The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-09
Revival Of the Southern Democracy--A
Daniel Coming Again to Judgment.


In another part of this paper the reader will
find some choice extracts from q book just pub
lished made up of the writings of the famous
John NJ. Daniel as editor of the Richmond
Examiner during the war of the Southern
rebellion. Before the war Daniel was con-
| stitutional Southern rights democrat of the
school of JEFF Davis and Stephens, Mason and
| Slidell, Yancey and Toombs, Rhett and Hamp-
ton, Wigfall and Wise--one of that domineering
Southern oligarchy which ruled the old national
democratic party and the policy of the govern
ment down to the collapse of the Charleston
Convention. Through the war Daniel, as
writer, was one of the most effective fire-eaters
in di!fusing throughout the South the idea of
the superiority of the Southern chivalry over
the yankee mudsills"-an idea which still
exists from Virginia to Texas, notwithstand-
ing the terrible lessons of the war establishing
it as ruinous Southern delusion. Daniel, we
believe, died in Richmond shortly after its
occupation by a detachment of black "Boys
in Blue, and other "Lincoln hireings,' and
Lincoln himself. Some of Daniels admirers,
however, resolved that his services in the
"lost cause" shall not be forgotten, have
secured the embalming of his memory in the
book before us and here the question recurs,
Why this book at this time?
We suppose it is intended as democratic
campaign document to aid in the election of
Seymour and Blair. The surviving Southern
democratic leaders of the democratic epoch of
poor Pierce and Buchanan are back again, and
in the late Tammany Convention they were
admitted to their old places among the masters
of the ceremonies. Thus reinstated in the
front seats ofthe temple, they have been giving
us some heavy broadsides' of the real genuine
old Southern democratic thunder 80 alarming
to Northern doughfaces in times gone by.
Moreover as Brick Pomeroy and other
Northern imitators of the Southern fire. eaters
have found that this thing pays among the
Southern democracy, the happy thought no
doubt occurred to the compiler of this book
that such a compilation from Daniel, a bona tide
Southern champion Of Confederate State rights,
would be the very thing for this campaign, in
view of the restoration of its Southern leaders
fashion of the prodigal son.
The extracts, too, which we give from
Daniel, IL will be seen, though sharper and Of
finer metal very much resemble the Northern
copperhea' editorials of the present day. For
example, Daniel describes the amiable and
shrewd and sagacious Lincoln as ''the delight
iul combination of the Western country lawyer
and the Yankee barkeeper," and his speeches
on his way to Washington as condensed
Jumps of imbecility, buffoonery and vulgar
malignity" OF the Yankee, says Daniel
"cowardce is carefully inculcated in the
Yankee from his birth !" that he sis born like
other people, but becomes coward and q
knave from severe training and moral educa-
ton; that 1--WE (of the South) are their su-
periors, &C.; that "the Yankee Is toady
because he can no more refrain from boot
licking than cat can keep its claws off q
mouse or the Yankee war debt he says II
is plain that in no event will the South assist
In Its payment. OF Generals Butler, Pope,
Mcclellan and Hooker, Daniels opinions have
strangely familiar Brick Pomeroy ring about
them, from which II would appear that all our
Northern Bricks have been readers of Daniel
to some purpose. Daniel pronounces General
Grant humbug, whose only recommendation
is success, and says that 'the North admres
success, the South merit" and the same idea,