The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-18
Tne nntlss OF the Honr.

bers OF Congress. The Thirty-ninth Congress
is college of tamperers. Fly swifter round, ye
wheels of time! and bring the Fortieth. True,
the next Congress will be the self-same tree;
but II will have new leaves and, / trust, will
bear the long-eXpected fruit. Are we TO have no
end OF white mems governmentsY II seems
not. Even Ben. Wade is in favor OF a white
mans government, If only it be named Colorado.
But justice demands that Colorado, like Missis-
sippl, shall be kept out of the Union till the day
OF doom, unless both those territories can lower
their pride sufficiently to come in on equal terms
with the negro. On what principle do Con-
gressmen vote in favor of the negros rights in
the District OF Columbia, and against the negro's
rights in Colorado? Is not justice the same IN
both places? And is not duty the same in both
cases?
Colorado may be garden of Eden, for aught
| know; and ITS inhabitants may be without
faint or spot of original sin; but their political
constitution eXalts a white man, and degrades
black man. This is reason enough for the nom
admission of Colorado into the new republic.
While we were yet heather, the best we could
say was, mo more slave States.n But now that
we are becoming Christian, we must say, ono
mole white Statesn II New York-yea, verify,
the Empire State, with John Morrissey and
au!-Were out Of the pale to-day, like South Caro-
llna,l would vote peTemptOrily against her admis-
sion so long a single vestge of her blacktinged
constitution remained unrepealed. As the
negroes bore our muskets during the war, they
ought TO bear something pleasanter than our
insults uuIluS the IeCOuSTuCblOus ~ pGIull
Colorado to Chamber into Congress by stepping
on the crushed body OF the negro is to invite
Georgia to repeat the same in dignity in worse
form. If Colorado adds new State constitu-
t1on OF oppression to the many similar Constitu-
tions by which the tree States have cunningly
outraged the negro while pretending to be his
champions, the whole argument for the nom
admission of the Rebel States except on terms
OF impartial suffrage viii thereby be struck to
the ground. l snail never believe that Senator
Wade Is other than true and noble man; but
he has nevertheless dealt blow under which
the cheek of Justice bushes like mother suffer
ing rudeness from tavorite son.
Other gentlemen in Congress are Over-anXious
to a0mit the Southern States on the basis of the
Constitutional amendment But to admit these
States on such basis will be fatal to the negros
political rights. The Constitutional amendment
consigns the negro, bound hand and foot, to the
keeping OF the Rebel. Admit the ten States on
the basis OF the amendment, and You imme-
dtately reduce the negro to the pitiful beggary
OF soliciting his political rights at the hands of
his ancient master. Ii such is to be the
theory OF reconstruction, why did we not
frankly say TO the negroes, before enlisting
them Tor the war, "Come, fight against your
masters, and, after you have conquered them
completely, kneel at their feet and ask them
for your political rights? / hold that
the political rights of negroes who helped the
North to overthrow the Rebellion are not to be
left to the dictation of Rebels who by these
same negroes were thus oVerthrown. More
over, since we live in world OF wars, this
Government may again have need Of the dusky
heroes to fight its battles. Shall it, therefore,
initiate in advance policy of asking black
men to storm tortresses, and of rewarding the
conquerors by surrendering their political
rights into the keeping OF the enemies whom
they have conquered?
The Thirty ninth Congress Is expected to do
justice. But in the midst of a perverse genera
tiOn to do justice requires courage. II | yet
saw that the Thirty-ninth Congress had the
courage TO impeach the President, would have
greater hope that this same Congress would be-
friend the negro The negrO's chief enemy is
not the South, but the President. The South
is nothing, except 30 far as it sits in Andrew
JOhnson's chair The President deposed, the
South no longer welds the Executive with one
hand nor scourges the negro with the other.
No king in Europe to-day, no emperor in Asia.
no shlek among the Arabs, is half so great
usurper as Andrew Johnson. Let him be over
thrown! The Republic has been betrayed
altogether too long by malteasant Chief Magis-
trate. will you have Andrew Johnson for Pre-
sident or King ?" cried Mr.. Seward, But if the
nation dares not impeach Andrew johnson, il
thereby confesses that so longRs he shall wear
the CLOAK OF presldenC, he may commit the
! usuTpations of king
Andrew Johnson's State Governments in the
| South-which he has shaped according TO his
| own whim. never once consulting the law
making power, but always acting in defiance
| OF it-are usurpatiOns as gross as any which
| our toretathers charged against King George
! the Third. These State Governments are Illegal
! unconstitutional, and void. They are cardboard
houses, and must be knocked down. Congress
| ought at once to snap its fore6nger against them
and Whisk them out of the way.
! Administered by the nations enemies these
| governments are no protection to the nations
friends. While such governments remain the
Rebellion exists. Did we not fling our armies
against the South because the Southern States
were in the clutch of the Rebels? And vet, are
! not these same States at this moment In the
clutch OF these same hands? In every State of
the defiant ten loyal mems lives are in peril
| loyal mems houses are in flames, and loyal
mems families are in the streets. Is the Rebel
| lion yet overthtown? The Rebellion will never
be oVerthrown until loyalty shall reign abso.
lutely in its stead. But now, throughout the
South loyal men are spurned as traitors Just as,
throughout the North, traitors are spurned by
loyal men. South Carolina is yet the euemyis
state, not ours; the enemy is vet to be dis
lodged; loyalty is yet to be renstated.
Are we to be hoodwinked by mere show of
| submission! Even those Southern men who
bow their heads in obelsance to Washington,
still hold back their hearts in allegiance to
| Richmond.
Instead, therefore, of inviting back the rebel
| lious States into the fello wship OF the United
States, opening the doors of the Federal Capitol
to their Representatives, and submitting to their
votes the laws by which the American republic
ls to be governed, let these States be discrowned
! at their State dignity, and remain as conquered
Territories under the sceptre Of the North until
| their people shall acknowledge the claims OF
justice and shall practise the arts of peace.
II is accordingly the treble duty of Congress
-hrst, to lmpeach the President of the United
States; second, to expunge and obliterate every
state Government which he has created: and
third, to secure the political rights of the negro
whom he has sought to trample in the dust.
II these things cannot be done by the Thirty
ninth Congress, then let us discharge that body
4 nom our grateful remem brance, and look with
gilded hope 10 the Fortieth. Come, Fourth o.
March
BesiegiDg a Burglar-A notorious tick ket- of
iEeaVe man, named Brady, who escaped trou
Drogheda jail, in Ireland, last month, was re