The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-27
The Radicals.
from the Ddiiy Netps.

from the Daily Netos
The Black Republicans plunged the country
into one civil war. Is it unreasonable to sup
pose that they would not stop at plunging it into
another? On the contrary, that party was less
radical, less violent, less revolutionary In 1860
than it is at this hour. The history of Black
Republcanism arms its workings with susp
cion, and may, therefore, be held as concurrent
testimony IN support of the inference which
points, in the events of the hour, to its inten-
tion to carry its purposes even at the cost OF
The majority in Congress has continued for
several months past TO obstruct the restoration
OF the Union. That outrage on the country has
been committed at the bidding of desperate me-
cessitles OF party, Determined now that they
ale in power, to hold it at all hazards the Black
Republicans are plainly prompted IN their hos
nifty to reunion, with view to the next cleo
ton tor the Presidency. With eleven States in
a solid mass against them, they will never con-
sent to Ell ter on that contest; and hence have
they determined that, If they cannot divide the
vote OF these States by giving the elective iran
ohise to the negroes they VIII exclude those
States fIom the Electoral College by denying
their restoration to the Union Ali theories
about rights of man, universal suffrage, protec-
tiou OF the treeoman, and all that kind OF thing,
sum up at this moment in the case OF the Black
Republicans, to neither more nor less than the
cries under which they seek tc perpetuate their
control of the Government. d b.. HH.,.
The Southern people. il may be set down as
positively determined, will not consent to give
the negroes OF their States the elective franchise.
Only an amendment to the Constitution cancon-
Ter en- Congress the authority to force black sut-
tIage upon the South; and the passage of such
an amendment may be regarded as insuherable.
The division OF the Southern vote IN the Electo-
raj College may be seen thus TO be impracticable;
and, therefore, must we conclude that the de-
| signs OF the Black Republicans narrow them
| selves down actually to the exclusion of the
Cnutharn Gfotao nj a in the nnYt plpc.
| tion for the Presidency. .. . ....
Two years and half have to elapse before
the ensuing contest for the chair OF Washington.
The party in power do, therefore, grave in
| jury to the country in their determination to
| hold 1t during an interval so long IN state OF
! political excitement. Terrible as that view OF
| the case lie in fact, it pales into harmlessness
! before the other terTors which follow in the
! uain of that traitorous design of radicalism.
Events have already shaped themselves sutf-
| clently clearly to show that parties VIII enter
| into the Presidential election OF 1868 sharply
! defined. And the breach between the President
and Congress now being beyond all hope ofpatch-
| work compromise, these two branches OF the
| Government, be the nominees who they may,
VIII be pitted against each other lnthe struggle,
| front to front. .l
Tue Democracy and the radicals are sepa-
rated from each other now by memories OF out
rage. The relations of parties amongst us were,
perhaps, never before so characterized by
temper. The anger which has already been
stnred up by Congress against the President
is placed under circumstances which cannot fail
OF klndling it into fame. Violent disregard
for the Constitution on the one hand, and deter
mined devotion 10 what remains OF it on tho
other, Veloes and lawless enactments will pass
between these two branches of the Government
until even the President himself, in his defense
OF the institutions of the country shall have
become inhamed with patriotic passion. Will
two branches of thesGovernment battling il
bitter hostility at the head of two parties sepa
rated by memories OF wrong, we may look upoI
the Presidential election OF 1868 as under an,
repose. rL 81
Suppose the President and the Democracy Il
q majority in 1868, that majority made up Q
votes from the South. The Black Republicans
, who are now excluding Southern votes fron