The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-16


election. How are we to account for ii, in view
Of the rupture between the Republican party in
Congress and the President, elected Vice-Presi.
depT on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln? The
New Hampshire Democracy came out with fly
ing colors in support of President johnson, and
in denunCiation of the radical doings OF Con-
gress; but the Republicans had the advantage OF
| supporting both President and Congress- and
they we're supported by both departments. The
Administration, through Postmaster-General
Denison, urged the integrity OF the party, for at
this juncture it ls the policy OF President John
son to fight the radicals within the Republican
lines. Moreover, the oder of Copperheadism
and the Chicago SheDt-pershent Conventions
very bad odor-still sticks to the Democratic
party.
This fact was strikingly developed in our last
November election, when one OF the most bril-
llantly successful heroes oft war though put
on the johnson platform was beaten as the Demo-
cratic candidate by thirty thousand majority.
In fact, from its obnoxious peace affiliations and
peace movements during the war, the Demoera-
nc party has lost the confidence OF the people
who carried through the war. The party mUst
take q new shape and new name before 1t can
expect to accomplish any important political
revolution. The party record ofthe war has killed
il dead as the Bourbons. The new wine of
Johnson's policy cannot be put into the old
Democratic bottles Of the Chicago Convention.
new departure, under q new organization,
embracing the republican admlnistratiOR con-
servatives, is the true course for the Northern
remnants OF the old Democratic party. Such,
we hold, is the party lesson from this late New
Hampshire election. The same lesson will pro.
badly be repeated in Connecticut, although
there, abandoning the ritual OF CopperheadIsm,
the party is RAINING for Governor a candidate
identified with the Constitutional amendment
abolishing slavery. This is long step in the
right direction; but in order TO meet the admin
istratlon and the new order OF things, the
Northern democracy must cast off their butter.
nut party uniform, and come out in the true
blue of the Union party Of Andrew johnson.
Fenianism and the Fright in Canada.
| from the Herald.
Canada is in terrible state of alarm over the
bugaboo of invasion that 1t has conured up in
its infantile imagination. OF course every one
in Canada abuses every one out OF that wild
| region, and raves, and scolds, and whines with
the funniest fright and frenzy. The United
| States is blamed for all, and the Canadian
words against us are an exact description of
| Canadian conduct two years ago. "Change but
the name, the tale is told of thee.n If the United
States had issued a proclamation and put down
the Fenian demonstrations, and so forth and
| so forth, Canada, we are told would not have
| been In this danger. How well these very words
! apply to what Canada might have done against
cur enemies whom she sheltered, protected, and
| encouraged
And in virtue of this, if all were real that
| Canada fears, she would get no more than she
deserves. But her fears are vain and silly. Fe-
nianism will never hurt her. There is too much
money in the institution for it to accomplish
| any such object. ORe branch ia this city is now
| in the daily receipt of ten thousand dollars, the
| other Of three thousand dollars. Perhaps not
less than hundred thousand dollars day is
subscribed throughout the country. viii the
| teR1an leaders give up such business as this
to go to Canada and meddle with villanous salt
| petre Would they even go to such cold,
| miserable, Godforsaken country to spend it.,
with all the cities OF the United States open for
their reVels, and all the world before them
| fharA fr oh h 40, Ia,n Ao IL 80
SOme of the Consequences of the Doctrine
that the Southern States are Out Of the
Union.
From the Times
The Tribune says
"Johu T. Monroe, the National Democratic can
%s We @ S0o ,b ayR ySs sSoS %sD
Butler and Farragut took that CITY,"
There is danger of too many results OF this
character while the country is kept in false
position. We are, as long as Congress holds that
States are out of the Union, enacting lie. The
reverse of this proposition was affirmed in 1861
by an almost unanimous vote of Congress. To
maintain that position the people gave up mil
lions Of treasure and rivers of blood. And now
Congress, after the Rebellion is conquered stul
tifylng its record holds that the States which we
lasisted could not be taken oHt OF the Union are
Rebellion into u revolution. Then the rebelhouS
States would have become an Independent
Coniederacy. But defeat leaves the States in the
Union and the Unien intact.
The question, and the only real question, is
for Congress TO determine upon the qualifica
tions of its mem bers. And over that question
their power is supreme. Thus simpliaed, diff
cultes disappear. But while it is held that
States instead of people were in Rebellion, all is
muddled.
Congress has established the fact that ordi
nanCes Of secession did not take States out o
the Union by recognizing members from Ten
nessee in their seats, after that State had seeded
Now, however, instead Of proceeding to admit
or reject loyal representatives 1t confoundt
LOYALTY with treason, by excluding both classes
Colonel Johnson, staneh and true TO the Gov
eminent and Union from the beginning, anC
sacrificing vastly more for his country thar
those who shut the door in his face, ia rewarded
for hts galantry and devotion by being treated
as a Rebel. The men who deny Colonel John
son his seat did not, like that patriotic Union
man, offer their lives in the 1eld for the
country.
When Congress refuses to discriminate be
tween loyalty and rebellion, confoundng Uniol
true men at the South? How can Union mel
hope for election in New Orleans or Savannah
when no encouragement is given them at Wash
ington?
Smiling as a Senatorial Art.
From tho Times.
Few people, we suppose, pretend to comprC
hend the whole of tine speeches, or the half o
the theories, that have been elaborated in Cor
gress during its present session. Their pro