Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-08-17
THE CONFEDERATION or THE RADICALS

THE CONbTEbNATlON OF THE RADICALS.
Despite the Misrepresentation OF the Phila-
delphia Press and New York Tribune, there
exists greater CONSERVATION in the Radical
ranks at this moment than ever before. These
journals profess to see nothing in the presence
in Philadelphia Of the Southern delegations to
the recent National Union Convention. but an
assemblage of cut-throat traitors. Their hope
is to induce the Northern masses to look upon
them in that light only, and to cherish against
those they represent all the animosities Incl.
dent to the state Of war which no longer ex.
lists.
We doubt whether more patriotic men ever
attended a political con vention in this country
than the great mass of these same Southern
delegates. Nine-tenths of them were original,
active, and earnest opp onents OF secession.
They succombed to it only after all possibility
Of making Roadway against 1t had vanished,
and only under the influence of the false doc
trine which taught that q citizens allegiance
was due first to his State. As erroneous and
dangerous as this doctrine was, it pre.
vailed everywhere throughout the South.
The war was necessary to weed it out
1t has been most efectually weed
ed out of the minds of all men at the
South by the war. He must be mentally
blind, indeed, who does not realize the fact, so
Southern delegates in that Convention. Nor
can any reasoning man now doubt that the
whole South accepts the obliteration of Amer
lean slavery, and stands as united against anv
idea of its possible re. establishment as even
the people of Massachusetts. 1t is further an
parent that the South, as represented in the
Convention, is at this moment far more deepIv
attached to the Union than ever before; its
only hope Of recuperating from the effects of
its terrible punishment by the war, resting in
the speedy restoration its plain rights as guar.
anteed BY the Constitution Of the United
States The very fact that these delegates
and those they represent exhibited devotion
and pertinacity in favor of their wrong cause
when enemies in war, almost unexampled in
the history of nations, affords evidence that
they may be trusted to any point to sus
tain the right cause. upon which all their
hope of relief hinges-the cause of the
Constitution as now assailed by those who
for twenty years have steadily proclaimed
it nothing more than "a covenant with death
a league with hell"
Well indeed, may the Tribune, Press, and
Baltimore american tremble at the action of
that Convention. That action takes the old
Democratic party organization out of the FORE
ground as the opponent of the mad reyolu
tonary schemes of the Radicals and subst:.
tutes in its stead an organization composed O,
the entire Democratic party Of the country
and the large and patriotic portion of the Re
publican party who are not willing to make
the entirely suppressed rebellion pretext for
the destruction Of every distinctive feature 90
American rights and liberties as guaranteed IN
the Con tuition of the United States, which
in few words, is the end and aim Of the Radi'
cal organization in seeking to govern the
whole country through the deprivation of ten
States Of their right OF representation in Con.
gress.
This convention insures this union of all the
opponents Of the radical policy, and embraces
assurance OF its defeat in the certainty of that
union.
The radical leaders realize that the first con.
sequence Of the action Of the National Union
Convention, will be a thorough reconciliation
of the opposition TO radicalism in Pennsyl.
vania, which will secure against il in October
next the votes Of from forty to fifty thousand
men who have never voted the Democratic
ticket, yet stand ready to vote with the Demo
Gratis for gubernatorial candidate nominated
purely and simply on the platform of prin.
ciples laid down by the National Union Con.
vention.
They realize that this accession of votes
in that State insures its rescue from their con-
troll, and also that Of New York and Indiana.
by so large majorities, this fall, as that there
will no longer be question of the fact that the
public opinion of the country is overwhelm.
inRly against their policy.
The establishment of this truth, as explained
above, will release from the rough and vet
tight grasp Of Messrs. Stevens and Sumner, at
least nifty members of the House and Senate,
who, as yet, side with them through little else
than fear Of their fancied power with the
people.