The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-13

euuJeCI hdruiy second IN importance to that of
| public education with which, in truth, it is
| intimately connected.
The Duty of the Republican Party-Ad-
vance the Whole Lime.
From the ~ Y. Tribune
When General Sheridan rode from Win
chester to the front on the day of his
memorable victory, he found mis- line formed.
1t had suffered defeat. Timid counsels urged
] that it should fall back in good order, and in
trench. It's great captain advanced the whole
line, and won the most brilliant victory of the
! war.
This is our advice to the Republican party.
Advance the whole line. California is re-
garded as the beginning Of a new revolution
The people are said to be weary of the Repub-
Ican party, forgetting that the Republican
party has been thwarted betrayed, and en-
barrassed by Mr.. Johnson ever since he took
the Presidency. 1t was our pride and duty to
reconstruct the Union and end the war.
We should have done this had the President
given US the least sympathy-had he not been
a traitor and hypocrte. His reconstruction
meant surrender into the hands of the men
who had created the Rebellion. The country
protested. He has met its protests by insidi-
GUS and malignant enmity, by pandering to
the worst class of politicians and adventurers,
by driving from Office honest men who differed
from him, and appointing dishonest men who
pretended to sustain him. Reconstruction has
been weary, tedious, uphill work. We have
had every obstacle-the Executive against us,
the Judiciary doubtful, a sullen, vindictive
sentiment in the South encouraged by the Pre-
sident's Copperhead daliance. As it is now,
we may consider the work ended unless the
cunning of Mr.. Black or some other of
4bn DC nIy G.
lection, or unless these bad men in their des-
peration should attempt to seize upon the
machinery OF government, and hurl Congress
from power. TO reconstruct the South with
the Presidents aid would have been difficult
and delicate labor. To reconstruct it in the
face of his enmity is one of the most hazardous
lmpesslbllties ever imposed upon people.
SO with the tariff and the finances. Here are
two subjects demanding the gravest attention.
We have revenue system based upon the
artificial and extreme necessities of war.
A healthy management would have aided us
in reducing the debt. But how have the
finances been managed What has Mr..
Johnson done towards executing the financial
laws of Congress Take the internal revenue
system. We believe that the President has
wasted millions upon millions of dollars in the
collection of revenue. For political reasons he
removed last summer majority of the best
assessors and collectors, and appointed men
without character or record. Mr.. McCulloch
protested, but the Philadelphia Convention
was necessary - money and position were
Observation-Disclosures were crammed into place
Adventures who feared rejection by the
Senate, and must needs feed ravenOusly on the
Treasury. What do we now see In whisky
alone $l50,000 900 of taxes are lost to the
Treasury every year The whisky interest
created and permitted by Andrew Johnson's
wanton neglect of duty daily takes nearly
half a million of dollars from the Treasury.
Yet this man talks of executing the laws
Execute the laws Here is a law of revenue,
so badly executed that but one-siXth of the
whole amount is collected. 1t is plain to all
men that he has fostered a gigantic system of
fraud, systematized, far-reaching, and wide
spread. We End no punishment, no earnest
effort to stop it. Even the Worid which has
the impertinence to call Mr.. JohnsOn's Cabinet
Republican" says that his administration
must justify itself before the country or be
overwhelmed in disgrace" We say disgrace
has come. The President either could execute
this law or he could not. If helpless, he
should have asked Congress for more power.
Unfortunately, it has never occurred to him
that he had anything to do but to write pro-
clamations and denounce the radicals A
| President whose favorite amusements consist
in swinging around the circle, "putting his
! foot down." and dancing along "the war
path, " can scarcely be expected to devote him
self to saving $3.50, 100000 year.
Ahu SO the money goes, and fraud reigns,
ana we have the special friends of his Excel
leney running from one ofice-holder to
announcer, levylng taxes, assessments and con-
1[1nGtions M 70 sustain the party and print the
ota,soraa ', ~ 1ss'eS55Igencer. 1t was bad when Bu
IoSnsor anu ma D5Sck B were in power. Now that
ytlI oGtiuson ana Black have combined. il is inf
niteiy worse. Well may the leading Demo
.I Pres;d new newspaper of the country dread the
The Rsn,,p1ilg pp1ing overwhelmed in disgrace"
strnct,oH e mepnSlSan pup party made laws Of recon
been defed: d. otbsra IuSnc9s. IS Some of them have
gently Yet the party Is asssiIsS sd9oS'eo negl,,
auemPl Is made TO carry us before Tia conntrv com
not only responsible for our oru, IN S.le oouhVIy