The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-05
The ''BUmmersr OF the John Brown Arm,
.#,. ... on Reconstruction.

ne summers" oil Jne JOnn Brown Army
.H, a. on Reconstruction.
From the World. '''
Whether the Southern people are entitled to
representation, or shall be hereafter upon some
condition precedent, is aquesuon which involves
not only the point OF an original Federal Union,
but the honesty and good faith OF the conquer
ing States.
The question of the war was the right of
secession, which was affirmed by the seeding
States as a necessary logical sequence from all
American history and all American IDEAS 1t
was denied by the other States, which fought
as they alleged, TO preserve precisely the exact
relations which had existed between all since
Washington took the inaugural oath.
III hoe SignO they fought and conquered but
the SiJnunI OF the battle Is not the signum OF
the peace.
The President holds that the ostensible object
OF the war shall be the object after the war. So
we think, and therefore not only say he IS
right, but propose 20 vote that he is right. The
mass OF what was the original Republican
party say he is wrong, and oppose him in every
way. .a' 10 ...
He has in his Cabinet and out of it a set of
men VINO profess to BE- his friends, the hummer
portion OF the army OF John Brown, who not
only do not support him, but who endeavor to
drive oil the Democracy from supporting him,
by assuming, as his mouth pieces, 10 denounce
that organization which regarded the liberties
OF the actual citizens OF the United States the
Constitution, and the Union, as paramount TO
all claims OF humanity, and as sacred against all
private revelations from Heaven. II the Presi.
dent did but know il, his worst enemies are not
the radicals. He can fight them, and fog them,
If he will only have troops on W hon he can rely.
But his hummer allies he cannot depend upon;
when he wants them to make line, he WILL to
his horror and surprise, find them minglng fra
ternally with the enemy or firing struggling
shots at his own troops.
Emancipation accomplished, the Republican
paIty's business was Gone. Union secured the
pretended business of the Union party was done.
AT present it is actually dIsunion party, Just
as medicine, after man is cured, is a poison,
not benefit.
The hummer section are to-day just what the
Federallsts were in l797-the party aiming at au
unity, not an union at a nation, not the United
States. We are not dogmatsts enough to say
that they are unwlse; we are ready t. argue, to
vote, and, If the conflict comes, 10 fight on that
question but we insist that they shall argue,
vote, and fight under their own coloFs, and with.
out trick. They may be all right, and we all
wrong; but 1t does not look as If man could
be right who is afraid to be frank-to say lust
what he wants, and how he proposes 10 get it.
II the President wishes to see Just how much
support he is likely TO get from the bummers,
! let him count their votes in Congress and read
their utterances in the newspapers. If the
President is President of the Unted States, he
will very readily know how TO treat them; if he
is President of a party which ought to be dead
and only exists for mischief, he will know now
to treat all the rest of the citizens of the Union
who understand the objects and detest the
hypocrisy of the party which claims to own him.