The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-28
"Repent ant Republicans"

from me ITtOhne.
Such ls the phrase whereby the World charac'
terizes the omnibus load of hybrids who hold
eetngs to applaud the Presidents veto of the
Freedmen's Bureau BILL and who write or tele.
graph approval of his outrageous attack on Con-
gress. Says the World:-
"lhe point of the meeting is that the respectable
Republican gentlemen VINO inspired controlled,
sanctioned, attend ID it, have iRdOrSed MIR. John.
son IN mis- fight with the radicals in Congress, who
number 100 in the House, ana at least 30 in the
senate! They have, in eieot, given sanction and
approval to what the President uttered in Washing
ton wne the meeting at the ooper Institute was at
It's height. They have proclaimed the PRESENT Con-
gress 10 be kump Congress and The radicals to the
number we have named, to De dlsunlonlss s, as we
have been labe ling them for some months. They
have, by tie add ess put forth at the meeting,
pledged the President their support If he the
Negro Suffrage bill for the D1strl ct of Columbia and
have undertaken to tain the Southern States in
claim 20 be The arbiters OF their own fate in re-
spect to negIo voting! They declare Forney, D. D.,
Sumner, Stevens and Phillips no better Than Davis,
Toombs, Slldell, and Benjamil :"
The World evidently considers the managers
ard magnates of the Cooper Institute meeting all
fish tor Inc Copperhead net, and expects in due
time to land them. This is true as to some, but
not as to others. They will flop over' when
the net begins to drag them in.
The Journal of Commerce is equally eager to
"realiZe." 1t reminds the ishy school that they
are bit bakers dozen, and urges them to take
refuge at once in the ranks of the Unterrihed,
i'It would be much better for the New York
Times, and especially 1or the Connecticut and New
Hampshire hepuD leans who stand by Mr. johnson,
to sus end at once all their anhpathy TO Copper
heacs as the Times still cal them to stop all abuse
of Democrats 'disoya and reflect that the Presl-
den will fall unsupported If they succeed IN pre-
venting the Democrats from sustaining him. In
Congress, there not dozen of them all told and
without the AID of Democrats, they could not pre-.
vent the Radicals from passing all their measures
over succession of We oes In the country at large,
they are probably IN q minority OF their own party
for we have tolerably good evidence that the Radi
calls carry nealv all the Republican conventions 1t
is sheer for the political wirepdlers of the
Times 10 claim SPECIAL property in Mr. johnson at
such O time this, think that he will regard
them as the only people 10 whom he has appealed
for support"
That this is SO, all men do know; and the
stragglers as well as the rest. Negotiations
looking to ''tuson" OF the Cooper Institute
doctors with the Tammany Hail Democracy
have for days been IN progress, and Governor
Seward, on Saturday night was taken in and
done tor at the Manhattan Club" palace of the
aristocratic Democracy as though the arrange
ments had already been perfected. At the date
of our last advices they had not been; vel
nothing in the future is more certain than thai
our ''repentant Republicans" will soon be iol
lowing the flag OF Sham Democracy and shout
ing for the nominees OF Tammany Hall. Watct
and coo