The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-03

sdness 60 expect that negroes win perform for us
Ccrtany We ought not to ask their assistance until
we despair Of our compotency.
The great difference between the twoaraces In ply
steal mental and moral characteristics viii prevent
an amalg nation or fusion of them together in one
Homogeneous mass. The inferior obtains the ascend
only it's own interests it will recognize no COM
mon neresi--nnd create such tyranny this Con-
tnent has never yet Witnessed. Already the negroes
are influenced by promises of confscation and plum
der; they are taught TO regard as an enemy every
Which man who has any respect for the rights OF his
II this continues II must become worse and worse
until oil order will be subverted all industry cease,
and the fertile fields of the South grow up into will
derness OF an the dangers which our nation has yet
encountered. mono are equal to those which must re-
suit from the success Of the effort now making to
Africhnlze the half OF our country.
Cost of Military RecOnstructiOn.
would not put considerations OF money in compe-
ton with justice and right but the expenses incident
TO reconstruction under the system adopted by Con-
gress aggravate what regard as the intrinsic wrong
OF the measure itself II has cost uncounted millions
already, and if persisted in will add largely to the
weight If taxation already too oppressive TO be borne
without just complaint, and may finally reduce the
treasury Of the nation to condition Of bankruptcy
We must not delude ourselves. 1t will require a
strong standing army and probably more than two
hundred millions OF dollars per annum to maintain
the supremacy of negro governments after they are
established. The sum thus thrown away would, If
properly used, form sinking fund large enough to
pay the whole national debt III less than fifteen years.
1t s vain to hope that negroes will maintain their as
are wholly incapable of holding in subjecton the
white people of the South. I submit to the judgment
of Congress whether the public credit may not De IN
juriOusly affected by system of measures like this
With our debt, and the vast private interests whlch
are complicated with it we cannot be too cautious OF
policy which might by possibility, impair the conf
dence OF the world In our government That confidence
can only be retained by carefully inculcating the prn
cples of Justice and honor on the popular mind and
by the most scrupuous fidelity to all engagements
OF every sort Any serious breach Of the organic law,
persisted in for considerable tme cannot but create
fears for the stability OF our institutions Habitqa yio
lation of prescribed rules which bind ourselves to
observe must dsmorSze the people, Our IG only only
anchor Of our political morality is lost the public con-
science swings from its moorngs, and yields to every
impulse of passion and interest II we repudate the
Constitution will not be expected to care much for
mere pecuniary obligations
The violation of such pledge as was made on the
22d day of July, 1861, will assuredly diminish the
market value of our promises; besides, II we now 40
knowledge that the national debt was created not to
hold the States in the Union, the Taxpayers were
led to suppose, but to expe them from it and hand
them over to be governed by negroes, the moral duty
to pay it may seem much less clear. i say it may
seem So for do not admit that this any other argu
ment in favor OF reputation can be entertained as
sound; but its influence on some classes OF minds
may well be apprehended. The financial honor of
great commercial nation, largely indebted, and with
IepG9c%SnG ca G form of tS;n nj tc ~
cate texture, and the destruction OF it would be fol-
lowed by such unspeakabe calamity that every true
patriot must desire to avoid whatever might expose it
to the slightest danger.
The great interests of the country require imme-
diate relief from these enactments Business in the
South is paralyzed by of general insecurity by
terror Of confiscaton and the dread Of negro sl-
premacy.
From which the North would have derived so great
profit under government Of law still languishes and
can never be revived until it and be bettered
by the arbitrary power which makes all it's operations
unsafe. That rich country the richest in natural re-
sources the world ever saw is than lost if it be
tuition Instead being as It ought to be- source Of
wealth and power, will become an intolerabe bur-
den upon the rest Of the nation.
QgOOf racip Our cta will 5O,hf
less be seen by Congress in the late manifestations Of
public opinion upon this subject. We live III
dence ITSELF sooner or later II Is vain to think of
opposing 1t with anything short OF legal authority,
capped your attention that, from the day which
Congress fairly and formally presented the PROPOSE
with view to the ultimate establishment of negro
supremacy, every expression Of the general sentiment
has been more or less adverse to it, The affections
stitutions OF their ancestors. Their determination
to preserve the inheritance of free government in
their own hands and transmit, undivided and unim-
paired, to their posterity, is too strong to be
successfully opposed Every weaker passion will
disappear before that love of liberty and law for
which the American people are distinguished above
How far the duty of the President ito preserve
protect and defend the Constitution" requires him to
go in opposing unconstitutional act OF Congress,
is very serious and important question, on which
have deliberated much and felt extremely anxious to
reach a proper conclusion. Where an act has been
passed according to the forms of the Constitution by
t0e supreme legislative ana Is
tered among the public statutes Of the country, Ex-
ecutive restraint to it, especially in time of high party
excitement, would be likely to produce collision be-
tween the respective adhernts OF the two branches of
the government This would be simply civil war, and
civil must be resorted to only as the last remedy
for the worst of evils. Whatever might tend to pro-
woke it should be most carefully avoided A faithful
and conscientious magistrate will concede very much
to honest error, and something even to personal ma
lice, before he will endanger the public peace, and he
will not adopt forcbe measures, or such as might lead
10 lorce as long as those wnch are peaceaole remain
open to him or to his constituents.
1t is true that cases may occur in which the
Executive y6 be eS0mpsa a. stang % ali Z" eo s
sequences. II Congress should pass an act which,
is not only in papable conflict with the COnsti-
tuition, but will, certainly, II carried out pro-
duce immediate and irreparabe injury TO the organic
structure of the government, and If there be neither
judicial remedy for the wrongs ii infcts power in
the people to protect themselves without the official
aid OF their elected defender; if, for instance the
Legislative Department should pass an act even
through all the forms of law, to abolish coordinate
department. OF the government, in such a the
President must take the high responsibilities of his
office, and save the life of the nation at all hazard
The so-called Reconstruction acts though plainly
not believed 10 be within the class last mentioned
The people were not wholly disarmed of the power of
hands the sacred rights of the ballot-box il safe
to believe that in due time they would come to the
rescue OF their own institutions and IL gives me plea
sure to add that the appeal to our common consttu-
tteir wisdom and virtue seems not 10 have been mis-
placed.
Enormous Frauds.
1t is well and publicly known that enormous frauds
have been perpetrated the Treasury and that CO.
lossa fortunes have been made at the public expense
this species Of corruption has increased is increasing
and II not diminished, will soon bring into total
ruin and disgrace The public creditors and the tax
payers alike interested in honest admnstra-
on of the finances and neither class will endure the
high-handed robberies that have recently occurred
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