The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-11

Instead OF seeing IN them any popular de- |
mand for Ihe elevation of the Democratic |
party to power, he is said to regard them
as showing only an 'tevident reaction against
extreme radicalism in Pennsylvania, where
IL has been the most rampant and violent,
and openly threatened revolution" and to
have expressed the hope that they twill have
the effect to check the ultra policy hitherto
forced upon Congress by the crack of the
radical whip"
This is reasonable and Just. The despatch
to the EgpreSS probably indicates the wishes,
rather than the knowledge, of that journal and
of those for whom it speaks.
The EXtraordi inRry yCOunter-RoVolutiOn'
From the ". Y. Herald.
We are hurrying onward to our political
Niagara; Copperheads, radicals, and all the
fanatical elements are sweeping down the
rapids. Up to the time that Congress passed
the Constitutional amendment, and including
that action, the people were satisfied But
when Congress, mistakiug the will of the
nation, loses its balance upon its giddy sum-
NIT of power, then it is proper that the people
should again rise and assert their will. The
people, watching with intense interest the
restoration of their social and progressive
welfare, see no hope unless they draw the
curb upon the power they have invested
with authority. The situation is easy of
analysis; for, with all the finely woven
radical theories of black and white equality,
we want to see those practical results
which demonstrate that our legislative action
has been productive of good. Search where
we may, we can find no evidences of good
results; the attempt to reconstruct the South
has gone on from bad to worse, until the ten
unrestored States drag like a dead weight upon
the progress of the nation. Here, in the great
republic of the nineteenth century, we 60 back
for precedents in government and find that
the Roman system is the only one to which we
can adapt ourselves. Thus it is an open acknow-
ledgment that our territorial extension i'm
poses upon us the necessity of great central
torce, governing, through pro-consular Or
ganzatiOn, all the States that can in any way
make healthy opposition to its power. This
principle once well rooted, it takes no pro-
phetic brain to predict the succeeding phases
| which attended the same system in Rome.
Our people are too sensible to let the power
slip out of their hands so quickly. The cleo
tions in California and Maine denoted the fact
that the people were beginning to reason over
the mad acts of a Congress as well as of an
| Executive that could not understand their de-
sires. The two States named were only the
| preface to the telling rebuke which we are now
giving to our unworthy rulers. Pennsylvania
and Ohio, potent in the lists, wheel into line,
and add their voices to the general outcry
against misgovernmeAt. New York, soon to
come to the trial by vote, will doubtless follow
the example set by the former States. The
whole country, in fact, is tired of this
crushing process of reconstruction, which
weighs with equally destructive power
upon both North and South. The War
ren Hastings rule of India may have
suited that country: the Roman provincial
system may have been adapted to the ignorance
of two thousand years ago; but those were
oaS SpSy wi nj on
Intelligence cannot and will not bear such rule.
There have not been men wanting in the radi-
| cal party to recognize that their power was
| but shOrt-lived unless they could throw some
great ignorant eleue ent into the existing intell-
| gence of the country. This element, the negro,
| they have seized upon and have, by super
! human eXertiOns, h0ated him to the surface.
Less buoyant than the elements around him,
he can only be held up until his own specific
gravity overcomes our power to sustain him.
That failing, he must sink to the level to
which his talent fits him, and from which,
little by little gaining light, he may rise by his
own intrinsic value. To cling to the negro we
must sink to his level; by doing which we
shall not elevate him but debase ourselves.
1t has taken some time for the people to ap-
| preciate these facts, but that they now are
| fully alive to them is undoubted. They see
| that they have been deceived by the political
| demagogues who have held the negro up as
| the main element in our revolution when he
| was only minor ISSUE The revulsion of
feeling, we regret to say, will, for the moment,
| be unfortunate for the black man; but this is
| the fault of his fanatical friends, who have
| forced him upward to point where he cannot
| balance himself.
The action of the radical party has not been
| the creation of civilization for the negro, but
an attempt to turn the white race back to
barbarism which we have been trying to shake
of, and from which we have been emerging
| for more than twenty centuries. 1t must be
| understood that our people are awakened at
| last, and are little inclined to march in
| retreat. The elections of Ohio and Pennsyl-
| vania fully demonstrate il. Let it not be sup
| posed, however, that these elections denote
victory for the old Democratic party, whose
| principles, as shown by the Rebellion, were
rule or ruin" 1t shows, ON the contrary
that the Republican element of the country,
tired and disgusted with the radical pro-
gramme, have, for the moment, stepped aside
to give rebuke to their leaders, and show
them that the intelligence of the United States
Is not willing to accept rule that cannot
stand the analysis of common sense. There is
a mighty conservative power quietly holding
itself in reserve and watching our poli-
tical fortunes. 1t is awaiting the next
Presidential election, and when the moment
comes to strike it will deal a terrible blow;
Democrat, radical, Copperhead, and fanatic
VIII 60 down before it. A President totally
untitled to appreciate the demands made upon
him will disappear, and a Congress that has
made party football of the nation will also
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