The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-09

tions, France altogether has 400, 600 men
(2OO,UOO OF whom are reserves) ready to
march into Germany. Germany, on the other
hand, has 800 600 men ready to march with
out--delay into France, and in addition to these
she would have at least 200, 600 men in garri
sons and 200, 900 in depot, on whom she could
draw at any time for reinforcements. Both
armies are believed to have excellent arms,
but, while only one-third of the French army
is at present armed with the new Chassepot
rifles the whole Prussian army is armed with
the needle-gun.
We still adhere to the opinion that an i'm
mediate war between France and Prussia is
not probable. But on the other hand, it is
even more probable that the London Confer
ence will be entirely unable to dispose of the
Luxembourg question in a manner satisfactory
to both Prussia and France and to remove the
cause of conflict between these two powers.
The Reconstruction Of PartIes-uoXv ts
the south GOingt
From The Herald.
As Wendell Phillips has it, our politica
parties are in transition state. Upon the
issues drawn from the slavery question, which
have divided the Republicans and the Demo-
cracy since 1854, the former have been com
pletely triumphant, and the latter, step by
step. into the war, through the war, and since
the war, have been utterly vanquished. Upon
its prestige as the Union war party and its
great achievements-the suppression of the
Rebellion, the abolition Of slavery, and the
establishment of civil and political equality in
Southern reconstruotion-the Republican party
still holds together; and upon their unpopular
record as the pro-slavery, anti-war faction, the
Northern remnant of the old broken up ma
narOppratip rprn
minority. But something more than they have
done will be required to keep the Republicans
together. Having fulfilled its appointed work,
the party must set up new platform of new
ideas and new measures, or it will go to pieces
The Republican leaders are aware of this, and
aware, too, that with the restoration of the
outside Rebel States the future possession of
the Government may be determined by
Southern balance of power.
How, then, is the South going in this ap-
preaching reconstruction of parties What
are the signs of the times The Southern
emancipated blacks seem to be gravitating to
the party to which they owe their emancipa-
tion. Such are the developments of Senator
Wilson's Southern missionary tour from Rich
mond down to Georgia. The great body of the
Southern whites, on the other hand, while
coming up, as Speaker ColfaX expresses it,
with an alacrity unexpected by many, and an
acquescence expected by but few, " are, never
theless, holding aloof from both the Northern
Republican and Democratic parties and are
casting about for a new and independent
Southern party, on Southern ground, and as
a Southern balance of power. What, then, is
the prospect? Upon what new issues are we
to look for this Independent Southern party?
Mr.. Speaker COlfax gives il as his opinion
that Congress will abide by its terms of South
ern restoration; that "the great party which
had thus become responsible for them intend
to stand by them, faithfully and literally, if
their terms are complied with by the Rebel
States in good faith and without evasion"
Believing this, we may assume, from the work
going on, that all the ten excluded States will
be readmitted into Congress in season to give
them deliberative voice and choice in the
next Presidential election. With their admis-
sion, as the civil and political rights of the
blacks, and the safety of the national debt will
be established in the Constitution beyond the
reach of any political party hereafter, the
present dividing lines of parties at the North
and of races in the South will be superseded
by new divisions. And in the favor which the
name of General Grant seems now to command
among Southern politicians we have a sign of
what is coming. 1t is the reconstruction of
parties on the money question, in all its
branches of internal taxes, tariffs national
banks, and Treasury management.
Upon all these questions General Grant
is understood to be Western man, decidedly
in opposition to the Eastern politicians of the
high taxes, high tariff protectionist school of
Thaddeus Stevens. We presume that new
party platform, embracing the doctrines of the
lowest practicable revenue tariff, the lowest
schedule of internal taxes, a general cutting
down Of expenses, the reorganization, if not
the abolition of the national banks, whereby
the Treasury may be saved the millions which
these banks now absorb as their perquisites of
the public money; and a funding system TO
enable the Government with light taxation TO
make all needful provisions in regard TO the
national debt, would be a national policy that
would commend itself TO General Grant
Here, then, we may look for the dividing
lines of our national parties in 1865, and for a
| party commanding the great Northwest and
the South, and dividing the Central States
and even the Northeast against the party of
high taxes, high tariffs, protection, bank
monopolies and heavy expenditures.
With free labor, Northern emigration and
enterprise, and with ample water power in
the midst Of their cotton fields and iron mines,
the Southern States will need no high tariffs
to develope great manufacturing system. In
view of their PROSTATE condition, however,
they will need light taxes and gradual liqui-
dation of the national debt in order TO get
hrmly upon their feet again in the production
OF full crops of their great staples. Let the
southern States, therefore, hurry up the WORK
OF reconstruction, and they may, even IN lsos
WELD the balance of power in the Presidential
election.
American Liberty In Tennessee
From The World.
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