The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-20

hungry and ragged If they steal thew mnst he
punlshed-not as negroes, but as men. II thew
nave not yet learned that freedom meansgfree-
dom TO work" the winter lust coming on will
teach them-with a good many others-thnt
wholesome lesson.
8; Mr.. Brownson and we are not 80 far apart
@ as ne seems TO thlnk-and 1t is the same with
the North and the South. Let us simply eive
our common sense and better feelings fair play
auu we snail soon come to substantial agree
ment. Mr.. BIS abstr actions would have nre-
vented the abolition-or at least the nrobihi-
the Union. '''''
The Political Dead-LOck-Its Outcome.
From the Wortd
The Democratic party, North aud South. hold
the key of the political situation. They are con.
scious OF their strength, of their responsibility
and their duty. The political deadlock will he
terminated by the Democratic party, not bv
| Congress, not by the Republican party. moi by
| the North. The North is able to exclude the
| south from representation in Congress. II Is
| lmpotent to govern the South after its own
desires. Nothing but self government is DOS.
| slDle IN these United States; and for the North
| TO govern the South, whether by military domi.
nation by territorial rule, or Indirectly through
| the imposition OF Constitutional amendments
| Is ruin 10 the party that undertakes it, The
| Republican party has been victorious in the
late elections in most OF the Northern States.
8 but now does Its victory advantage it? 1t Is
\ aDle 10 keep the Thirty-ninth Congress a
! hump, ana the Fortieth. 1t is able to over
ride Vetoes. 1t can egislate to its hearts
content. But with what result? 1t can accom-
| push every thing-ezcept what it desires: to
| Dend the South 10 its will by protracted denial
OF thelr representative rights, or by changes in
the Federal Constitution. That way its own
rum lies; this way its path is hedged by thirteen
states, more than One.fourth the number ever
nkeIy to form the Union. The Republican
party control the machinery by which States
may be laWlessly excluded from Congress- and
every hour that exclusion Is prolonged under
mines thelr own strength. The Democratic
party control the machinery by which Constitu-
tlonal amendments are defeated. Besides the
ret,,e Ten excluded states which led by Georgia. will
refuse assent to the Rump's @nendments, and
alone suffice to defeat them, Kentucky, Mary
land, and Delaware, States always IoyaI will
JoIm IN giving them their coup de grace.
Inc pontlcal situation is therefore a com pete
uead-iock. This deadlock, we repeat cannot
be terminated by the North, nor by the south.
nor by the Republican party. Sections are inn
situation like this. The deadlock will be termi.
mated by political party, tor it Is a political
struggle; by national party, for the contest in
cIuoes all parts of the nation; by the Demo-
cra!lc party North and South, which is the oniy
hauonai party; by means OF q compromise
i9uDded on mutual concessions, since each of
lhe forces at deadlock has q complete check.
mate upon the other; by a comprOmise nro
posed by the South, because the one-sided. un-
guaranteed, partisan proposal of the North hos
Oeen OF VIII oe rejected by nearly one-half the
people OF the North and all the people of the
south; by compromise acceptable to a
majority OF the people OF the South and to q
majority OF the people OF the North, the Demo-
cratic party, namely, which Will thus and then.
as the only national party, az the only Union
party, as the free-trade, sound currency, and
S'ateIlghts party, recover its natural majority
throughout the United States.
That the Democratic party of the North and
oouth thus hold the key to the political situa-
llon IS perceived by their lately victorious
opponents. It is betrayed in their absurdiy
ciaiuorous cries reiterated after every failure to
materially diminish its formidable. Strength at
tne North, that the Democratic party is s'shat-
teIed TO pieces" is without a mission" is
oohoI IL is disclosed in their own failure to
Cohere ABOUT any thing save the fading passions
VI civil war; 1t is COME ssed, this consciousness
that peace and union can be given to the natIon |
SSniy oy the Democratic party of the North and |
South; is proclaimed even by the organs of the |
hepuoncan party, in their vigilance to wa1ch |
anu thelr naste to discuss, sometimes to mis- |
represent, the tentatives put forth by the ORGANS
oecertai os DeGOGp%t'e opinion, North and South in
asCertainlng, expressing, organizing and mould. |
ny ine satisfactory and final plan tor this |
political pacitcation.
, Western Democratic journal, the Chicago
I%heS and an Eastern, the Boston Post haze
recently discussed this matter tentativeIv raIher
than poslLVely, by negatives rather than afIir
matVes: Whereuyon follows a chorus of hula
Daloos from all the Republican press as If tha
Democratic party had eXplo oded to atoms aud
were crystalZlng about some novel haresv
But what Is it that our Western contem poraTIv
has said:- P0iAy
''Wlll the people in the several Statos r,uo
serve to themselves their constitutional riobt 70
prescribe the qualification of electors and The
eligibility of persons to hold office" (botb nro.
posed to be taken away from the people of ttbe |
several States and given to Congress. bv the
hump amendments), "a power they have right |
iully exercised from the origin of the Govern
ment to the present time, or will thew viaI5
up that power 10 the possession of a CEN
ITailzed oligarchy in the National CapitoIp
lhese are the opposing PROPOSITIONS from which
there is no escape. There is no other alterna-
tive.
'"rhe people of Massachusetts, have ever staad
iastly refused to allow the Southern and West
ern states to regulate, or in any way to inter
lere with their local institutions and policies
Ihey established impartial suffrage when ltha !
people in every other Stale were almost mani.
mously opposed to II, They had the right IN
90 80, and, in exercising that right, neither the
people IN any other State nor the General Gov.
ernment had any right to interfere. This rieht
lhe people of Massachusetts, will never peacae
tuily yield. II is right which belongs eunaIiv
70 the people of Illinois, OF South Carolina. and
OF every other State OF the republic. 1t ls thje
right which the radical advocates of centraIi1aD
tion propose to take away from the people of
the States and transfer to the central Govern
ment in that respect changing our Government
system from republic OF States TO centralized
despotism. ;" 1-I. pa I
q, We fail to perceive here political apoca-
Iypse. Unless we dream, this is cardinal con-
stitutional, democratic doctrne-a terse reitera.
ton OF the argument with which Mr.. Curtis
opened the late campaign in tnis State and
dealt one of the heaviest blows to the Rump
amendments, which amendments assail this
oocIine on every side.
The Chicago Times goes on To recommend a
UnrnfiO IN in Tllinniq gfabl faL Il