The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-26

Where Jackson stood now doth another stand,
The favored ruler of our favored land;
With heart as pure and patriotism as great,
A second Andrew steers tue ship of state.
The end apprOaches-that sublime event
The people rallying to their President.
SO sings the enthusiastic b. +. French Com
missioner of Public Buildings at Washington,
Chief Bouquet Provider for the White House
and Poet Laureate of President Johnson. His
tsgreat expectations, +" however, have vanished,
like those of the prophet Miller, who foresaw
little too soon
The angel Gabriel with his trumpet come
The day of judgment and millennium.
The Rev. DR.. Cumming, with his three fear
full books-"The Great Tribulation," "The
Coming Preparation" and "The Awful Con
summation'--is much nearer the mark. The
raptures of Mr.. French are like those of the
excited Frenchman at Niagara Falls:-"Ah
dis is de grand spectackel Supaarb Mag
nifque By gar ! he is come down first
rate - Moreover, as the hard-fsted demo-
cracy were very much scandalized with the
gorgeous silver-plated artistocratic coach-and-
four of President Van Buren,, what will they
say of this royal appendage of poet laureate
to President Johnson The action of the
House of Representatives, in refusing any
appropriation for this monarchical luxury,
will be approved by the people. Shall the
glories of the Administration be hawked about
in doggerel verses like the healing virtues of
"Old DR.. Jacob Townsend's sarsaparilla %
MOI We must hold even President Johnson
to the line and plummet of the Constitution,
and to the diagnosis of old Thad. Stevens and
his AI-healing Reconstruction Bitters.
Upon this test how stands ''the Second An
drew of the enraptured Mr.. French? 1t ap-
pears that the Blairs the whole family from
the old man down, advise the President to
smother the bill in his pocket; that Mr.. Sew
ard advises him to veto it, for reasons best
known to himself; and that the Democrats of
Congress, taking their cue from Senator
Reverdy Johnson, are urging the saving policy
of signing the bill. This Maryland Senator, it
appears, entertains the impression that if this
bill shall finally fail, the incoming Congress will
go a step further in parcelling out the lands of
Southern white Rebels among the loyal negroes
of that distracted section. Old Thad. Stevens
is Watching his chance. General Fitz John
Porter, now in New York, who has no great
cause for admiration of the radicals, it is also
given out, has written to Senator Johnson
highly approving his course in going, as a last
resort, for this radical Reconstruction bill. 1t
is rumored, too, that this sagacious Senator,
apprehensive of veto, has been counselling
the President to walk lightly over the ground
OF MS ODJ6CJlOnS, leSJ III stepping 100 nedVlly
he may spring the impeachment steel trap
which lies under them. The prevailing idea
seems to be that the President, within day or
two will send in moderate veto, so as still to
give the two Houses of this Congress an oppor-
tunity to pass the bill over his head.
This course, if pursued as a compromise,
may answer the purpose of securing the
policy of Congress without sacrificing the EX-
ecutive. In withholding the veto, If resolved
upon till too late to be reversed by this Con-
gress or in pocketing the bill, challenge is
involved to the incoming Congress, elected
upon the precise test of hostility to Mr.. John
sons policy. Some concession, therefore, to
the present Congress has become essential to
his federation under the next. If Mr.. Johnson,
therefore, cannot bring himself to the point of
putting the reputation Of his pet policy under
his own hand and seal, he can, perhaps, over
come the difficulty by temperate veto sent
up in season, and with the understanding that
he wishes to avoid every appearance Of any
further tactics or strategy to defeat the will OF
two-thirds vote of each House of Congress.
We think that, with the evidence before him
of two-thirds vote for the bill in each House,
his best plan is to put in his objections against
it. and then the reasons of Senator Johnson for
signing it. This course would not only effect
at once the indefinite postponement of the inn
peachment proceedings of the Judiciary Com
mittee of the House, but it would at once pre-
pare the runng pontlclanS OF the Rebel states
for graceful submission to the law.
OF all the occupants of the White House,
Captain John Tyler was the fullest exemplif.
cation of 'the happy man" He enjoyed il
with keen relish. He threw in his vetoes
right and left, and laughed at the wrath o
Henry Clay and the rage of John Minor Bolts
He could afford to do it, because the Southern
States were then all in Congress, and tn,
Wings had but scant majority in eithe
House. He had John Jones as his Sanch,
Panza and the great unbroken Democratic
party to back him. Yet Tyler's administra
ton was a parenthesis, Fillmore's ditto and
wherefore Because Tyler and Fillmore wer
each little too fast for another term. But
Mr.. Johnson will only get that buzzng fly on
of his ear, he may stlll do better than Tyler o
Fillmore, a great deal better. Yielding to an
cooperating actively with the plan of Con
gress on this Southern question and the negr
question, he can bring the great money ques
ton into the foreground, and upon that, in a.
inevitable recasting of parties and party lines
he may win the balance of power in bot
Houses. Then Mr.. B. B. French's immorti
lines will come into play; then, like Apollo
he may strike his golden Lutte or Tyre, or hi
banjo, and sing
The climax cometh-that sublime event
The people rallyihg TO their President