The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-27
The Soldiers and a Policy of RecOnciiia
ton.

The Soldiers and a Policy of Reconciiia-
From the Times.
One of the blunders which the radical party
mas made is that of supposing that the soldiers,
who fought to preserve and defend the Union,
are now opposed to a policy which has the
integrity Of the Union for its basis. They
assume that the men who, year after year,
perilled their lives for their country, did so, not
from resolve that their country should not be
divided but from an inborn hostility towards
the South There never was greater mistake.
The men OF the loyal States sprang to arms with
alacrity, and were indignant that any section
should presume to undo the work Of building up
a great nation, but personal hatred had no share
in their inspiration. The whole course of the
war, the manner in which foes met foes when
the temporary lulls between active military
operations took place, the generosity which as
arue actuated the real fighting men on both
sides towards each other, showed that there was
mutual respect from which would spring an
ultimate sincere reconciliation. The soldiers
were ever eager to have 1t known that though
they intended to conquer peace, the peace
when attained to should be a real and true
peace. No-the army is not radical. Certain
jourDals-one in particular-say it is. Perhaps
they think so. They seek for information, or
have information thrust upon them, from mill
tary demagogues few in number but bitter in
spirit. But II they made inquiry among
best of our citizen soldery, or if they
acknowledged the true result of that
inquiry we should hear from them a very
different story. The army is loyal. TO be loyal
is, in the true sense of the term, to be loyal to
the whole nation and its Constitution. And no
impartial reader of the radical press can fail 10
conclude that that press seeks by its malevolent
utterances to conceal the chagrn which they
dare not express, but no less deeply feel. We
nave received, and continue TO receive, assu-
RANGES that the spirit in which the call TO; the
Soldiers Convention is penned is all but uni
Versal among patriotic military men. IC will be
seen that those who have endeayored to Girst
misrepresent and then vtllfy the brave sons OF
the Union, have only stultifed their own politi-
cal reputation, and cast suspicion upon their
own character for honor and patriotism.
The Pope and His Manifest Destiny.
From the Herald.
1t is understood that the Emperor Napoleon
VIII shortly relieve the Holy Father of Rome of
his temporal power, turn over the socalled
Papal States to the King of Italy, with Rome for
his capital and with the French troops that
have for so many years s.ood between his Holt
ness and his disooedient, contumacious and
rebellious subjects. In a word, the Pope as a
temporal sovereign is to be set aside, his domi-
Mons are to be turned over to that prodigal son
of the Church, King Victor Emanuel, and his
Holiness 10 be exclusively limited to his spiritual
functions. He will, no doubt, be generously
provided for in this capacity by Napoleon, ''the
tavorite son of the Church," but whether in
Rome, AWgnon, or elsewhere, we cannot posi-
lively say. We presume, however, that during
the lifetime of Pho Mono he Will be retained and
in a style consistent with HIS spiritual dignity
in Rome, and that even after his death some
eoncordat or compromise may be agreed upon
whereby Pope and King--the spiritual and tenn
pOra sovereigns, the Holy Father and the prodi-
sal sOn-may live together in peace and concord
in the old imperial city.
That NAPOLEON has long contemplated this
thing we all know; that the time is at hand for