The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-29


National Committee to pledge and Dind Con
yress in advance? Is Compress, after rejecting
he dictation OF the President, to submit to the
1ictaton of the National CommltteeY In tine
name of the radical party, whose heart we know
and who voice we speak we Iepudiate the Com
mittee's pledge to the Rebels as wholly unautho-
rZed, invalid, and void.
Look at the following passage from the Com.
n1tee's address:-
But say some, this section Of the pending
a,penSmeht d rs designed to coeroe the SoIth INTO
accOruihg suffrage to her blacks Not SO, we
reply oul only TO notify her ruling caste that
we VIII no longer Oribe them TO keep their olaoSs
IN seridom. An arHtocracy rarely sqrrenders
its privileges, no matter how oppressive, from
abstract devotion TO justice and right. IL must
have cogenr, palpable reasons for SO doing. We
say, therefore, to South Carolina:-'It you per-
sistenty restrict all power to your 300 900 whites
We must insist that these no longer balance, in
Congress and the choice of President, zoo, 600
Northern white freemen, but only 800, 600. If
you keep you1 blacks evermore in serdom il
must not be because we tempted you so to do,
and rewarded you for so domg.'"
Can anything be more humiliatng than to see
the National Committee of the Republican party
thus humbly kneeling at the feet OF the ''aris-
tocraeyn OF the south? Do we employ Ma
uonal Committee for the purpose of finding
arguments against "Coercng' the South? Has
the Republican party no higher duty to the
negro than simply to "notify the ruling caste
that We will no longer brt6e them to keep their
blacks in serfdom" Is the Republican party
keeping IFS solemn pledge to its four million
dAlltb ny HOW saying 10 bOplr tOfl0pr masters.
IF you keep your blacks evermore in serldom,
it must not be because we tempted you to do sou?
II the negro were a white man, instead of q
black, the National Committee would never
have thought OF thus degrading him below the
level of a Rebel.
CoeCiag the South, forsooth Did we not
coerCe the South into abrogating the ordinances
OF secession? Did we not COerce the South into
repud atng the Rebel debt? Did we not coerce
the South into ratitying the prohibitory amend
ment? Without coercion, would the south have
done these thingsP No. Neither without c0er-
Cton, will the South enact Impartial suffrage.
Look at 1t This committee thinks that in
order to achieve impartial suffrage, we ought
not TO cOerCe, but brtbe, the South What will
history say Of the victorious war party of the
North, IT, after executing policy of coercion
toWarGs secession, coercion towards the Rebel
debt, coercion towards the prohIbitOry amend
ment il attempted only a policy of bribery
towards the negro? Which is OF greater conse-
quence in Gods sight, the reputation OF the
Rebel debt or the eniranChsement of the
negro? Are millions of citizens Of less conse-
quenCe than millions Of dollars? Is money of
more worth than man? Have the National
committee forgotten how our LORD said that
two sparrows are sold IOr a arthlng; Dut that
men aIe of moro value than many sparrows!
II the only issue OF the tall cam pagn is to
EJECT such Republicans as will make the pending
Amendment the condition OF restoration, why
then is it needlul that only Republicans and not
Den ocrats should be chosen? Multitudes of
Democrats would gladly be elected to Congress
OI u piGuRe W MAKE I0e unpDuine0g the ultl
matum to the South. This is the New York
HeT0td'S ground This is the ground OF all
those Democrats who are secretly groauIng over
President Johnson and his speeches. The great
duty OF the fall is 10 elect Rcpublicans-nay to
elect the most radical OF epu6iicans-and Why?
Because the nation needs, and means to have,
q Congress staunch and lmmoyable for equal
rights. Tue unanimous appeal of the Southern
10y allsts at Philadelphia, representing the whole
ten unreconstructed States, speaks with pathos
that ought to melt all hearts,
1--WE declare that there can be no security for
us or our children-there can oe no safety for
the country against the fell spirit of slavery
now organized in the form OF serfdom-unless
the GoNernment, by national ana appropriate
legislation, enforced by national authority,
shall confer on every citizen in the States we
represent the American bIrthright of impartial
suffrage and equality before the law This Ia
the one all-suttcient remedy.n
, Are not these words solemn, noble and ust9
DO not they far outshine the tarnished procla-
nation OF the National Committee? Let the
Republican party ask itself ore thoughtful cues
tion:-Ought we to reconstruct the ten remain
ing STATES so as to protect, or so as to destroy,
the lives, property, and happiness of their loyal
people? But if these ten States are to be recon
structed in the interest of loyalty, instead of
treason, then let the unanimous demand of the
southern loyallsts take the place of the less
worthy appeal of the National Committee. IT,
alIer our pleasant fortune OF weeks soiourn at
Philadelphia with the noble representatives of
the ten unreconstructed States, during which
VIC lSuIutu JnelT purposes ana gauped their
hearts, we had come home only to strike hands
with the policy of the National Committee-a
policy which the Southern loyalists came to the
Norm to plead against as totally inadequate to
thelr needs-We should account ourselves little
less than treacherous TO the best tried and most
suffering friends of this republic.
We say nothing in criticism of the good men
who have signed the National Committees ad-
dress. Some OF these slgners are enshrined in
our inmost hearI-men whom we honor aud
revere. How these lovers OF Justice can assent
TO such Policy OF compromise Is undoubtedly
explained ana excused to their own minds, If
not TO ours. Horace Greeley gave to this ad-
dress his revision and his name; but not his
Leart His Leart Is hungry for Justice and
Graves more than the Committees husk.
Lleutenant-Governor Clahin, of Massachusetts
signed 1t; but his hOnoreu name is almost a
synonym TOR equal nights. Senator Fowler. of
Tennessee, signed It; but we well know that
his profound convictions are for impartial
Suffrage. IL is with heaviness of split that
we ind so many clear-sighted meu holding
back half their thoughts in time when the
country so urgently needs to hear every voice
that can speak Tor impartial suffrage. Will the
Republican party be injured by plain speech
NO; ii wall be helped But, whether helped or
hmdered, are we to give up to party what
was meant for mankind Duties are ours,n
SAID old Philip Henry, the result is Gods"
The duty of the Republican party is to reject
The pledge made by the National Committee
The result may be safely lett to the Great Dis
poser OF events, "who doeth all things well.u
Oh ye of little faith Never were thirsty pi-
gtims so willing to be led 10 fountain of living
waters, as the radical party OF this nation are
now willing to be led to the safe ground OF i'm
partial justice. Therefore hear the voice of the
LoTd:-"Speak to the children of Israel, that
they go forward
FERTIi iZE6S.