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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-25
Democratic Candidates for the next Pre-
stdeuCy,

Fron them T. Times
The Democrats, in these new times of hone.
have begun to look about for a candidate for
the Presidency. Pendleton, Seymour. and
Mcclellan are the three most promising
names, and either one of them would find
general acceptance with the Democratic
masses. AT this moment, Pendleton is in
favor, and his nomination by the LEADING
Democratic journal of the West has given his
name a temporary prominence, that may or
may not help his prospects in the future
He has so well played his part in the
Ohio campaign, and has taken grounds so
popular with the Democracy upon the
questions of the day-aud moreover. his
efforts have been followed bysuch remark
able results in the State election-that he
is enabled to step gracefully to the foreground
as the man best fitted to uphold on the ma
tional field the party banner which he has
borne so successfully in his own State. 1t is
true that in the last Presidential campaign
Pendleton was heavy drawback to General
Mcclellan, and as the representative of a
Copperhead peace policy of dishonor and dis
union, did great deal TO secure the over
Whelming reputation of the Democratic ticket
by the American people. But the issues on
now questions of a far distant past and il has
often been remarked how short the American
memory seems to be, and how frequently. i'm
political life, we fail to hold man account-
able even for delinquencies that should insure
his permanent dismissal from a public career.
Mr.. PendletOn himself, in his electioneering
speeches, made very little allusion TO his war
record, or rather his peace record; he treated
1t as matter altogether forgotten, or at least
without practical present interest: and in
adroitly seizing on the living issues of the
day, which also extend themselves into tba
iuture-in holding up the great matters of
hnance, taxation, reconstruction, andS fidelity
TO the Constitution-he lifted the people to
grounds where neither the feelings, preiudices.
nor opinions of the past could have any place
or influence. He doubtless felt confident that
IN the presence of such overwhelmingly inn
poltahl questions as these, people would not care
S SuSn about his position in 1864, or whether
rae l9 tsvored the Chicago platform or the gene
too ~ 0i the Chiekahominy. 1t would seem.
cIDsinl Snat he was largely justified in this CON,
Tcan9 a d,i Ior does not appear that the Repub
rsco,d .',ilSSgeo him at all by reproducing his
80 anu ~ is certain that though this re
~ ~ 90 PeIleetly well known vet in face Of
~ ~ lle democratic vote was swelied 10 an ertept
that astonlshed the country. Pendleton's
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We dislike secret societies, and hold no
membership in any. Nevertheless n an,y
dozen or twenty, any hundred or thousand
persons, choose to organize themselves into
secret society Tor any laudable purpose, we
cannot see but that they have a perfeot moral
right to do so; nor ought they to be lasbed
with that whip of criticism which is sometimes
used upon them as if they were ofTsndsrs
against Christian morality. Under the oman
aud generous institutions of this country
where free speech is every mans undenied
privilege, secret societies seem altogether un-
necessary, Objectionable, and repugnant to the
spirit OF the age. But under a tyrannous gov
eminent, who does not see that secret organiza-
tion might readily become a sacred duty of
patriots For instance: During the late reign
of terror in the South, did any sensible
Northern man condemn the Unionists of
Alabama or Mississippi for meeting each
other in secret cOnclave? Certainly not.
On the other hand, the secret order of
the "know Nothipgs" - that mysterious
multitude Of American voters who for
while discussed political questions by the
doubtful light of a "dark lantern''-was
always an object of popular distrust and sus-
picion. 1t was, what it deserved to be, a short
lived organization. And every such organiza-
tion for political purposes must take only a
shallow root, and soon wither in American
soil. Still more reprehensible, in these days
of religious liberation, are secret societies for
the propagation Of religious opinions. Jesuits
work in the darkness; Protestants in the day.
Secret societies for benevolent ends-such as
the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Sons of Tenn
perance-have done much good, and perhaps
some harm; but we see no reason why their
secresy should be condemned or approved or
any higher ground than simple expediency
for it o1ends no moral law, no religious prin
ciple. We know no reason why such societies
should necessarily lock and bar their doors
against the outside world; nor, on the othe
hand, do we know any reason why these same
societies, if they prefer to sit in secret, should
not be allowed to do so without falling unde
the condemnation of their fellow-citizens.
Some excellent men in the West we arr
well aware, have long been of opinion that on
Of the crying evils of this land is secret socie
ties. We do not fully share this opinion
| Nevertheless, these men-and perhaps Dr.
Blanchard is one of the ablest and most emf
nent among them-have right to be pa
tiently heard on the subject. We trust
| therefore, the convention will be sufficient
attended by the public to keep it from holdin
what it most dreads--a secret session
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thls settle this negro suffrage question We
thlnk not. Mr.. Chase proposes to enforce the
universal negro suffrage test upon the South
but to let the subject drop for the present in
the North, considering the warning voice of
the late Ohio election. But this will never
do. In the very creation of Southern negro
balance OF political power in our national
affairs, Northern white reaction
Will be raised against it, and, once raised, the
reactionary agitation will be kept up until this
southern negro balance of power is abolished
IN some restrictions upon negro suffrage.
Ii the North could not stand the insolence and
presumption of a Southern white balance of
power, 1T is not likely that Southern negro
balance OF power will be tolerated. If New
YORK at last became disgusted with the arro-
gance oil the white masters of South Carolina,
the ignorant Carolina negro slaves will hardly
be allowed to take the place of their late mas
ters. Negro civil and political equality is one
thing, but negro political supremacy in this
country is quite another thing, and a thing
which can never be safely attempted North or
South.
From present appearances, under the exist
ing Congressional terms of reconstruction, not
one of the outside States will get through the
various processes required in season to be
admitted to voice in the coming Presiden.
tial election-nOt one. We may, then, predict
that this question of universal negro suffrage
as test of reconstruction will exercise a pow.
erful influence on the Northern States in the
coming Presidential contest-powerful enough
perhaps, against any candidate but General
Grant, to upset the Republican party. So that,
in any event, Mr.. Chases grand idea of uni
versal Southern negro suffrage will operate to
unhoTse him.
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secret Societies.

From the N. Y. independent n;
The Rev. DR.. Jonathan Blaneharu'
dent of Wheaton College, Mr.. PhiIo OarPe|'vI' ,,t
and other good men, representing seVer@, uli-
ferent denominations of Christians, n"!o
issued a call for a convention to be heiu ~
Aurora, Ill, October 81, at o'clock IN 'n0
afternoon, 80, +ba follow-
"For prayer and consultation Oh INC i0-'O"
FL. The relation of the prevalent secret
orders to the Christian religion; a. .,;o,s IN re-
80. The duty of protesting Christians - ~
ference TO them. ,,otional con-
Wet We take G pleasure in Oblgng the friends Of
this convention by giving conspicuous pup, PUB
nclsy 20 -, s4tend the convention will be hos
ofs nJ,ablv entertained during its sessions by
appiying, on arrival in Aurora, at the office
Of MT. Hsstings, opposite the Empire House
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Virginia.
F, ON the ". Y. Tribune.

III ON the ". Y. Tribune.
The election in Virginia has passed OFT
in better order than could reasonably be
anticipated, after the fiery appeals of the Rebel
press. We hear that in two or three instances
the colored people have misused those OF their
kind who noisily proclaimed their intention OF
voting the conservative ticket; but on the
whole, the behavior of both white and black
voters will compare favorably with that OF the
ree and independent electors of this or any
other Northern city. Our latest despatcheS
confidently count upon the success of the Con-
Vention by considerable majority; but there
seems to be room for doubt, in the matter OF
delegates, whether the radicals or conserVa-
tives will predominate. One point, however,
Is assured: the non voting or dog,lu, Vhe-
manger policy is not popular; the people ndye 1Iy
voted, and that, too, much more geneIa'iy
than we anticipated. The Convention Is d
fixed fact. If tue anti-reconstructiohlSts nls9 i9
majority of the delegates, they may teIalu aia,,
the work of reinstatement for time; pus Vi. my
at least do themselves justice by tahins an on
active part in the work, and in ieglIlulSse sS
way expressing their views The returns !gI are 40
yet too meagre to determine which slue Is Is ~ II.
the majority, and so it is idle TO sPeoui"'0
upon what viii be done or left undohe'
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Means and Ends.

From Hie N. y. Nation.
There are no advocates of equal suffrage
whose conviction of its inherent Justice, and of
its necessity in order to secure a safe recon-
struction of the country, can much exceed our
own. Nor we trust, are we given to evasive
OF uncandid methods of dealing with public
questions, Yet, as every man of practical ex-
perience IN life knows, it is possible, without
iScAlng eandor or straightforward frankness
70 take such course in pursuit of a fayorite
oUJeot as Will secure the support of men whose
PIeJuulces would not permit them TO assist if
anotneF a. ana more direct method Vere adoD,od
~ sVnlevlnes happens, ON the other hand 49,
tne poluesI course Is the one vbicl, o,,l,,l' 80, V
the least opposition and has the laaet iv;t!9
eHect upon pfeJudieed men. And II s','',i
us that the events Of this year have 'S4it1 W
lesson for politicians, 10 our nina ~ to(ioIe
that the Republican party has commit s'ioW
double mistake upon the same ouastio., t w T."
ing alike in being too bold, and yet no. baiI
enough. i'
The establishment ofequal suffrage tbror,d,
out the nation is no less the duty than Pha
logical necessity Of the Republioan party. Il
is easy to demonstrate that there IS no such
necessity as far as the public safety Is con
cerned for the enforcement Of universal suf-
frage in Ohio as there is for its enforcement
in Mississippi. A government by white voters
only is, in the former State, a government by
the immense majority OF the population, TO
the exclusion only of an almost imperoeptible
minority; while in the latter State it is gov
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The VIrgIniR Election - Progress and
PTospecIs or Southern RecOhsLructiOn.

The VirgInia Election - Progress and
PIospecLs or Southern AecOhstrucIlOn
From The ~ Y. Herald.
The additional returns of the Virginia recon-
structon election will be very interesting to
the politicians. The election involved, first,
the question of a convention or no convention
for reorganization of the State IN pursuance
of the terms of Congress- secondly, the cleo
ton of delegates to the convention. II the
convention is voted down the delegates elected
win remain at home, and the convention issue
will have to be tried again at another election
On the registration books the whites have
majority in the State of some thirteen thousand
against the blacks; and as the whites appear
to be. except a very small fraction, gathered
into the conservative party, while the blacks
ara almost en- nasSe radicals, and with few
scattering whites make up the radical parry,
the conservatives were encouraged to make
square fight for the possession Of the State.
Encouraged further by the late Northern cleo
tions, they have evidently undertaken to vote
down a convention, under the impression that,
with little longer delay, a Northern reaction
will upset the whole radical Congressional
programme of reconstruction and bring about
easier conditions to the unreconstructed States.
II the Virginia conservatives, then, have de-
feated the convention, they have gained this
delay.
Assuming, however, that convention has
been ordered, we may further assume that it
win be composed of such materials as will
make State constitution acceptable to the
present radical Congress, and that the same
order Of things will prevail from Virginia to
Texas. What then We shall have then, no
doubt some negro Representatives and Sena-
tors sent up TO Congress, and universal negro
suffrage established in every State, from the
Potomac to the Mexican frontier. But will
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General Mcclellan.

From the ". Y Tribune.
There is a maxim frequently quoted some
years ago in this city, during an unfortunate
ecclesiastical investigation. The scrupulous
said, "Once Bishop always Bishop" shook
their heads, and voted for suspension instead
of deposition. We are reminded of this cir
cumstance by seeing it announced that "many
Democrats favor General Mcclellan for the
next Presidency. "Once a candidate, - we sup
pose they say, "always candidate;" and
thus the poor General is to be put into that
forlorn limbo of hope deferred from which so
many great men have been relieved only by
gentle and benevolent Death. As the foe
of cruelty if not the particular friend of
the General, we enter our protest against this
amiable contumacy. There may be a few
men who still think that he would make
good candidate; there may be political gam
blers still willing to play upon his chances;
and if he were nominated there are those who
would vote for him; but as he will not be
candidate, as he will not be entered at all
for the sweepstakes, as there will be no oppor-
tunity to make bets upon his majority or
minority, it is not generous to distract his
military mind from the study of fortif-
cations and the science of defensive digging,
by breathing his name in connection with any
election for any Office whatever. Mercy dc
tates that when even major-general is in the
plight of General Mcclellan, he should be
severely dropped. We could mention several
personages, now no longer in the flesh, whose
old age was made superlatively wretched by
the ill-timed determination of mistaken
friends, who would keep them before the
people as Presidential candidates long after
the ghost'o possible achievement had vanished
The General is too young to enter upon such
career of misery. If undisturbed he may
vet write many valuable volumes upon the
Art of War, with pictures of numerous
fortresses which it would be impossible for
him to capture. He may do something for
gunnery. He may invent new projectile.
He may design uniforms of novel neatness or
of invincible splendor. He may make an eX-
cellent lecturer at West Point. He may de-
wise digging machine of great value to
farmers. But if he is to waste his life in
dreaming of the Presidency, in hoping and
signing and hoping again, in con slant aspira,,
tions and predestnate disappointment, he had
better at once fall upon his sword and split
his heart, after the Roman fashion
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SPIRIT or THE PRESS.

,r,roR,AL OPINIONS or THE LEADING JoUREAns
upoN CURRENT ToPIcs-coMPILKD EVERY
NV PoR TIE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
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EXCURSIONS.

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Leave CHfSNUlP street wharf ats A. M. and
leave WILMIHGTON at 2 a ~. and l2Sl
stopping at eli ESTER ana S, hyoh @ @SaOh msyc sy a
boat aB cents. Fare 20 Chester or Hi99 Hi9s
cents.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-08-01
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

In our paper will be found the call fo1
Convention at Madison, on the 4th O,
September next. We pres ume it will be
largely attended as the men nominated
by it will probably be elected by large
majority. 1t is generally thought that
the present officers will be re-nominated
with few exceptions. This will please
us, for we believe that the state never
had better list of men at Madison, than
it has now. Gov Fairchild is, we sup
pose, sure of denomination and well he
deserves it. He is an eloquent speaker,
a good executive, a MANNED soldier and
an honest man. How his manly utter
ances at the Editorial Convention, thrill
ed the hearts of his hearers! 1t was no
school boy talk, but bold, vigorous Ian
guaGe in which great thoughts were min
gled as beautifully and as thickly as stars
in the skies above us. And there are
others already holding positions, who if
chosen by the Convention, we can support
with hearty good will There is brave
Tom. Allen, a perfect gentleman, and as
good Secretary as any State need have.
But we will name no more or we might
go all through before we found stop
ping place. We can only express the
wish that all Republican office holders
may be as capable and as conscientious
as those who now hold the State offices
at Madison.
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trayed the Union men who SO nnfors,,
nately con6ded in his honor and fidelity.
The British never trusted Benedict Ar
mold with an important command. They
paid him the stipulated price of his
treachery, but secretly mistrusted and
despised the traitor.
The evidence before the Judiciary Com
mlttee,, however, proves that as long age
as Nay, 1865, johnson had begun to cal
culate the chances of reelection as a
reward for successful treachery. He is
reported by a creditable witness to have
said, in conversation with an intimate
friend, The man who gets the McClel-
Ian vote, with the nti-negro suffrage vote
of the Republican party, will get the
Southern vote, and that will elect the
next President But this was before
he had made that fatal ''swing' out West.
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NEWS suxxARr.

The Italian Cabinet offers to aarrises
Rome with national troops as defense
against Garibaldi's party.
Napoleon has written letter to the
King of Prussia urging him cede North
Schleswig to Denmark.
| A cable dispatch states that war be-
tween France and Prussia is regarded as
certain in London and Berlin.
The President has appointed Fenerals
Sherman, Harney and Terry members of
the Indian commission
Gen. Sheridan has removed Governor
Throckmorton Of Texas and appointed
Mr.. Pease, loyal man in his place.
The official investigation of the alleged
brutal whipping of citizens at Fort Sedg-
wick, resolves the affair into a personal
assault by a sergeant On two citizens.
A party of surveyors have commenced
operations on the northern route of the
Pacific Railroad, starting out from North
ern Wisconsin. On tho Central route q
force of $1,000 Cinnamon and 5000
whites is now engaged.
A party which has just returned from
an exploration of Ottawa river reports
that it is about one thousand miles long.
Lake Gross is four hundred miles in cir
cumference. The natives are pagans and
practice poligamy
The new fiscal year which opened July
lst, shows highly favorable returns from
the internal revenue. To the present
date the receipts have been $35, 500, 600
and the receipts for some time to come
are expected to average two-thirds of a
million per day.
Information from all parts of Maryland
is to the effect that in the revenue offices
those only moderately loyal in their views
are being rapidly removed, and declared
secessionists put in their places Nearly
every county in the state has an ex-rebel
soldier on its militia enrolling boards.
Otho the ex-King of Greece is dead
The cholera is reported to be carrying
off fifty persons per day in Memphis.
The'crop reports from South Carolina
continue favorable
The internal revenue receipts for the
week ending the 9th, were S4.67e, 563.
Deaths In New York for the week were
CTS, an increase of 81 over last week.
The mortality is mostly among children.
The Empress Eugene visited the
American man-of-war Colorado, at Cher
bourg, on the 9th inst, and was receiv-
ed with great honors.
The remaining portion of Table Rock
was blown away from the main rock on
Saturday afternoon by blast of two
hundred pounds of powder
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars in fractional currency haye been sent
to the United States depository at Chica-
go during the week.
The base ball match, in Chicago on
the 9th, between the Nationals, of
Washington, and the Excelsiors, of Chi
cago, resulted in the victory of the for
mer. The score stood: Nationals 40,
Excelsiors T. The latter was whitewash
ed six times,
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A laughable incident, says the Ma
rysville, (Cal.) appeal, occurred at one
of the photograph galleries in this city,
on the 10th instant:
A country gentleman went in to get
his two boys taken. In order to have
the boys properly prepared, he asked
for basin of water to wash their faces.
The artist informed the customer that he
would find wash dish inthe other room,
and he retired and gave both boys a
clean wash After the pictures were ia
ken It was noticed that the lads began to
grow black in the face, and continued'to
get blacker and blacker. The true state
of the case Immediately occurred to the
operator boys had washed their ia
ces in the wrong dish, basin Of chemic-
ais prepared for pictures. There was no
remedy then for the accident. The sill
yer wash vas turning the faces of the
boys blacker and blacker, and there was
no other way than to let the chemicals
perfect their work. The gentleman left
with his boys, and by the time he reach
ed home his wife had a couple Of nice
n,2latto children
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-08-01

RHETORIC. Speaking of anecdotes, !
must give you one which one of the most
talented, and successful preachers in the
State tells Of himself He says in his
young days, when Indiana was little
more than wilderness, when Gospel
fire was poured out in great abundance
and rhetorical figures commanded high
premium among the youthful preachers
and he was selected to preach Sunday
sermon at camp meeting The audience
was large, and the occasion demanded an
extraordinary effort He was just enter
ing upon his theological career, and the
first step was of the greatest Importance.
At the appointed hour he took the stand
and, after the usual preliminaries, COM
menced as follows:
Brethren and sisters, ladies and gentle
men, If had the world for pulpit, the
stars for my audience, my head towering
far above the loftiest clouds, my arms
swinging throughout the immensely, and
my tongue sending forth the clarion notes
of Gabriel, I'd set my foot on Green
lands icy mountains and the other on In
dia's coral strand, and-Id-Td howl
like wolff"