The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-04-10

may nave given something OF back eddy 10
the radical maelstrom, amid the accelerating
velocities of whose interior circles and "rings"
our good ship of State is in such imminent
danger of being whirled downward to destruc-
ton. Nevertheless, the prospects of final
escape for the vessel are by no means so clear
as every true patriot must wish. Already the
restraining authority of the Supreme Court has
been sucked within the vortex, and would seem
to have gone down forever. The third co-or-
dinate branch of the government, in the person
of our Chief Executive, is already being car
ried rapidly around in the exterior circles of
the whirlpool, with every preparedness the
people stretch forth strong hand to pluck it
back-that the Presidential Office will in few
weeks be engulfed in that black spiral throat
which is already yawning to receive the last
vestiges Of constitutional liberty and republi-
can form of government for this country.
The times are sadly out of joint The chief
Jacobin leader on the floor of Congress
announces that men care not wise, but other
wise," who expect any Difference to be hereaf-
ter paid to the constitution or laws of the United
States. The Supreme Court is threatened with
obliteration if it shall dare exercise its preroga
tive and discharge its duty of enforcing justice
in opposition to the will of the revolutionary
junta who form the dominant majority in both
houses of Congress. We are rushing upon i'm
mediate reputation by striking over ninety
millions of dollars out of the next national tax
levy in favor of New England's manu-
featuring interests, and that the radicals may
thus appear before the country in the
next Presidential contest as having practically
reduced the burdens of taxation. They might
reduce them yet further and more easily by
repudiating the national debt altogether. Why
make two bites of this financial cherry? They
know and confess in their secret councils that
interest on the public debt next year, in conse-
quence of the reductions they are now making
in our sources of revenue. Do they think,
with the burden thus dropped for single
year, that the country will stoop to pick it up and
resume its transportation the year following
with any increased or even equal alacrity?
In the ten military provinces of the South a
war of races is being fast fomented, leading to
continual outrages at present, and which can
have but one result in the near future-say
within ten years-a general st. Bartholomew
of the negro race. At present there are more
murders and lynchings of whites by blacks in
the Southern satrapies than of blacks by whites.
But all the latter are classed by radical orators
and organs as political and rebellious outrages
by mythical organization called the "Ku
Klux Klan"-whatever that may mean; while
the murders practically organized by the
Freedmen's Bureau-the murders of whites
by blacks-are euphemistically palliated as
" acts proceeding from the wild justice of an
outraged people," How long can this condi-
ton of things exist? How long will the white
American people of the Northern States submit
with patience to these insane efforts of
despised and detested Jacobin faction for the
perpetuation of their usurped authority over
the whole country, by the doubly barbarous
agencies of bayonets in the hands of a vast
standing army, costing thirteen millions of
dollars each month, and the votes of ignorant
and savage blacks in the ten Southern
provinces?
We have had three years peace under
absolute radical rule-for Mr.. Johnson's
vetoes have. been overridden in every i'm
portant instance-yet who does not realize that
we are fifty times further to-day from any real
or abiding reconstruction of the Union than we
were on the morning after General Lees sur
render? We are fast drifting into utter anarchy,
bankruptcy internecine slaughter and chaos.
Negro supremacy in ten of our fairest States
will never be accepted by the American people;
nor will partial reputation Of the national
debt by the non-payment of interest next year
have tendency to improve either our financial
or political condition. Let us add to this that
the American people have the elements Of
justice and generosity as the substratum Of
their character and that the partisan persecu-
ton to which President johnson is now being
so obviously made subject is fast making for
him friends who will soon endeavor to become
the avengers of his fate at the ballot box.
What now is the spectacle presented by our
country under radical rule? The highest judi
cial tribunal sits in covering silence, while the
Senate, resolved into Jacobin club, with
Robespierre Sumner and Jean Paul Marat
Butler for Its mouthpeces, is bowling for the
official blood Of our Chief Magistrate. We are
to have absolute reputation of the national
debt next year by the deliberate non-payment
of its proper interest. We have war of races
duly in process Of organization down South by
the Kn Klux Khan on one side and the Freed
mems Bureau on the other. We have such
profigate corruption in the 'whiskey rings"
and all other branches Of the public financial
service as has never heretofore been witnessed
In any country pretending TO be civilized. We
see an attempt made to permanently crush FIVE
millions Of educated white men and women In