The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-22

In all these relations, except their restoration
TO Congress, the lately rebellious States have
been reinstated through the wise and effective
reunion measures adopted and put into practice
by President johnson. But the radicals of the
present Congress have proclaimed that until
these lately msur9ent States shall have done
this thiLg, that thing, and the other, to prove
their repentance and their loyalty, they shall
still be excluded from Congress. The radical
ultlmatum, in other words, is the exclusion in
definitely of said States from the two Houses;
while the johnson conservatives hold that those
States, subdued and submissive, are, from
what they have done, entitled to their seats in
the Federal assembly, and that 1t is uni ust a1d
unlawful to impose new restrictions and condi-
tions as the price of their restoration.
This is the main question upon which the
people will have to decide In the approaching
elections for the next Congress:-Shall the eX-
cluded States be restored, or shall they be still
excluded for here is the great issue between
President johnson and "Old Thad Stevens
"Old Thad's" policy and purposes are pretty well
understood. He would If he could, push his
vengeance against the South to the extremity of
the determination Of the white race or the uni
versal conhscation Of their property for the
benefit of the blacks; and in his mildest moods
the least he has promised IS that when any one
of the excluded States shall have ratified and
conformed its local legislation to the new Con-
stitutional amendments emanating from Con-
gress, such State may be readmitted but not
before.
If, in the coming September, IOctober, and
people desire to secure a complete restoration
of the Union without further waste of time,
they will support those candidates who stand by
the policy of the Administration. If, on the
other hand, the people desire the continuance
of the radical policy of Southern exclusion,
Southern agitations Southern conflicts of races
ana factions, and Southern mobs and sangui-
nary riots, ,and all the revolutionary troubles Incl
dent to this unconstitutional policy of the radi-
Gals, this desire may be gained by the election
of another radical CONGRESS-. Another like the
last however, will be apt to satisfy even the
radicals themselves with the elements OF discord
and insurrectioD, and blood and revolutionary
anarchy.
Believing, however, that the great body of
the people wish to bring to an end the radical
reign OF terror, we trust it will suffice to tell
them that the coming elections tor the next
Congress will settle the question one way or the
other. Conservative men, therefore, of all
parties-beginnlng i'll the city Of New York
in every city and county in the country, should
proceed to get up their mass meetings to ratty
the policy and to fuse with the new Union
party proclaimed from the Philadelphia Con-
ventIon. We again call upon the merchants
and all the business and working classes OF this
metropolis to start the new campaign with
something like a Fort Sumter uprising; for New
York in thus leading OIL, will again rally the
whole country to the Union cause.