The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-26

w near Ludl lbdIb are expressed among the |
and moneyed men of this city, and
advices from Washington speak of letters
received there, urging the avoidance of all
questions save that of reconstruction. Some
thing more than individual suggestion OF re-
monstranoe is needed however, to thwart the
plans of mischiefmakers. Congress needs to
be reminded of the fact that the country can
not safely endure an agitation that would
sacrifice the interests of trade, and shake the
balance of finance, at the bidding of malg-
nant and insatiate partisanship.
what is che Republican Party Purpose!
From The World. r..a
Congress reserves to itself the full and unre.
stricted right of judgment whenever a State
presents itself for adm ission to the Union.
Certain conditions and precedents are laid down
in laws. These must be met. But beyond these
conditions Congress must be satisfied also that
the people OF the proposed States respectively
decisive and trustworthy majorities. -
There must be cooperation upon the princi-
pies which prevail in the North, and to which
the Republican party is fully committed
The negroes, on their side. cannot hesitate to
support the party and principles by whose
labors and influence their redemption has been
mplished.-Fron1t The address of The Congress
siondL Republican Committee.
There are just two objects-alternative-
that every Republican, crystallOid or colloid,
radical or conservative, keeps steadily in
view-the protracted exclusion of the South
ern States; or the constraining them to or
ganize ''decisive and trustworthy (Republi-
CAM majorities.' Let the ten Southern
States appear at Washington with Repubi-
can majOrities, and there would no more be
obstacles in the way of their readmission to
every Federal function than there are him
ORANGES in the path of omnipotence. Every
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Confscation would be bugbear for babes,
and amnesties and pardons would be so
cheap that nobody would take the trouble to
procure them. Let the Southern States ap-
pear at Washington not with Republican
maiorities, and their exclusion is inc vitable
until after the Presidential election; unless
the North itself refuses to permit these despe-
rate politicians to gamble longer with the pros
perity and unity of the country. For these
politicians are equally ruined whenever the
South returns to swell the Democratic minority
into q majority, or whenever the North
RECEIVERS its senses; and they but make cool
calculation of chances when, foreseeing ruin
inevitable by one or the other course, they
reckon upon the longest postponement of that
ruin. decisive and trustworthy (Repub-
hcan) majorities'' would save them; for these
they have worked desperately, but without an
the North or defeat from the South, Republi-
canism plays desperately to keep the South
out of the Presidential election-which would
be defeat, prompt, immediate, and certain
preferring a struggle, four years lease of
power at any rate if they succeed, with the
hope in the struggle that the tide of fanatcism
has not entirely ebbed, and that their possess
sion of nearly every State and the Federal
Government will carry them through.
The success of the Republican party at the
South would never have been dreamed of, ex-
eept through the negro vote. Therefore, a
constitutional principle which no man of any
party ever before disputed-the right of every
State to distribute the franchise to its own
citizens-was' deliberately overridden by them,
and the suffrage forced out of State control
and into the negro's hands by Federal power.
The experiment turned out less well than was
expected. Negroes in the cities were more or
less to be humbugged by radical emissaries,
but not the most intelligent among them,
nor the negro of the rural districts. There
fore, a more extensive disfranchisement OF
white votes than had at first been pro-
vided for in the Military Depotism bill
was found necessary to the organizing
of "decisive and trustworthy (Republi-
CAM majorities," and that more extended
disfranchisement has been sought in every
| possible way. False reports have been circu-
! lated by the press, by some of the generals
and their subordinates in command, and con.
slant efforts made by the Freedmens Bureau
officers to keep white Southern men from the
! polls who have a right to go there even under
! the law Of Congress. Attorney General Stan
! bery's opiniOn--a mere plain, unstrained in
depreciation of the law-was likely to enlargt
! the white vote up to the limits permitted by
the Military bill, which would have been fata
to the organizing of ''decisive and Trustworthy
(Republican) majorities' s'-therefore Attorney
| General Stanbery's opinion was pounced upor
by the more rabid and reckless radicals as
pretext for a July session. The opposition Il
July session comes only from those who be
lieve that harsher exclusions added to thu
Military bill will ALLEVIATE more Republican
votes at the North than it shuts out white op
position votes at the South. When Congress
meets in the July session the failure or tn
success of every item of proposed Legislation
may be infallibly forecast by anybody VIII,
will simply consider its bearings on the alter
native we have named-the protracted exclu
sion Of the Southern States-or the constrain
ing them to organize "decisive and trust
worthy (Republican) majorities."
This, indeed, we should not have thought
necessary to reiterate, but that it has beel
denied with some effrontery by the Tribune
for the Republican Congressional Committe
distinctly avowed their purpose-at a momen
when everybody was regarding the Recon
struction bill as a fnality, and when no homes
man was looking for such an utterly shame
less piece Of Republican perfdy as its altera
tiOn-avowed in their published address tina
compliance with the bills requirements woult
not insure admission - avowed that othe
terms might would, and should be demandet
as the conditions of union--avowed that tn
organization of decisive, trustworthy, an,
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