The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-01

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10000 whites failed to vote at all. Why not
Because the spirit of aristocratc domination |
and prescription was so fierce that the poor
and dependent burst not brave it. Had these |
stay-at-homes been Conservatives, or ex-
Rebels, they would have pleased their proud |
and powerful neighbors by going to the polls
and voting "NO Conventions" but they could
not vote as they thought best without bearing
execration and hostility as ''white niggers,"
so they compromised by staying away. They
count with us, not against US. Virginia, with
every Rebel enfranchised, and a fair, unbiased
election, is heartily largely Republican
The Reaasombling OF Con gress-Tho Pre-
liminary SSirmlshinEs.
From H,e ". Y. Herald.
The autumnal stagnation of Washington is
beginning to be disturbed by incoming MEM
bers of Congress looking up their winter quar-
ters, and by fitting committees and sub-com-
mittees of investigation. The two Houses,
fully organized, will reassemble on the 2lst
of November. The session will doubtless be
one Of the highest interest touching the great
questions which will come up for discussion,
and of the gravest importance in its legislative
measures.
From present indications the radicals will
open the session in deliberate movement
against President Johnson, and they will leave
no stone unturned to effect his dislodgment
from the White House. The initial recOnstruc-
ton elections of Louisiana, Alabama and
Virginia shew that, under negro supremacy, if
pushed rapidly through, the whole ten out
| side Rebel States may be brought back into
| Congress, with radical delegations in both
| Houses, and with the certainty Of radical cleo
| toral colleges in the coming Presidential cleo
| ton. But Andrew Johnson stands in the way.
| A desperate effort will, therefore, be made to
| remove or suspend him. The Philadelphia
| Morning Post "a new Chase radical Organ)
| says:-"Take all that remains Of slavery, all
that is left of the Rebellion, and we find it
| summed up and embodied in Andrew Johnson.
He is the point of attack. He is the great
enemy of the republic, and it is idle to dream
of reconstruction while he remains in Office.
If experience has any value, if danger inspires
any courage, Congress will not be in session
three days before articles of impeachment are
laid before the Senate, and the first step taken
to vindicate the national honor and secure the
safety of the republic"
Within the first week, therefore, of the
coming session we may expect bill from Mr.
Stevens providing for the suspension of the
President on being arraigned for trial; and we
may expect report from the Judiciary Com
mittee of the House, embodying his manifold
sins and transgressions, winding up with a
resolution to present him to the Senate for
trial on all these charges and specifications of
''high crimes and misdemeanors." But Mr..
Stevens has said that two-thirds vote for Mr..
JohnsOn's removal cannot be obtained in the
Senate, and Mr.. Stevens ought to know. 1t is
safe to assume that if two-thirds cannot be
mustered for the regular remedy of removal,
tWo-thirds cannot be found in the Senate for
the doubtful expedient of suspension. So we
are inclined to regard this apparent fiery
dragon of impeachment as only hideous
scarecrow of rags and straw swinging about IN
the wind.
But upon this question and upon the main
issue of reconstruction itself the radical leaders
and the conservatives of Congress, and the
administration, and the outside politicians, on
. all sides are now only skirmishing against
each other They are all awaiting the issue
of the New York November election. 1t Is
claimed that the Maine election and the Cali
, fornia election were controlled by side issues
or personal quarrels in the Republican camp
that the Ohio election was not fair test o
the Republican strength on reconstruction
> that the Pennsylvania election amounts tC
: nothing; but it is admitted by the Republi
! cans everywhere that this radical Fortieth
\ Congress- and its radical negro supremacy
schemes are fairly before the people of New
4 York for their judgment.
4 Congress and the administration, accord
4 ingly, are awaiting the verdict OF our Novem
ber State election. As goes the Empire Stat
y so goes the Presidency. Both sides are fight
" ing under this idea. A decisive maiorit,
Z against the Republican State ticket will b
i accepted at Washington as a warning to tn
:, radical managers to halt in their mad career
and the warning will be respected. On tn
. other hand, a Republican majority in Ney
York, however small, will be accepted as
verdict for Congress, and as a carte blanche t
the radical leaders of the two Houses to g
ahead Then we may expect, by vigorou
l. application of the party screws, the remOva
of President Johnson, and, with cold Be
Wade installed in his place, a vigorous push
. ing forward of the negroes in the work c
le Southern reconstruction; so that before tn
|, end of this coming session we shall probabl
,f have the ten outside Southern States restore
as radical negro States to Congress, unde
= absolute negro CONTROL and with ten, twenty
o or thirty negro members in the House, an
y half dozen or more in the Senate as tn
4 practical beginning of the new era and tn
new dispensation of Southern negro supre
T. macy. Thus reiustated ON a negro basis, tn
e ten reconstructed Rebel States will be in
= position to cast their balance of power in tn
r Presidential contest as Mr.. Chase may order
e and thus the radical Chase faction calculat
/ upon winning the succession against all pre-
o bable losses in the North.
0 Such are the contingencies dependent o.
>, this New York November election. One wa
o or the other, the general result, for good 0
# evil, will determine to a great extent tn
a course of Congress, the shaping of parties