The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-12

The Late Important EIections-Thc Pre-
sident and Congress.
from the Herald.
The results of the late elections are positively
sublime. They reafiirm the bgh intelligence
which pervades the Northern States, and their
immovable purpose to re-estabish the Union
on solid foundation. They demonstrate the
correctness of our estimates of the moral signi.
fcancy and pressure of the Maine election of
September, and the inevitable solution of the
vital question of reconstruction. They reveal
prevailing intensity of feeling in the Northern
public mind which is without precedent in
our state elections not connected with a Presi-
dental contest. Heretofore for three years after
a Presidential vote the popular turnout at our
State elections has fallen largely behind 1t.
Half way between one Presidential campaign
and another our political eXcitements have been
ut dead low water, and our State elections, upon
a skeleton vote have gone by detault But mere
the order of the tides is reversed, and at the
usual season of the lowest ebb the swelling sea
rolls in and rises beyond high-water mark,
Philadelphia, for instance, polled on Tuesday
last popular vote exceeding the last and
highest Presidential vote of this metropolis.
Such startling facts as these involve instructions
from the people which, by men in power and
by disturbing outside political factions cannot
be lightly contemplated.
Encouraged by the moral and material sup
port Of the Administration, and by the hope of
decisive accessions from the rank and file OF the
Republican camp, the Democrats in these elec..
tions have displayed remarkable degree of
vitality and strength. But it is only the last
flaring and Pickering of the expiring candle, to
be followed by darkness, smoke, and a bad
Odor. The Democratic Chicago peace party OF
the war cannot be galvanized into life again.
The experiment has been thoroughly tried and
has utterly failed. The strength which it has
exhibited In these October elections was spas.
modic and gavanic, and with the removal of
the battery the remains may be buried in the
graveyard of parties dead and gone. From
this truitless experiment of galvansm President
johnson Is invited to turn his energies i'll au'
other direction. Or, to change the figure, his
new wine of restoration has broken the old
bottles of the Chicago Democracy, and they are
done for. What is he now to do What else
can he do than yield to the voice Of the mighty
North and fall in with the Constitutional amend,
ment OF Congress? There is no limit to his
power for good III this direction, and, as he
stands, there is an end to all hopes from further
resistance. He has made his appeal, he has his
verdict; and we are sure thaC as man of the
people he will act accordingly.
In the results of these October elections we
thus read the verdict OF all the Northern
States on the case of the President versus Con-
gresS. We demand the policy OF Congress.
We must have our securities for the future in
the Constitution as the conditions of Southern
restoration - security touching the equality
before the law Of all citizens in their civil
Sentaton-seCuTity for the payment of the
national debt, and AGAINST any future recogni-
ton of the debt of the Rebellion or of any
claims for emancipated slaves; and we approve
the security proposed in the Constitutional
amendment against the return to political
power of any OF the tratorouS and revolu-
tionary political contrivers and managers OF
the late Rebellion. These securities are the ultl.
matum of the North, and it is the only policy o
wisdom and safety on the part OF the President
and the South to adopt them. 90
The Union as it was" with parties as they
were, is the absurdest OF absurd ideas. We
might as well talk of the restoration OF the
Bourbons as they were In France before hel
reign OF terror, or OF Pompeii and Herculaneum
as they We're, people and all, before the fiery
eruption in which they were buried. No The
dead must await the trumpet OF Gabriel We
have had terrible civil war-a tremendous
revolutiOn-a fiery deluge, and many thing.
that were exist no more. The victorious party
OF the war has decreed a reconstruction OF the
Union on new constitutional guarantees, in
Volving the expulsion from the new sanctuary
of those ueacherous Southern teachers and I'M
poslols that dedled and brought down fire and
ruin upon the old one. They are to be excluded
and the Southern States are TO have new lease
of lite and prosperity, under new leaders, new
ideals, and new party organizations. so IN the
North the Coppernead peace Democracy of the
war are dead, and will soon Ebe buried, as 6
political party or as political leaders, and the
only really disturbing faction that will remain
will be the Jacobn faction OF Northern radi
Gals. Their turn, however, will be next II
order
First of all, the duty now devolves upon Pre-.
sident johnson of preparing the Southern
States for their manifest destiny, and OF pre-
paring such message for Congress in Decem
ber as will bring him at once into "a happ
accord" with the conservative Republican ma
iority of the two Houses, which, rejecting al
the extreme measures of the radicals adopte
the fair and reasonable conditions OF the Cor
stitutional amendment. With harmony thu
restored between President and Congress, as
ought to be- and with the excluded States mex
restored on the basis of the amendment q
they will be, we shall have the great party {
the future in full operation. Then will com
the real fight with the radicals; and their fat
is as certain as that of the recent domineerin
and fre-eatng Rebel faction Of the South or
their servile followers, the dirt eating peace-a
any.price COpperhead faction OF the North.