The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-07

ne IS ch9rged as neRlecting to zee "fajtbfully
tiAt etiAsG1,e9.n Next IN regard to the ballotbox
the PRESIDENT proposes what may be called i'm.
partial suffrage, with the condition that twben
any state SHALL on account of race oy ooio.r -.
previous cChdtuon OF servltude," DENY the elec.
i've franchise, ETC., then the entire class of nor
sons so excluded shan not be conntsd in INC
OASIS OF representation. THIS seems 10 no nor.
5Iectly lalIi but what says the amendment of
CoHeless! Inat WDen any State "sbe1l i'm anv
way abridgen the suffrage .'evcs,t 9Taii e IA qay
patton IN rebellion or other crlme y tbp boe,s
OF representation therein shall he 'i rod'ced
PobnIa according to the Presidents plan
I hepeIs aie nor 70 be excluded; and n reading
ana Wrltlng and property oualiGcotio,, ,S,',n6
al classes alike, may be imposed nv tho statos
Ia 9uailncatlon which he has recommended In
Now let US take the State of soutb coro,,no
ana see now each OF these plans wouId onora,o
tthhereln, taxing its population al three bnndped
bocIs b0TIssho r Mn,oeS ana four hundred thousand
DldV ks' Onuer the conditions of Cnngre.s 9
heOels may be excluded from the noIis. bnf
adopting one hundred Thousand naonio a; bo Ibue
r9tl9 ior member OF CONGRESS, if the blacks are
Wh0Ily eXciuded, South Carolina will lose fonT
OF the seven members of the House 80 Ia ~ ~
Will, by universal suffrage be entitIod Oh
VIII lose, too, in proportion to the eject If a,,y
tS tSs.IietIon @ WnaVeVer upon blacks or whites so
I InaI property or reading and writing oualif q.
canon VIII involve the same losses i'm Congress
as exclusion on acCo int of color Bv TIC me-
perry aho reading and writing Qualification on
the other hand, which Mr. Johnson nro,,oso, " -,
grant, the whole black population feycontjr ,S1 w
tne lew taught to read and write bv the Fr,ea7
mems Bureau) and most of the moor wbite,
St gUuil 9e excluded from the suffrage, so that
SCUM CarOilna would be more close coroora-
tion under her old Rebel oligarcbv tbS,i 90,
more or less. oO0i oO'''es'
To make this thing sure, Mr.. johnson proposes
no equivalent or substitute for the tbird sertion
OF tine amendment of Congress, excludinp Ger
tam classes OF Rebels from office state or Eede
Tal, until absolyed by two-thirds vote of each
Ilouse e OF COMPRESS. On the contrary, he pro.
poses to give the Rebels full swing as II notbing
had happened. He does not vet seem to com
prehend the fact that the very strongest section
OF the Congressional amendment in The North
Is tnat Whlch proposes to make the master
spirits OF the Rebellion take back seats i'm onr
political affairs until they can be safely absolyed
by Congress. Not long since Horace Greeley
IN his benevolent desire to concilate the South
ISSUED az venture, his manifesto IN favor of a
general amnesty. The dav before lie did this he
was good Tor the United States Senate: the dav
alter he vas as dead as Raymond or ThurloV
Weed. The idea that the North shall be bad
gered again in Congress by such Southern Rebel
Leaders as JEFF. Davis Benjamin, Mason, Sill
dell, Wigtall and company, is just as odious in
the loyal States as was the Chicago -Vallan-
qgham platform OF peace at any price. Mr..
IonnioD.s substitute for the pending Constitu-
tonai amendment in short, is a dead failure
what, then, can the Executive DO to save him.
self? His only way OF safety is to abandon All
TINS useless hedging and ditChing, 6nessing and
qul6oHpg and squarely recognize the authority
OF Congress, ana frankly adopt the pending
amendment, together with the idea that the
States which forfeited their rights in the late
Rebellion are subject to the terms of Congress
ID the matter of their restoration. The great
issue OF bis impeachment does not depend upon
the merits of this plan OF that plan. 1t rests
upon his usurpation OF the exclusive powers of
CONGRESS, has hostility TO the authority of the
laW-maEinG power, and his failures TO ''5ee the
laws faithfully executed" In n word, it is
because he has, stood and persists in standing
in the way of the legislative rights OF Congress
this pending amendment, that he is to be i'm
peached. By falling in with Congress and the
amendment he may still be saved: otherwise
no hedging or fuessing will avail MIN. He has
back or be displaced