The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-28


out right. We hold that these fears are
chimerical, and that, instead Of pro-
ducing any serious unsettling of mohey
matters, the return to specie payments will
give freedom, force and assurance to the en-
terprise of the country, and will be followed
by an era of solid prosperity which will
speedily extend its benefcent influence to all
classes of the people. When, in the period
of a few months, gold fell from 2S5 to 125, the
business of the country was not shaken nor
its interests damaged. When it goes down 40
points more, and the national currency is ex-
changeable for it, dollar with dollar, there will
be no more commotion, unless it be that of
universal exharation.
And if it be in Secretary McCulloohs power
to adopt such policy as bids fair to bring this
about in a reasonable time, we promise him
an amount of popularity fit to satisfy any
human ambition.
The Democratic Party and the Senate.
From the NJ Y. Times.
The Senate is just now formidable obstacle
in the path of the Democratic party. Flushed
with greatly exaggerated success, they have
begun to count the months which must eapse
before they return to power. They calculate
confidently on the possession Of the next Pre-
sident and the House of Representatives in the
next Congress. And they talk patronizingly
of their authority over the reconstruction
question, and propose compromises of which
they and the Southern Rebels, with President
Johnson to aid them, shall dictate the terms.
One difficulty alone seems to trouble them.
The House they hope to manage but the
Senate is beyond their reach. Do what they
may, win what they may, for years to come
the Senate will be controlled by Republican
majority. The fact is awkward and cannot be
md Ao
are unavailing against it. 1t is there-fxed,
| immovable. ...... -
The Democratic game, therefore, now is to
| break down the Senate. The World, in a re-
| cent paragraph on Mexican affairs, pronounced
against second Chamber in republican gov
| ernment. Its remark that 'the tyrannical
powers exercised by Republican Senate in
the United States have served to warn intelli-
gent men, even in Mexico, of the probable re-
suits of reGstablishing in that country
this branch of the National Congress- admits
of no other construction. 1t is an affirmation
| of Bentham's doctrine in favor of single
legislative body. Governor Seymour in his
address to the Albany Convention, did not ex-
plictly announce his adhesion to the same
view, but his attack upon the organic nature
of the United States Senate, and his denuncia-
ton of the principle of representation by
States instead of numbers, pointed unmistaka-
bly, to war upon the conservative branch of the
National Government. Irsr a.a."
la his Brooklyn speech on Thursday even-
ing, Governor Seymour returned to the sub
ect with warmth that showed how fully he
realizes the difficulty which the Senate inter
poses to the accomplishment of Democratic
purposes. His argument professedly rests
upon the influence which the blacks will eX-
ercise under the Reconstruction acts in South
ern politics. He points the moral of his tale
by dwelling upon white disfranchisement and
negro supremacy. But the principle he thus
| do 10 off hU Of
color. His objection is, that the ten Southern
States will send twenty Senators to Washing
ton, while nine Northern States, containing
half the population of the country, send only
eighteen. Whether the Southern voters be
white or black, Rebel or radical, makes no
difference in the argument. II is condemna-
ton of the fundamental Federal principle by
which the States, as States, are secured an
equality of Senatorial representation; and the
object of Governor Seymour is to revolutionize
the Constitution of the Government in this
respect. His appeal has this significance, or it
is altogether meaningless. ra
There is nothing in the policy of the ultra
radicals which aims more directly at the in
dividual authority of the States than this
newly-inVented cry of States-right Democrats.
By assailing the organization of the Senate,
and denounciDg as a grievance the principle
it incorporates into the Government, Governor
Seymour strikes at the root of all security for
| Ln6 pOuJn OF lOT ulluOIlLl6S duyWuer6. WlIn-
out avowing himself disciple of the Worlds
version of Benthamism, he does all he can to
promote it, For there will be no advantage
in the possession of a second Chamber, if its
organization in regard to representation be
identical with that of the other House. Bent
hams theory of republican government was
equivalent to a centralized Democracy, with
no respect for the rights of minorities and no
provision for the rights of States Jefferson is
to be discarded, then, from the new gospel of
our New York Democrats.
The allegations of the World touching "the
tyrannioal powers exercised" by the present
Seuate are as much at variance with fact as
Governor Seymour's arguments are with old
fashioned American principle. Whatever
conservatism remains in the Government ope-
rates in and through the Senate, which has
been the only real bulwark against the appli-
cation of harsher measures to the South. For
''the tyrannical powers" of which the latter
complains 1t is more indebted to the Demo
a cratic members of the House than to a Repub
3 hcan Senate, whose majority have steadily
o s.ilyen en to moderate the legislation OF the
bboitIu' b t' and to mitigate the conditions imposed
;, - 'ne reconstruction measures
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