The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-08


policy.
The great counter-revolution commenced in
Connecticut, when the Republicans, confident
in their supposed strength, made nomination
disgraoeful to any party, for the important
Office of Congressman, in defiance of common
deoency and the duty they owed to the public.
They were properly rebuked at the polls;
their boasted power was broken, and their
whole State ticket was dragged down by the
dead weight Of their Congressional nominee.
Since that time they have gone on from bad to
worse. California, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts,, New Jersey, and New York
have, each in their turn, declared against
their violent, destructive, and revolutionary
policy, and either driven them from power,
or so reduced their large maiorities as to show
that the whole country repudiates their doc
triDes and refuses them its confidence and
support.
The lesson to be learned from these recent
elections is easy and plain. II means that the
people condemn the Military Reconstruction
laws, the Tenure of Office bill, and all the vio-
lent coercive measures of the last and present
Congress, and declare that all such legislation
shall be swept away. 1t means the repudia-
ton of both the Copperhead and Jaoobin fac
tions, and determination to take new de-
parture with new men and a new line of
policy. 1t means that while the loyal men of
the North demand the full oonsummaLion of
the freedom of the negro race, and favor their
enfTanchisement under State laws, with pro-
perty qualification, as in the Northern States,
they also demand the instant abolition of mill
tary governments in the Southern districts,
the generous treatment of the white citizens Of
the South, and their speedy restoration to
their lost rights. II means reform in our
whole financial system and reduction of the
national expenditures and taxation.
There is but one way to insure that the
popular will shall be fully carried out, and
that is by the immediate nomination of Gene
raj Grant for President of the United States by
grand popular movement, Independent of all
parties, cliques, and factions. Let the people
of New York, of all shades Of politics, call at
once great public meeting for this purpose,
and thus form in the commercial metropolis,
whose voice is loudest against radicalism, the
nucleus of Grant party which shall spread
all over the country. Under such a leader
success is assured. Grants whole career in
the war and since the war proves that the
principles endorsed by the popular voice are
those which aotuate his course of life. As a
soldier he was brave and determined, as con-
queror reasonable and liberal, and as a public
| officer in time of peace he has esta-
| blished a grand reputation for economy,
retrenchment and executive ability. All
the principles he has contended for during
| the war and since its close assure the country
| that reconstruction on fair and liberal basis,
and the reduction of the national debt by two
| hundred and fifty millions the first year, would
be the immediate fruits of his election to the
Presidency. While he is dumb to the persua-
sons and Establishments of the politicians, he
| would respond to the voice of his country
men, appealing to him without distinction of
| party, and his words would be such as to show
that the confidence reposed in him would not
| be misplaced. Let such a movement as we
| indicate at once be made in New York, and
the new party, with Grant, retrenchment, and
reform for its watchwords, will carry the whole
| of the States from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and sweep into the two oceans every vestige OF
Copperheadism and Jacobinism with all their
stock in trade of secession, African barbarism,
national banks, class legislation, and enor-
nous taxation.