Year: 1866

same may be said Of the propositions touch
ing the national debt, the debts of the rebel.
lion and the four millions of liberated South
ern Slaves. Upon this platform the republi-
can party adhering to this Congress can car
ry our approaching Northern State elections
as they did last year, if there be no other
sharply defined issue brought in season be-
fore the people. The republican supporters
of president Johnson, as against Congress,
can make no fight against this platform, for il
is the Presidents own policy. 1t is a com
promise platform, against which johnson re-
publicans cannot even quarrel with the radi-
Gals before the people, although the hated
of the radicals against Johnson may contin-
ne as intense as on the eve of the late Con-
nectieut election


The Presidents reconstruction policy thus
being appropriated by the radicals as their
own thunder, what is he to do How is he
to escape the inglorious fzzling out of Tyler
and Fillmore, those accidental men who stand
in history as instructive monuments of the
folly Of ambition without sagacity or pluck


After the above frank acknowledgment it
proceeds to lay down the following pro-
gramme for involving the country in For
eign war for the purp ose of redeeming the
character OF the President and resuscitatine
the defunct carcass of copperheadism.


President johnson may fully retrieve him.
self in bold stroke in his foreign policy for
new and popular issue. Let him advise Mr..
Seward as President Lincoln advised Mont
gomery Blair, that his time has come and
let the other members of the present Cabinet
be given gentle hint to the same purpose
and then give us a new Cabinet adopted to
the new dispensation. Senator Fessenden,
in reducing the crude and impracticable re
construction scheme of Thaddeus Stevens to
practical shape, and, in his mastery report
on the subject, has shown that he is a prac-
teal statesman and near enough in principle
TO the administration to be advanced to the
State Department. Let him, then, be so ap-
pointed. In the next place, in consideration
of his public services, let Mr.. Seward be sent
to take the place of Mr.. Adams as our Min
lister to England, and with the alternative to
that government of the payment oi
the lndemnities due for the spoilations ofAn-
glorebel cruisers upon our commerce or his
immediate return home. This viii bring the
money or make popular issue. Assuming
that England viii refuse payment, all that
the President will have to do to raise for his
administration powerful party, will be to
submit the facts to Congress, with a recon-
mendation for the seizure of the Canadas in
the way of reprisals.


BY this course ofaction President Johns on
instead of fzzling out like Tyler and Fill
more, may rise in the support OF the people
to the towering altitude of Old Hickory.
Great men rise from the seizure of great OPP
portunities, and here is one for President
johnson, upon which, if boldly seized, in the
midst of all the stirring events and excite
ments of the day, he may ride the popular
whirlWind and direct the storm. 4 settle
ment with England of this character would
not only rally the three hundred thousand
American Fenians in support of the Presi-
dent, but the great body Of our native born
citizens of all parties. What is President
Johnson's policy in regard to those Anglo
rebel spoilations ? The country would ike
to know.