The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-04


n, W lend swltness and extension to all evil |
Influences, so that the President has been able |
TO do in a yeaT what in other days would have |
taken lie. Nor is the evil that he has done |
confined TO any narrow sDOt. 1t is Co-extensive |
with the republic Next 10 Jefferson Davis |
stands Andrew Johnson as its worst enemy. |
The WI ole has suffered; but il is the Rpbe region
which has suffered most He should have sent |
peace; N tead, he sent a sword. Behold the
consequences. In the support OF his cruel
"policS" the President has OF hesitated 10 use
his enormous patronage, President Lincoln
said, iamlI arly, that as the people had con.
tinued hun in Office, he supposed they meant
that others should be continued in office also;
and he acted accordingly. He refused to make
removals. But President Johnson thinks other
wise, and he announces in a public speech that
there must be rotation in ofhce;h and th n
warming in anger against present lncumbents,
he saws he VIII "klck them out" Men APP
pointed by the martyrCd Lincoln are to be
hkiCkCd out" of office by his accidental success
sor, while pretending to sustain the policy of
the moityr The language n !s; OF M the President is
well-loyed predecessor; and he also "kiCksn the
careful counsel OF that well-loved predecessor,
especially insisting that 1--WE must build up
from the sound material"
WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE
And now, that may give practical direction
to these remarks, let me tell you plainly what
must be done. In the first place Congress must
be sustained in its conflict with the one-mau
power, and in the second place eX-Rebels must
not be restored 10 power. Bearing t0eSe Two
things in mind, the way will be easy. OF course
Tho Constitutional amendment must be adopted
As tar as il goe3 II is well, but il does not 90 far
enough. MOIe must be done. Impartial suf-
fragp n ust be established. A homestead must
b. secured TO every freedman; If IN no other
way, through the pardoning power. If to these
is added education there will be n new order of
things, with liberty OF the press liberty Of
speech, and liberty of travel, that Wendell
Phillips may speak freely in Charleston or
Mobile. The1e Is an old English play which
goes under the name of the four "Ps.n Our
present desires may be symOoliZcd by iOur "Esn
standing Tor emancipation, enranchisement,
equality, and education. Let these be secured
and all else will follow. can never cease to
regret that Congress has hcsitated by proper
| legislation to assume q temporary jurisdiction
| over the whole Rebel region.
To my mind the power was ample and un-
| questionable, whether in the exercise of belli
| gereLt rights, or in the exercise of rights
| derived directly from the Con>tituton itseli.
| In this way everything needhtl might have been
| accomplished In the exercise of this just iu-
| rsdicuon the Rebel communities might have
| been fashioned anew, and shaped to loyalty and
| virtue. The President lost a great opportunity
| at the beginning: Congress has lost another.
Bnt it is moi too late Ii indlsposed to assume
{, this jurisdiction by an enabling act constitu-
ting provisional governments, there are many
things which Congress may do, acting directly
! or indirectly, Acting indirectly, il may
1 insist that emancipation, enfranchse-
\ ment, equality and education shall be
l established as a condition precedent 20 the
recognition OF any State whose institutions have
! been oyerthrown by rebellion, Acting directly,
1t may, by constitutional amendment or by
simple legislation, fix all these forever.
IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE MUST BE SECURED by THE
NATION AND NOT LEFT TO THE STATES
You are aware that from the beginning have
insisted upon impartial suffrage as the only GER
tam guarantee OF security and reconciliation.
J renew chs persistence and mean to hold on to
The end. Every argument, every principle, every
G1pTt mt iG itc Rntf 10 nf,n
reason, which at this moment place above all
othcIs-lt Is the necessity OF the case. You will
require the votes OF colOred persons in thelRebel
States III order to sustain the Union itself.
Without their votes you cannot build securely
for the future Their ballots will be needed in
time to come much mole than their musketS
have been needed in time past. For the sake of
the While Unionlsts in the hebel States, and for
their projections; ior the sake OF the republic
| itself, whose peace is imperllled, appeal Tor
| justice 10 the colored race. GIVE the ballot to
| the cClOred citizen and he VIII be not only
assured in MS own rights. but he will be the
| timely defender of yours.
Itls by singular Providence that your secu-
ri,y is linked insepuably with the IeCoenition OF
| his rights. Deny HIM II you will IL is at your
| peril. But II is said, leave this question to the
! States; and State rights are pleaded AGAINST the
| power OF Congress. This has been the cry at
the beginning to prevent efforts against the Re-
| belhon, and now, at the end, to prevent efforts
| AGAINST the revival Of the Rebellion. Which
| ever way we lurn we encounter this Cry. But
| " you Nlelu now you WAL commit the very error
| OF buchanan, when at the beginning he declared
| that be could not "CoerCe" State. Nobody
| doubts now that State in rebellion may be
! "CoeICed;' ana to my mind it is equally clear
| HAT State just emerging from rebellion may
! be "CCerUed' to that condition which is re-
| qured by he public peace. But there are
| powers OF Congress, not derived from the Rebel
! non, which are adequate to thus eXigency, and
! now is the time to exercise them, aud thus COM
| pCte the work that has been begun.
| It was the nation that 6ecreed emancipation,
| ard the nation must see to 1t, by every obhga-
| ton Of honor and justice, that emancipation Is
| secured. Ii is not enough that slavery Is abo-
| hsheG in name The Baltimore platform, on
| which President Johnson was elected, requires
| "lhe utter and complete eXhrpaliJn OF slavery
| from the soil If the republic;n but this can De
| accomplished only by the eradication of every
| inequality and caste, so that all shall be equal
| Lcore the law. Be taught by Russia. The EDl-
| peTor there dld not content himself with anaked
| proclamation Of emancipation He followed this
| glorious act with minute provisions securing TO
the freedmen rights of all kinds, rs to hold pro.
| pCIty, to sue and testify IN court, to vote, and
| 10 enjoy the advantages of education All this
| was secured bY the same power which decreed
| emancipation
Reason is in harmony with this authoritative
| testimony. Surely 1t not natural to suppose
| that people who nave claimed property in their
| fellow man, who have INDUCED that wild and
| guilty phantasy that man can hold property IN
| man." will become at once the kind and Just
| legislators OF freedmen. 1t Is contrary to nature
10 eXpectit Even if they have made up their
minds to emancipation tney are, from myete-
rate habit and prejudice, incapable of doing
Justice 70 the colored race. There is the Presi-
deLt himself, who once charmed the country
and the a9e by announcing himself as the
"Dloses" OF their redemption; aud vet he is now
eXertinp all his mighty power against the estab-
lishment OF those safeguards wthoat which
there can be no true redemption. In the dis
cussions OF the day The old pro-slavery spirit