The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-09

/ precipitated the South into rebellion in 1850,
| must forever preclude renewal OF the attempt
They were relatively far stronger then than
they could ever hope to be again. II IS as if
| two growing boys one feeble, the other robust
should 6Pht TIL the first one was crippled and
| stunted, and then the greater and stili gro wing
ono should dread the cripple and wish him put
in irons as q ''security for the fUture.r
1t is evideit that the North has nothing
further to fear from the South either In q poll
| tic8l or military sense. The recent elections
have been carried by the Republicans on false
pretens es. The contest on their part has been
! deceitful man9uvre preliminary to the Presi-
! Dental election. They have gained by 1t the
great advantage of deciding, according 10 their
! pleasure whether the Southern electoral votes
| shall be counted They are under no necessity
| of making this decision till after the election
| has taken place. If 1t shall then appear that
the Republicans have such preponderance
| that the Southern votes will make no difference
| they may perhaps affect to be liberal and
! count them. But If their exclusion shall
be needed to elect the Republican candidates
| they VIII be remorselessly excluded The form
| OF dong 1t will be copied from the precedent of
! 1865, when, short time before the votes were
! counted, Congress passed Joint resolution de.
claring that the votes from certain enumerated
States should not be opened by the President of
! the Senate. If we had succeeded in electing
one-thrd of the House, this scheme could have
been frustrated by the vote. AS it is, there is no
barrier against It. Certain IL is that Southern
members will not meanwhile be admitted To de-.
prlye the dominant party of its two-thirds ma
joIity.
If the Republicans elect their President only
by excluding the Southern electoral votes y
very grave question will arise 1t wouId be an
abuse OF power admitting only of q revolution
ary remedy-a medicine that might prove more
fatal than the disease.
These unfortunate elections deDrive Prasidont
Johnson OF what ought TO have been the chief
glory OF his Administratlon-the pacifcatlon of
tne country after the late bloody contest. IL is
lule 10 ask, whether by gteater promptitude in
fhn raH ha tr.I,A
averted this modification. He must now take
the situation as he finds it, and make the best
OF IT, Powerless, during the residue of his term.
IN all contested questions of domestic politics,
MS only chance OF acquiring prestige Is In con-
hecuOn with our foreign relations. These are
less subject to the control of Congress. The
steps he is understood to be taking to resus-
cltate and maintain the Monroe doctrine
will be warmly approved by the conntrv IVo
IL would be futile for him to contend
longer with the radicals in respect to
the south, and be will best consult the
dignity of his office by letting his action ceast
with his responsibility. Against Congress fber
was 10 appeal but to the people, and the mas.
SONS OF the war have not yet sufficiently sub
SIded S 10 permit them to judge with candor.
Inc ratification of the amendment is not a
question for him, but Tor the States. He NAV
hereafter stand aloof from that subject without
any loss OF dignity or OF Consistency Against
@ Sne unconstitutional exclusion OF the Southern
states from Congress il was his duty to remon-
strate; out having appealed to the people in
vain, why should he sharpen acrimony bv fur-
ther opposition The elections, by virtually
GepIi'Ing trIy, pun OF his veto, have relieved him
from all responsibility tor the action of Con-
gress. While, therefore, he holds fast his Oft
repeated views, he Will serve no good purpose
Dy an animated and aggressive presentation of
tnem' candid co operation with Congress on
neutral questions, and digIi lied abstinence
from pushing controversy in which he is
power,e,ss, is the course which President John
son will doubtless think it wise to adopt
TN the South the Iatp elections viii prn hob
no effect Whatever That section is peculiarly
untortunale. The diminished labor supply con-
sequent on the losses OF the war, the inefficiency
OF the freedmen, and, worse than all the bad
harvest of an untavorabe season, keep the
Southern people IN the same state of poverty
and prostrahon in which they were left by the
war. But their helplessness will not induce
them TO ratty the radical amendment. What
would they gain by doing so? Admission to
Congress perhaps-but of that they have no
promlse-wlth diminished representation. But
since the representatives they would have under
the amendment, added TO the conservative repre-
senlatiVes now elected f1om the North would
still be minority, they would have no more
power OF selt-protection in Congress than out
or II. Until the political complexion of the |
North changes, admission will do them no good
why should they renounce for all time rights |
fer which nothing substantial is offered in ex- |
chanee? The South will preserve order, obey |
Inc laws, and leave the radicals to pass such |
measures as they please. The spectacle of a |
quiet, loyal people ruled by a Government in
which they have no voice. will appeal to the |
better sentiments of the North, and cause a
reaction against the radicals When il is seen |
that there is no reason in the conduct of the |
Southern people why they should be excluded, !
the responsibility of keeping the Union dis |
solved will come home 10 the rad Gals, and |
before the Presidential election there Will be a
great popular reaction, which will sweep them
out OF power Only a very small change is
necessary to produce this result. A change of
one vote in hundred would accomplish IT in
New YORK; change of one vote in fifty would
accomplish it in PENNSYLVANIA. The electoral
Notes or these two States, added to those
OF all the Southern States, together with
New Jersey and Connecticut, would make
a majority. A change of about seventeen
thousand votes in the four States of
New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and
New Jersey, would enable the Democratic party
10 elect the next President; Tor iC must be
Dorne IN mind that every voter transferred from
one side to the other makes a difference of two
III tne result why should Democrats despair
OF changing seventeen thousand votes in the
next two years? Why, we should have carried
New York this year, if the Fenians along the
llhes OIL the canal and railroads had not been
imyeIgled into voting Tor Fenton. We would
have carried Pennsylvania il moderate Com
seTVatlyes had not been dissatisfied with our
candidate. party which needs TO gam only
seventeen thousand votes in two wears to elect
the next President, IS not separated from sue
cess ny mat lmmeasurable interval which its
enemies pretend
In the State OF New York we have made a
gallant light. In the two great cities of New
YORK and Brooklyn we have done wonders.
we nave come so near success that the Repub-
llcans nave had hairbreadth escape Fhlctu.
ans aTons wltnn lar narrower Ii nits than often
Iake pace from year 10 year will give ma the
next PRESIDENTIAL election. When we count the
NUMBER nun ol States or the number of Congress-
meh heanst us, the opposition indeed look for. !
mldabe. But when we consider how f., ~ inSi
Vldual votes need to be changed 10 reversei - oil