The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-05-27
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
smash sUp Of the Radical Party-A Lively
Discourse Thereon by One Of Them.

Don Piatt well known Western radical politician.
wssctes as follows to the Cincinnati Commercial,
uncser date Mac-a-Cheek, May IT,
WISH to make few observations OF a philosophi.
assisSed some twelve or thirteen wear, since At
the birth " Tue party Just aemsed having travelled
from me ne ;NactaeeS valley 70 Bufao carrying
to be GRADED and my affections have grown with its
growth to such an extent that Its sudden death threw
me into q state OF profound grief disturbed by In.
dignaton. IpAssed from lamentaton to an indigna.
ton meeting, anu from an indignation meeting to
deep grief. But Nth reflection came consolation.
came TO the consoAlng thought that was not the
only sufferer and hA ndng out my surplus affliction
TO my beloved country at large, found my share
could be carried without much Inconvenience
The immediate causeof its death was dyspepsia
aggravated by whskey.
But the seeds of weakness and disease were
agitation, Of aggression, and we took into our en-
braces the Old wing party, THAT was party OF con-
The result has been internal 6ssensions The ultra
reform party could not dgesttke conservative lump,
and we have been afflicted wAh collie, SO to speak,
that Wen high destroyed our Usefulness. Our ac-
tions, In consequence, have baen contradictory
WINE az one time We create John Brown, and
glory IN Jonn Brown as our greatest and best be.
loved, organized huge armies fought out big wars
and liberated a race on the other hand we have
been busy smoothing our wars wrinkled front with
me decayed plasters OF past wrong doing. 1t is
called compromise--which means to give the devil
your soul IN a dignifed, peaceful manner.
me last internal CONFUSION exhibited with great
had Butler, Stevens Bingham Logan sumner and
Drake; on te other stood In calm repose Fessenden
ana Irumoul; whhe between noated another ele-
ment born of the revolutionary times, that had its
marketable value and fuctuated either party bid
now am prepared 70 admit that Messrs. Fessen-
den ana Trumbuil were actuated by the highest and
the most honorable motives. do not believe they
could be bought with money or swayed by prejudice.
Iney leit tnat lney were Jurors under OATH anSwera
BILE to their God for the verdict they rendered Nor
do blame them for responding as they did to the
solemn question asked them by the Chief Justice.
believe this as l believe that the thirtyiye voting
guilty" were honorable honest men. But in political
ire nunaer Is worse than crime, and Messrs Fes-
sender and Trumbull Numbered in belonging 10
the republican organization at all They should have
gone over to the party of Stanbery and Groesbeck,
where the ola Whlg dignity is preserved intact, and
where conservatism is so intense that an ancient
wrong Is preferred to new right, and where official
position IS 50 gioriled that halo Is thrown around
an inebriated mule that an all-wlse Providence,
through some inscrutabe reason has set on end and
made our President
When impeachment was first preached the evil
dence was as well known it at the end OF the
trial. Az the beginning Messrs Fessenden and
Trumbu should have made their fight. Failing to
defeat it they should have resigned their positions
as honorable men, and washed their dgnifled hands
OF the responsibility. But they chose to reserve
themselves for conflict when their triumph would
be our death, and are somewhat astonlshed at the
popular howl OF wrath and Indignation that comes
up over their dgnied honest, honorable stupidity.
We could have survived blunder great as this is
had 1t come alone, but IL il the concluding act OF
long series. Through the unsettled condition of
country suffering rom civil wars we have developed
more rascality than any organization ever called
into existence. We have filed the offices with
thieves aud their pockets with stealings. We have
organized rings that in turn create ofcehoders and
control the government. Men 20 in poor and come
out mathematics For one dollar paid to the govern
nent from hard earned taxes hundreds stick to the
dirty fingers OF oilcal scoundres. We have whiskey
rings Indian Bureau rings, manufacturers rings
national bank rings, railroad rings, andjobbng
rings and internal Improvement rings. From the
lowest officials up to Senators and Cabinet officers,
the faint OF corruption runs until the people dazed
and confused coofound the right and listen with
10 tneQlreatS OF exposure.
When charged With all this they have responded,
sandy Johnson Is corrupt and appointed scoundrels
to oaice.n Well Messrs. Fessenden and Trlmbull
have under oath, pronounced him not guilty, and
LEI him go acquit.
At the end or fearful war the people had right
to expect that the expenses Of the government
should be brought back at once to peace footing
They demanded reduction or the army to what 1t
was in 1860; that tue useless monitors should be sold
fol-. old iron; tnat the hundred Thousand thieves
called oniceho,ders should be dismissed and the
appropriations cut down to reasonable expendi-
ture.
IN through assassination has organized assassna-
ton at the South ana an army OF at least fifty thou
sand men Is necessary 10 keep the peace Messrs
Fessenden and Trumbull have voted not guilty, and
let Andrew go acquit.
The people have expected that in our hands re-
construction at the South would progress with
reasonable speed and that unhappy region restored
to state OF quiet and prosperity. The expectation
might not be reasonable, for the blind bgotry that
hurried us into bloody war has developed In hate
that with stupid fury casts aside all social and legal
restraint. But we answer that our wise acts OF
legislation have been rendered null and void by an
Executive that plants itself squarey in opposition to
the law-making power. Now, Messrs Fessenden
and Trumoun vote mot guilty." and the accused
we awaken TO the unpleasant fact that not Andrew
and the sentence is a sentence OF DEATH rendered
by own Senator's who have grown fat,
rich and great through. our organization. To
have such trial, with such result land
Messrs. Fessenden and Trumbull knew 1t as well
at the beginning as they did at the end, is great
bunder-a blunder worse than a crime. II may be
democratic peace party may call into existence new
organization; but the republican party Is dead, and
we may as well gracefully admit the fact and accept
the situation.
notice that certain journals, such as the Ecenfng
with the In which the press and people treat
the seven Senators. "Were they not under oath
were they not urors e cry the s yiruons Journalist;
and In some sort OF way they were Jurors but they
were under several oaths and bound by some two
atty OF the Tenure OF ONCE law, and that
SO the hs but w Cannot Sep aas s e a.
the scruples, so solemny elaborated, to excuse
stupid biunder. Fessenden and Trumbdl pronounced
his conduct I'm the case OF Stanton, and the addition
OF two or three paths could not change the fact.
the Sa h
was in deep earnest In this matter OF impeachment
The country had been very quiet during the progress
at the white House had no party to get excited over
his official execution. He had, In fact, no real
friends This state Of quiet acquiescence was taken
for indifference by our Senatorial dyspeptcs and they
must have been considerably astonshed at the storm
that broke upon their devoted heads.
do not believe that Fessenden Is politician, and
know that Trumbu Ii not. remember travelling
with the last named from Springfield to Chicago
shortly after the first election OF Lincoln and
before that elongated embodiment Of Gil the
honor, honesty and wisdom extant was inau.
eurated: And recollect the utter impossibillty OF
the idea that the South meant, business and
could do us great injury. He has hothihg In com.
mon with the masses, and none other than the late
republican party would return such an abstraction
TO the Senate.
WE'LL there is no use In being lachrymose over tht
lost tactical. can stand 10 II the rest can.
Political Notes.
The Philadelphia Press says General Grant has an
nounced himself In advance In favor Of the one tern