The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-06

q the act of ratification shall remove all him
| ORANGES 10. restoration save those which may
| arise IRON individual inability to take the pre-
scribed oath. In the abeense of this pledge oil
knowledge upon the subject is inferental The
| ADMISSION OF Tennessee, and the failure of at
| tempts TO give form and expression 20 the more
violent crochets of the extremists, afford pTinad
| fdcte evidence of q willingness to consider the
| adoption of the amendment the sign of a States
| fitness for recognition. And this is all. For
augbt beside we have no assurance beyond the
general fact that Congress 1ound no other basis
OF a9reement than an amendment which in
itself is singularly free from harshness or in
justice. e...
Farther evidence in the same direction NAV
be gathered from the resolves of the Convent
tions and the prevalent tone of speeches upon
the stump. AS at Syracuse, the representative
organizations of the Republican party have
eschewed the ultra views of Mr.. Thaddeus Ste
vens, and with scarcely an exception have left
MIR. Wendell Phillips in the cold Neither in
this State, nor in Pennsylvania, nor in Ohio,
nor in Indiana nor in Illinois, has negro suf-
frage been generally presented as an article of
these States the Constitutional amendment has
been approved as an official embodiment of
terms presented by the victorious North to the
defeated South. True, there are speakers who
go much beyond the party platforms. There
are some who, as matter of principle, affirm
their adhesion to measures not accepted by the
party; and there ARE many who initiate the folly
of Forney, the blackguardism and blasphemy
of Brownlow, and the wickedness of those VINO
preach the doctrine of slaughter and theft.
But, as q rule, the candidates eschew these ex.
travagances, and plant themselves upon the
amendment as the measure with which they
will be content. ... ...
Take General Logan, now hard at work In
Illinois, as an eXempifcation of this fact. For
three or four months past he has been Classed
among the radicals, and unquestionably some
of his utterances have been seasoned hotly
enough to satisfy the most radical stomach. In
one of his latest and most elaborate speeches,
however as reported in a Chicago journal of
Monday last, he plants himself upon the amend
ment, and in part rests his justification of it
upon its ackno owledgment of State rights In the
matter of suffrage. His words are unmistakable.
81 am in favor of the principles of that Consti-
tutiona amendment, and that leaves the States
entirely free to arrange the matter for them
selves" And nearly his entire argument is
tnged with the same comparative moderation;
not making it exactly as we would have it, but
atfording a wholesome contrast to the talk of
the missionaries of incendiarism at present in
the West
The South will do well to bear these signs of
the times in remembrance when the proposed
amendment comes up for review. It will commit
a Prlevous mistake if it imagines that the amend
ment is not sustained by the North as temperate
and Just. And it will do erievous
wrong to the people of the North if it be misled
bv partisan clamor, and confouLd their demand
for the amendment with the reckless assump-
tons Of itinerant agitators.