The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-24


| ment with regard to Mexico, it is to be hoped
| that Napoleon will not only take away the So
| called Emperor Macmillan, but Will withdraw
| the French troops also at once and forever.
| This will secure and perpetuate the friendship
| OF the United States. In any other course there
| is danger
The Republican Party and the Admis-
sion of the South.
From the Times
Those of our Republican contemporaries who
realize the importance of last weeks proceed
ings at Philadelphia, a1e exercising their inge-
nuity upon plans for frustrating the movement
which was there lnaugurated. Their devices
are many and their Candor is excessive. One,
with rare simplicity, appeals to the South to
identify itself forthwith with the Republican
party, submitting graciousy to the terms die
tated by Congress, and in return receiving the
favors which that body may be enabled to dis
pense. But this suggestion does not meet the
peculiarities of the case; for the North happens
to be the sphere within which the movement Is
intended to operate. The South gives its SYM
pay hies, but the real Work-the decisive battle
must be disposed Of here in the North, with
conservative Republicans and Democrats on the
| one side, and disunion radical Republicans on
the other.
Another journal has invented much more
plausible method OF saving the Congressional
party from the defeat that awaits them. How
to spike the Philadelphla guns" is the problem
to which the Springfield RepUbLicdn applies
itself, and the solution it propounds is war
ranted to be efcacious. We may Condense it
into sentence. To ''spike the Philadelphia
| guns" and take the wind out OF the sails of tue
| national Union movement, let the Republican
| majority in Congress resolve to admit the
| Southern members next session, subject only to
| the test required by law. The reasoning of the
| Republican IN support OF this prescription tor
avertng disaster in the coming campaign
| merits notice, because OF the admissions on
which il is predlcated. These are the essential
"All that the Presidents friends propose to
do, at present, is to operate Tor tho election of
| members of Congress, who will vote for the ad-
| mission of loyal Southern members, and to do
this irrespective of party lines, voting for Re-
| pubcans or Democrats who will do this one
| thing, whatever may be their views on other
| questions. 1t Is not, therefore, party contest,
| and there is no need TO make it so, Nor Is there
any necessity that the Republicans, or their
candidates, should accept the issue made up for
! them. II has not been made in Congress. Not
a few OF the most saunch Republicans in both
| Houses have desired the prompt admission Of
Southern members who could take the test oath,
ana would have voted for 1t at any time during
the last session If The matter could have been
brought forward. But the JOINT Committee,
cunningly devised Tor that very purpose, pre-
vented action till near the close OF the session.
and then no opportunity was given to act except
upon the cases OF the Tennessee members If a
vote could have been reached, umembarrassed
with other matters, there were several times
during the session when both Houses would
undoubtedly have received all the loyal South
ern members who offered themselves. Skllul
tactics on the part of certain leaders prevented
a trial OF strength on the main question, but the
real state OF the case is made evident by the laCt
that they dared not press to a vote the bill fixing
conditions OF representation for the Southern
States. They knew that they could not get a
majority of the Republican members to tie their
own hands for the future, by any such action.
1t must be conceded that the argument
made by the Philadelphia Convention for the
right of the Southern States to representation
is very strong one. ConstltutioualY 1T is
| imDTegnabe. But, nevertheless, the issue
is not in fact as broad and distinct
as the Presidents supporters assume. 1t
is a question Of time and circumstance,
rather than OF constitutional right, as 1t now
stands. If the Southern States had presented
| themselves before Congress on the daY after
Lees surrender, and demanded the admission
OF their Senators and Representatives as con-
stitutlonal right, it would have been considered
indecent haste. It was evidently the right and
duty OF Congress to wait till the South was in a
condition to be represented, and OF this It had
the right to Judge, as well as OF the fact OF the
regular election and the loyalty OF the members
offering themselves. Congress has taken time
for that purpose, whether too much or not Is a
: matter OF opinion. But IL has not taken any
position requiring the indefinite exclusion OF
the South or fixing terms OF admission, or pre-
? GLIDING their admission at the next session, OF
} at any time when circumstances are found ia
3 Justify it, This view OF the case, and 1T is the
} guns may be spiked, and how completely the
t Republicans command the situation 1t viii
9 be gratuitous folly If they accept narrower
e platform than they have made for themselves
y Now, inasmuch as the Tribune has not
E yet called the Springfield Republican a
e ''copperhead sheet" we take it that the state
e merits we have quoted carry the stamp OF ortho
o dox Republicanism. And they will bear Tecapl
n tulaton. 1t is admitted, in the first place, tina
d the position assumed by the Philadelphia Con
i vention in regard to the right OF the Southern
3 States to represent alton is constitutonally i'm
d pregnable. 1t Is alleged, in the next place, tina
n sta1nch Republicans were last session, prepared
l. the right, but were overcome by the tactics o
IS the Radical leaders: 1t u y Gontepded, in tn
Of nor the majority in Congress have formal
ID committed themselves to the policy of exclud
a ing the South, and that Republican candidate
O. for Congressional honors should therefor
abstain from all pledges on the subject.
Of The common-sense rendering of the view thu
at presented would seem to be that, because tn
i'd Republican party, as party, have not decide
n: against the demand preferred AT Phladelphis
OF they NAV sDike the guns of the Convention b