The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-26

VCUVI0 VUTTTCIT00, VUTTTTCWT CTIUWDS,
and parties are not to be tristed--that their
professions are fraudulent, that their promises
are deceptions, that they are utterly selfish and
interruptions, and that TO secure power, spolls,
and plunder they Will stop at nothing. We
are indebted for the late Rebellion manly TO
the reck ess politicians of the old Democratio
party, and their hideous scramble for power
and epoils. One Government did not furnish
them SUFFICIENT number OF Presidents, cabinet
members, ministers abroad, congressman, lat
offices, jobs, and spoils, and so, failing in the
election of 1860, the southern Democratic party
leaders, such asgJef. Davis, Mason. and Slidell,
Toombs and Yanoey, Breckenridge and Hunter,
Wigiall and Yulee, Bepiamn and Ivereon o. g.
Clay, Cobb Thompson and Floyd, and the whole
Southern Democratic Conyeniicle, with poor old
Buchanan as their tool or their victim, their
confederate or their slave, hitched their for
tunes TO the black and sulphurous chariot of
South Carolina, and started full drive down the
broad road to Dante's Inferno. iii " e9s
This was the horrible and bloody ultimatum
of the Southern secession radicals, the control
ling wing OF the old exploded Democratic party
Like Lucifer, they would rather rule in hell than
serve in Heaven, and like Luoifer, they have
fallen never 10 rise again. The civil war which
they brought upon the country rallied the people
to the rescue. The people have saved the coun.
try from the Southern radicals-one gang of de-
structive politiciabs--in putting down the late
rebellion, and the people are now required to
step in and save the country from another set of
destructives--the Northern radicals-in the work
Of restoring the Union. In this good work the
tory base OF operations. The clamor and can
nonading of the Copperheads amount to
nothing. 1t Is all only the eXultation of
discarded political faction over a timely rebuff
from an honest President against another cor
rupt and reckless political faction, which ought
to be discarded, and Is destined in its turn to be
cast out. Misery loves company, and so the
Copperheads rejoice. .|
But what is the prospect before us From
the issue raised between Congress and the Presi.
dent there is but cloudy prospect OF Southern
restoration during President Johnsons term of
Office With timely assistance from the people,
however he may carry through his safe, sound,
and acceptable programme. Otherwise, before
the end OF his term our financial fabric of debts,
credits, and currency, may be shaken as by an
earthquake, and our political affairs thrown
into something like Mexican confusion. A Gov
ernment with its legislative and executive de-
partments at cross purposes is like a house
divided against itself. 1t can do little ornothing
TO any good purpose but 1t may do world of
mischief. The first duty, therefore, devolving
upon the people is TO bring such a pressure to
bear upon Congress as will effect a harmonious
cooperation between the two houses and the
Executive. The Union will be endangered II
the Government is brought to q stand-still by "a
balky team" The balky horses must be made
to pull or be taken out
All this trouble results from the selfish in
trigues and schemes OF base politicians for
power and spolls. Copperheads and radicals
and sO-called conserY ative Republicans are all
scheming tor the next Presidency. The game
President; of some to cheat him, OF Others to
defeat him; but he has too much judgment and
too strong will OF his own TO be or become the
Presidential champion OF any OF these cliques of
politicians. Moreover he has declared that he
has no aspirations for the succession, and we
know that when. he speaks he speaks what he
means.
Against all these double-dealing cliuues of
politicians, therefore, and to flank them in their
schemes to uee or abuse the Administration, we
proclaim that favorite OF the people, the idol of
the army and the pride of the country, that
honest, incorruptible soldier-General Grant
the peoples candidate Tor the next Presidency.
He can be selected without the and of party
caucuses or conventions, or party platforms OF
any kind, and he will sweep the country like
Abraham Lincoln. With this disposition of the
Presidential question in advance, the difficulties
between Congress and the President may be
overcome, and especially when we know that
Andrew johnson is not a candidate and has no
other ambition than that of restoring the South,
and the peace, harmony and prosperity of the
Union. In this view he has q tower of strength
in, the name OF General Grant against the Pres
Dental schemes of conflicting political cliques
and parties aiming to cheat or destroy the Ad.
ministration. Andrew johnson has no favors to
ask, and with Grant in the field tor the success
sion, the politicians may well hang up their
tiddles and assist in restoring the integrity OF
the Union, for against Grant and the Admins
tratiOn all their little Presidential schemes will
come to nothing.