North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-11-28
THE N4TToNAL PROBLEM.
The Pro gramme or the Future, According
to Wendell Phillips.
TFrom the Anti-sl.very standard, Nov. II !

their vote on johnson, DIS FoiiCyr a"u h'0
adherents. The Republican party has
been the mere channel through which, as
the most convenient and ready one, the na-
tiop has spoken. In. fact there are but two
parties to this fight, and the Republican is
not one of them The President, as the
South 3 leader, is one. He seeks to shield
the South from allloss in consequence of
her defeat, and. to restore her. principle OF
oliear chy-a white mans governments
unchanged as possible. He is one party
to the fight The people are the other
They have made up their minds that hav-
lng gotten their hands on the neck of this
sectional oligarchy they will strangle it be-
fore they quit hold. They b.heve, with
Lander, that "a king should be struck
bnt once, a mortal blow" They mean that
slavery, with all roots, branches, suckers,
parasites and dependents, shall die utterly
and forever! This is the Specification of
our late triumph. 1t is more than parti-
san victory. 1t is the declaration Of a ma
tional purpose. Congress and its amend
ments were counted out of the battle. The
President, representing the South's claim
ing with it State sovereignty still strong
enough to uphold oligarchy, appealed to
the people. They have answered him, and
nailed his theory to the counter as base
coin.
Congress abdicated and left the field when
it tried to stand neutral, asserting in its
amendments to the South's claim of sover-
eighty over the law of citizenship, yet pro-
testing against the Executives ususpation
I of acknowledging it. From that moment
the nation ignored them, and fought its
own battle on the principle itself-lmpar-
tial manhood rights the nation through
Whoever will serve them in carrying out
this purpose equivocal, and take him to
their hearts. Witness that pride of the
West, General Logan. Who ever tries to
baulk them in this effort, no matter what
his past merits, or Iaufels, he sinks ont Of
sight. Witness Beecher's loss in the wave
he fondly imagined he could sim. Wit
ness Grant unable to stir ;S.al ;SS..aaluIit on the
limos prairie-Illnois, his own State
from an Audiance of twenty thousand men
one half his own soldiers. Witness the
New York Times sunk fifty per cent. ir
value in six months by its VAIN attempt to
oppose this dnmb but resistless movement
of the nation. This assertion, at all event:
is utterly faIse-Ed. Times. This fac
IL at no name, no laurel, no services, weigl
feather put in the scale against Radio
a.ism, is the most cheering and wholesome
characteristic of the hour. 1t is this tha
cheers us even against such an appalling
fact as that a million and half of voters
more than six hundred thousand in the two
States of New York and Pennsylvania
are still corrupt and ignorant enough IL
wgfet65 5nlze the terrible sMigfhiteaitt9u Mifite itt9usSe
this fact. Put behind such mass of be
sotted and corrupt tools, the patronage o
tee government and the moral support O
the South-if the word ''moral'' can evel
be used in snch cornectlon-and its infu
ence must be fearful. Still, the people
have shown such true instincts, such nm
falteriLg devotion, plucking out right eyes
and cntting off right hands when they Of
tended, that We catch fresh hope from the
elections. Maryland is herself a testimo.
ny to our theory. This defeat is fit re.
buke to hear faithless leaders. They swim
died the negro out of his rights to consoli-
date their opponents. They succeeded in
preventing Congress from granting suf-
frage in the District of Columbia for the
same purpose. They gagged the LOYAL
Southern Convention on that question to
propriate rebels. OF course they entered
the canvass loaded with the odinm of their
supposed principles, and without the
strength which would have come from
their avowal. Such policy deserves and
secures defeat. But this defeat will save
Maryland, Tennessee. Massachusetts, nails
ber colors to her top gallant mass. First
among the States--dear old Common
wealth--she receives the hated and victim
race into her legislative halls. While
Tribunes and Posts, while national Repub-
lican committees aud State committees
were welcoming rebels back to Congress
even if they rode over the neck of our only
Southern ally, the negro, Massachusetts
shows them specimen of such model
! State as the loyal masses mean shall exist
in the present territory of South Carolina
before they begin to inquire whether it,
said State, has chosen any fit person to
represent it in Congress. E.
Revolutions never go backward. 1t is
equally true that Radicalism travels West
ward. Personal Liberty Bills, Women's
Rights Bills. and all such legislation, start
ed from New England and have ''swung
round the circle" This last Yankee no.
tion will soon begin its travels, and COM
plete them when North and South know
no race before. law. Then, when a million
Of black men aid in shaping our national
policy, their race will feel the effect the
world over. They will never leave their
brethren in Cuba, under the yoke, They
will throw a shield over the struggling ma
tionality of Hayti and lift Brazil into har-
mony with the nineteenth century Then
viii the touching and sublime picture Ma
ria Towell draw of Africa cease TO be true.