The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-03

sights for all men, and pledge TO stand by
them in all measures needful to secure liberty
and peace, even to impeachment. VII.
Fidelity to Southern Unionists. VIII. Thanks
to our soldiers and District Commanders. TX.
Endorsement of Stanton, Sheridan, and Sokles.
X Protection to our naturalized citizens in
foreign lands. XI Endorsement Of the official
course of Governor Fenton, and thanks to
Senators Morgan and Conklings for firmly re-
sisting the Presidents usurpations. XII. A
right to recreation on any day of the week in
every manner consistent with public decorum
and the respect due to public worship.
With every one of these principles, except
the last, the Democratic party is either openly
OF secretly at war.
Holding that emancipation is a crime, aud
that liberty for the black man is larceny from
the white, it would seek to fetter the onward
march of freedom by every clog that malicious
hostility can devise.
Upon the fate of the Republican party in the
approaching elections in New York and Penn
sylvania hang consequences so vast and i'm
pOrtant that the mind does not readily grasp
all the dangers of our position. A Democratic
victory in these States would rouse the dor
mant energies of the whole Rebel element in
the South, and the entire negro-killing mob at
the North. The latest policy of the Johnson
Rebel party is to obstruct reconstruction, until
the rights which have been given by Congress
to the black race can be revoked, and the
States be reconstructed on the plan of partial
suffrage, which has already been tried with
such signal failure. Though they lacked the
power to prevent the right of suffrage from
being given to the blacks, they now attempt
the far more difficult role of restraining its eX-
ercise and revoking its authority when clearly
and finally given. Having failed to prevent
their emancipation, they nevertheless hope to
renew their bondage.
The sooner these insane hopes and efforts
are dashed, the sooner and more peacefully
the Union will be restored. Until they are
destroyed the Union can never be restored
The Presidents partial plan has been tried ;
its results are seen in the massacres at Mem
phis and New Orleans, and in the monstrosi-
ties of Rebel sway throughout the South.
The people now demand that the plan of Con-
gress should be fairly tried. They must rete-
rate this demand at the coming elections.
Any other result would summon the elements
of the Rebellion to the control of the Govern
ment-would surrender the South to a worse
than its former despotism and anarchy, threat
ening a social war of races, on the one hand
for the restoration of q slavery fully abolished,
and on the other for the preservation of the
liberties fairly won. Hand in hand with this
revolution in our reconstruction policy would
follow national bankruptcy, the Reputation
of all debts, public and private and the resto-
ration Of all those malign and reckless infu-
ences which once so nearly effected the disso-
luton of the Union itself.
We should then have Pendletons, Blacks,
and Vallandighams in the Cabinet, and Lees
and Beauregards in our armies. The neclls OF
the Southern Unionists would be under the
feet of a President who only for time seemed
faithful to freedom in order to betray his
pledges to slavery and rebellion, and who now
only clings to slavery and rebellion from a
sentiment of treachery to freedom. The people
are right. Their convictions are strong. There
n-e "Iily needed, 70 give expression to their
WILL organization and work. Fl.ZEg