The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-14

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Government, according to said act of March 2,
etc. The Constitution thus framed shall be
held as adopted only with the approval of
majority OF the registered voters, and with its
approval by Congress, Senators and Rcpreseut
tatives are to be admitted from such State.
From the decisive vote by which this bill
has passed the House, we conclude that It has
Deen agreed upon by the dominant party, and
VIII Therefore become law veto or no veto.
(En pdSSdnt, we infer that the present session
Of Congress will be continued for at least two
weeks longer, and perhaps threeO Under
the regulations of this bill we sec nothing to
prevent the restoration to Congress of every
one OF the ten States concerned In season to
organize their parties and to participate delibe
rately IN the Presidential election of 1868.
While this practical measure was under
consideration in the House, the Senate was en-
gagged IN discussing string of radical abstrac-
lions from Mr.. Sumner, in the shape of further
guarantees OF Southern loyalty, including COM
mon schools and homestead law. BY vote
however, of thirty-six to ten this string of alb
stractions was laid upon the table-a very
suggestive and satisfactory vote. In the mega
tive, with Mr.. Sumner, were the two Senators,
Ilpton and Thayer, from the new State of Ne
Dlaska Cone Union soldier and the other
Union chaplain during the war; "a vote which
may be accepted as settling all doubts in refer
ence to the political status of these two new
acquisitions to the Senate. They are radicals
of the Kansas-Nebraska school
The President has selected the commanders of
those five Southern military districts. General
Grant promptly, on being requested to suggest
his selection, proposed Generals Thomas,
Sheridan, Schofeld, Ord and Sickles. 1t ap-
pears that Mr. Johnson has, without much
difficulty, recognized the fitness Ofeach of these
officers for the important duties defined, eX-
cept General Sheridan In his case the idea
that he knows nothing of statecraft and poll
tics has been thrown out, with the hint that
General Sherman would be better adapted for
the special position proposed. This sort of spe-
cial pleading, however, will not be held by the
people of the great North as sufficient to Justify
the removal of Gen. Sheridan for he is now and
has been for some time, in command of the
military district embracing Louisiana and
Texas, and has discharged his duties therein
not only as good soldier but as a man who
has proved himself a perfect master of state
craft i'll going honestly and straightforward in
the work assigned him, and to the great end
in view. The President will make a serious
mistake in removing General Sheridan; for his
removal, if made, will be attributed to other
reasons than those of his alleged ignorance of
''StatecTaft' or Southern politics. Through
out the loyal States after General Grant, and
perhaps, General Thomas, there is no officer of
the army who would be more acceptable for
the "statecraft" of the Presidency itself than
''little Phil Sheridan" In any event these
military commanders, under the express in
structiOns of Congress, will have plain line
of duty before them, and as the results of their
work are to be submitted to Congress, it will
not require much ''statecratt' beyond fidelity
to the law to meet the responsibilities assigned
them.
As for the ten excluded States their leading
and managing politicians will do well to re-
hnp hot tl,aiV %
gress, and with the ratification of the pending
Constitutional amendment and its proclama-
tion rs part of the supreme law of the land,
all conflicting laws of Congress will be super
ss1ed and every State will thus be left to
decide for itself whether it will exclude the
negro vote, and lose the negro population in
counting the people for representation in Con-
gress, or whether it will continue negro suf-
trage in order to count the negroes for repre-
sentation For instance, South Carolina has
seven hundred thousand peOple--three hundred
thousand whites and four hundred thousand
blacks. Now, let us suppose that under the
terms of Congress she is restored, and that this
aforesaid amendment has become part of the
Federal Constitution. Let us then take one
hundred thousand souls as the ratio for a
member of Congress, and South Carolina may
elect for herself whether, in continuing the
suffrage to the blacks, she will choose seven
members of the House of Representatives, or,
in excluding the blacks, will be satisfied with
three members. In any event, the white own
ers of the land can control if they will, the
political movements and votes of the black
labOring classes; and so the only course OF
wisdom for the planters is to proceed at once
to those steps of conciliation and harmony
which will secure them this balance of politi-
cal power now in the hands of their black fell
lOw-citizens. The very existence of Southern
society under this new order of things in the
ten excluded States depends upon "happy
accord" politically from the beginning be-
tween their say five millions of whites and
four millions of blacks.
The Moral Guilt OF OfRebeIIIOn.
/ From the World.