The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-27
The New Coalition.

From tbe Tribune.
The fatal obstacle that bars the way to power
before the formidable coalition of ex-Rebels,
Copperheads, and Johnsonlzed Unionists, is the
palpable and natural indisposition of the two
former 'c1asses to keep out of public sight and
simply vote the latter into office. IT they would
do this persistently and systematically, the con-
Cern might possibly win, despite the discourag-
ing result of last falrs experiment in this State,
That result misleads, mainly because the Demo
cratic discontinue was not nearly so signal in
reality as it seemed. The apparent increase of
the Union majority from 1000 to 81, 900 is the
result of gigantic frauds IN the Presidential elec-
ton of 1864, when Lincoln would have had,
but tor this fraud, at least 20, 900 majority The
Union triumph in New Jersey last fall was won
by the soldiers vote, which her Democratic
Legislators would not allow to be cast in 1864.
Had the soldiers voted then, and no fraud been
perpetrated, Lincoln would nave carried the
Stale.
If the new alliance could be induced to run
Slocums and DiXes Tor every important post
and sufficient number might be found, by
searching inquiry-it would stand very fair
chance OF immediate success. But how are you
to induce those who have 10 furnish ninety-nine
hundredths of the votes to go down cellar and
stay there till they are wanted to voter 1t ls not
in human nature that they should generally do
so. They cannot, even by strenuous effort be
Kept out OF the Randall Convention. How, then
are they TO resist the tar stronger temptation OF
running for Congress, for Governor etc? Here
is Hester Clymer-who determlnedly opposed
the War for the Union from first TO last-running
for Governor of Pennsylvania against War
Democrat VINO fought through that war-wil
Clymer decline? will his hackers rule him off?
Clearly not. All efforts to shelve him have
proved abortive; and so they will to the end So
in Kentucky, Copperhead who was in sym
pathy with the Rebels throughout is
running Tor the only State office to be
filed by general vote this fall, against Hobson,
Union General, and he has no idea of with
drawing. Every eX Rebel in the State will do
his utmost for Duvall but it is hardly possible
that many Union soldiers will vote with them.
True, in Maryland, where nine-tenths or the
votes that can any how be got Tor the "Con-
Servative UnioI" ticket must be cast by men
whose hearts and efforts were given to the
Rebels throughout, Montgomery Blair, with
the otice'holders' help, may be able to rule off
B. G. Harris and other such avowed, thorough
going partsans of the Rebellion but there is
scarcely another State in which the greater
share of the offices VIII not be claimed by those
who confidently predicted the triumph of the
Coniederates, or those who did their utmost to
verify those predictions. The law OF grayitation
bears sway in politics as elsewhere, and renders
1T morally certain that those who cast the bulk
of the votes given to any ticket will dictate its
nominations, and will not so nominate as TO put
a stigma on themselves.
Indiana was exceeded by no other State in the
thoroughness wherewith majority OF its Demo-
Gratis we're identified in feeling with the Rebel
lion, and echoed, from first to last the pro-
phecy, "You never can subdue the South" Her
lodges of american Knights" or "Sons of
Liberty" were as numerous aud as well filed
as those of any other State, and they were as
openly venomously pro-Rebel as any other.
Now, they hold conventions and resolve that
.'the war for the Union was Just and necessary"
And the Hon. William S. Holman, whom they
would not renominate tor Congress- in 1864,
because he was not thoroughly Copperhead,
they have now having beaten themselves by
their Copperhead eXperiment-gone back TO
and placed again on the course. They may
win in special instances by this policy; but 1t is
as likely 10 disgust and repel those who vot ed
with them in 1864 as to draw recruits to their
standard.
The compliments paid by certain johnson
organs to the loyalty of the Tammany section
of the New York Democracy are utterly unlusti-
fed. j. Winthrop Chanler is Tammany
Democrat he was chosen as such to the last
Congress; and no man ever voted and acted
more thoroughly in sympathy with the Rebel
lion. Both Fernando and Ben. Wood were
chosen to Congress- in 1862 on the Tammany
tcket though Fernando had proposed seces
sion of this city from the State III the interest
OF the Rebellion, and had apoogized to Toombs,
of Georgia, Tor his inability TO overcome the
police OF our city so as to send arms to the
already seeded States; while Ben. had, through
his Dditg NeIcs, been q thick-andthin partisan
of the Rebellion from the egg, and so remained
to the end. We defy any talr man TO deduce
from the speeches and votes In Congress of
those members whom Tammany Hall elected,
any purpose or wish that the Rebellion should
be subdued. The attempt, therefore, to prove
the Tammany wing of the Democracy patriotic,
to the disparagement of the other, is utterly at
war with the facts.
1t is a truth which every ones observation
must confirm, that If "the radicals" are to be
beaten this fall, the votes which overcome them
must mainly be cast by "Copperheads.n He
who fanCes that they are to take back seats in
the Randall synagogue, and furnish the bulk OF
tn capital Wheleon Messrs Weed, Cowan, and
Dooittle are to operate, viii find himself utterly
mistaken.
The Unity OF Germany.