The New York herald., 1868-05-09

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sod Bsa wade" a. Preslde.l.
Bets are freely offered In Wall street, and
not very freely taken, that the Senate will vote
the expulsion Of Andrew johnson from the
White House. The Hon. Ben Buffers predic-
ton is upon record that s4Old Ben Wade"
will be in full flower with the apple blossoms.
On Tuesday next the Senate win vote on the
articles Of impeachment, and, assuming that
the result will be Johnson's conviction, II will
carry with il his deposition from ONCE. On
Wednesday, then, "Old Ben Wade,p Presi-
dent pro tenn. Of the Senate, duly sworn in,
will formally assume the functions of President
ad .jaterSm of the United States, swhether In
the White House or at his private lodgings,
temporarily awaiting the convenience of the
President dispossessed. Is rar gul ondi a
What, then, is the prospect under ts''Old Ben
Wade" as President in place Of Andrew John
son? Looking at the hard, unbending character
of the man, as Q Puritanical, fanatical, rough,
remorseless and bigoted old line Ohio abo-
litonist, the republican party in this queer fish
win catch . Tartar. They will have escaped
Scylla only to be wrecked upon Charybdis.
They win be out Of the frying pan into the fire.
From the antecedents, the record and the
general reputation of Mr.. Wade his political
creed embraces belief in human equality,
civil political and social, and embracing all
races and colors, ''excepting Indians not
taxed;" a belief in the policy Of South
ern q negro +. supremacy and si SO mild
measure Of Southern considerations" to supply
the landless loyal blacks with homesteads and
a fixed interest in the ,soil belief in the
propriety and expediency Of hanging JEFF
Davis and at least few of his most con-
spicuous associate rebel leaders, in order that
treason may be properly rebuked and Justice
satisfied; belief in the radical doctrine that
Northern copperheads are but Southern rebels
in another shape, and that Northern republican
conservatives are only shade or two better
than copperheads; a belief that the virus Of
Southern slavery still poisons the whole structure
of Southern society and Northern anti-radical
politics, and that sharp remedies are needed to
expel IL; belief in the beneHcence of gen.
eral division of the lands and wealth of the
country on something like scale Of equality
among the inhabitants thereof; and, finally, q
belief in woman's rights, negroes and all, az
ex- -ounded by Miss Lucy Stone and George
Francis Train, including the right of suffrage
and the right to hold Office and the right to
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Now, when these general principles form the
political character of man who ranks among
the oldest Of the old line abolitionists, we'may
say that he is not man to be triHed with nor
one who viii stand upon ceremony. eOld Ben
Wade" is, in fact, sort of Wendell Phillips in
the rough. His early training-that of wood
chopper-was just the thing to make of Q
Puritan by nature in the backwoods of the Ohio
Western Reserve man who would hew his
way through the ranks Of his enemies in
the remorseless style of Cromwells Round
heads. The Ohio woodchopper will, therefore,
be apt to prove harder customer to the re-
publican party than the Tennessee tailor. In
the gentle and amiable Illinois railsplitter and
f1atboatman the radicals were amused with the
idea that they had a servant, while he was, in
reality, their master. Abraham Lincoln, how
ever, with logical mind trained in the pro-
fession of the law, knew how to manage, and
apparently without an effort, the adroitest
politicians, as Mr.. Seward and Mr.. Chase can
testify, and likewise the Blairs. In ''Old Ben
Wade" we will have the raw material of the
Ohio woodchopper, whose political education,
like that of Johnson, has been fixed from his
fierce encounters with hostile backwoods poll
ticisns on the stump.
We shall, therefore, be prepared for some
extraordinary developments Of policy under
the administration Of Mr.. Wade. OF course
all the conservative federal ofaceholders
brought within his notice will have to walk
the plank. ''Prides purge" will be admins
tered to them. Doubtless, too, the colored
Southern Loyal Leagues will be let loose upon
the Ku Klux Klans. We shall also look for .
powerful infusion Of women and niggers among
the Office seekers at Washington and liberal
sharing Of the spoils among them. But ~ Mr..
Wade Is candidate for the Vice Presidency
for the succession on the ticket with General
Grant, we do not expect to witness any very
startling manifestations of his policy In regard
to measures or men till after the Republican
Presidential Convention, which, on the Goth
inst, will meet at Chicago.
GENERAL BUTLER's RULE IN NEW Or
LHANs-CURoUs REVELATIONS. will be
seen from our Washington correspondence,
published in another part of the paper,
that some Of the extraordinary doings Of
General Butler and the Butler ring in New
Orleans are coming to light. This is not hear
say evidence, but testimony taken in legal
manner, and shows in the strongest light
the kind Of patriotism which animated the
'loyar heroes Of New Orleans. They fol-
lowed in Farragut's wake for the goods Of
the people more than for the good or the
glory Of the flag. The evidence speaks for