The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-01

hands OF every voter OF the Union party. Where
ITS views are not vet fully harmonzed as 10 the
kind OF Freedmen's Bureau the country needs,
If the Act OF Emancipation is to be enforced, an
acquaintance with these Southern laws will soon
effect 1t.
From the World.
We have all heard of the changing colors of
the chameleon; OF the builders of the Tower of
Babel, no one of whom understood word of
the language spoken by any other; of the web
of Penelope VINO, to elude her lovers, raveed
out in the night all that she wove by day; of
the witches IN Macbeth, every one of whom
threw different ingredient into the caldron in
which they cooked their bubblng "hell-brotn:'
OF the frog at the bottom of the well, who
jumped up three feet every day, and fell back
two every night; of the stone of Sisypbus; OF
the tussle of the dogs in the Tliad," all tugging
with their teeth in different ways around the
circumference OF a rotten hide, to see which
would carry off the prize; OF Barnum's 'happy
family" OF dogs, cats, monkeys. snakes,
rats, guinea-pigs, barndoor fowl, bears,
foxes, and what-not, all 'pigglng together in the
.me Jruckle-bed;" OF punctuation marks shaken
on composition from a peppeT-boX; of the
definition of wit which makes it consist of ideas
which are astonished at finding themselves in
each others company; but all images of things
incOngruous, jarring, dissentient, all examples
OF abortive efforts and work ever beginning, un-
doing, renewing, vanishing ere one can say it
liehtens," shrink abashed before the higgledy-
plggledy contrivlngS and counter-contrivingS;
the iumblng proposals, amendments, with,
drawals the endless dressing, undressing. and
redIessing, o. what is called IN Congress ''recoli'
struchon.n
Itwould require more diligence, possibly more
arithmetic than we are masters of to bring
together and compute all the muititudnous
schemes broached by Republicans during the ses-
W lV n 10 Lon
1nneS that it had three hundred and siXty.hve
Htrent opinions on every possible subject, one
on each Tor every day in the year, is poor and
barren compared to the prodgous fertility
surprising that of "the sow of imperial augury"
OF this teeming Congress. The swarming
sects OF new lights satirized in 'Hudibras" as
proceeding, in their ianatical innovations,
Gas If religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended,"
were less given to unsettle, resettle and then
again upset, the gospel which it was their chief
duty to obey, than the thinkers at WASHINGTON
are to 'transmogrify" the Constitution which
they have all sOlemnly sworn to support. They
act as If the Constitution "were intended for
nothing else but to be mended:" as if it were a
ball OF political putty on which 1t Is 'the chief
duty OF man." at least of a Congress man, to
train his prentice hand in moulding it, first into
this shape then into that as Iastidous and
treaky "godsmlths" used to change the form of
idols. 1t may be said that their intentions were
good. But certain place, OF which it may not
be best to take too near view, is paved with
! good intentIons-not abortive intentions merely,
| but executed intentions, in which damnable
! acts proceeded from worthy motives. Sucn is
| lying Tor the glory OF God, or propagating the
| gospel OF mercy by persecution, or torturing
mems bodies for the good OF their souls crimes
| which find their parallel in breaking oaths 10
| support the Constitution in the hope Of making
| it better Our wellintentioned Congressman
resemble the well-intentoned daughters of
Jason, who cut their venerable iather in pieces
and boiled him in pot, in the hope that he
] MT M in IL IN nNynn to.
| ton which was not realized
All this infinite diversity of conflicting views,
which has prevailed in Congress as to what
ought TO be done, proves that there is no neces.
! sity Tor dong anything On things really neces-
! sary, il is more easy to agree than to differ. 1t
was necessary that the Rebel State Governments
in the South should be supplan ed by loyal ones;
! ana the necessity no. being IancIiul but real,
there was no difference OF opinion, anu the sub
stItutiOn was made by common consent. 1t was
also necessary, seeing that slavery had been
overthrown by the war, confessedly in fact but
not unQuestionably in law, that the subject
! should be out beyond future controversy by
giving TO the admitted fact stable legal founda-
| tion. Ills necessity was, under the circum-
| stances, real, and no voice was raised in oppO-
| slton to it. Things fundamental IN politics,
Ike things fundamental in religion, are more
easily agreed upon than non-essentlals. The
radicals find it hard to agree on further condi-
tons OF admission, because no further coLdi-
tlons are necessary.
Since the Senate caucus, there begins, at last,
| to be some prospect That Congress may settle on
the recons truction scheme, as the caucus has
amended it, Like people who try to make a
meal of crabs, the radicals have great heap of
shells for a mouthful OF meat. Their single
mouthful of meat is the party advan age of
giving TO the negroes weight in Federal poll
tics, either positive or negative, corresponding
TO their numbers. All else in their constitu-
tional amendment OF six sections, is leather or
prunello." To make sure that the national debt
shall be paid and the Rebel debt not paid re-
oures no constitutional amendment. Such
stuff is mere dress to hide the nakedness OF the
negro provision Even the proposal to render
ex-Rebel ofice-holdeTs ineligible TO Congress
and 10 be chosen Presidential electors amounts
TO nothing; or, at most, only to impOtent re-
venge. II such men do not go to Congress
themselves, they will dictate who SHALL Make
them all eligible ana they will nentralize aud
nulhfy each others influence by their mutual
jealousy and envy. Exclude them, and you
Knit them all together in a common cause; and
by their control over public sentiment, the men
sent to Congress will be their tools, and vote as
| they bid them. Excluding them from being
Presidential electors is simply ridiculous, From
} the beginning Of the Government Presidential
= electors have been mere passive tools OF theil
political party. They have never had the shade Y
3 office agency or independent choice.