The New York herald., 1870-02-24
The Era OF Good Feeling.


this enactment the great American nigger
passes out of politics, and will remain in our
political museums like one of Artemus Wards
celebrated wax figures. Some Of our enter
prisng agitators may dress the figure up like
Chinaman or a Japanese, or Cheyenne
hibition and agitation. What these men want
is wax figure Mr.. Phillips told US the other
day that there would be greater mobs and
more excitement than was ever seen in abo-
lition days. So we shall have the figure over
again in new shape, but never again as
billion has closed, and now for the era of good
feeling.
We have had many eras Of good feeling in
our history. The trouble is we never know
how good the feeling is until 1t is all over and
forgotten and we come to read of 1t IA q new
generation. What good feeling there was in
Jeiferson's and Madison's time! And yet when
wego back to the newspapers Of that day there
was as much bitterness and heartburning and
dissatisfied ambition as we see now How the
politicians wrangled and swore in the ''happy
days" Of Andrew Jackson, and what strifes
there were in the time of Taylor and Pierce!
Politicians are always politicians, and these
contests will last to the end OF the tribe. A
real era of good feeling we have yet to see.
We presume Mr.. Greeley will some day tell
Already he speaks Of that tremendous strife as
''convulsion." Some of these days he will
probably see that it was only paroxysm, a
misunderstanding war, but gentle pas
sage at arms.
Well, we have longed and labored for the era
which is about to dawn upon us, and as we see
its coming glory we feel moved with the spirit
of prophecy. Weare told when the millennium
comes, and the Devil il bound for thousand
years, that the lion and the lamb will lie down
together, the wolf will gambol with the kids,
the sword will be turned into ploughshare
| and the spear into pruning hook. Why may it
not be that the removal of this great American
nigger from our politics is what the Scripture
means by binding the Devil for q thousand
years, and that this amendment means no more
torment for free and happy people2 The
spirit of love will spread into our national coun-
ciIs. The irascS5Ie Sumner will become as
gentle az dove, aud as he sits cooing in his
Senatorial chair, the tender Trumbull, and
Stewart, and Conkling, and Carpenter will Aut-
ter and listen and gloat around him, aud the
speeches will be euphony Of molten golden
notes. Butler will no longer sing ssShoo, fly p
to Sunset Cox, but chant his speeches like that
music in the air which the angels are supposed
to sing The legislation will be conducted on
operatic principles-the libretto by Oifenbach---
and the speeches aud resolutions and the cali
ing Of the roll to lively music. Our gentle pro-
fessor of love- taps, Mr.. Morrissey, viii be Or
dained perpetual Speaker, and the good old
French custom of the public embrace, or the
| kiss of peace, will consume the morning hour.
! How happy we should be to see Ferna nd O
| Wood on the bosom of Kelley of Pennsylvania
Has our President not written, 'sLet us have
peace" and is our Vice President not the
national smier, who beams an unending bene-
dction upon his happy Senator's? Now do
We see with what wise purpose Providence
put that everlasting grsa upon the face of Mr..
Colfax. He comes as the beginning of the
millennium, the early swallow of the summer
era Of good feeling, perching and chirping and
| twittering the livelong day. Look at the
Cabinet. There is that royal rogue, Robson,
the jolliest, happiest, most rollicking dog that
ever sailed the stormy seas of the Delaware
There is the happy Belknap, real Simon Pure,
corn-fed Western canear0da, full of jest and
story. Fish, with his dinners and his fine old
Knickerbocker good-fellowship, hearty and
full and clear, with mellowness and body i'm
him, like his rare and fragrant port wine, has
made everybody happy. Creswell and Cox
| are known to be of the genuine breakdown
order, the real Virginia essence, and as full of
glee as school girls with skipping rope. We
| cannot say much of Hoar nor of Boutwell,, but
we must enliyen them, and by the time the good
! feeling gets fully under way even the irascible
| Attorney General and the pensve Secretary
! will be as merry as the "end men" at the min
| strels.
| How happy we shall be in New York city /!
jim Fisk has put upon record his determina-
| ton to ''dust Greeley's coat"--that imperisha-
! BILE remnant which still floats and flaps after
| having stood for thousand years the battle
| and the breeze. There will be no such
war, but heavenly charity and helpfulness-H.
| G. going to the Opera House and experimenting
| the Twelve Temptations with his blonde hair
wreathed in flowing cnrls, his expansive bosom
radiant with diamonds, while the Adonis of
Wall street sits in the editorial room and calls
upon his ''men and brethren" to rally and buy
onion seeds and strawberry plants; the
happy Oakley will not only pay the suffering
Dana his warrants, but give of his substance
| and store to the "sorely pressed" editor; Van
derbilt will buy Erie at par and sell Central at
forty; Barnard will make Eaton his referee
and receiver, and Wilkes will sit in perpetual
jury upon libel suits and acquit every Ken