The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-24

other Rebel States as well as for Tennessee,
had they only availed themselves, like Ten
nessee, Ofthe easy conditions thus laid down.
mentlof President Johnson. and the Copper
head leaders and organs Of the North, all the,
ten remaining Rebel States, from Virginia to
Texas, Indignantly and defantly secuted what
they called these usurpations by Congress Of
the constitutional rights of the States and the
people. The people directly concerned, who
ought to have known better, stupidly con-
sented to follow those bowling dervishes for
the Constitution whose broad and dusty high
road is the road to ruin. Thus, with the in
dignant rejection of the first conditions enna-
mating from Congress by the ten excluded
States, the two Houses in the exercise of their
lawful authority, proceeded to impose the more
stringent and astonishing terms Of their Re-
construction bill, placing these ten incorrigible
States under military supervision and under q
programme of State reorganization embracing
universal negro suffrage-a perfectly appalling
innovation and revolution from the old bred
Scott discipline. r.. yr.. .
This was severe ordeal; but as the rightful
authority over the business belonged to Con-
gress, and as Congress had manifestly resolved
at last that there should be no more trifing
with the refractory States wrested from the
foreign government of jeff Davis, the only
course of sense and safety to those States was
a graceful and prompt compliance with the
terms of the supreme law. But again, still
adheriDg to bad advisers and exploded party
dogmas and claptrap, the Southern whites,
from Virginia to Texas, to great extent, still
oOking to President Johnson and the Northern
Democracy, and disgusted with negro equality,
resolved to let the contest go by default
''rather than be registered in the same book
and on the same footing with niggers." The
results are that Southern registrations of
lawful voters according to the acts of Congress
show decisive majorities for the blacks over
the whites in all the Southern cities and towns
from Richmond to New Orleans. And as the
blacks en- mdSSe are Republicans, and as only
the men registered can participate in the work
of recognizing said Rebel States, we see that
the Republicans, as matters now stand, hold
possession as party of those States by default
of their white population who still adhere to
the fallacies OF Calhoun, Buchanan, Johnson,
and the Northern Copperhead press. f.1
The excluded States have surely had enough
of this. At all events, there is now no other
way of political safety and material prosperity
before them but the way marked out by Con-
gress, aud the sooner the people of these out
side States, of all creeds, parties, and oolors,
act upon this conclusion, in order to be re-
stored to the Union as fast as possible, the
better it will be for them and for their future
peace, harmony, and prosperity, as well as for
the country at large. The issue is now with
these ten States of the five military districts,
whether they shall participate in the Presiden-
tial election of 1868 or remain excluded from a
voice for the succession till 1872.