The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-21

country now are-and the result was that the
majority at last lost temper and made short
work of them and their rights.
All these are things which most people as vet
shrink from saying, although they are present
TO the minds of nine ont OF ten OF the intellI-
gent men Of the community. The lookout is
not pleasant one. II is rendered every day
darker and darker by such performances as the
Democratic Convention at Hartford, and the
steady and almost asinine stupidity with which
the Southern Legislatures 90 on manufacturing
their cheap defiance There is no more danger
that these people will have their own way in
the matter of reconstruction, than there is that
the United States will be annexed to Canada
and pass again under the British crown; but
there is danger that they may continue their
opposition long enough to lead to the smashing
up of some of the paper delPnses behind which
they are now hiding their foolish heads.
The Refractory Southern States, Com
gress and the Ad administration.
From the Herald
President JOhnson5 Southern policy has
turned out failure, proftless to the South,
and disastrous to mis- administration. He
began well enough, in taking the ground that
his measures of reconstruction, in the absence
OF Congress, were merely provisional, and sub
iect to the approval or rejection of Congress;
but directly after his annual message of De-
cenber 1865, he boldly diverged to the other
road. which has resulted in the ruin OF hi, for
tunes. He was, perhaps, dazzed and deuded
by the idea Of becoming the founder of new
party, ana, like jackson, the head OF new
dynasty, i'll re-establshlng the old political
balance OF power held by the South on the
nucleus OF the floating elements Of the North op-
posed to the dominant party in Congress. In this
conception, however, he estimated too lightly
the issues OF the war and the public sentimenG
OF the North developed by q great revolution,
and counted too much on the force of those old
political associations and dogmas, North and
! South, which the war had destroyed His fatal
! mistake was the tallacy that, excepting slavery
and the costs OF their Rebellion, the Rebel
| States in laying down their arms, were rein
| stated in their constitutional rights in "the
! Union as it was" before the war.
1t was generally expected that the astound-
ing popular majOriGieo in favor OF Congress cast
! by the loyal States, from the Atlantic 10 the
Pacific Ocean, in the elections OF last fall, on the
issue joined between Congress and the President,
| would bring to MIR. Johnson to a graceful sub
mission to the will of the people. satistaC-
tory approach in this direction was antici-
pated in his last annual message; but his
message as il inspired by unexpected rein
fOrcements, only expressed his increased faith
in his rejected policy This placed him in the
/ position OF the champion Of the refractory
. ruling politicians of the Rebel States and their
| Northern Copperhead allies against the loyal
States, their representatives, in Congress- and
their policy as embodied IN the pending Consti-
I tutional amendment and as endorsed IN all the
late Northern elections. Next, in the emphatic
| and defiant tone in which this amendment is
rejected by the outside States, from Texas all
the way up TO virginia, II Is manifest not only
/ that they have great confidence in the final sue
| cess OF President Johnson, but that there Is
| sort OF league or understanding among them en-
rapport with the Administration.
What can this understanding or this general
| expectation be- We infer from the late
/ decisions of the Supreme Court, and from the
hints thrown out by some OF our Southern eX-
changes, that the ruling Southern politicians
rely upon some further decisions from this
Court which will amount to the complete up
setting OF the pending amendment and the
theory that the excluded States are not, as they
! stand, restored to all their rights as members
of the Union. Under such encouragements to
adhere to the Executive, it Is not surprising
that the Rebel States should stand upon their
dignity and their reserved rights under the
Constitution as eXpOunded by Calhoun and put
into practice at Fort Sumter. If the Supreme
Court, then, shall next decide, in deciding the
Alabama appeal case now before It, touching
the status OF Alabama, that she is a State of the
Union, entitled to all the rights of member in
tul communion, and Il President Johnson shall
accordingly proclaim this decision law OF the
land, overriding the laws of Congress, and shall
proceed to execute il in ful6lment OF his oath of
office what can Congress do We cannot
answer; but as to what President Johnson is
expected to do by overcOnddent and unrecon-
structtd Southern Rebels we have perhaps an
answer ftom Kentucky.
We refer to the suggestive telegram published
on Friday from Frankfort, stating that in
the Kentucky State Senate, on the 18th instant,
Mr., Helm made long speech in favor of a
proposition to raise ten regiments of Kentucky
infantry for the purpose OF resisting all aggres-
sions and to maintain the PRINCIPLES of State
rights" State rights The old story of South
Carolina. And this Kentucky Senator desired
, that these troops should at any time be subject
to the call of the President OF the United Sates.'
Now, when it is remembered that the Governor
, ofKentucky threw back into his face the frs
call OF President Lincoln for few regiments o.
troops to assist in putting down rebellion
striking for a Southern Confederacy and look
ing at Kentucky neutrality during the war anC
at the Kentucky Legislature since the return o
r peace, we can understand this State rights pro
= position. 1t is a movement to put Kentucky
= in the vanguard Of another fight for a Southern
/ ! Confederacy, or tor 'the Union as it was
) State rights, slavery, Dred Scott decision
a and all.
y This skeleton outline of the Southern situation
0 and its Northern affiliations we believe is no
! overdrawn. 1t Is apparent then, that Congress
charged by the loyal States with the enforce
!. ment of their ult'matum to the South, must pro
!, ceed to decisive measures, or that the fruits q
t the war, like the beautiful apples OF the Dea,
r Sea- may turn to ashes upon our lips. Can an
Z, one suppose, then, that the movement for Presi
L dent Johnsons impeachment will not be carrie
l. throughY No. The Republican party. al
O powerful in Congress and in the loyal States, Wi
It remove President johnson in order TO reac
those States. His scheme of re-establishing tn
IL Northern Democracy on their old Souther
q balance of power was started too soon. Wit
a. the restoration of the South on the ultimatur
A. of the North the mission of the Republican part
N will be fulfilled This party will then be broke
A. ND and q scrub race In 1872, like that of 1872
ar will probably mark the first step to O reorgan