The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-18
The New Organ of the Radicals.
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From the WOTLd.
The Herald, within the last week, has flung a
complete summersault, and, with the clustering
zeal of a new convert is daily urging President
johnson to capitulate to the radicals and give
up the country to their tender mercies. So sud-
den conversion might justify invidious suspi-
cions; but as 1t is not our habit to make charges
without proofs, we will not impugn, nor at pre-
sent even inquire into, the motives of this
change. Suffice it to know that the Herald is
the most active, insldious, and venemous enemy
of the Democratic party and the conservative
cause. 1t is Tor the Democrats of this city to
say whether they will contribute to the support
of a paper which has so often flung one arm
around the neck of the party only to get
better. opportunity to deal it stab under the
fifth rib.
alleges, that the Maine election has rendered it
probable that the next Congress will be radical,
it is quite certain that the conservatives will not
give 1t up without strenuous contest, and that,
come what will, they will stand by their princi-
pies. The Maine election has in no respect
changed the character of the issue between the
President and Congress-: If the Constitution
was on the Presidents side before, il is equally
on his side now. If the public good required
the triumph of his policy before, it equally re-
quires his triumph now. To ask the President
to succumb, because the conservative canvass
in Maine was not well managed, may be spirited
and logical, and courageous in the estimation of
the Herald but it is not in the estimation of the
Democrats. They desplse the leVity and scorn
the treachery OF journal which deserts to the
enemy the moment the enemy presents mena-
cling front.
for inconsistency, we run the hazard of making
ourselves ridiculous, by the respect which is
implied In the supposition that consistency and
regard for character are virtues of which that
journal has any appreciation, But the Demo.
Gratis OF this city have some regard for these
virtues, though the Herald has not; and we ask
! them to go back for week or two and recall
| what it has been saying up to the time of its
sudden change:-
! From the Herald September 8.
We confidently look forward, as the result Of
| all those movements, to the eXtlngulshment OF
| the radical Republicans as political power,
and 10 the election to the next Congress of men
| who are opposed to all destructive principles
| and in favor of the immediate, complete, and
| unconditional return of our Southern brethren
| into the great national family. Then and not
before will the nation resume its onward course
| to continental power and unexampled greatness
| From the Herald, September6
We may take it as settled purpose, therefore,
of the radicals, in the event of their success III
these fall elections, to impeach President John
son, first electing some such reliable fanatic as
Sumner or Wade President of the Senate, TO
become President for the time being with the
removal OF Johnson. What then? Then we
| may look out for such reign of madness, tanati-
| cism, terror, and confusion as will hurry us
headlong to the gull of bankruptcy and rum
| financial and political, Union and States North
| and South. This is the danger which now
| threatens us. This is the issue which honest,
| patriotic men are now called upon to meet IN
| view of these approaching State elections-s
| violent revolution at Washington, or peace
| able maintenance Of the Government and the
| Union at the ballot-boXes of the Northern States
| Honest men of all parties, with whom the Union
| and the Constitution are paramount, canno
hesitate in such contest TO stand by the gooc
cause of the Administration, and its simple and
patriotic policy OF Southern restoration.
From the Herald, September Z.
/ The country is now upon the eve of terrible
: | dangers. The Northern Rebellion has developed
| its purposes, and it must be as sternly sup
D | pressed as the Southern Rebellion ought Il
a | have been at its inception. The radical plot
7 | which we have long since exposed are nov
= openly avowed. Speaker Tremain, at the Syra
7 | cuse Convention, announced that the radica
e | programme was TO exclude the electoral vote
= Of the Southern States from the next Presider
tlal election, TO remove the President if he oh
a jected to this exclusion, and to march a radica
Il army through the South il any resistance wer
Il offered 70 this course. The delegates TO tn
d Philadelphia Convention fill up the outlines
/. the plan sketched by Tremain and assert tbs
@ President johnson must be got out of the wa!
d either by impeachment or assassination, an
n that negro insurrection must be incited TO sti
II \ further cripple and weaken the South. III
* extracts nom radical papers which "
% publish elsewhere are full of the san
Al | diabolcal language All these threats al
70 ominous of trouble. Should the worst con
n to the worst, we do not fear the issu
-e because we know that the loyal, patriotic, al
conservative men Of the country are in SO va
,r a majority that they Win be able 10 crush II
,e | radicals al once. But are we ready for anoth
y, / civil war az our own doors Is the orOsDeTi