The New York herald., 1868-03-25

The stock market, including government secur-
ties, was weak yesterday. Gold declined to 1879,
but afterwards recovered to 1889.
"Halifax Law, for Mr.. JOhnson-The Radi-
cal Old Woman with Black Teeth.
When the Earl of Leicester, acting under
his best judgment for the interest of England,
accepted the title of Stakeholder Of the Neither
tary occupation by the Prince of Parma, his
royal mistress, Elizabeth, being in one of her
passionate and frenzied moods, took the matter
in high dudgeon, driving from her presence
with violent curses and stamping feet whomso-
ever attempted to justify her late favorite,
'impeaching' him before the bar of her own
imperious passions, refusing to hear any de-
fence in his behalf, and winding up this phase
of her passing insanity by sending orders not
only for his removal as an obstruction to her
policy" but likewise for his public disgrace
before the Grand Council of the United Pro-
vinces, over which he was then faithfully and,
to the ruin of his own private fortunes, pre-
siding as her viceroy. Thus punished for up
| holding the highest interests of his country by
! endeavoring to restore constitutional and civil
law to the Netherland provinces, while rescuing
them from the military bondage under which
many of them were enslayed, and by which all
Of them were threatened, the Earl thus wrote
to Sir Francis Walsingham:- ITO me it seem
eth ! am given Halifax law in this matter;
being first condemned and hung out of hand,
with a gracious order that inquiry into the
facts Of my alleged misdoing shall be made
thereafter"
As it was with Leicester, falling under the
rage and jealousy Of an old woman whose dar-
ling he had once becn-an old woman with
black teeth and white bosom," for 50 at this
period Queen Elizabeth comes down to US in
history-even so is it now with President John
son. He has fallen under the hatred and
jealousy Of that incarnate Old Woman, the
radical majority in both houses of Congress, as
whose darling representative of loyal devotion
he stood prominent during the whole of the
late rebellion. By endeavoring to rescue the
ruined provinces of the South from military
despotism, reconstructing them under the con-
stitution and upholding the mild sway of civil
law over the bayonets of an occupying army
and the continuous plundering schemes of
Congress-, our modern Leicester would seem
to have wholly forfeited the favor Of that
infuriated radical Old Woman who gathers
under her Congressional pettcoats such
precious chickens as Butler, Bingham, Logan,
Wilson, Thad Stevens and the balance of their
i,,,v, ahf
upon all who attempt to take his part, explain
his motives or vindicate his line of action
No defence will be heard in his case if
the Old Woman shall have power either to
close her own ears or to silence the tongues
of his counsel. ''Haifax law" will be meted
out to President Johnson with vengeance:
he is to be condemned and politically exc
cuted without trial; nor is there any gracious
order in his case that Enquiry into the facts
Of his alleged misdoing" shall be made even
after he shall have ceased to hold official
life.
1t is between this mad and bad Old Woman
of the radical party and the President of the
United States that Chief Justice Chase has
now to interpose the buckler of his grave
authority, even as Lord Burghley, her Oldest
wisest and most faithful counsellor, was finally
compelled to interfere with acrimonious protest
between the suicidal rage of Queen Elizabeth
and the just rights of her whilom favorite, now
hated all The more because be had once been
SO faithful, so useful and so beloved In the
Queens case, however, fortunately for Eng
land, the insanity OF anger was bat transient
and her usually sound judgment soon clea ring
away the clouds, permitted her to see and ap-
preciate the true interest of her country and
the Ncthcrland provinces in sustaining the
Earl of Leicesters authority. MOI 50, how
ever, with the black -toothed and black hearted
Old Woman Of the radical party, whose grim
talons arc now twisted in the quivering vitas
Of our ten Southern provinces. This
latter bag has no soul to remember past devo-
ton, no tenderness to be touched by gratitude,
no recollection Of heroic service and gaantry
in her days of bitterest need Her eyes are
jealousy-the jealousy of power in any hands
but her own-to perceive even the most obvi-
Gus considerations of her own true interest
Debauched by the spoils of the ''whiskey
rings and dozen other pundering "rings'' in
the loyal States, and doubly debauched by the
licensed robbery and brutal oppression of her
black sway in the ten Southern provinces, this
Old Woman with whom Chief Justice Chase
has now to grapple presents about the most
odious and at the same time one of the
most tremendous aspects to be found in the
whole historical panorama of political witch
craft and ghoulism. She will brook no rival
near her throne of rule and robbery. What
ever she may deem an construction" in her
path must be crushed to powder and scattered
in ashes. the Supreme Court will not bend
to her dictaton it shall be broken; and the
President having been true to his oath in de-