The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-03
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The Radicals working their own RUIN
From the Herald.
Wendell Phillips wants to put Niger on
the Presidential ticket with General Grant.
This is the latest limit of radical movement
the most advanced position of the most ad-
vanced man-and shows like beacon the ten
denoy and direction Of revolutionary thought
moving onward wave by wave. Mr.. Phillips
nomination of a niger for Vice-President
is in our revolution exactly analogous to one
of the most characteristic facts of the French
Revolution, the crowning of an immoral
woman as Goddess of Reason. The deitca-
tion of the nigger, the apotheosis OF that
great cause of the war; is the necessary
Sequence of success it is the necessary party
result of the terrible contest that party leaders
look upon as having been purely and SIMPLY
Niger war. Phillips sees this, ana Is CON
sistent. Reasoning on the bare iacts, look
ing at the matter purely in its logloal lorIis,
he sees that the inevitable next step ior
the party that has gone so far Is TO eXalt the
niger to the highest possible point OF power
and dignity: and seeing this, he states 1t
boldly and broadly, not debarred by any such
trashy commonplaces as sense OF What IL
NAV be iudicious, decorous, or even decent
for his party to do. In the French Revolu-
tion all the surroundings OF the event we
have alluded to make it an exact parallel
to this exaltation of the niger. Each was
the same defiance of commonplace propriety,
the same natural next step OF revolutionary
movement.
The only thing that is impossible for reyo-
luton is to stop. Incessantly and inexorably
to go forward working out its fate, is the law
of its life. Attempts to stay revolution at any
point short of its ultimate end only expose
those who make them to be crushed under the
onward moving wheels. Revolutions of modern
history have illustrated no point so distinctly
as this. The great one that annihilated the
whole ancient system of France bore at its
opening the harmless appearance OF move
ment for reform; but, sweeping forward, it
soon left the most advanced philosophical ex
tremists far behind, and at its close was seen
to have left nothing unchanged in the nation,
and to have spared no person or party that
had attempted to stay its course, until it fairly
ran into the counter revolution of military
despotism. Barnave had Illuminated like the
rest against aTistocracy against royalty, for
the liberty of the people; but the day came
when this extravagant Democrat ventured to
say that the revolution was going too far
ventured to warn the country that it was de-
stroying not merely royalty, but government;
not privilege, but property; and tor such wise
warning Barnave, once foremost man of
the Revolution, went to the guillotine as the
aristocrats had gone so plentifully before.
This is the history of nearly all the men of
the French Revolution, its authors and
abettors who at any time raised a voice
against its dangerous tendencies. They who
urged one series of executions were the vic
Tins of the next. With the Girondists went
down the attempt of a great party to stay the
movement. Thence there was no restraint
1t was only question for how trivial an oppo-
sition man should die. Camille Desmoulns,
a Jacobin, was guillotined for proposing a
committee of clemency "a committee EN-
powered to set at liberty persons who were
merely Suspected" of evil intentions. The
great crime of the age was to attempt to
modify the revolutionary extravaganza. This
is, in a party sense, the great crime now, for
we are only repeating that history; radical
leaders are working out in essentially the
some way their own destiny and ruin. He
who is not willing to 60 to any extremity in
the great direction Of universal nigger-wor
ship must go down, and will go down. so far
as party position is implied. General Pope is
q ruined man if he had any party views.
He has just suppressed a newspaper in No
bile for merely giving the niggers some lessons
In killing, 'instructing them how, when, and
where to use firearms" This interference
with the amiable recreation of Republican
voters will send him to the political guillotine.
On the other hand, the Superintendent of the
freeomen's Bureau IN Virginia is IN the line
OF promotion. He has made the Bureau
openly party machine by instructing his
subOrdinates to see that every negro sis regis
tered and votes" He appreciates the fact that
the revolution is going on, and that the point
at which Wendell Phillips has now fixed the
party standard is not very far in advance of
the present party line. He is right. How
ever moderates protest and demur, that is the
next great point; and it will be but little
while before we reach it, for we go through
revolutionary cycle in much less time than
it required in any OF the famous European
revolutions.