The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-24
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If the proycrD had added something TO the same
effect about the Republican party, it would have
met with the same cordial assent that has been
given to the original statement. We blush i'm
deed, for our species when we read, day after
day, the columns OF abuse that are showered
npon Mr.. johnson, Mr.. Seward, and the Other
hard-working gentlemen who make up what is
called the Presidential party. We really do not
wonder that even so meek and patient a man as
Mr.. Johuson-a proud and sensitive man, as
MIR. Reecher calls him-should have, once or
twice, allowed hlmselt to speak OF the press
that permits such abuse as "base, venal, and
subsidized
But, to our thinking, even if the newspapers
had sll these bad qualities they would not be
so reprehenslble as their ingrattude makes
them. Just let the candid reader think mo
ment. We are at the beginning OF q most i'm
pOIlaut political campaign, in which, a few
weeks AGO, the prospect was that the South
would be able TO gain by chicane and fraud at
the polls what she had lost in fair fight on the
battlefield. good many OF Us felt decidedly
blue. Our enemies went about like roaring
lions, and sharpened their claws, and lashed
themselves into a good rousing fury to devo1r
MS as soon us killing time set in, when they
said would be very soon. 1t was hard
epouuh 10 see the carcass of the Contedera"y
whicn we had lett for dead rising up from The
CORY field like another Falstah" and shouting
out grin defiance that it had not been much
killed after all; but v was harder still 10 see
the sneaking band of Northern Copperheads
who a. soon as the trumpets of victory were
sounded. crawled away TO their holes like toads
at SUNRISE now hopping about as happy as ifthey
felt sure the night were coming again-as, in
deed, Mr. Raymond assures them 1t SHALL il his
party is defeated. Every loyal man knows that
he felt aggrieved and despondent over this state
OF things only few weeks ago. We saw before
MS long, expensive hard-wOrking campaign.
We saw chat, II we woull carry the day, we
must expect to work like TItans and spend
money like water. There were thousands upon
thousands of tracts TO be printed, campaign
documents, campaign ITibuneS, and these must
be circulated, sOWu broadcast over the land at
further expense and further trouble Then,
again, there were the speeches. Our ablest men
must put on harness, and work night and day
lor weeks ana weeks. They must travel, too,
and at what eyuense! ThinH of car and steam
boat bills. Think, If you dare, OF hotel bills;
ana there is the charge for halls and platforms,
and music and popguns, and defeat, perhaps,
very like to be the end OF all this deluge Of
money, wit, elOquence, and patriotism.
Such was Inc prospect before us a lew short
weeks ago And now, what q difference! How
the horizon has cleared Behold how brightly
breaks the morning, wav down East, over
Maine See over brave Vermont, God bless
her! the Northern lights, like the spears of an
army, with banners OF silver and flame. And
New York is sure to follow; and Pennsylvania
who can doubt? And Indiana is no longer
question, and every loyal mans pulses throb
with eXultation over the redemption that
draweth nigh. Who did this thing? Who
wrought this amazing change? Who lifted thiS
burden of toll and expense which, necessary
as it was, we all felt to be at best sordid
charge, nom our shoulders. and set us free
OF course, it is the Lords doings, but who were
the mortal instruments If these scurvy radi-
Gals are not ashamed to look us in the lace and
listen TO us, we can tell them that to the proud
and sensitive Johnson, and the oily and pro-
phetic Seward they owe debt they can never
pay.
Mr. Seward alone is q bill they can never foot
How these men have worked Tor us. How
they have spoken, in season and out OF season,
without yielding to their own WEAKNESS or TO
that of their hearers! What pleasing power OF
humor the Secretary has showed How he has
condescended to the lowest capacity, and gam
boiled with us in rhe mosInfantile way! How
he has not been ashamed to prove to the mob
that age is not necessarily venerable, nor eX-
perlence necessarily prophetic, nor the fact
that man speaks to the whole world, and
moves in the presence OF the nations any good
reason why he should not misrepresent, insult,
and defy the better part OF his countryRen!
And how Mr. johnson has thrown himself into
the breech We used TO think Mr.. Everett
a wonder when he delivered one speech ii
hundred times; but Mr.. Johnson has left him
far behind. And what an effective speech it
has sbeen! Every repetition OF it has been a
new assurance OF victory blast on rams
horn before which additional bricks have fallen
from the wall of the City of Treasonl Nor need
we fear that he has exhausted his powers. We
are assured that the party has an ample supply
of horns for the future, and Will use them with
energy. Mr. johnson Is reported as in excellent
voice, and the more insulting and indecent the
craven crowds of subsidized citizens become at
every advancing step, the more he convinces
them that he is their match in dignity and
decency. And all this has been done for us
without any further expense than the mortifca-
tion and shame that follow the reading OF the
daily record of it in the journals.
The party that has done our dirty work for us
so etfectually has paid its own bills on the ears.
steamboats,, and at the hotels. thousand
journals have printed and published the docu.
ments for us, and the mails have disseminated
them far and wide. Mass-meetings have assem-
bled without putting any one to the trouble oil
calling them together; bands have footed, fire
works have fzzled, and all the fountains have
flowed with brandy and water; and we have
nothing to do but to laugh and grow fat as We
read the election returns that tell us the glor
Gus result of the Presidential policy.
If everybody is ungrateful, then we are mag
unanimous and ungrateful. God be thanked tina
the bloody mind of the South was shown to III
IN season to guard against the blow she aimed
at least TO guard against it in part God bt
thanked that the scandalOus part the Presiden
played in egging on the massacre and COunte
nancing 1T, stand revealed in noon-dav light
defying his power to hide! And God be Thanked
that he put 1t into the hearts OF these bad meI
at the head of the Government to uncover thei
own nakedness without shame IN the sight q
the whole people, that they might see tor them
selves what manner OF men they are, and no
charge us with Calumnies and ISLANDERS which
we had taxed our invention TO the bitterness
these meE in nigh places have of their own fre
will most scandalously Outdone
The Ways and Means of Promotin
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From the Times.
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