The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-05

plot, Stevens of the House, have been and will
be rejected by the great BODY of the Republican
party IN Congress-. IL was sumner, with his
charge OF whltewasbing against the President
at the beginning of the last session, and II was
Stevens, with his warning o. the fate OF Charles L.
who fomeLted all this trouble between the Pre-
sident and Congress; but still both Houses, in
spite OF all the efforts OF these men, have been
controlled by wiser counsels than theirs. Hence,
when Sumner from Massachusetts cries out that
the Constitutional amendment will not do, and
when Stevens from Pennsylvania echoes the
CRY, they do not fughten any bo0Y, because we
have seen that they have no power over the
prevailing sentiment OF Congress, which Is the
prevailing sentiment of the North, as emb odled
IN this great amendment h N
Coming next to the speech OF Senator Co wan
at Harrisburg, we find that, as a johnson Re-
publican, he tails to state the issue before the
country. He presents 1t as the issue between
johnson and Stevens; but 1t is no such thing
Stevens was defeated upon all his propositions
of Southern negro suffrage, Southern conisca-
tton, and Southern dlstranchisement and the
plan. adopted by Congress is substantially Presi-
dent JohnsOn's plan of restoration, chapter and
verse. MIR. Cowan must now, and in common
fairness ought to admit, that II is not Thaddeus
stevens but the Constitutional amendment OF
Congress that is before the States tor their rat,
ticatIon. MIR. Ouwan, few days hence at all
events, will discover that the people OF Penn
sylvania understand this nice distinction be-
tween the schemes of Stevens and the plan oil
Congress: and so We dismiss Mr.. Cowan.
late stump speech OF Mayor Hoffman at Roches-
ter 1t hes before us ID one OF our exchanges
a tlresome Tigmarole of the current Copperhead
election serving clap-trap. The only polnI
made by this champion of the Tammany ring
ae aust the amendment before the people that
we deem worthy OF notice is, that If the eX-
cluded Stales ratIfy this amendment II will not
admit them into Congress. we answ wer again
that O. ngress has bound itself to their admls.
sion in the admission OF Tennessee. Hoffman,
in short, IS playing the Sumner and Stevens
game to defeat this amendment, and in this
way Copperheads and radical Jacobins are
giving aid and comfort to each other and to
Southern revolutionists,
From all these stump speeches of quibbing
and unscrupulous factionists 1t is refreshing to
turn TO such an exposition of the issue before
the country as we find in the reports of a late
speech oil Senator Sherman, al Cincinnati. lie
tells the people that IN the adoption OF the plan
OF Congress the joint committee OF the Two
Houses "lald aside every radical measure
brought before them" including universal
suffrage and the treatment OF the late Rebel
States as territories, and that as member of
the Senate he hopes the Southern States will
adopt the amendment, because it viii admit
them into Congress- and he wants them to un-
derstand that they Will not accept this, 1.-THE
same power chat conquered them once Will
impose terms upon them tnat they won't like
80 well.n
The ISSUE then, is this amendment or some
thing worse Tor the excluoed States. There is
no prospect Of anything better. The very worst
results from political dlScOrdS North, ana bloody
anarchy SCUM, and confusion every where, are
to pc feared from the rejection by the South of
this amendment. Its adoption will admit the
excluded States and restore them at once to
financial confidence order, development, and
prosperity. Shall we have TINS amendment and
reunion, peace and progres, or shall chaos come
again? This, after all, IS the real issue before
the country; for the alternative presented the
excluded States on the one hand is restoration
and prosperity, and on the other confusion and
destruction.