under the forms of an impeach-
ment trial, of an entirely new system of justice,
the fundamental principle Of which is that every
man is presumed to be guilty, whether charged
with guilt or not, and that when charged with
it he is to be tried by interested parties, and
all possible evidence in his favor is to be sup
pressed; the introduction Of sumptuary legis-
latiOn, of an infamous tariff system and an ini-
quitous and fraud-breeding income tax; the
establishment, by means Of odious and cor
rupting national banks, of financial system
which has no precedent, except in the South
Sea bubble schemes Of Law; the compulsory
circulation Of French assgnats, attempted to be
enforced by the guillotine, and, still more ap-
propriate example, the financial system
adopted in Hayti-these are but few items
in the long catalogue of changes foretokened
by the signs of the times, in the form and prac-
tical working of our government
In one important respect, particularly, the
dominant radical party has most hagrantly vio-
lated the spirit of American republican insti-
tutions. The despotism which it has sought to
establish in the South has no precedent in the
history of conquest on the part of civilized
nations. Imperial Rome largely owed its great
duration to the fact thtf, while Roman pro-
consul was set over each conquered province,
Verrcs was always liable to trial and punish
ment and local administration was not inter
meddled with so that the conquered people,
retaining no small share of their accustomed
liberties and acquiring the additional advan-
tages attached to the title of Roman citizen,
were readily consolidated into the empire and
contributed to the still further extension Of its
wealth and power An illustration Of 6 the
pervading weight and power of Roman citizen
ship" is furnished by what we read of st. Paul
in the Acts. The Apostle had. asserted his
claims to be Roman citizen, although he was
a native of the conquered province of Judca:-
''When the centurion heard that he went and
told the chief captain, saying Take heed what
| thou doest for this man is Roman. But how
many similar illustrations Of the pervading
| weight and power of American citizenship can
be found among ''the vanquished and par
doned rebels of the South" who happen to
have the misfortune Of inheriting white COM
plexiona None Of them are allowed to claim
rights which radicals are bound to respect.
Neither Roman, Norman, Spanish nor any other
conquerors have exercised less magnanimity
and less moderation and less common sense
than certain radical leaders who strut and
boast as il they had themselves accomplished
the suppression of the rebellion and the con-
quest of the South.
Perhaps it is not yet too late for the army
and the people, to whom the suppression Of
the rebellion is really due to interpose and
prevent the cruelty destructive results towards
which the excesses of radicalism tend.
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STREET DISTRACTIONS AND. NUIsAScEs -
One of the most intolerable nuisances exist
ing at present in the streets Of the metropolis