The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-05-11

hadlcal PROMISES and Anti.Radical Expcc.
taiiOns.
Only one days grace remains to Andrew
Johnson. 1t has been agreed by the Senate
that they will to-day determine upon the modus
oper1nds, and that tomorrow at noon they
will proceed to take the verdict of equity" or
mot guilty" upon the several articles and
specifications of "high crimes and INSIDE
meanOrs' against the respondent embraced in
the indictment of the House of Representatives
Adhering to the opinion that the result will be
the conviction and removal of "the man at the
other end of the avenue" the first question
that presents itself is this VIII this change
in the administration from Johnson, the
Southern conservative, to Wade, the Northern
ultra radical, be good or bad for the general
interests of the country?
If we may believe the leading radical organs,
philosophers and fanatics, the installation of
cold Ben Wade" in the White House will be
the Inauguration of the millennium. "The i'm
parchment" they say, "means peace" like
the French empire under Louis Napoleon.
The removal of Andrew Johnson, they tell us,
in removing the only serious obstruction to
Southern reconstruction and sectional har-
mony, will cause the people of both sections,
and of all classes, creeds and colors to clap
their hands and rejoice. The ten outside
States, rapidly and quietly reorganized and
recognized on the basis of universal equality
and negro supremacy, these good people
assure US, will be all speedily reinstated
in both houses of Congress; that there
upon we shall have an end of Southern
scenes of disorder, bitterness, violence and
bloodshed, and that a general jubilee
of happiness and harmony will prevail from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande that new
impulse will Immediately follow to Southern
industry from the general restoration of conf
dence in Southern law, order and progress
that European and Northern capital and emf
grafton will drift in and build up the waste places
of the South, and that the most implacable
Southern rebels and traitors will soon be
brought to proclaim the wisdom and bencf-
cencc Of that great and browning mercy of the
Fortieth Congress-the impeachment and ex-
pulsion of Andrew Johnson.
Nor are these blessings to be limited to the
South for the North, we are promised, will
largely share in the manifold advantages
that will flow to the Southern people under the
benign dispensation of ''Old Ben Wade" The
whiskey rings and their whiskey frauds and
leaks in the internal revenue will be stopped
the savings of hundred millions on the whis-
key tax to the Treasury, the honest masses Of
the people will be lightened of their taxation
burdens TO the extent of hundred millions.
There will be no more pardons vouchsafed to
embezzers or counterfeitcrs Of the public
moneys; no more hobnobbings and nice little
arrangements between the Treasury and the
gold gamblers of Wall street. Honesty, re-
trenchment, economy and reform on all sides
Will prevail, so that the outgoing tide of gold
to Europe will in short order be turned back
upon us, and, with the consequent apprecia-
tion OF our national currency, bcefsteak will
become as cheap in New York as in Texas,
ana ham and eggs and hog and homny will
be drugs in the market.
These are the good things promised us under
the incoming dd interim administration of " Old
Ben Wade, acting in perfect accord with Con-
gress and General Grant and his subordinate
commanders OF the five Southern military dis
tricts. But il "was the remark of celebrated
Roman consul that the promises of politicians
are very apt to be forgotten when they have
gained their ends. We have no idea that under
President Wade we shall have volcanic ernp
ton like that of the Sandwich Islands, nor that
we shall have the millennium, nor anything like
it, We anticipate rather, in the first place, a
most disgraceful and demoralizng scramble
among the radical placc-hunters and their camp
followers over the spois and plumber with the
transfer of Wade to the Executive Mansion
We expect no relief to the Treasury in driving
off swarm of flies partially gorged to make
room for larger and hungrier swarm, no
Southern rejoicings between whites and blacks
ever ths temporary success Of Southern negro