The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-22

poll on the 9th proximo larger Republican
vote and majority than she did last year. In
snort, she mas taken her place among the tho.
roughly free States, and she will keep It.
These are the only two States above the old
slave slsSellne that Johnt9nized Democracy can even
nope 70 carry; for the Northwest is radical to
the core as Iowa has Just demonstrated
New York in 1864 elected 20 Republican TO IL
pemocratic Representatives in Congress-; New
JJel sey 70 3-togetherl % to IA That these
States VIII now,elect more than 22 opponents of
My Polcy" and It's author is as certain as any
result yet future well could be. Governor Fen
sn, IONS 9 majority can hardly be less than thrice
M lnsa Az OF 1854; while New Jersey, then Demo-
her government. 'E7' - = ,
=, We say these results are inevitable, because
the set oi the popular current is clear and be-
cause Pablo sentiment so decided alwaVs
Vlndicates itself in the results of current cleo
tlons. When the East and West shall have thus
spoken, why need the controversy be prottacted ?
What will be lett practically TO strupele forf
Why should not the Southern States resume
their places in the Union on the terms prescribed
Dy Congress, and the whole land once more
ENJOY tne DRESSINGS OF security and perfectpeaceG
Rights Of Southern citizens In other
From t,e World, states
The labyrinth Of absurdity in which the radi-
cal doctrine wanders is we'll illustrated by the
manner in which they make political guilt
attach to local residence and not to personal
conduct. In the city of Baltimore, seven
eighths (thls is the proportion stated by the
committee which waited upon Governor Swann)
OF the citizens arc disfranchlsed in consequence
of alleged sympathy with the late Rebellion. But
If any of these disfranchised citizens remove to
other States they are Immediately absolved
irup all political stains and recover all the
rights OF citizenship. Suppose that, one year
ago, ten of the disfranchlsed citizens of Balti-
more and ten citizens OF Vermont had taken up
their residence in this State, they would be, all
| alike, entitled to vote in our elections, III ao-
| cordance with our laws. 1t is, OF course, a
| glaring absurdity that Marylanders who, after a
| years residence vote in New York, canuot, by
any length of residence, reacqvire their right to
| vote in the State of their birth.
The same absurdity 1nheres in all the radical
attempts at dislranchisement II a thousand
hardy New York soldiers, having served in the
| South and become acquainted with the open
| ings it affords tor making money, should emi-
| CRATE thither and purchase cotton lands at a
! cheap rate from ruined planters, they would
be punished by the radical Congress as politi
| cal outcasts, and denied representation IN the
| Government for which they perilled their lives.
And IT., on the other hand, the planters who
spent their property IN supporting the Rebellion
A should come TO New York, they would acquire,
by the mere fact of removal, the same rights of
representation in Congress as are possessed by
! citizens born in the State. There are pro
badly in this city at least five thousand South
| eIners who would be denied representation
| at home, and yet share it as fully here as il
| they had come from Massachusetts.
Every Southern refugee who has been in this
Stale year, and has resided four mouths in
the county, has, by our laws, just the same righ'
| to vote in the coming election as our own citi-
| zens. Like the rest OF u.s. he must be registered
| but this formality complied with, he has an
| equal voice with every other citizen in deter
| mining who shall be Governor, who shall be
elected to Congress in the district where he
| votes, and who shall hll all other offices fol-
| which incumbents are chosen at this election
! 1t is most extraordinary species OF political
! guilt which may be thus etiaced or incurred BY
simply removing from one state to another Il
is the soil, not the man, that is accursed.
mans political guilt or innocence, does not de
| pend upon what he has done, but upon where
| he resides. l5.
The Constitution was once supposed to or1el
these things differently. 1t was supposed tina
! the Federal Government acted directltly or
indiyidual citizens, and that its relations tC
them, whether for protection or punishment
| were precisely the same whether they resIdej
| in one State or another. What can be more fan
| tastically absurd than for Congress to make
| mems characters problem ip geography instead
of a question of morals?