The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-28


blacks-nAy, the very facts that they claim and |
h0Ue any rights-are utterly ignored in this call. |
The Randall call afiirms that
Each state has the undoubed right 10 prescribe |
the qualifications Of ITS own electors; |
but tails to meet squarely and honestly the prior |
and vital question Who constitute The State ? |
We know, indeed, precisely what is meant-that |
the intensely Rebel minority Of the people of |
South Carolina, Tor instance, snail monopoliAe |
all power in that State, and that the invincby
loyal majority shall have no power at all; but
this garb is concealed by the bait, and the Rebel
minority OF the people oil Texas who have just
consolidated ther power by the election of
Throckmorton Co., are to be recognized by
this Randall Convention as fully entitled TO
work their wicked viii on tie large majority,
whereof the whites have voted for peace and the
Union wherever they durst while the blacks
are utterly ignored and suppressed. If the dis
iranchised majority OF devoted Unionists in sew
eral States were to send delegates to the John
son Union Convention, they would be simply
kicked out-or rather, would be kicked at tue
door for presuming to offer TO go in. Right
well do MessTs. Randall Co. understand this;
they err only in imagining that the people will
not understand it.
Messrs Randall & Co. tell us that they affirm
and uphold
''The ripht OF each ate to order and control its
own domestic concerns according TO its own judg-
ment exclusively, subject only to the Constitution"
and that anv overthrow OF that system" would
be Constructive OF liberty" They also assert,
with regard 10 suffrage, that
mo external power rghtfuy can or ought to
dictate control, or influence the free and voluntary
action Of the state in the exercise OF this right"
So far they are in perfect accord with Valan-
digham, Voorhees,, Jack Rogers Cymer, Ben
Harris Il Co., and we clearly comprehend them.
Not so, when they turn short corner, and
assert that
slavery is abolished, and neither can nor ought
to he ro-es 40 shed in any State or Territory within
our jurisdiction"
Why not? You know, Messicurs, that the
Rebel States-that is to say, their whites, to
h4n ynu trIpf I'D
freely and heartily consent to abolish slavery
that their action in the premises was dictated
controlled, commanded by external power
ard Is, of course, according to your proclaimed
principles, rightiully invalid and null The
antisayery amendment is no part of the Fede-
raj Constitution, II your principles are sound,
but an eXCrescence-hn impoSition-a product
OF usurpation preying on helplessness. You
know this as well as we do; and you will yet
be voting to pay the Rebels for their slaves IN
order to cure what, according to your pro-
gramme, is fatal haw in the title OF the eman-
Cipated TO their freedom
Let it be distinctly understood on all hands
that this JohnsonRandall Convention is blOg
aimed with deadly intent at the integrity aud
ascendancy OF the Union parry. II means de-
feat this lall to Governor Fenton, to General
Geary aud TO the Union tickets in Ohio, Indi-
ana, and their sister States 1t means the res
roration OF the Jerry Blacks and Howell Cobbs
TO the mastery OF our country. AS such, it de-
nands the sternest, most energetic resistance.
The Call for National convention.
From the WorId.
We printed on Tuesday a call, issued at
! Washington, for a National Convention to be
held at Philadelphia, on the 14th of August, in
which it is proposed that all the States and Ter.
ritories shall be represented. 1t is proposed
! that the Convention shall consist of delegates
who support the policy of President Johnson.
The call is sigued by Messrs. Doolttle, Cowan,
] ALL ,4I
The respectablity Of these names, and their
known fidelity to the cause of the Union, chal-
lenge tor this movement the respectful consi.
deIation Of patriotic men.
The Times, a Jew days ago, recommended u
| National Convention, to consist of delegates
! from all the States, with the protessed object of
''nationalizlng the Republican party" This
call does not quite seem to answer to the Times
| recommendation, which seemed to be addressed
! to the National Executive Committee of the
Republican party while this call proceeds from
another source. Such Convention, held under
the auspices of the Republican Executive Com
mitee, would be very absurd. For the same
party which has excluded the Southern States
nom Congress to invite them to seats in a
National Convention, would be at once an act
OF selt-condemnation and an insult. To such a
call, the South would answer with spirit and
dignity, 'We dlsdain to accept courtesy from
a party which denies us our rights" Such a
mock courtesy is no atonement Tor an acknow-
lodged and unredressed wrong.
By ''nationalizlng the Republican party" it is
meant that Southern citizens shall be induced to
Join 1t; but sel-respeCt will prevent their uniting
with an organization which confesses, even in
the act OF inviting them, that it is persistently
deprivng them of their constitutional rights.
When the South seek redress in a National Con.
venton, they will not go INTO such Convention
10 consult with their enemies, but with their
friends; in which category they are never likely
to rate the Republican party, more particularly
since its action in the present Congress. To in
vlte the South to aid IN extending the Republ.
10 cTnh fhao dor
in the liable, protel ed TO the fly
/ The call Just issued, though seeming to have
been heralded by the recommendation OF the
Times Is, both on its face and in its source,
OF different character. IL looks like the initial
4 step towards the formation of a new political
I party. To the eQriier formation of third party
! we should have had no objections, especially
as its materials would be drawn from the Re
publicans. But we deem 1t our duty to say now,
what time will certainly verify, that the Demo
cratic party will not merge its existence in the
proposed new organization. II is quite within
the boun0s of possibility that the whale should
swallow Jonah, but not that Jonah should
swallow the whale The consideration OF rela-
tive size counts for something in such a matter.
The Democratic party of the Northern States
ale, 10 a man, in favor OF immediate restoration.
Whetherit is more natural tor the South to form
political alliance with them or with the mode
rate and reasonable portion of its old enemies,
is question hardly worth asking.
| Lay out OF view the possible influence OF the
Executive patronage and nobody would think
| OF asking it. The new party, of course, counts
| upon the Presidents patronage; but this,
though no doubt valuable adjunct, does not
ton. The Republican party have deliberately
decided to dispense with and defy it. The
Democratic patty most certainly do not see any
thing in it which should induce them to give