The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-02

the despatch, have opened vigorous and
practical campaign against the President The
committee appointed at the caucus last Friday
evening is thorough and intense in its determi-
nation for a break with MIR. johnson. 1t has
had several meetings on the subject, and has
resolved resolved to raise 500 600 BY levy upon Office,
pi piosecution Of the war. II has decided TO print
and circulate enormous editions OF Trumbulrs
and Fessendens replies to the veto message, and
OF the elaborate and viruent attack made upon
the President few days since in the House
by Mr.. Williams, of Pennsylvania. IL has made
an assessment ot $20upon each of the Union
members of CONGRESS-, some OF whom have
paid up, and'othe1s are holding the matter
under consideration. They propose also to
make Jay Cooke treasurer of the organization,
aud to take rooms on Pennsylvania avenue as
the headquarters OF the new crusade. AS
everybody anticipated, Colonel Forney, D. D.,
has lest no time in presenting himself as
candidate for the honors and rewards of martyr
dom. He has sent an elaborate memorial to
the committee, representing that the Chronicle
is losing concern, and appealing to them and
heir constituents for substantial aid. The COM
mittee voted to give him the III printing, and to
pay Tor and circulate as public documents such
editorials as may serve their turn. 1t is under
stood that the committee Is also deliberatng
upon the most feasible means OF crushing out
all opposition in the Union ranks to their
designs"
Itis amazing that any experienced politician
could have anticipated anything but vigorous
war on the President after his veto message and
anniversary speech. The speech clinched the
nail driven by the message and fixed his policy
in respect to the main question on which the
politics Of the country now turn. As Repub-
lcan contemporary remarks, with sagacious ap-
precialion:-'The question is not whether the
view of the President, or of Congress, touching
the continuance OF the Freedmen's Bureau and
the enlargement of lis powers is the soundest
and most beneficial. This proposition does not
stand by itself. 1t is correlatve to a whole
system of ideas and measures which must either
stand with it or fan with itn In vetoing that
bill the President committed himself against the
whole order OF ideas, the entire system of policy,
OF the predominant faction of the Republican
party. The very core OF the Republican policy
is fussy philanthropy for the negro. Ever since
that party was organized it has made the negro
the grand pivot on which the whole politics of
the country have turned. The veto is vigorous
blow at that 81 stem. 1t is the striking of the
great bell in the tower to mark the beginning of
new era. For the last generation our politics
have revolved about the negro; for the next they
are to revolve about the Union. The veto brings
out, in bold reliei, a fundamental difference in
the whole mode OF thought which prevails res
pectively in the Capitol and the Presidential
mansion.
This crisis was clearly foreseen as inevitable
| by all men Of common disCernment before Con-
| gress met II President johnson we're of the
| same yielding temper as his predecessor, 1t
| might have been avoided. The radicals always
| gained gradually upon Mr.. Lincoln, and never
| tailed, in the end, to carry their points. Mr..
| johnson is made OF sterner stuff. His singular
| tenacitY of purpose makes him an unpromsing
| subject Tor this kind of experimentation. He
| was too much in earnest to vapor and threaten
! in advance; but the very first opportunity OF
| striking at the Congressional policy was i'm
| proved. 1t was a word and blow; the blow
dealt 6rst the indignant words coming after
| wards.
The rage of Fornev, and the copious over
| fowings of his vtuperative denunciations, have
| value as evidence quite ous OF proportion to
| the Importance of the man. Forney is great
ado fhn wi of koath Ia l.
| is Secretary of the Senate and means to keep
| his place. HIS intercourse with a majority OF
| the Senators is on confidential footing He
has the means oil knowing that the scurrilons
abuse he is daily htaping on the President Is not
dlspleasing to those on whose votes he is de
pendent He no doubt judges as truly of the
| temper and views OF a majority OF the Senate
| as Mr.. Speaker ColfaX or Mr.. Clerk Mcpherson
did of the House, when, before the commence
ent OF the session, they were candidates for re-
election, and purchased what they wanted by
successful subseryiency. A popularity-hunter
like Coltax is a vane pointing always in the
direction OF the wind. He bet with member
! of the House. q box of cigars that the President
would not veto the Freedmen's Bureau bill; and
sent his forfeit to the members desk marked
'From victim of misplaced confidence" By
| thus making the floor OF the House the scene
| OF public slur on the President he indicated
his sense OF the way his party would regard the
| Veto
We do not see how, as politicians, the radi
Gals could pursue any other course than the one
they have adopted. The President has done his
best to render them and their policy odious. Ii
| the Union is restored without negro suffrage
they have no future. Arithmetic enough to ado
the white voters OF the South to the Northern
vote for General Mcclellan is all that IS needed
to demonstrate that the Republican parry will
be minority the moment the Union is restored
| The radicals have nothing to hope afterwards
nor anything to expect meanwhile from submis
sion to the policy OF the President. II they mus
sink into obscurity, they had rather go down as
martyIe than as apostates. No part remains opeE
TO them but fierce war upon the President. We
subjoin some specimens OF the temper in whicl
they are conducting it,
CForney on the President)
Yesterdays speech of the President is fragran
supplement TO The veto-a misty exempliicauon o
the new heIaldmg that Loyalty, not treason ls thu
cnme to DC punished and made infamous. Nobod,
has ct been found not even CoppeIhead, TO iustif,
lis oelirious Ebuse and stagPeriDg Ic As read It,
noted how 1t has alarmed the architects OF the he
parry, ADDED confidence and concert OF action Il
the Republican co'umns. I.
(sorneY at a later datel
There Is not a Union member in either b. anch o.
Congress whose taLle not covered with the erces
den lnciatOns OF Andrew johnson. Never have
kBown such an uprising IL IS nO6 eXhJited in
bitter scorn at stupendOus ingratitude but horror
| at q bet ayal coming nom source which sucl
| unsunted contidence had teen reposed The Reoe
| lion itself was great betrayal an organized IN
gIattude-an sTmed deiant surprise of a generous
! and N OtecuDg Government But here is an act o
| individual tulptude, so colG-bOOded in lts pre-
paTation, and intended to work such fatal conse
ouences, that even the spirit of he Rebellion pale
| tell unless the patriotic American peoulC
become an iresis ible and instant unit
| (uness they boldly put ava from thea, and re
| pulse with indlanantshame the tTlies consisting o
their own money and their own Offices in the hands
of inlse custOdianl what extremes this tatal blow
| will not reachY NOBODY doubts now thar unles