The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-20
THE NEW YORK PRESS.
UDrroRIAL OPINIONS OF TBE LEADING JoUhNAbf
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From ne Tribune. -. -
Certain newspapers differ with the course OF
,be Tribune in reference to the opinion of Mr..
Btanbery, because we are "too radical" we
do not strive to please or displease what Is
oalIed the radical sentiment. We presume
we occasionally do both. We endeavor to do
what IA best for truth and liberty, caring little
wbo are pleased. Such differences generally
come right in the end. Nothing can wait so
long as Justice. Wedenounoed Mr. Stanbery's
onipion not because we desired to be radical
INT because we saw in IL an evidence OF bad
faith towards the country on the part OF the
President.
Westhink Congress will meet in July
Leading Republican members have requested
q full attendance. The country seems 70
think that Reconstruction should be settled
at once. We trust it will not be an angry
meeting. Our friends will come full of ear
nestness and purpose. They will feel, we
fear, as men who have been deceived. In
passing the bill, they listened to moderate
counsels. We know what struggle 1t cost
TO induce moderation. The struggle will be
greater now. Mr.. Stevens and his friends,
who were defeated in the attempt to place the
military power under the control of Grant,
will make bolder effort. We shall have con-
flscation, perhaps and land to the negro
pressed by a small minority. We do not
think It will be wise to make new issues, and
we counsel moderation with justice, as we
did during the last session. We dread to re-
open this question, because with it comes un-
certainty and unrest, feverishness, endless
and angry discussions. We find a sentiment
in the West that has expression in few
miserable, jobbing newspapers-a kind Of
Thenardier feeling. A number of otice-beg-
gars and politicians, calling themselves the
Grand Army of the Republic, and meeting in
out-of-the-way places with grips and pass
words, are passing resolutions demanding con-
fiscation and farms. This is either knavery
or madness. People who want farms work
for them. The only class we know that takes
other peoples property because they want it
is largely represented in Sing Sing. The people
of this country do not want Sing Sing and
Mexican banditi principles introduced into
their craftsmanship. We can never recon-
struot America by the gallows and the deputy
sheriff, and we trust that the spirit of kindness
will prevail-especially because this contest is
not made by the Southern people They ac-
cepted the Military bill manfully, and have
endeavored to act under its provisions. In
stead of apathy, and wrath, and discomfort,
we have found them eager and painstaking
in their effort to reorganize their political sys-
tenn under the Military bill. If the work is
arrested, they are not to blame; and we have
no right to increase the conditions imposed last
March. If anything, we should recognize
the temper of the South by limiting them.
The only issue is with the President of the
United States.
We can best understand the magnitude oil
the Presidents wrong when we consider what
might have been in the South if reconstruc-
tion had progressed. AS we have shown, the
passage Of the Military bill was a measure o
peace. The country became instantly calm
All old issues seemed to die. The spirit o
ifofsn bna nd we VVa amid
ruins anxious to build up and adorn. In the
South the people addressed themselves to
farming and education. In the North we dis
missed reconstruction, and discussed ouI
finances, and tariffs, our relations with foreign
nations, and the resumption of specie pay
ments. The Administration travelled to the
North Pole for the glory of annexation. Trade
began to revive, and we looked eagerly for the
coming harvests to flood the country with
money. We seemed to be a peaceful people
We believed in the triumph of reconstruction
in the South.
The negro accepted his new condition with
euuanimity and patience, anxious to educate
himself for his high duty. We saw achieved
all that the most enthusiastic patriot ever
hoped to see. Successful in war; feared by
the nations victorious over rebellion aided
by the sympathies of foreign monarchies, and
so serene in our triumph that we disdained tC
degrade it by mere thanksgiving, as if the
ValOr OI u ulluOu Iu6u GOulu only % SaLlSueO
by rope. All the blessing of triumphant
peace seemed suddenly to fall upon us. We
looked for a full Electoral College in 1868
and President who, for the first time il
our history, was really the choice of the
American people. We believe this might
have been done so swiftly, and so well, tha
when Mr.. Colfax called the House togethe
next December he would have found a full
Republican delegation from the Southern
States standing at the door,
The President is not satisfied with this and
he comes upon the scene to mar it, He may
postpone reconstruction but he cannot stop it
This nation has made up its mind that tn,
republic shall be reunited on the basis of Jus
tioe. No man can prevent it. Probably it il
radical to say so, but we only say what every
sensible man in the country believes. We wan
Congress to come together in the spirit O
peace and magnanimity, determined to avoiC
evil counsels, only doing what is wise anC
kind The issue is with the President. an(
not with the South and we can best see how
much the President has injured the South b,
looking at the prospect, and then thinking Q
what might have been if prudence had con
trolled the councils at Washington.
The InsurreetiOnary War In Crete.
From Ue Herald.