The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-25
The Popular verdict.

From The ~ Y, World.
We are of hopeful turn, and even in the
midst of patriotic threats and ''loyal" mob
bing looked cheerfully forward to turning
of the wheel. One day, says Herr Bismark,
in the life of a man is five years in the life of
nation, and of this national twenty-four hours
we see the dark side of fortune coming up
into sunshine and the whilom top of the
wheel, with all its precious weight of moral
ideas and holy humbug, going down, down,
down among the dead men. With such a
weight upon it, we look to see it there remain
stationary, till, in the fulness of time, vast
ulcer of ism drops off, and the deceived sense of
many good people comes purified up to the
top.
Truly, to drop metaphor, the radical party,
whereby we have typifed darkness, is fast
losing ground. From every election, guber
material, judicial, or town, the same news
comes in that the people are worn out with this
incessant agitation, and are sending its canting
fomenters to the nght-abOut as fast as they
get a chance to speak One year hence the
country will look back on its late past as men
look back on horrid scenes, half in disbelief of
their actuality and half with shudder at the
sense of their being real. The patience, the
patriotism, and the purse of people eminently
devoted and practical have all been cruelty
tried and tried as that people are now discern
ing, in the simple interests of fanaticism, ras-
cality, and fraud. When the radical party came
into power there was but the one great issue
before the country of reconstruction, and
we have to ask him who reads this, no matter
what his political bias, if, instead of settling
hat issue, they have not only made 1T ten
ines more complicated, but added to its dis
ractions the further running issues of negro
uffrage, impeachment, financial embarrass-
ment and stupendOus revenue frauds. 1t is
useless to say that these new issues were in
evitable, and the old one insoluble by any
ttainable craftsmanship. The United States
would be but a shabby sort of Government if
did not contain power fully sufficient to
cal with all the issues that might arise
within it. 1t has this power, and the whole of
it was given into the hands of the radical
party without one single condition annexed to
its exercise by the people but this-dO it,
There, the people saw, was the work. and
there the power to do it; and now that it has
not been done, and not only that it has not
been done, but that it has been miserably
botched and gnarled and twisted, they are
righteously giving in their verdicts against
that party as wholly corrupt and bungling.
There is not single great question now agi-
tating this countIy--taking impeachment as
mOribund-that has not also arisen of late
years in Europe, and been there settled on
firm and prosperous bases, while we, who
claim to be so far in advance of that effste
craftsmanship, are lost in the sea Of uncer-
tainty under radical guidance. II these men
could not originate why did they not copy
Peace at any price was, and is, the need OF the
country; but that peace they have not given
us, and il will never be ours at the hands of a
dynasty half thief and half blockhead.