The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-18


safety of republican institutions again im- |
perilled? Are our streets to run with blood and |
our houses to be Transformed into private |
arsenals The bitter exgeirIences i1 enc Of the past
out their revolutionary projects. Then the |
worst miseries of the war were reserved for the |
South; but in the new rebellion they Will be
brought to our own fresides. The only way TO
avert this catastrophe Is tor the people to ad-
minister TO the radicals so overwhelming
rebuke at the polls this fall that all thoughts OF
insurrection win be abandoned as futile. The
ballot-box fortunately precedes the bayonet and
the bullet. Let the people take care that In
this case 1t shall also supersede these weapons
of death. cas-
| From the Herald, Septensbers 8.
1t Is evident, therefore, from the spirit aud
manner in which the radical campaign against
| the President Is conducted, that If 1t should re-
suit In the election of another radical Congress,
| we may look before the expiration OF the next
| session OF the present Congress for the removal
1 OF Andrew johnson from the White House,
through his indictment by the House OF Repre-
sentatives and his impeachment by the Senate,
| with Chief Justice Chase in the Chair. Then
| We may look for such a reconstruction OF the
| Government as will save the people any further
trouble in its regulation short Of a sanguinary
| revolution. This is the danger which is now
| looming up in bold relief. How Is it to be
ayerted? 1t can only be averted by the election
| of a conservative House of Representatives in
place of the present radical one. A diminution
of the radical majority to less than two-thirds
| under ordinary circumstances, would be great
victory; but something more is required against
the two-thirds majority in the present Congress-
| which meets again in December. We want such
| verdict from the people of the great Central
| States for the Fortieth Congress as will intim-
date this still existing Thirty-ninth Congress,
and bring II IN subordination to reason and to
public opinion.
The country is in danger. All the radical
movements OF the day, all the signs OF the times,
are ominous of mischief, from the 'irrepressi-
BILE conflict" between q radical Congress and
| conservative Administration. From
liminary caucus of the last session of Congress
down to this day, the wrath of the radicals
against President johnson has been rapidly pro-
crossing from bad to worse, until the alternative
of his impeachment, which was first suggested
for his intimidation, is now proclaimed delioe.
rate purpose. All DISCUSSES and pretenses of
| reconciliation are at length cast aside, and the
radical faction may now be considered as boldly
in the field upon the issue of the impeachment
of the President, who has failed to serve them.
The dangers of which so lively picture is
| given in these extracts were expected TO result
| from the success of the radicals in the approach
ing Congressional elections. And now, the fact
that the radicals have held their own, and re-
elected all their members OF Congress IN New
England State, is regarded by the Herald as a
reason why the President should strike his
Colors and beg for quarter If the radicals carry
out their intention of impeachment, the Herald
will hound them on. If they exclude the
Southern States from the presidential election
the Herald will say it is right. 1t is only week
since that journal offered to support the con.
nominate General Dix. But the nomination
of General Dix would not have changed the
| result OF the Maine election. II the result in
| Maine is q sufficient reason for abandoning the
| conservative cause, how would the Herald
have kept Its promise had General Dix beer
nominated? One of its arguments is, that it il
J better TO submit to the inevitable. But If the
Maine election proves that the radicals are re-
: solute, do not the recent speeches of the
President equally prove that he is inhexible
Can anybody who knows anything of Andrew
Johnson suppose that after the language he
! has used during his tour, he will ca
/, , | his words crouch before the enemies he has
: | defed, violate his conscience and his oath,
and surrender the Constitution which he de
, nounces Congress for Aagrantly violating
: Surely the South will not ratify the Constitu
= tional amendment so long as the President
/, stands by them. The tendency of the Con
; ton against the radicals more and
!, more. The ten excluded States vii
= steadily refuse to ratify the amendment, and
| Kentucky, as is found by her late election, will
! | as steadily support them. There are, then, a
least eleven States which will not rahfy; thes'
: eleven will, in any event. prevent the adoption
! of the amendment until the number of States il
= increased from the present thirty-siX to forty
four. No radical majorites will shake the de
: | termination OF these eleven States. The radi
. Gals do not expect, nor even hope, that th
. | South will ratify the amendment. The HeTdt
: | can have no expectation that the advice it in
trudes upon the President will be taken. Tha
journal is doing its best to aid the radicals II
= electing the next Congress- and thus help then
: carry out their incendiary projects OF impeach
! | ing and deposing the President, excluding th
: | South from the Presidential election, and pung
: ing the country into the horrors of new civi