The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-28
The Radical PrOgramme-The Ukase ol
Wendell PhilliDs

Il I-TOSId1uIne-Iue UkaSe oil
Wendell Phillips.
From ae Times. ....
Wendell Phillips has Issued his rescript to the
radicals in Congress. Here Is the programme
which he marks out for their adoption:-
"Our true policy is this LET Congress plainly an.
its behef that no Stae lately rebellion is
fit 10 be leadmitttd 10 Congress-. Let it laY down
The princlpe that no one shall ever be admitted
except 1t estab lshes universal at least impartial
suf age, and then let Congress adjourn. Every day
it continues IN session eopards TINS great cause 1t
may be bought, bulLed, or deceived. All tends
thai way whue 1t is session. exposed to aanlnis.
tIauve influence Once adjourned, let the lines be
strictly drawn, and 60 TO work to meet 1868 in
ea nest; the interval between now the next elec.
tons state, NatOnal, and Presidential, is none too
long IOr the work. The treason OF President john.
son, and the Imposslbility OF impeaching HIM leave
NO hope any earlier settlement. 1t is Just as well,
and much safer, 70 acknowledge this, 10 adjourn
and 20 the people tins issue Is saving time In
this way, spite the President, the whole fru of
the war may yet be saved. With the lines distinctly
drawn, the tight aUove-board and acknowledged,
the issue larry presented ana every Con gressn an
stumpng his own State, the nation may yet be
founded and buiit up ON impartial and absolute
Justice. Our New England aIr viii some of our
Senators at least from the compromise malaria OF
Pennsylvania avenue.
"Any other coUrse-drifting about in a storm of
constitutional amendments pilot blinded or drugeed
and Iudder unshipped-allows tmld and need less
Senators to put us, bounu hand and root into the
hands Of the enemy, under pretense OF being Dract
cal statesmen. ANY other course runs the NIX of
giving us another years OF just such disocated,
passed through since 1876 Adjourn Congress then
Let every member turn himself into witness, teacher
and drll,mas, ,eI ana Jet S our 6ngie.call be, No
which has the word white or the recognition Of
race IN lite statute BOOKS"
We apprehend that, when they can get their
courage up to the 'sticking point,n this is pre-
cisely the course which the radicals in Congress
will endeaVor to pursue. Universal negro
suffrage as the condition sul6 qua non OF the
restoration OF the Union, rs now and has
hoo 40 hnuinninp the ha
grand goal and object OF all their effort
They have ClOaked it more or less, partly from
policy and partly from fear; but the time is
drawing nigh when tney can cloak IL no
longer. The whole subject OF restoration was
first put into the hands of the Reconstruction
Committee there to await the manipulations
necessary for success. Each House was
pledged to admit no member from the South
until that Committee shonld have reported, and
until final action should have been taken by
both Houses on that report This tied Congress
hand and foot and lett the field perfectly clear
for the grand campaign. Every attempt that
has since been made 10 draw attention to the
case OF Tennessee, to the returns and quali6ca-
tions OF Southern members, to the testimony
reported by the Committee, or TO any other
branch OF this general subject has been sum
marily squelched by being sent, under the
Speakers ruling, to this Committee. And there
everything rests, under lock and key, and the
Injunction OF secresy, to this hour.
Meantime all the talk and all the excitement
that has been raised about Constitutional
amendments, equality of Civil Rights status of
the Rebel States, etc. ETC., has been simply dust
thrown IN the eyes of the public 10 cover the
approach to the grand fundamental indispensa-
bic principle OF universal negro suffrage, as the
condition without which no Southern State
should ever again be admitted TO the Union.
This is the secret of all the elaborate legal
endeavors TO prove that the Union is
destroyed-that the States went out of it, and
that they can get back only on such condi-
tions as Congress may prescribe. This was
the reason why Stevens proclaimed them
conquered States, deprived OF all rights, ex-