The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-16

''when the President of the United States had do
clared tnat the war mao ceased all the States had
the right TO representation. The exactng OF new
conditions Is suDversNe OF national liberty ana
dangerous to pubic peace loud appIause~
If this be so, then what an atrocious usurper
must Andrew johnson be, in piling exaction on
exaction on the States lately In revolt, as pre-
requisites to their restoration! Do but consider
this:-
WARRINGTON, October % His Excellenoy James
johnson, Provisional Governor OF Georga:-I our
several te egrams have been received. The President
OF the United States cannot recognize any State
having resumed the relations of LOYALTY to the Union
that admits legal obligations con racted debts or
created their name 10 promote the war OF the Re-
beion. WILLIAM Ii. SEWARD.
How would General Dix-it his bread and
butter we're secure-deal with the exacter OF
these 'new conditions ~
Mr.. Robert O. Winthrop attempts to mis-
state the action and position of Congress with
regard to reconstruction. He says:-
"Most happily, Congress did not adjourn without
tlves from Iennessee but that very has rendered
1t all the more difficult to discover anything Of con-
policy in its persistent denial of all representation
TO the other southern States."
The delegation from Tennessee was admitted
to seats in either House of Congress- on terms
openly presented to eOery State lately in revolt,
as Mr.. Winthrop well knows. South Carolina
could have come in at the same time, and may
come in at any time, on the terms accepted by
Tennessee. Why, then, does man OF MIR.
WiuJulOpS dnbcCGuSubS Jdih VI buC lOpiO
tion of Tennessee as exceptional, and assert that
there is "perslstent denial of all representa-
ton to the other Southern Statcs" In this age
of general intelligence, what is to be gained by
such frauds?
-Governor Orr, of South Carolina, says:-
"Fellow. w.cltizens we have been knocking at the
door for eight long months, asking Congress to
admit us II we are not to be trusted y, when
we to be trustedl Is 1t just that we should be
cuded from these privilegesI No! tOrthe ngnt of
representation regarded as one OF the most sacred
rights IN the country Is 1t just far or generous
that we should be excluded from legislation while
taxes are imposed upon us without our consentr"
Governor Orr is one of the Rebel minority of
the people OF South Carolina. That minority
denies TO the large majority any voice whatever
in making the laws by which they are gov
erned, or in levying the taxes which they must
pay. SIS 1t lust, or fair, or generous" that the
10000 loyal blacks of South Carolina should be
Congress, but from all voice in the legislation
of their own State, "while taxes are imposed on
them without tLeir consent?" We measure
GoverDor Orr IN his own bushel. Whenever he
will bring his 300,0 600 confederates In the late
Rebellion to accord to their loyal black fellow
CarOlnians the rights already enjoyed by them
selves we will do our utmost to have him and
his colleagues admitted to seats in Congress.
Is not this fair? Nay, are we not in honor
bound to stand by our fellow Unionists OF South
Carolina, who though a majority OF the whole
people, are denied BY Orr & Co. all voice in
making the laws by which they are governed?
When he and his set are ready to do Justice to
their Unionist w-citizens, we will entreat
Congress to deal generously by them. But then
no entreaties will be needed.