The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-06
Pennsylvanla Next Tuesday.

From the World.
Can the State called "Keystone" be jostled
from its place in the Union arch next Tuesday,
or will it stand firm against all the assaults of
the red-handed radicals THAT is the question
now engaging every thinking mind. At times
we have feared for the result--malign influences
in that State are so numerous and so potent; but
ii is impossible to resist the evidence which
reaches us from our friends IN every portion of
the State that the best results may be hoped
from their tireess energy and their thorough
organization, and from the7harmony which pre-
walls among all patriotic Union men in Penn
vania.
The presence of the great National Union Con-
ventlon IN the capital of that State was, of
itself, an influence worth many votes 10 the
Union cause. The people of that metropolis
saw and heard for themselves, and those of the
State heard by immediate report the truth
regarding the disposition of the Southern people
and OF the duty of the people of the North to
themselves and TO the supreme law once framed
IN Philadelphia, which organized us into
representative government.
The To1 !Turpentine Convention which
afterwards met in Philadelphia, and the But
Ter and Banks breed of Soldiers Convention
which caricatured the great Cleveland Conven-
tion OF the fighting soldiers of the war, were
two influences which made us votes by the hun
d1ed and the thousand. 1t is not IN the hearts
of the masses of the Northern people to 'send
three armies southwardly; one to kill, one to
apply torch and turpentiue, one to parcel out
lu6 COuusCdleu ldnuSs' Inc TuVenlDg 1ury oil
Brownlow and his contreres shocked and shook
off many Republican whom it was meant to
infame with new and more fiery zeal in the
radical service.
Finally, the negro-sufirage issue has been
squarely set before the people of Pennsy ylvania
by both sides. Hester Clymer has declared
himself against the Federal Governments i'm
rosng suffrage laws upon any State, much less
in the interest of the ignorant and incom petent
Southern blacks; while General Geary, who is
running against him, has declared himself in
favor OF that course, and avowed his desire for
negro suffrage. Thaddeus Stevens frankly and
de6antly has declared for negro suffrage, and
John Hickman has avowed his wish for negro
suffrage and negro social equality. The people
OF Pennsylvania would not vote for NEGRO
political and social equality" in their own State
they Will hardly vote to make the Federal
Government impose it upon the people OF the
Southern States, whose negroes are more nume-
rous, more ignorant, and utterly incompetent to
discharge the political duties of freemen.
These causes, a thorough canvass and organi-
zation OF the State, great energy and ability in
the Pennsylvania Democratic press, and con-
sciousness OF the splendid reinforcement and the
fresh courage which victory in Pennsylvania
next Tuesday would give to the friends of the
Union in New York and the other States which
vote in November, have inspired the noble
Democracy OF the Keystone State with the ardor
which desires and the zeal which achieves dis
astrous rout to the dsunionists on the first field
of battle.