The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-16

Ihteu' Inc uOCtIlne OF Capitalization must De
declared by an erwbelming majority, now
and forever, heresy incompatible with the
nature of our form Of government.
The solemn and emphatic voice of the people
| must reassert the principles enunciated in the
! Declaration of Independence, and identified
with the organic law OF the Republic at its crea-
! IL N. The theory that States can be held as
conquered provinces, and that taxation can be
! imposed while representation is denied. must be
! dismissed forever from partisan philosophy.
! When that work shall have been accomplished,
parties can take. up minor issues and retrace
! the lines OF their partisan organizations: but,
! until tnen, lie the Conservative League be faith.
| ful to ils mission. Devoting ourselves to the
cause, we invite forgetfuness OF past antago
nisms, and invoke pure National spirit to con-
! troll the action of the Convention,
The Cabinet Rupture Congress and the
Administration - The Danger to the
County.
From ne Herald.
Doolttle and Dixon have been making some
noise in the world. They are two conservative
Republican Senators, who, earnestly adhering
to the Union policy OF Andrew Johnson have
been particularly active and instrumental in
getting up the call for the independent National
johnson Union Convention, which is to meet in
Philadelphia on the l4th Of August In this con-
necton it seems that Senator Doolittle applied
the test TO MIR. Postma,terGeneral Denison
which has revealed him in his true colors, and
which promises at least partial reconstruction
OF the Cabinet.
The test was the Endorsement of the Philadel.
phia Convention. As Mr.. Weles of the NAVY
Department, in reply to note from Mr.. Doo-
little, has written long and patriotic letter,
fully indorsing the Presidents policy and the
said convention, and fatty denouncing the radl-
cal policy of Congress as unconstitutional and
revolutionary, we infer that noe from MIR.
a A g.
every other member OF the Cabinet. We also
conclude from the reports that Messrs. Stanton,
Harlan, and Speed are to follow in the wake OF
Mr.. DenisOn, that they, too have resolved To
adhere to Congress upon the simple issue of
Congress OF the Administra ton.
MIR. Secretary McCulloch, in his late speech to
serenadnG party at Washington, had already
so lar deemed his position IN favor of the Presi-
dent as 10 bring down upon himself the wrath
or "Old Thad Stevens" while Mr. Seward in
his rourth-o-July grateful, gracious, facetous
and romantic letter to the Sachems OF Tammany
Hail. Rad proved that King Solomon made
mistake whom he SAID There Is nothing new
under the SUM-" The chances Of the retention
IN the Cabinet of Messrs. Seward, McCulloch,
and Welles are very good; If they desired,
however, to give the President perfectly fair
field tor thoroughgorng reorganization, they
would follow the example of Martin Van Buren,,
as General Jackson's Secretary OF State, by
handing IN their res1g cations. In the course
that they have pursued they restrict the Presi-
dent after all, to sort of hallway reorganza-
non.
The radical caucus of Congress, meantime.
eettil wind OF DoollJtle's manpulations of the
Cabinet rallied to the tight as promptly as the
Austrians in the Quadrilateral. Tney resolved
on motion of their old fighting chieftain,
Stevens, to hold every Republican member OF
either House renegade who should support
this Philadelphia Conservative Convention and
thus the issue between Con gress and the Presi.
dent was made as clear as the old Cabinet quar-
rel between Calhoun and Jackson. 1t may be
that Doolittle was doing it u little too fast in
Offering this temptation to the radicals, while
Congress was still IN session. AT any rate they
have seized upon this Philadelphia Convention
and promptly used it for their own purposes.
1t is evident now that they will keep one
House or the other on guard over the President
and his appointments through all the interval
till next December 1t is possible, indeed, that
they may, on some pretext or other, as the fight
goes or, bring up the venerable Mr.. Welles or the
outspoken McCulloch on what Mr.. Stevens calls
the ''gTand inquest of the nation" on charges of
impeachment. Some of the radicals through
their favorte journals, have professed serious
apprehensions OF revolutionary assumptions of
power by the Presidents, from which we infer
that they do not propose themselves to stop at
any halfway measures in the prosecution of
their own revolutionary schemes.
The Philadelphia Conservative johnson Ma
tonal Convention, we perceive, is to be made
up one-halt of the elements from the Union
war party OF the country, and the other half of
the Democratic elements, North and South ali
tusng on the johnson platform. This is
SIduu luSu Nne OF JQe Demo-
cratic party; but how il will work we are
somewhat doubtful. Thurlow Weed it is sur
missed, deserted the movement, carrying off his
representative in Congress on the discovery that
the old Democratic elements in the Convention
would rule it reg ardless of Weeds instructions
and so leave HIM him out in the cold while the
New York shentper shent clique seem to disrust
the enterprise as promising no immediate re-
wards OF offices in the face OF a radical Senate
The regular Copperhead faction, however have
an organ which has hit upon an expedent to
secure at once the spols. 1t is the simple expe-
dent on the part of the President of forcing the
members elect from the excluded States into
| Congress at the point of the bayonet or of dis
persng ''the long Parliament q la Cromwell
Calhoun, 1t will be remembered denounced
the old Democratic party as league OF spoils.
men, "held together by the cohesive power of
the public plumber" In this idea Calhoun was
right, but he did not cover the whole ground,
for II was from their wranglings over the "pub
lie plunder" that the old Democracy were
broken up and the country was thrown into All
the horrors of civil war. The same demoralizing
effects are now broadly developing themse YES
in the Republican party, and the same raveuous
appetite Tor the spoils still prevails among the
Copperhead politicians OF the Democratic party
1t is with these clashing elements of CORRUPTION,
spoIation. and revolution that President John.
son has to deal, and with which the conserva.
tive law-abidiDe American people have to deal
Nor do we know of any other way of safety
to the Administration and the people than the
quiet constitutional way which is now open TO
them for a new Congress through our approach.
ing fall elections. If this approaching Phila.
delphia Convention, adhering faithfully TO the
johnson platform, will make its immediate
object the election of conservative Congress-
it NAV do something Otherwise there is danger
IL, Al, H..