The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-21
ADDRESS RY guE CONGRRSSIONAL
OPPONICION.

FROM me ftn1es.
Forty three opposition members Of Congress
have united in an address TO the people, 70 show
tL,t--to use their own words-"rhere IS good
re son for changing the Administration aud
DO ioy OF this Gen. r,l Government" They make
the producron stretch through near ten news
Apaper columng-,hus avowDg tro OK rene din
cult, of tie work. We have read 1t all! It is a
dog-da, joh, that would he the death OF niue
men ut OF ten. IsIs tor our physii IN 10 be told
bow we feel. Our faders wIl' ask what We
sfouid
We win tell them what We fouud-thorgh the
most curious part, bX long Odds Is what we did
MT find.
.Fmst, wo found the broad complaint hat The
4 AdmiulsiIat on has had tor three years ia pre-
dominance IN every dc, arfment OF the Govern
Z menj, ana that this en- l. civ is ga Capi al ns-
chic" The Whole endency Of unchecked power
beirg toward aruse. HcreupOu it Is reasoned
] that this "nucuur lied par'y domination ought
y 90 he river :" the d mocrtic par y, whose gre
merit has hPeu that { 70 a ways GGuiocted it'eu
4 chterfully, thoroughly, and cOngtan iy 70 all the
rules end limitations If the fundamental laF.
Now, Vrn ia r.pg that thi. X htllOn wdi com.
minced a der Democratic Administrations tud
TINT Il ahsUlu'e M i0ity Of the party have per
sOnally cCmmiucd 'hemselyes tu II with arms 10
thl Ia uds, tits claim j. % whim,l ,lcaily p'upDs-
tT'u-, that il m le auShod at eycn With tho
them ume-tr at nin' ty.
l. NtKt We find statement that the main strength
of the PARTY OF the Administration lies in the
States which voted ag inst Mr. Jefferson 10 1890,
ard against Mr.. Madi-On 10 1912. This, II It
mean anything is an invidious reference TO New
England. But the main strength of the party Of
the Administia ion is not In New England. Not
One-gaTter OF the pupuar vote or of the electoral
voIe which put Abraham Lincoln into the Presi-
Dental chair came from New England; nor a
quarter of the aggregate popular mai rites for
the Union party in the last State eec ions.
Following this Misrepresentation are specihc
charges against President Lincoln. He is accused
of sending soldiers home 70 vote who did no
vote the opposition tickets, discriminating agans
the regiments who would have voted for their
ticket, when in fact there are no such regiments.
He is accused of interfering with the elections in
the Border States, whereby "thousauds of quail
fed persons were prevented from voting ut these
elections" BY protecting the polls from violence,
President Lincon emphatlcally did cooperate IN
excluding hundreds In those States, If not thou
sands, who would not take the oath of allegiance
and who were in notsrious sympathy with the
Rebels. These people had already sent their
representatives 30 Richmond.
President Lincoln Is also condemned Tor his
Amnesty Proclamation, whereby one-tenth OF
the loyal men OF Rebel State may reconstruct
the State. But the address avoids saying whether
disloyal men should assist In rcconstrncting tht
State, OF whether the State should remain undei
military rule without reconstruction. The rea
question In these reclaimed States Ii between th'
rrle Of q Rebel majority, the rule Of the loya
hphority, or q military rule without any popuia
power whatever II is q question which the ad
dress does not, and dare net meet, except by oh
lection 10 the rule OF minority, which. OF course
is not desirable In itself, but is better far tha
eatheF os the other alternatives,