The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-06

nents Of reconstruction. In his efforts in their |
behalf, they saw a chance Of deliveranoe, and |
even Of ultimate triumph. The last few |
months have dissipated these delusions Mr. |
Johnson, II is seen, is as nothing aud nobody |
against Congress, backed by the firm will of |
the nation. His aid has rendered matters |
worse, not better. And they have outlved |
the folly that would place any dependence
upon pretensOns and endeavors which a few !
weeks hence will be crushed and frustrated by
the power OF Congress. We find none sufi-
ciently ignorant or weak TO believe that the
display now made by Mr.. Johnson will avail
him or his abettors in the smallest degree;
while there is everywhere an evident conscious
ness Of the fact that Congress, when IL assem-
bles, will make its mastery of the situation
more absolute than ever.
Apart from the loss Of all reliance on the
power of Mr.. Johnson, we trace in Southern
journalism an entire want of respect for his
judgment. Whatever be- the Interpretation
put upon his motives, there is no longer any
reliance upon his sagaCity or statesmanship.
IL is seen and felt that as President he Is
blunderer all the time-marring even
good things by his manner of doing them,
and making bad things tolerable by the
temper in which they are attempted. Hence
he has ceased to enjoy credit as friend Of the
South, and is rated instead amongst its worst
enemies.
Material interests, too, are gradually assert
ing their SUPREMACY over maloontents and
partisans The Wade Hamptons, the Hills,
and the Herschel Johnsons may avow thsr
preference for continuance of military gov
ernment over governments reconstructed in
conformity with the law; but the Southern
people appear to be tired Of agitation, whether
originated by Southern citizens or forced upon
them by President powerless except for evil.
If the press forms an index to opinion, we are
warranted in assuming that the desire for re-
construction, even subject to existing condi-
tions, is gradually but surely prevailing over
the efforts of Rebel agitators. We were not
without fears that this tendency might be
temporarily checked by Mr.. Johnson's unwise
demonstrations. OF this, however, we find
no sign. On the contrary, we do find many
tokens of mistrust of Mr.. Johnson as an
obstacle to the peace and prosperity which the
South needs and Graves above all other things.
Madness of the Republican Party Leaders
From The ~ Y. Herald.
The radical journals and party leaders are
beginning new revolutionary programme,
and endeavOring, by their violent appeals, TO
lead the country on in a whirl of excitement
to anarchy and ruin. They are repeating the
policy pursued by the ultra pro-slavery poll
ticians of the Southern States for year or two
before the Rebellion and are seeking to raise
a storm of passion and prejudice violent enough
to carry reason and common sense before it.
Cool judgment and firm action are more than
ever needed at the present time in the admin
istration of our public affairs. The South is
undergoing military process Of reconstruc-
tion which will result in giving the control of
the local Governments of ten or eleven States
of the Union into the hands of the negroes
This will Oblige us to establish a permanent
military police in all the reconstructed terri
tory, and to maintain standing army large
enough to hold possession of the Southern
States and enforce the authority of their civil
governments by the power of the bayonet To
give up the South to the political rule of the
negroes, and then to withdraw the protection
of the United States army, would be simply
preparing the way for war of races and a
general massacre. We are in as much cenfu-
sion and trouble financially as politically. The
Treasury Department is assailed by the most
damaging rumors and charges, and the gene
raj impression is that our whole financial sys-
tenn is rotten to the core. The national credit
is suffering and nothing will remove the feel
ing of apprehension and insecurity that pre-
walls except a thorough change in the Trea-
sury Department, and exhaustive investiga-
tions into all its transactions for the past four
or five years.
In such a condition of affairs, as we have
| said, we require broad craftsmanship and calm
| Judgment to guide us safely through our dlfh-
culties. And yet we find the executive and
legislative branches of the Government all
Republicans together, striving which can
increase in the most violent degree the mad
ness of the hour. The radical faction, in their
family quarrel with their own President,
appear to be getting perfectly wild and reck-
less. Some of them seem to desire the GOV
ernors of the several loyal States to lead the
Grand Army of the Republic down to Wash
ington and seize possession of the Government
Their organs and party leaders brand the
President of the United States as drunken
loafer, but the fact is they are all drunk
together. Greeley's article in Wednes-
days Tribune, like Wade's speech in ONO a
few days since, must have been melted by the
fumes of whisky, and very bad whisky al
that. The accounts from Washington every
day show that all the affairs of the Govern
ment are in a terrible state of Generalization,
and officials, high and low, civil and military,
appear to forget that we live under written
Constitution, which assigns to each depart
ment of the Government its legitimate func-
tions and authority
is it not time for the rank and hle OF the
Republican party to withdraw their couhte
nance from the violence and recklessness 6
which mark the conduct of their leaders Inc
steadfastness of the Republican masses carTlsO
to successful issue the great objects Oh tl'
war, but they can have neither part nor sym
pathy with the men who are tearing az eaol
other like savage beasts in their struggle lol
the spoils of Office. They should rePuola1s' .1'
them and their doings altogether, ana take M sl
power they abuse out of their hanos: ms
country is getting heartily sick and IlIeu
such disgraceful brawls, and well-unneC