The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-20
The Diseased Condition OF thc OutsidC
southern states, and the Remedy.

The Diseased Condition of the Outside
southern states, and the hemedy.
From the Herald.
In his memorable conversation with the
British Ambassador, Sir Hamilton Seymour, the
late Emperor Nicholas, looking to the recon-
struction OF the map OF Eastern Europe, Asia
Minor and Egypt, described the empire of
Turkey as "a sick mar no longer able to
manage his own affairs, and calling for the
timely interposition OF the great powers in view
of his removal and the establishment of the
modern European order of things over his cx-
tensiVe dominiOns, as demanded by the march
of Christianity and the necessities OF the age.
Such, we may say, in a general view, is the con-
diton of the outside Southern States to-day in
their relations to the general Government.
These relations are hardly more harmonious
than is the Asiatic and MahOmetan system Of
Turkey with the religious and political institu-
tions OF Europe, which rest upon the basis OF
the New Testament.
The empire OF tue Prophet had its day of
power when 1t extended from Damascus, along
the south SIDE of the Mediterranean TO the
Atlantic; out when, in its long occupation OF
Southern SPAN, 1t mad developed the highest
civilization aud refinement known at that
epoch among any people, IL was gradually
thrown back from Europe by falling into that
fatal weakness of all great and prosperous
political systems, OF attempting too much. On
a smaller scale, and reduced within brlefsr
compass of time, our late Southern aggressive
political system, resting upon ITS all-absorbmg
institution OF African slavery, from the same
weakness Of attempting too much, in its day of
prosperity, has not only been driven back, but
has been destroyed. So it is that, like Turkey,
| which, with its ehete oriental institutions and
! Ideas, awaits a reconstruction adapted TO the
| dominant civilization OF Europe, our Southern
! states, shorn OF Their institution of slavery
! await IRON the victorious North the Teorganiza.
ton which their situation demands. "Sword
| IN hand, said the lighting Sultan Mahmoud
'the children Of the Prophet came into Europe
| and sword in hand they Will go outn Sword
! in hand the late Southern slaveholdlng oligarchy
have been subdued, aud they must abide the
| consequences.
| But they do not seem TO understand this uni
versal law OF war. Claiming, in their late re-
bellious conspiracy, the constitutional right to
| 60 out OF the Union and to destroy it, they now
claim theiconstitutonal right TO be reinstated
| on their own terms. And the worst of il is that
all these false and pernlcious dogmas ideas,
| preiudlCes, and distinctions between State
rights and Federal usuipatons which carried
them into the Rebellion, seem to be as powerful
among the ruling classes in all the excluded
States to-day as when they were fighting tor two
thousand millions of capital invested in Con-
iederate scrip, and three thousand millions in
slave property. 1t is sheer nonsense to talk of
such communities as being restored to loyalty
and the rights of loyal States with the surrender
of their arms, or with their half way acceptance
of the generous conditions OF President johnson.
The people OF the loyal North nave approved
the terms proposed BY Congress IN the pending