The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-15
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THERE is no doubt that there will be a strong
disposition on the part of many, II not most O.
the Southern States, to accept tde Constitutional
amendment Just proposed by Congress, az
iual settlement of the questions left to US as
legacy by the Rebellion. The leading minds in
that section OF the country are perfectly con
scious that the nation has passel through
tremendous struggle, aud that certain changes
in the organic law must be made to meet the
new condition of affairs. They cannot expect,
after appealing to the arbiirament of war, to
find their own status the same as 1t was before
the Rebellion. Of course, they will strive tor
what they consider the best attainable terms;
but they know very we'll that some terms will
be required as conditions precedent to their
admission into the Union. We believe they
will be inclined to accept those proposed by
Congress. There is nothing in those terms that
cannot be honorably accepted by the South
There is nothing in them thst will initiate in
the least against the future growth and power
of the South. They merely require the people
there to accept IN good faith the results OF
the war.
The only thing which can cause The South to
attempt to thwart the clearly expressed will OF
the nation, will be the pos tion of the leaders
of the so-called Democratic party. They Will
doubtless oppose the proposed measures Of set
tlement and concliation, as they have opposed
every previous measure adopted by the nation
during the struggle But we trust the Southern
people are beginning to see the folly of being
led any longer by these blind guides. 1t was
the encouragement of these men that embol-
dened the Southern ire-eaters to precptate
war upon the country. They utterly misrepre-
sented the public sentiment Of the North, as the
South soon found to its sorrow. So, during the
entire progress of the war; these Democratic
leaders continued to misead the South, holding
out to 1t false hopes and promises of popular
reaction against the war at the North Depend
ing on these misrepresentation, the South was
led to prolong the contest long after she would
otherwise have been inclined to give it up; and
thus in the end she experienced a more COM
plete and disastrous overthrow. Again, at the
present time, the Democratic leaders are mis-
leading the South, holding out to her false
hopes, encouraging her in demands that are pre-.
posterous and will never be cOnceded-miSre
presenting again the popular sentiment of the
North, and leading the Southern people way
from their true interests.
The truth is-and 1t is time our Southern
brethren understood 1.-THE Copperhead leaders
of the Democratic organization have behaved
with such unmeasured folly and wickedness,
during the past five years, that they have run
their party into the ground. They are reduced
to a powerless minority in every Northern State,
and i'll the most of them do not constitute even
respectable faction In Congress they are
unable to muster a fourth OF the votes of either
House. Their doctrines are abominated by the
masses of the people, and they have secured for
themselves degree of popular odium unusual
in any country. If the Southern people suppose
they will make anything by any longer follow
ing this played-out, uscd.up, broken-down fac
tion of political bankrupts, they are very much
mistaken.
The popular sentiment of the North is repre-
sented by the great Union party. 1t was never
more compact vigorous, and powerful than
to-day. It's informing ideas are daily more
thoroughly permeatng the masses. 1t has
the prestige OF victory on its banners Its leaders
are men of the people, who understand the
people. 1t is the party of progress. lis liberal
and inspiring doctrines are in harmony with the
enlightened spirit of the age they attract to it
the young, the enthusiastic, the progressive. 1t
is tthe party of the future as well as of the pre-
sent. This is the party with which our Southern
brethren must treat. 1t represents the people.
and it wields the power OF the people. The
measures it proposes carry with them the sane.
ton of authority. There is ON the part of this
great organization no desire to wrong the
South-no desire even to exact the demands of
Justice; but there is determination, inhexible
and uncompromising, that, in admitting the late
Rebel States to power in the Unou the safety
and peace of the nation shall be secured by
ample and irrevocable guarantees. The sooner
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better will il be for all parties