The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-04

man Democracy in the district last repre-
sented by its editor, and did more TO swell
Hoffman g vote in the city and State than If IL
had squarely supported him. Yet the editor
on resuming his seat in Congress thereafter
claimed nevertheless admission TO the Repub-
lican caueuses, precisely as though ho had not
been rowing all summer with Doolittle. Dixon,
and COwan.
There is difference of opinion among the
Republicans as TO reconstruction. We concur
with that portion Gn our Judgment a great
majority of the party which, while insisting
ON full justice 10 the freedmen and security
against Rebel domination, is vet anxious for
an early and general amnesty for Rebels, and
for the prompt restoration of the States dis
organized by treason to self government and
representation in Congress. The Times would
seem also to sympathize with this view.
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,. is also an
eminent champion OF the milder policy, and is
now traversing the South in its behalf. If the
Times were in any sense Republican, il would
naturally regard the Senator's canvass with
decided favor. Yet it pecks at him. dav after
day, in such paragraphs as the following,-
senator Wilson'S Southern tour seems to be
case OF great cry and little wool The flock
snrIounuS MN, put there is no shearing done,
and he is likely TO come back empty-h -handed
The blacks listen to him. but wonder what ali
the pother is about The whites let him alone
and have not paid him the compliment of get.
ting angry at anything he has said. He has
Ialeu LDem 10 MS hearts content. and they
hear him with civllity, IL not with respect: and
then Mr.. w tlson packs up his stock of plati-
tudes and diatribes, and takes himself off un-
notlced 10 the next town. II seems rather dull
sort OF work. 1t is not we may be sure, eK-
actly what the Senator bargained for. If there
had been disturbance anywhere, what a
theme it would have supplied him with-what
martyr he would have returned! AS IL is, he
comes back in the position OF one who Thought
to move the universe, and finds that he has not
made so much stir as gadfly in summer. The
Southern people soon found out that IL was not
q nr q hi fr rlxuin uUff oh had
among them, but only reed shaken by the
wind. And we say that this is very discouraglng
Tor poor Mr.. Wilson, and we hope he Will bear
mp bravely under his adversities."
We submit to all candid, intelligent minds
that such filings have their impulse in an i'm
placable hostility to the cause and party which
Mr.. Wilson represents at the South in an i'm
movable purpose to see that cause discredited,
that party overthrown. Hence we are i'm
PEELED to notice the Tines gyrations, because
we deem it important that their animus should
be exposed, and their malign influence re-
stricted. That such things should be
said is of no consequence; that they
should be read and quoted as from a
Republ can journal, is what gives them their
sting. So with the Commercial advertiser, which
is constantly quoted by the Copperhead
press to show that the Republicans are at
loggerheads, and to set forth the hard things
they say of each other-nay, its assaults are
paraded as Republican confessions when
its editor is a member of the Manhattan Club,
and did his very worst to elect Hoffman Gov
ernor last fall. Yet, when we feel impelled to
tear off the masks of those who are dealing the
Republican party these deadly stabs, there
are creatures in charge of Republican journals
whom, out of respect to the animal kingdom,
we will not call asses, who assume to rebuke
our readiness to engage in personal contro-
versy, and gravely inform us that the public
cares nothing for the loves and hates, the
rivalries and antipathies, of editors Can this
be all stupidity