The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-21

James Brooks and Hon. Thaddeus
stevens on the Same Platform.
From the Herald.
The Hon James Brooks, through the columns
ofYan obscure journal made up of secondhand
materials-a sort of shoddy newspaper-has
come out with a fippaut little stump speech
AGAINST the Constitutional amendment now be-
fore the States for their ratification. He does
not like IL. Neither does the Hon. Thaddeus
Stevens nor General B. F. Butler nor Wendell
Phillips, nor any of the tribe of radical leaders
Nor is it the first time or the second In which
Mr.. Brooks and Mr.. Stevens have been found
milling together On the District of Columbia
Negro Suffrage bill in the House OF Representa-
tiyes early in the last session, when the conser-
yatlye Republicans, with the help OF the Demo.
Gratis, could have deieateu stevens on tne tesi
question Stevens carried hls point with the aid
Of the Democratic vote, including the vote OF
Mr.. Brooks. Again, towards the CLOSE oil the
session, when his Constitutional amendment as
first reported was before the House, the Demo-
crats came TO the rescue of Stevens, and enabled
him to carry his point against the moderate Re-
pubcans. .,..,v,o, ,,,o ,,i.a soo,,or
of the amendment as originally reported, dis
franchising till the 4th of July, 1867, every man
guilty of voluntarily giving aid and comfort
10 the Rebellion. This was the ultimatum OF
Stevens,
speeches was his terrible closing speech against
any surrender of this condition. 1t was to him
the pith and substance OF the amendment, ana
this plan OF Congress, he protested, would be a
surrender to the Rebels If shorn OF this sweep
ing ACKNOWLEDGMENT A Republican member
desired TO make O motion to strike out this third
section; but Stevens interposed the previous
question, which, if adopted, cuts OF all motions
to amend, and brings the House at once to the
main question.
tive Republicans could have voted down the
previous question:; but a sufficient number OF
the Democrats preferred to support the motion
of Stevens, and thus they carried his plan
through the House. We cannot find the name
of Mr. Brooks in these proceedings, but the votes
of his fellow Democrats who voted tor the pre-
yious question and his lodging are enough to
TX his position. This sweeping dlstranchise-
ment of the Stevens plan was stricken out IN
the Senate, where the amendment was put into
its present shape; but the country owes nothing
to Mr.. Brooks for the modification. The amend
ment as it now stands is not his plan, nor is
it the plan of Mr.. Stevens. Both these men,
we take it, dislike this amendment because it
does not suit the factious purposes of either to
bring this business to speedy and decisive
settlement.
Against the warnings of Stevens and the flip
pant objections of Brooks we urge upon the
politicians and white people of the Southern
States the adoption Of this Constitutional amend
ment The public mind OF the North is not in
the mood for a repetition OF the superclhous,
ern fre-eaters and revolutionists as defeated the
great object OF the Border State Peace Conven-
tion of 1861 We have had enough of the folly
OF dOmineering Southern fre-eaters, and enough
OF the tanaticlsm OF Northern radicals, and we
want peace; and we can get it in the restora-
tion OF the Union on the basis OF this peace
ultimatum of the Republican conservatives of
Congress. We feel entirely justified in admon-
ishing the Southern States that delay IS danger
Gus to them; that If they reject these cond-
tons of Congress they will be far more likely
TO get something much worse instead of any
thing better; that a State Government accord
ing to the Supreme Court if recognized by
Congress, is the State; that il not recognized by
Congress, there is no appeal but to the next
Congress, and that in such an appeal there is
no living chance of anything better than this
amendment for the excluded States.
1t is the victorious party in a war that die
tates the treaty of peace; and as the terms o
restoration and peace offered to the South by
Congress propose nothing of confiscaton nc
enforcement of negro suffrage, no vengeance
no exclusion from Federal offices that cannot
be remedied, no establishments, but onl "
those securities deemed necessary for the safety
of the national treasury, the liberty of thu
blacks, and the future peace of the Union, W.
would appeal to the excluded Southern State
TO come into the general Government as ias
as possible on these generous terms oheret
through Congress by the victorious North. w
nrge this course because it is abundantly man
Test that nothing less will satify the grea
dominant Union war party and Congressiona
peace party OF the North.