The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-12
The People to the Rescue!
From The ~. y. Herald.

from me ~. T. HeTutd.
$50, boys, a final bumper,
While we all in chorus chant
For next President we nominate
Our own Ulysses Grant,
"And If asked what State he halls from,
This our sole reply shall be-
From AppamatoX Court House ana its
fGinOuS apple-tree
For twas there to our Ulysses
That Lee gave up the fight;
Nov, bOysl TO Grant for President,
Ana God defer the right"
Here we have the true sentiment. Here we
have that feeling which is only brought to the
surface by the struggles of the country to free
itself from political corruption. The people,
weary and disguised with the narrow views
which govern Congress and the President, have
patiently waited for change until the only hope
remaining is a turn to those men who were not
swayed by sectional views; men who belong
to the United States-not to the North, not to
the South, but to the Continent. These are,
to-day, the men for the people. These are
they who will give us harmony in our national
development, which is the one thing now lack
ing to force us to the very summit which ma
ture has, from our geographical position, des-
tined us to occupy.
Why stand quarelling over amatter already
fought out-already decided? Are we to be-
leye that all the reasoning power of the
country is centred at Washington? There
may have been day when Congress furnished
ideas for the people; but that day is passed,
and it must now be understood that the people
furnish ideas for Congress. Failing to heed
the will OF the people, and shape their wishes
into laws, Congress must give place to men
who can appreciate our republCanism as it
exists. Had this been done in the Presidential
and Congressional efforts at reconstruction, we
should not now be tumblipg and rolling about
ia this Black Sea OF negroism.
Our rulers, notwithstanding our desires to
give them every chance to correct the abuses
of a legislation which overrides every sound
principle of statesmanship, have evidently
determined that the welfare of the country is
OF little moment in comparison to the one
absorbing idea of party power. Under these
| circumstances it has become a vital necessity
to make a change from demagogues to states
men. North and south are still awaiting the
restoration of the Government to healthy
| condition. To-day the leaders of parties are
the only barrier which stands in the way of
| true reconstruction, How well this is appre-
| ciated by the intelligence of the different
| States is shown in the late elections of Cali
| iornia, Maine, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Here
| the great Union element has, for the moment,
retired from the lists and holds its power in
allegiance, that the radicalism of its leaders
may receive rebuke. This pause forebOles
evil to the demagogues; for it indicates that
| they have failed 10 meet the demands made
upon them and must give place to men Of
heavier calibre. Now the people turn to
| Grant, Sherman, Thomas, and Sheridan, and
force them into the political foreground.
Did the demagogues think that little circle
| at Washington were to shape the destinies of
a continents Did they think that with their
proconsular system in ten States they were to
| forge the weapons which were to give anati-
| gfgV v.aNl To- ,.f- IN
dicate that such has been their feeling. But
the people think differently; and this is
question which essentially belongs to the
people, The people said, in 1861, that the re-
lentless and unprinciped slavehOlding power
should not split the country into fragments.
The flag assailed, we sprang by the million to
its deiense. We fought to preserve nationality
and to complete the victory which we won
we destroyed the principle of slavery,
which had created revolution. We ana not
fight, however, for the purpose OF picking up
a secondary issue and forcing it into nouce as
the primary one. We did not fight TO
prove that the negro should govern the
South to the exclusion Of the white mah, or
that the white should be debased by the el5-
vation of the negro to false superiority. NeAt
TO the safety of the Union, we desired That
every man, black or white, should have equal
chances to rise in the scale of civilization IN
nronortion 10 its own intrinsic ability. We had
little disposition to retrace our march, and,
saddliup ourselves with the concentrated igno-
rance of three millions OF negroes, to recon-
menoe. with vitiated blood, reduced intelli-
oence and less brain power, the toilsome ad
Vance of many centuries, in order to reach the
noint we now occupy. twas not in the Anglo
saxon blood TO do this, and our rulers have
sadly mistaken the political problem in fOist
ing This upon the country as the great issue
before which everything must kneel. This
Issue is the only one which, carried to success,
will be the salvation OF the radicals. Ihe ques-
ton now Is. are the people willing TO accept
this as the future guiding star Of the republic
II cannot be; for, accepting it, we prove that
we have lost our senses
There are other and greater issues at hand