The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-16
Massachusetts and south Carolina.


Massachusetts and South Carolina.
Our wigwam politicians are telicitating them.
selves extensively over the fact that The Massa.
chusetts delegation and the South Carolina dele.
CATION walked into the Convention at its open
ing arm in arm. Even MIR. DooLITTLE with his
usual profundity, Thinks, or says he does, that
if that sight could only have been witnessed by
the people OF Massachusetts, it would instantly
have worked O complete revolution in their
political sentiments.
Now, we luust confess, it produced a very
pretty stage-etIeCt to see these centlemen walk
into the Convention IN tnis loving end amiable
style, and 1t sho 8ed considerable skill on the
part of the managers to open the per.
formances in so moving manner. But
we cannot help reminding our political
wire-pullers OF the WigWam that il is
no neD thing to find O certain class of Mas
sachusetts politicians walking arm in arm with
those of South Carolina. 1t used to be done at
every Democratic Convention, even when South
Carolina was mprisonng Massachusetts seamen
and mobbing her commissioners sent to test tue
constitutionalty of South Caroiinas laws
Heaven knows we should be glad to see Massa.
chusctts and South Carolina In perfect accord,
but it will require something more to accom-
plish it than Il Wigwam promenade between a
lot of massachusetts, doughtaces and South
Carolina eX.Reoels. Massachusetts is not repre-
sented in the Wlgwam. Some men are there
who live within her boundaries, but the brain.
the heart, the aentiment, the moral power of
Massachusetts are not represented there
Mes5re. ORR and CoUCH may perambula,e I'D
and down the Wigwam till doomsday, and it
VIII mean nothing except a political by-pay,
unless the Fundamental tdeuS which inform the
| structure of society in their respective State.
can be brought into living sympathy and accord.
The great problem before our country for
solution is well typifed by these two States,
and We wish That our Wigwam friends could be
brought to see that it can never be solved by
| perambua,Ory perform anccs, or spread.eagle
speeches, or coIyiyal conferences. The problem
in our country is to DO a,Ggq nth the dntdqones,n
tfteoeea artst0crdcy and democracy, and to
| realize the true democratic idea in the whole
| structure of our society Now look at Masaa-
| chusetts and South Carolina. Massachusetts, is
! a true Commonwealth. Its people stand on a
| perfect equality before the law. 1t is u State
| modelled after and fully realizing he true
| American idea OF State.
South Carolina, on the other HAND, is an
oligarchy. The minority rules instead of the
majority. The masses of the people are dis
| francbised. They are subject to taxation with.
| out representation. They are forced to obey
laws which they have no voice in making.
There is no equality before the law. Her
society is composed of privileged classes and
| oppressed classes. Her whole structure and
framework OF government is vitality ontagontstlc
| to the true American idea OF a State.
Still more, South Carolina having Just been
| suppressed in a violent md long continued
attempt to overthrow the Government of the
| United States, in which attempt she voluntarily
seeded from the Union and abandoned her
| relations to her sister States, now demands to be
readmItted, not 'uron terms of equality but
| upon those of superiority. She asks that each of
| her Ooters may hare teco and one-hd.f times as
much poaCer IN al ndtiondi affairs as Uoter in
Massachusetts,. She asks for .fve representatives
in Congress. when her voters only entitle her to
| ta0o In short, she demands that her oligarchical
form of government shall give her voters two
and half times the power in the nation that
they are fairly entitled to WELD.
| Now does Mr.. DooLITTLE suppose that antag-
| opisms like these, going to the very foundations
of things, can be reconciled by the pretty prone
nades OF Messrs. ORR and Couch ON the floor of
| his WigWam? Is that the extent of his political
sagacity? Is that the lesson he has learned
from our past history? ..
The instructive intelligence of the American
people tells them that this antagonism between
democracy and aristocracy in our country must
| cease. They have sacrificed three hundred thou
sand lives to make it cease. They are not now,
through political chicanery, to be deirauded
of the Just victory they have won. The demo-
cratic republican idea triumphed on the battle.
field, and 1t must triumph in the halls of legis.
lation. Our Wigwam politicians, IN the name of
peace and union and goodwill, are in truth
doing all they can to perpetuate antagonism
and discord. They would lay up for our
children, and perhaps for ourselves, a repetition
of the terrible struggle through which we have
Just passed. So intent are they on political
power that they would keep alive in the body
polite an element of strife and discord, which
is as sure to work out disaster and convulsion
as any physical cause is to produce its natural
| effect ..... ....
RECENT But NOT NEw.-We have had laid on
our desk little pamphlet by Mr.. HENRY FLAN-
DaRs, entitled observations on Reconstruc-
tior,' which is thirty-tw PACED attack on Con.