The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-19
Chinese Thunder.

From the Tribune.
The New York Times of Tuesday prints an
alarming letter from Mr.. Raymond. ACCORDING
10 this letter everything in Washington is really
going to the bad, and we are verging upon
national chaos. General Paine, Of Wisconsin,
Q is the leader OF the new chaos party, having
9 offered resolution in reference to distributing
:. arms, which is the "hrst step towards prepara-
tion for another civil war;" Furthermore, II
the Southern States should elect congressman,
and If said Congressman elect should come to
:. Washington, and if the President should recog-
! nise these Congressmen elect 0s the true Con-
gress, and If there are Northern Democrats
enough elected to make a majority with the
( Southerners, there will be dreadful row. The
radicals will drive the rival Congress with the
j President and his Cabinet and supporters (H.
= j. r. headforemostI into the Potomac" This Is
what the radicals mean--Mr. Boutwell,, espe'
cially, being the most sang gunary. AS 10 tne
President intending in any contingency 10 use
force or anything ike II, why 1t rs purely an
invention, or the crazy dream of political
nightmaren whatever that may be.
We are assured by our bewidered acrobat
that tithe Philadelphia Convention is another
source OF panic to the Union party" We claim
to know something OF the Union party, and our
knowledge Indlcaes general coltentment and
resolution. The Philadelphia Convention eX-
cites little curiosity; but as to panic, we have
= vet to hear OF the first true Republican who has
had single tremOr. The Republican party
spoke It's mird very freely in the hundred news
papers from which we made extracts few days
since, and we have no recollection OF any pane,
o or apprehension, or the slightest possible fear
of the Philadelphia Convention. Mr.. Raymonds
panic is oi his Ownlcreatlon-an alr-dra Wn dagger
that distresses his soul, and his only. he con-
structVely celsures the Convention in this
letter-but yet he sees no harm in ''con5ulCa-
tion.o What good, say we' Would he nave us
believe that the johnson politicians are going
all the way to Philadelphia merely to consult
Mr.. johnson himself does not think so; for we
understand he expects great consolation from
this Convention. Mr.. Seward does not think
so; for he tells us III a letter that he means the
Convention shall eXerc sc certain pressure
upon Congress, and compei the admission OF the
Rebel States uDon their o wn terms.
But this Convent Oh, according to Mr.. Ray
mond, would never have been necessary had
the Union party been true-and even now it Is
not " wise Tor the leaders of the Union party to
ignore or unGerrate it," Here, then, we have
the essence of Mr.. Raymonds philosophy. The
Union party is going to rum because 1t will not
obey him and those who have m In keeping
because 1t will not gratify Mr.. johnson and Mr..
Seward by deliberately surrenderiug 10 the
spirit of slavery ali that we had gained from the
slave power-because il will not follow Mr.. Ray
mond IN series of tergiversations which for
rapidity and shamelessness have no parallel in
modern political history, anG which have occa-
stoned for that gentleman the plying contempt
of every Republlcan-because IL will not follow
adventures like Randall and Ishmaeltes like
Cowan, we are now in the hands of traitors who
mean civil war-hopelessly demoralized, indeed,
unless it return to the platform of Randall and
Doolittle, as explained and defended by Ray
mond. Do we doubt these things? Listen to
this new Titus Oates shouting it from the watch.
tower, calling upon all men to come and see his
dscovery-the treason he has uneaIthed, the
crimes he has exposed, the conspiracy of Gen.
eral Paine and Mr.. Boutwell,, and the ''ablest
and most sincere radical" whose name is not
given, but who. we inter, is Mr.. Stevens.
We can say to MIR. Raymond that the Union
party is not to be irieEtened from its mission by
gong. beating and Chinese thunder. We can
imagine timid, time serving soldier, whose
courage is none of the purest, in a position re-
quiFing calrlness and bravery. Let us run
away; let US throw down our guns; better than
all, let Us surrender, and have done with strife"
This is Mr.. Raymonds situation, and the mean
ing OF his letter. He would surrender the Union
party to President johnson, and make Randall
and Doolittle its keepers. Being in surrender
ing mood himselt-having, indeed, gone over,
haversack and musket, to the enemy-he won
ders that the party does not follow. 1t Is not
the first time that men in abandoning their colors
have made wild appeals TO their comrades tc
follow their example. Benedict Arnold became
very earnest when he wrote of the wrongs Of
Washington and the patriot party, and his earn
estness is well initiated by MIR. Raymond.
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