The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-18
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The Republicans OF OOnBFesS are eVluently
resolved to make sure work. in party view,
,n the reconstruction of the ten excluded
soutbern States. On Monday evening last, a
Marty caucus of the members of both Houses
was held upon this important subject, from
the reports of which it appears that the Con-
oressional Executive Committee, of which Mr..
Scbenok is chairman, had collected some
seventeen thousand dollars for Southern cleo
tiopeering purposes; that the bulk Of this sum
had been SO expended in the employment of
white and black stump speakers and orga-
p;zers. and in the circulation Of political docu-
ments and speeches.; that some sixty colored
men and a considerable number of whites are
row engaged in organizing Republican clubs
and in disseminating Republican ideas in the
excluded States; and that for the more vigorous
prosecution of this work the caucus agreed 10
raise fund of one hundred thousand dollars,
towards which fifteen thousand were sub
sorbed on the spot. ....L ...
This looks like business; and yet all this is
only an item in the resources and forces OF the
Republicans in the South. First, they have
Congress itself, with it's absolute powers, and
the emancipated blacks in an almost unbroken
phalanx on the side of Congress, comprehend
ing say five hundred thousand voters. Secondly,
thew have the War Department, the General
in-Chief of the army, the five commanders ofthe
FIVE Southern military districts, their numerous
subordinates, and all their powerful moral, ma
terial, and financial aid to back them. Thirdly,
the Freedmen's Bureau, with an agency for the
djstributionof bread to the destitute whites and
blacks in almost every county in every one OF
these ten excluded States, is an active, Jealous,
and powerful Republican electioneering institu-
ton. Lastly, the freedmen's schools, involving
an annual expend ture of millions of money,
collected from Northern societies, are all active
supporters of the Republican party. Against
this formidable array of official agencies, Trea-
sury appropriations, Northern societies, Con-
gressional committees and organized clubs,
with the nucleus Of the mass of the Southern
blacks and considerable fractions of the white
population to start upon, how stands the oppo-
sitionP 1t stands without organization in any
State, without recognized leaders, and without
electioneering agents, because it is without
money; and the opposition elements, more
over, are so far divided in opinion and so de-
moralized that they appear to have given up
the battle in advance Thus, from all the
developments and signs of the times, we can
not resist the conclusion that after passing
through the appointed process of reconstruc-
ton, nearly all, if not all, these ten outside
States will be reinstated in Congress with a
Republican delegation in both houses.
This will be done through party organiza-
ton embracing the blacks almost en- mdSse, and
sufficient detachments from the whites to give
this combination the balance of power. The
States, however, which will thus be gained tC
the Republican side will be in truth black Re-
publican States inasmuch as this dominant
mixed party therein will be controlled by the
black vote. And herein lies the especial
danger of speedy reaction against the Repub-
lioans, resulting in the disruption of the
party. While Hayti and Jamaica furnish
abundant evidence of the incapacity OF the
African race for selfgovernment or political
ascendancy according to any of the forms of
modern civilization, we have in the history
respectively of the mixed breeds of Dominica,
Mexico the Central American and most of the
South American States, enough to warn us o.
the danger of negro political ascendancy in the
South. The results of this ascendancy will
probably be, from Virginia to Texas, more OF
less such conflict of races, such state o.
disorder anarchy, and bloodshed in the recon
structed States, as to bring about revolu
tionary political reaction in the North, demo
fishing the party in power, North and South
Indeed, the Republicans, upon the Southern
negro vote, are venturing upon an exceedingly
dangerous experiment, and unless they manage
it with extraordinary skill the consequences L
them will be disastrous and a warning agains
all such experiments for ages to come.
We are SatSned tnaJ the congressional d la
of Southern reconstruction meets the approve
of the great North, and will now be quietl
aOquiesced in by all classes and parties in tn
South. Copperhead malcontents may denounc
this system as horribly despOtic, and the iv
Southern military commanders as the five MOI
archs, the five pro. consuls the five. viceroyi
the Eve satraps the five Turkish pashas, or th
five Chinese mandarins each with three tail
but this will not change the facts nor tn
powers that be. II is said that General Sickle
Is the Great Mogul of Charleston; that in hi
royal coach with his four shining black horses
he Is the admiration of the darkies, who low
display and inery, but that his coach and fou
produce anything but pleasing reflections I
TnOurners for the Constitution. But does nc
the executive head of the Democratic part
make an equal display with his coach and fou
at Newport, and is he not stickler for tb
ConstitutionY All this sort of cant and claptra
goes for nothing against any of these five mil
tary commanders, so long as they faithfullyau
zeaiOusly execute the laws of Congress. w
believe they are thus doing their duty. an
that henoeforward, under the directions ,
General Grant, it will be plain sailing fc
them. But when they shall have fnishe
their work with the reconstruction of ii
States concerned, then will come the crisis
life or death to the present Republican O
0anizatiOn; then the elements of disoord al
disintegratiOn will appear, and then will beg
a reconstruction Of parties and sections al
factions, and perhaps a Northern revoluti'
AGAINST the excesses of Southern black Repu
Toan political ascendancy. This experime
Is under full headway, and the point of dang
win soon appear Whether the party
...,av NTH tfeneral Grant as their ohampiC