The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-07
The Danger of the Republicans-The Fate
- OF Sectional Parties.

From The Herald. sH
The Republican party, in the plenitude of its
power, is in danger of going to pieces. After
carrying the country safely through the most
formidable and perilous Rebellion in the history
of any nation this powerful party is suddenly
brought face TO face with an administration OF
its own choosing on the comparatively simple
question of the restoration of the Union. The
associate of President Lincoln on the Republican
ticket of 1864, representing the principles upon
which this ticket was elected, and pursuing the
policy inaugurated by the lamented Lincoln, is
pronounced faithless to his high trust by
ruling faction in Congress because he rejects
the new platform OF reconstruction which they
have set up. The conflict thus brought about
between CONGRESS and the Executive brings the
Republican party TO the alternative Of chance
OF front, or mutiny in the camp and the speedy
overthrow of its adhering forces by new or
ganiZation. a.Nt .I p"
In a conflict between the broad, comprehen.
sive national policy OF President johnson and
the narrow, tanatical, sectional ideas of Thad-
deus Stevens, it Is manifest that Stevens and his
faction must go down. % The battles of the loyal
North against the rebelious South have been
fought out to- the ultimatum OF Southern sub
mission. The war is over. Peace has returned.
The late rebellious States complying with the
terms demanded of them as the practical and
legal consequences of their Rebellion, are Await
ing their readmission INTO Congress. In all
other respects, excepting the existing Freed
mems Bureau, the Commander in-C Chief of the
army and navy and the Chief Magistrate of the
Union has renstated them as loyal members
thereof. He holds, too that so far as they can,
produce lloyd Representative, duly elected, SAID
States are emitted to q readmissioh into both
Houses OF Congress, and in all this we have
abundant evidence that the President is sus
tainld by the public oDlnon OF the States
which have put down the Rebellion by the
bavonet. n. n# .i-L l....-l 90 Oh I.
MIR. Thaddeus Stevens and his. retaiuers, no ".
ever, reject the Pre- dent's work and his argu-
ments, and demand a course of treatment
towards the excluded States as against sec
ton disarmeo but .stlll rebellious, protesting
submission but still disloyal and not to be
trusted short Of new conditions for the security
OF the black race and the. national TREASURY. In
a word, the programme OF Stevens is simply
the government OF the South as o hostile sec.
ton by the sectional party to which sectional
rebellion gave possession OF the Government.
The Presidents plan IL to do away with these
sectional divisions of the Rebellion, and to
make make the unlonl mon war party Union peace
Now that a mere sectional party under the
peace establishment cannot stand is proved by
all our past experience, The old Federal party
which We NAV. say came int0 possession OF the
Government with Washington. went out witl
the first Adams, and was extipgnished in The
war OF 1872 because OF its degeneration into
those contracted sectional New Gland idea.
that Illuminated from the Hartford Convention
The splendid old national WhiEparty built luv
by, Henry Clay began to decline afromso It'd
Northern sectional abolition affiliations OF 1874
and went down with them in 1859. never u
rise again. 4 In that C dnyass the old Demoefat
party ON the national platform ot C1ays grea
compromise measures on the slavery stioD
carried all the States OF the Onion except Masss
chusetts and Vermont Ke tdeky l9nd Ten1ei
see; and from that victory the DamOeraoE ha'
az iaF ai prospect l0fba long Feigns OF power q
had the Republicans from the election of 1856
oBnt poor Pierce and other trading politician
nj North WIN M Vho had t1apti uI01
ing the debasing r0ie of huhkies 10 the pr
slavery fre.eatefs OF the South, made the iatl
mistake OF the repeal OF the Missouri CompFi
Sc a burnt Offering 70 the South for th
tikeOi 1854 tie Democratic party becaHe, a se'
tonai party Iiend rs such, fte s'SSs of SLAYER
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