The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-17

| there had been an open rupture between Con-
gress and the President. Violent speeches
were made upon the floor of the Senate and
! the House, some looking to confscation as a
! punishment for the Rebels, and others to inn
/ peachment as a revenge against the President.
The prudent men on the Republican side, un-
derstandiDg upon what issue they had carried
their States in the preceding year rebuSed
and checked the ultraism of their reckless asso-
ciates. The South was still out of the Union,
and no steps had been taken towards practical
reconstruction. Conservative Congressman saw
that to 60 before the country only upon the
issue of heated quarrel with the Executive,
without putting Congress in the right by offer
ing on its part a practical method of reconstruo-
tion to the country, would be to rush on political
destruction. They, therefore. carried through
both houses the Constitutional amendment,
the gist and substance of which was that
when the right to vote at any election for the
choice OF electors for President and Vice
President of the United States, Representatives
IN Congress, the executive and judicial officers
OF State, or the members of the Legislature
thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabit-
ants of such State" on account of color, then
the basis oil representation therein shall be
reduced in proportion to the number of male
citizens thus disfranchised. The National
Union Committee, in an address issued to
the American people, warmly indorsed
this principle of reconstruction, explaining
"a State which chooses to hold part
OF its population in ignorance and
Vassalage-pOwerless, uneducated, unfran-
chised-shall not count that portion to
balance the educated intelligent, enfranchsed
citizens of other States. The Republicans of
New York, in convention at Syracuse on the
9th of September, resolved 'that the pending
amendment to the Constitution proposed by
Congress, which defines citizenship in the
United States and the civil rights of citizens,
and which equalizes national representation
among the several States, etc., X
commends itself by its justice humanity, and
moderation to every patriotic heart; and that
whenever any of the late insurgent states
shall adopt such amendment, such State should
at.once, by its loyal representatives, be per-
mltted to resume its place in Congress-
These We're the issues upon which the Re-
publican party carried the elections all over
the North in 1865 and 1866; first, as the advo-
Gates of speedy removal of military rule from
the South and the restoration of the Southern
States to their civil rights; and next, on pro-
posed plan of reconstruction admitting the
Southern States as soon as they adopted
constitutional amendment which left to them
the right enjoyed by every other State to make
their own laws regarding suffrage, but pro-
viding that wherever the colored population
should be disfranchised they should not be
enumerated as basis of representation. If
the Republicans had declared in either of those
years that they were in favor of placing per-
manent military government over the South,
and OF preventing the readmission of any un-
reconstructed State to its position in the Union
unless it should return with a registered ma
jority OF negro voters, the popular verdict
would have been as emphatic against them as
it was in their favor.
Subsequent events have proved that in both
these elections the people were defrauded out
of their votes under false pretenses. The revo-
lutonary Congress has paid no heed to the
! Constitutional amendment, so universally en-
dOrsed by the people of the North; but, on the
/ plea of confning the right of suffrage to the
'1oyal men, of the South, have put that sec
tion of the country under the rule of five mill
tary kings, ignored the executive branch of
the Government, and laid the foundation for
negro supremacy in all the unrecOnstructed
States. At the same time it is well known
that The blacks of the South were just
as much Rebels as the whites. The whites
fought for four years, but they could not
have done so without the aid and assistance
of the three or four million negroes who took
care of their families, worked in the
fields and raised provisions during their
absence at the war, or followed the army,
digging trenches, building earthworks, acting
as scouts and spies, and doing great share
| OF the hardest work of active service. AS the
! war progressed and drew near its termination,
/ the whites got tired of fighting and, according
| to jeff. Davis, twO-thirds of them deserted and
returned to their homes. The blacks remained
true when the whites thus fell from their allie
! glance, and were, therefore, the worst Rebels
of the COnfederacy; yet, by miserable and
contemplate trick, the revolutionists of Con-
| gress seek to enfranchise all the black
| Rebels of the South and to disfranchse only
the white Rebels, in order that they may
secure negro voting majority in the Southern
| States.
! AS we have said, the people are just begin
! ming to understand the real objects of the
Republican leaders, and are preparing to
sweep them from power. The overthrow in
California, and the result nearly as disastrous,
in Maine, are only the foTeshadOwings of what
will follow in New York, Pennsylvania, and
other States. tlt is folly to talk of these popu-
lar revulsions as Democratic victories. JEFF.
Davis exploded Confederacy might just as
well claim them as triumphs of the principle
of secession. The old Democracy and the old
Contederacy were twin brothers, and both
We're buried by the surrender of Lees army
beyond the hope of resurrection. These up
risings of the people are independent of all
parties, and they are designed to rebuke
set of revolutionary leaders who have deceived
the country; to denounce the distinction that
white Rebels, and to defeat the conspiracy
which seeks to'rule the nation by the corrupt
aid of the National Banks and the united
votes of Puritans and negroes.
SObbing Over the Wrongs of President
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