The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-26

rights Of the absent black. < swindle, and they
called 1t a compromise. Prussia and Russia
met together and dismembeIed Poland, sepa-
rated it into fragments, annexed it to their re-
spectlve kingdoms, and called 1t compromise.
A swindle
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT DITTO.
The House of Representatives and the Senate,
seated under that dome in safety, because tour
millions of blacks held their place in the scale
while the balance trembled between North and
South, with Rebel President, swindled their
allies out of their rights and gave II to the coun-
try as compromise.
THE "TRIBUNE" SUPPORTER OF BAREFACED
swINDLEs.
And the New York Tribune bowed to it, rs it
has bowed to every other barefaced swindle for
twenty years. daughter and applause.) And
Mr.. Greeley says it would be only soft spoken
and conciliate, ii would only use gentle terms
and lead men without their know wing where !
Yes, he pants himself driving jeff Davis INTO
impartial suffrage, while the great Rebel thinks
he Is running to the establishment of the Con-
federacy; like the freshman and his pig who
thought he was going to Cork while turning his
lace to Dublin; tLaughter.) A suggestive pic,
ture, but which is the pig and which the driver?
(Roars of aughter.)
THE NEGROES THROWN OVERHEARD.
But it is no matter of meT1ment, for the Re-
publican party do not believe tnat these Consti-
tutional amendments are conducting them to
impartial suffrage. The masses may be delnded
for moment into the idea, but the leaders
know and accept the amendments because they
know that they are conducting to the perpetuity
OF their own party, and, possibly, to the saliva
tion of the national finances. They know it in
their own hearts, and they accept and enforce
them because they know that, in order to per-
petuate the party and save the finances, they
throw overheard the burden of the negro's
elaine.
GREELEY NOT 10 BE TRUSTED.
That very same leader, your great, and even
in some respects, meritoriOus journal, eighteen
months ago. when l undertook by way of pro-
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the United States accepted the Southern debt, /
would agitate Ior ITS reputation to my dying
day, and thus advertised them OF it before
hand-that very same journal warned me not
to run lit against windmills eighteen months,
Later, to-day, these same statesmen pass the
Constitutional amendment to avoid that very
conjunction which eighteen months ago
they called a windmill daughter and ap-
you are called upon to trustl don't deny
the services OF that great editor any more than
do the services OF Senator Wilson. | don't ask
you not to respect them. l only ask you not to
trust them. (Rencwed laughter and applause
The Constitutional amendment, as far as the
negro is concerned, is swindle. Don't pollute
the respectable word compromise by appl ing
1t to the Constitutional amendment. The negro
is sacrificed to political eXicencies; he is around
between the upper and neither mil-stoncs of the
Republican party.
THE REBEL DEBTS.
If you exclude the negro from voting how
long Will 1t be before the old dominant race at
the South assumes its former position at the
head of the State? How long on the position of
finance VIII they remain in the minority9 How
long will it be before they have the same political
sirength they had before 1861? They have
used II for fifty years with unmitgated triumph
except in the one matter of Kansas. Why
should they fail in t,me to come? vice-Presf-
dent Hannibal Hamlin told you the other night
il not on this platform on some other, how he was
approached in the Texas demands with bonds
offered at five dollars which his vote was to
make worth hundred in twenty-four hours.
With millions upon millions of other securities
floating in the House OF Representatives, with
fifty or sixty Southerners welding them, how
soon will not revolutionary enthusiasm chill and
the ordinary temperature OF political virtue be
reached? How soon will the financial question
be made football, as every other political ques-
ton was when the South was dominant of old.
REJECT THE AMENDMENT.
The Constitutional amendment is not only
swindle-it would give us back TO the same po-
lihcal denomination that ruled this country up
TO 1860. Put your foot upon 1t. Send It DRIFT
ing, and send Congress back to It's hall to admit
no Southern territory at present-not, perhaps,
till long after The 4th of March, 1869. don't
believe in reconstruction, with streets running
down with blood and free speech suicidal. The
South is repeating once mere her old maxims.
They must be rooted up, smothered up, and
covered over with the rich growth of Northern
emigration and brains and money before you
can begin to talk about reconstruction.
TEE IMPEACHMENT OF THE .'REBELI IN THE WHITE
HOUSE"
In; der TO this the very first task would set to
the reassembled CONGRESS before they LOOK at the
amendments S>utter the word reconstruction, is to
impeach the Rebel in the White House. (Great and
prolonged applanse.l Let the traitors OF Louisiana
and South Carolina take care OF themselves We
! ment that belongs to us. (Cheers.) The first pro.
cess to commence, 1 say, IS to impeach the Rebel
unued cheers and applause kebsl Is too dignifed
appelation for the mobocrat ofthe White House.
Yes; does he want mob in New Orleans; he ig-
nores Governor Wells. Does he want mob in
Baltimore he recognizes Governor hwann (Cheers J
Law no law, State or no state, limited authority
result.
| IMPEAcH AND DEPosE.
| Impeach the mob oorat of the White House as the
first step, and the second step is-depose HIM. ZAP
! plause) An impeachment IS of no yalue IT. whIe It
dTags IL slow length through the Senate Cha mber
| the impeached party wlelds the power, commands
ernment against the ImpeachIng house and the judi
cial senate. The moment the Executive OF the
United Sta tes Is impeached, satesmanship and the
Constitution and The necessity OF the hour, dictate
that his place should be supplied (appause) till an
acqultal restores him TO office, or condemnation
! imposes upon us the duty of choosing new PresI-
dent and esident to supply the place OF the
dead and the deposed.
attempt at interfering with the functions OF the
| Executive But the Constitution undertakes to
give US power to impeaeh IN such shape that
ordinarily speaking, it Is utterly unapproachaD
There ia chance that in ordinary times the Presi-
dent OF the United States shall be ever practically
liable to impeachment Such an emergency as the
present such an uprising Of the popular enthusiasm
as the clVIl war has lett the only concurrence of
same emergency dictates that we should exhaust
the arsenal OF constitutional weapons 70 make it
fsss msina the law Of the realm ipside tbe eon M
stnutional pIecedenis farce and sham. ii would
be farce and sham TO attempt to try the Presi-
dent while he remains IN office.
In the nature OF the trial, in the concurrences OF
the constitutional remedy, there Is nothing 10 re.
All L ". "a.