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

are nearly all urging that "the South" shall be
fully and strongly represented; so we shall have
at Philadelphia full Convention of those who
maintained the Rebellion, and those who in
sisted that II should not, and could not be put
down, but very small percentage of those
who insisted that 1t could aud should be. Mean
time, the cooling and billing of the predestined
compatriots of 1868 goes on with ever-increas-
ing tervor and reciprocal delight. w
The Tammany Society celebrated the Fourth
by dinner, whereat Mayor Hoffman presided.
and Messrs. Andrew johnson and William II.
Seward were the foremost invited guests. Both
responded lovingly, urging the restoration of
the States, but never limiting that their loyal,
faithful colored people ought to be at all con-
sidered in such restoration. Their ex-Rebels are
all 10 be restored to power Ito which we do not
objecD but the four millions OF their people who
contributed one hundred and eighty thousand
soldiers TO the Union armies and never a regi-
ment to the Rebel, are to be trampled under
foot. Restoration for them means slavery; is
IL wonder that neither they nor their friends
are enraptured at the prospect?
Governor Seward stood through forty honor
able years the consistent, conspicuous, deter
mined detested adversary of the influences
which have borne sway in Tammany Hall. Yet
be writes to the sachems az though only
lovers quarrel had momentarily estranged them'
Hear him:-
al have had some differences, in nv time, with the
Tammany society; but long ago forgot them all
when recalled the fact that the Society mas never
National independence; and the further TACT that,
during the recent civil war, the Tammany Society
sent its sons to fight for the Union, and with un.
swervng fidelity heartily supported the Federal
Government IN Its struggles with sedtion. In view
of these facts, and of the noble principles now
avOwed, L nail the Tammany Society as a true
Union League"
There were members of the Tammany Society
who fought in the Union, as there were others
who fought in the Rebel armies; but it is not
true that "the Tammany Society, with unswerv-
ing fidelity, heartily supported the Federal Gov
ernment in its struggles with seditioD.n In the
darkest hours of our contest, Tammany Hall
reelected Ben. Wood to Congress, knowing that
he never gave, and never would give, a vote in
favor of suppressing the Rebellion. Tammany
Hall elected and reelected to Congress John w.
Chanler, whose heart was as thoroughly with
the Rebellion as was Ben. Woods. And, in the
gloomiest days of our great struggle, the Tam
many orator OF the Fourth delivered to crowd
of delighted Democrats, lecture on Edmund
Burke written expressly to show that the slave
holding Rebels were fighting for the identical
cause upheld by our fathers IN their Revolution
ary struggle, and never could, because they
never ought, to be overcome.
Let all men understand tnat the Randall Con-
vention of August Ia is to be a Convention of
the Pro-slavery Sham Democracy-that it is
designed and engineered to pave the way to
their restoration TO power. A few Randalls and
Raymonds are to be taken In, used to convert
the minority of 1854 into a majority IN 1868, and
are to be paid the lowest price at which they
can be had; but there is no thought of abandon
ing for their sake the distinctive hatreds, nor
even the distinctive name, of the down -with-the-
neutrality-suspicious. Rebel party. Its objects,
its Instincts its oracles, will be the same that
they have been-its success will be the downfall
OF all that triumphed with Lincoln and Grant.
Let those who wish the country delivered over
to the spirit evinced in the draft riots of 1868
adhere to the Randall-Niblack Convention; but
let all Others beware of it!