The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-03

Great National I'm pOrtance of the Presi-
demtial TOur-lts Extension South
wards.
From the Herald.
However modest may have been the views
of President Johnson before setting out on his
pious pilgrimage to Chicago, he must have
realized ere this, as the people at large have
realized, the great significance, in political,
or, rather, national point of view, OF the enthu-
siasm which has attended every mile of his
progress. Nothing like it could have been
anticipated. All the party prejudices which
have been so recklessly cultivated and en-
couraged for the last eighteen months seem to
have melted away before the warmth and
geniaIity and good-natured common sense of
the man, as the frosts of an autumn night melt
under the influence Of warm sun. Every
day of his journey rect6es the evil wrought Dy
weeks OF the late radical Congress. As he
intimates in one of his speeches, it seems to be
his mission to bring balm from Giead and
pour it with all Its healing influences on the
stil open wounds of the country. He we'll full
nils the mission OF peace on which he has
started; and II may, without any iIreverence,
be said of him that he goes about doing good.
II would be a pity if the influence which he
exercises in such a magnetic manner over the
people among whom be passes should be con-
fined to the towns and cities lying between
Washington and Chicago. We should wish to
see the same influence exercised in still wider
circle. The States of the Northwest, up to the
head of navigation of the Mississippi, would be
equally benefited and delighted by visit from
President johnson; and the States OF the South
west from Missouri to LOUISIANA, would hail
his presence as harblnger oil peace and good
will. And why should these communities not
be gratiGed in this manner? Why should they
not have an opportunity OF evldenclng their ad-
mIation OF the maR and their love for the great
principle of which he is the impersonation-
the comp iete restoration of the Union, and the
renewal of brotherly love among the citizens of
all its sections? We earnestly appeal to Mr.
johnson and ask him, for the sake OF the cour.
try at large, not to weary III the great and good
work which he has undertaken, aud which is
already producing such happy results. Let
him accept invitations to traverse the States
OF the Northwest, up to st. Paul. and to
descend the great river made free by two OF
the distinguished mel who are his fellow-pil-
grims-Grant and Farragut. The people OF
that region want to see their benefactors, and
no such opportunity may ever again present
itself, Let the party visit st. Lous, Louisville,
Memphis, VIcksburg Jackson, Natchez, and
New Orleans, not forgetting TO call at Island
No. 10 and Port Hudson, and the other points
along that historic river where the two great
commanders OF the army and OF the navy won
such honor. Coming northward, they would
have grand trlumphal procession through the
States which. once hostile, are now peaceful,
loYal, and true to the Union. Visiting Savan
nah, Augusta, Columbia, Charleston, and Will
mington, their last stopping-place on their way
TO the capital would be Richmond. In this
southern part of the tour the President would
be able TO undo much of the evil which the
present radical Congress has done, and to wipt
out the feelings of estrangement and bitterness
to which it has given birth. We put 1T mos
earnestly to MIR. johnson not to forego thi
grand opportunity. but to avail himself of
in the interests of the nation; and we run NJ
risk IN predicting that, when he gets back I
WASHINGTON, he will have given the death
blow TO the radicalism which has proved s
disastrous 10 the reunion and prosperity OF tn
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