The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-23

rior qualifications, which affords good reason
for the preferenoe-no of their lineage, which
affords no reason at all.
The Republican party is to be organized in
the South because it is eminently needed
there. Its principles, fairly expounded and
heartily accepted, will Danish feuds and in
sure general harmony. We have already
joyful premonitions of "the good time
coming in conservative" meetings to pre-
pare for State organization, wherein whites
and blacks are mingled as officers and
speakers and special efforts are made to win
the suffrages of negroes. If any regard these
meetings with disfavor because they are oalcu-
lated to win votes away from our tickets we do
not. Since our principles triumph, what mat
ter if our party suffers There are many
blacks who are in kindly relations with
their old masters, who still employ them,
on whose estates they live, and whom
they have ever regarded with ad-
miring pride and affection. These will pro-
badly vote with those old masters, provided
they feel sure that this does not involve voting
against themselves and their children. We
look, therefore, for considerable negro vote
for the conservative tickets, mainly in the
more secluded rural districts, where the Re-
publicans are known only through the incul-
pations of their adversaries Still, the law of
gravitation everywhere vindioates itself-as
truly in the ascent of balloon as in the fall of
a stone-and our adversaries can only secure
black votes by very close approximation Gin
profession at least) to our principles. Our
loss of few seats in Congress and other offices
will thus be bounteously compensated.
Wendell Phillips lectures this evening
in Brooklyn on National affairs 1t is his
custom to speak dsparagingly of Henry Will
son-to characterize him as a trimmer and
even as unfaithful to the cause of impartial
freedom. We would not retort these imputa-
tions. Mr.. Phillips has won wide and endur-
ing renown by his lifelong and unselish de-
votion to the cause of the slave. To assert
that he has often erred in his manner of COM
mending the cause, is only to say that he is
human. Had it pleased God to make him
more charitable and considerate, enabling him
to see that those who differed from him were
not necessarily towards nor villains, he might
have done the good cause better service; but
then it is high praise to say that he has done
what he could. Knowing Henry Wilson inti-
mately, we are sure that his devotion to
human liberty has been as thorough as that of
his defamer while we judge that it has been
decidedly more practical, and thus more
efficient
There are beings mean enough to insist that
Mr.. Phillips has been well paid for his anti
slavery lectures, just as there are those who
will say that General Wilson has achieved and
retained desirable positions by his anti-slavery
politics. We desplse these diverse detractofs
with equal heartiness. Mr.. Phillips need not
have been an Abohtionist in order to attract
large and paying audiences; and General Will
son renounced the party which steadily ruled
Massachusetts, and seemed likely to rule her
forever, in order that he might more effectively
uphold the equal rights of man. Let each
have his need of honor; for each has de-
served it.
Cannot Mr.. Phillips be persuaded to traverse
the South and address her people He would,
of course, have large audiences, with rare op-
portunities for doing good. Though he has
never yet supported Republican candidate
for President, and has rarely spoken of any act
of the party otherwise than in disparagement
or depreciation, he would be heard with in,
terest by the Southern Republicans, and might
give them timely counsel. We believe he
might learn something useful during few
weeks of free conference with the Southern
people of all classes-that he would return
more considerate therefore more influential
than he went. May he not be induced to make
! the experiment?