The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

The arrival of the City of Paris, from New York
on the Ist inst., tells us that the Radicals in the
States are not idle. Latterly all the intelligence
which we have received has been favourable to the
prospects of that moderate, liberal, and constitu-
tional party of which the President is the head. We
have had the Convention at Philadelphia, where
unity and patriotism were the order of the day.
We have had the presentation of the address to the
President by the delegates, and the enthusiastic de-
monstrations in his favour during his progress
through the States. We have now the reverse side
of the picture, and although the Radical leaders are
always so vehement and demonstrative in their lan-
guage and conduct that their public proceedings
must not be taken as a sample even of the wishes of
the more moderate members of their own party,
we may judge of the difficulties which beset the
President from a few items in the news. WENDELL
PHILIPS, in the Anti-Slavery Standard, has violently
attacked Mr. JOHNSON, urging Congress to depose
the "perjured, usurping traitor." This is tolerably
strong language, and affords us a sample of the
temper of those enthusiastic abolitionists, who,
like OTHELLO, find their occupation gone. The real
and substantial evil of slavery, against which they
have so long contended is happily at an end. They
would act more wisely and consistently if they were
to endeavour to assist the negro in his new and diffi-
cult position ; to encourage him to labour, and to
make him feel that now he is free to profit by his
own labour he cannot expect others to support and
care for him. The great aim of all real friends
I should be to infuse into them that feeling of inde-
pendence and self-reliance which is naturally
foreign to their race and their nature, and which
their previous history has tended to discourage.
Without this no Bureaus or agencies can keep them
up in the race. They may gain temporary assist-
but the current of life iu the States flows on
too roughly and too rapidily for them to have a
chance unless they can strive for themselves.
Those who from prejudice or party motive busied
themselves in exciting and unsettling the negro,
filling his eager and unstable mind with visions
of lands of his own apportioned to him by Go-
vernment, which would feed him without labour,
have done him cruel service. The best and
most advantageous course for the real friend of
the freedman to pursue is to induce him to resume
the work to which he has been accustomed, and
for which he is so well fitted. If once these vexed
questions of representation and legislation are set-
tled, and the Southern States return to their old
course, aided by Northern enterprise and capital,
there will be abundance of employment for the
negro, and he may enjoy the blessings of freedom
without being forced into a helpless competition
with the shrewd, industrious, and hardy white
men of the Northern States. These are, in fact,
the views which Mr. JOHNSON had advocated ; and
because he has raised the proposal to
whodivi used
Southern plantations among the gro
to work on them, he is, forsooth, otlhv,
EdNenntor
reiduiLaisrsa,
" perjured, usurping traitor.,
however, is in respectable company. Gen. BUTLER,
of famous New Orleans memory, had made a speech
denouncing the President, and advocating the in-
definite exclusion of the Southern States from re-
presentation. Perhaps Mr. JOHNSON will take this
sort of opposition as a compliment. At any rate he
is not a man to be easily turned from his purpose,
or frightened into concession, as the Radicals have
found to their cost. They are not prepared to
relinquish the ground without a struggle, and
are evidently afraid that the PRESIDENT'S side
has gained too much upon popular favour lately.
They think it is necessary, therefore, to make some
active demonstration, and have selected Philadelphia
as its scene, on the same principle, we suppose, that
induced Mr. Ey rili's accusers, with singular good taste,
to get up a rival banquet at Southampton
on the evening in that city.
The his reception -
The Eivlical Convention at Philade). ilia is gather..