The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-08
The Nigger WOrshippers' Convention in
Philadelphia.
From Me Herald.

Philadelphia.
From The Herald.
In our graphic reports of the present Phila.
dephia Convention, as in a mirror, radicalism
may see its own hideous and grotesque image
clearly reflected. The Convention is composed
of the worst fanatics of the North and the South,
and the only contest between them is as to which
shall go to the greater extremes. The Northern
radicals are in favor of cheating the negroes by
postponing all declarations upon the subject of
negro suffrage for eXpediency's sake, so as to
delude our voters into retaining them in favor
at the coming elections but the Southern radi-
Gals, who have no supporters among the white
men, and whose only hope is i'll the blacks,
oppose this policy bitterly, and insist that the
right OF the negroes 10 vote shall be emphati-
caly asserted. Reinforced by Mr.. Greeley, who
was beaten upon this very question in the SYRIA.
cuse Convention, they may possibly succeed;
but no matter what right is claimed for the
negroes, it is universally conceded by these
radicals, in the language of Senator Chandler,
that the only rights which the Southern white
people possess are "the constitutional right to
be hanged and the divine right to be damned.n
In froth and fury, in violence and vindictlve-
| ness, in rant and rage, this radical cabal eX-
| ceeds any Jacobin club or any assemblage of
| fre-eaters. The Convention was opened on
Wednesday by a blasphemous TRADE from Inc
| irreverend Mr.. Newman, who prayed God to
deliver us IRON the rule of bad men, especially
| from him who through satanic agency has been
raised TO authority over us," and who asked still
more directly Tor the ASSASSINATION of the Presi-
| dent by shouting, Great God interpose, and, In
| making bare Thine arm for vengeance, save us
| from lhis infamous and ruinous polcy.n Not
many months ago, we remember, c3rgymen
were fined and imprisoned, at the solicitation of
| these very radicals, for simply omittng the
| name of the President in their prayers. What,
| then, shall be said of those who pray for the
| Presidents death or assassination?
| They must forget that their m
vet come home to roost, and that the poisoned
| chalice they prepare for him may be COM
| mended 10 their own lips. John Minor Bolts,
| who SAID that 'some one ought to be found to
| put out Secretary Stewards light;" the Illinois
| delegate, who promised a good row in Chi
| cago;" MIR. Greeley, who wrote that President
johnson should chang outside the verge" and
| all the other radicals who indulge in these
| threats are but storing up wrath against the day
| OF wrath. Should any harm betall the Presi-
dent in consequence oi their utteIances. nothing
can save them from the Indignation of the peo-
! pie. They Will die, hunted and crippled, like
| j. Wilkes Booth, or manned and bleeding, like
RobespIerre, and in all our large cities few lamp
| posts will be without their radical pendants.
| Those who SOW the winds will reap the Whrl-
| winds.
| The country is now upon the eve of terrible
| dangers. The Northern rebellion has developed
its purposes, and must be as sternly suppressed
as the Southern rebellion ought TO have been
at its inception. The radical plots which we
| have long since exposed are now openly
| avowed. Speaker Trcmsin, at the Syracuse
| Convention, announced that the radical pro.
| gramme was to exclude the electoral votes OF
| the southern States from the next Presidential
| election; TO remove the President if he objected
| to this exclusion, and 10 march radical army
| through the South if any resistanc we're offered
to this course. The delegates TO the Philadel-
phia Convention ill up the outlines OF the plan
sketched by Treman, and assert that President
Johnson must be got out of the way, eitner by
impeachment or assassination, and that
negro insarreCtion must be melted to still
further cripple and weaken the South.
All these threats are ominOus of trouble
Should the worst come to the worst, we do no
fear the issue, because we know that the loyal
patriotic, and conservative men of the country
are in so vast majority that they Will be ablt
to crush the radicals at once. But are we read,
tor another civil war at our own doors? Is tht
and the safety OF republican institution
again imperlLed? Are our streets to run will
blood and our houses to be transformed int
private arsenals? The bitter experiences of tn
past four years will be exceeded if the radical
carry out their revolutionary projects. The
the worst miseries of the war were reserved 70
the South; but in the new rebellion they will b
brought to our own tiresides. The only way t.
avert this catastrophe is for the people to ad
minister to the radicals so overwhelming
rebuke at the polls this fall that all thoughts O
insurrecton will be abandoned as lutiIe Tn
ballot-boX fortunately precedes the bayonet an
the bullet. Let the people take care that i
this case it shall also supersede these weapon
of death.