The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-09

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rienoed and better qualified. We hear of
black claims TO and demand of the Vice Presi- |
denoy only from whites. All we see and hear
from blacks Is adverse 90 this assumption.
III. Should the blacks be aba al 10 cast
their votes against The Republicans AZ 10 ad-
vance the cause of equal rights for ali. Il is
their duty 80 70 cast them, and we hope they
vii do II. But the pretext for 40 DOING alle0ed
in the above extract is SO paltrv tbat we
are sure they never devised and win not act
upon IL.
~. If MraWendelnPhil woula pet him
self nominated and run for President 5in 1880.
instead of barking at the heels Of the Republi.
can candidates, we should greatly rejoice. But
that 65O,OOO negroes, or. even 81, 900, would
support him in movement plainly DESIGNED
to throw the Union into Democratic hands we
shall not easily be made TO believe.
Y.We Judge that the time has not yet
arrived for President-malOing. ''Sufioient
unto the day [ae] the [duties1 thereof"
But, when that time shall have come, able
and worthy men will be nominated not be-
cause Of their color nor to appease any fac
tious clique, but because they are beloved
and honored by the great mass of the party;
and, being thus presented, they will be
chosen.
RscOnstruotIon-A Practical Bill ana a
From the Herald ri sf'Ho.ir11,9 2ai
Congress seems inclined to practical pur-
poses and moderate views, and its tone ON the
important subject that has induced the sum
mer session is such as will be satisfactory to
the country at large. From the strength of
its position we might have expected nothing
less than the wise moderation exhibited in its
persistent refusal to even hear the extravagant
proposals and plans already sketched out by
the revolutionary dreamers and agitators, who
find that their occupation will be gone if
they are not permitted TO excite the country
on some theme newer than the nigger. BY
distinctly shelving the class of visionaries who
become dangerous only when Congress, by
listening, sends their wildness to the country
with quasi Endorsement, it gains the conf
dence of the people, and will carry with it, in
whatever it does, the moral support of the
whole, nation, The people are disgusted with
Congressional philosophy, and want no more
of it, whether 1t comes from Sumner, Wade or
Stevens, whether it be a new niger notion or
agrarianism in any shape. They want bust
ness, and Reconstruction bill that will settle
the country and do away with all possible We
toes by Interpretation. T1.HI Ief ft n
The Committee on Reconstruction of the
House has already agreed upon a bill, and
presented 1t yesterday. The outlines given
indicate practical measure. First, we have
declaration that the military government is
supreme in the Southern States, and that all
other existing governments are superseded or
If continued are continued by the authority of
the commanders, and subject to them for all
purposes; second, a clause declaring valid all
acts of the commanders done under the laws
hitherto passed; and third, an Obliteration of
the Attorney-Generals Interpretation on the
question of the registry of voters, making the
law the guide of the registry boards, and giving
those boards the power to erase any names
already on the roll in cases in which there is
reason to believe the oath was improperly
taken. Another clause puts it out of the
/ power of the President to remove, at his own
caprice, any of the military commanders. This
last clause, taken with the previous vote sus-
tanning the Generals, indicates how strongly
they stand before the country, and how fully
it approves of the energetic, earnest, and con-
scientious course they have pursued in the
discharge of their high duty. With their
acts thus approved, and their position made
more positive, they will doubtless go for
ward in their important labors immensely
encouraged and strengthened by such un-
equivocal evidences of the national con-
fdence. a
Judging from only this outline of the BILL it
is intended to present. it seems, sufficient for
the purpose, and it should pass with only
enough debate to try the strength of its seve-
raj provisions, that we may be sure it will not
be so easily broken through as the former bills
were. Such a bill passed, the main business
of the session would be done, and Congress
should adjourn with as little delay as possible.
, Above ALL it should waste no time and give
occasion for no violent harangues or President
making schemes on the topic of impeachment.
With a satisfactory law and the commanders
out of his reach, the President will be quite
unable to throw any fresh obstacles in the way
OF reconstruction; and as impeachment would
be, therefore, unnecessary, even the discussion
of it in Congress would do evil by stirring
fresh agitations and excitements to disturb the
commercial and other relations of the country
with European powers.
The National BRnks-COngress and the
From the Herald.
Twenty millions year, devoted from the
national income to sinking fund, would wipe
out the national debt in a century. No one
advocates, however, such use of any portion
of the national wealth; for men are unwilling
to add any additional burden to those already
borne by the country, even for so good pur-
pose. Yet this very sum-twenty millions a
year-is actually given away, not to wipe out
the national debt but simply to enrich the
lucky politicians who own and run that mag
nifcent financial machine, the national bank