The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-16
Highly Important and Decisive Move
ment FOR Southern II estOratiOn.

Highly Important an ii Decisive Move
ment FOR Southern II estOratiOn.
From the Herald.
We are happy to state that at last there is
movement afoot which cannot fail, but which
promises a speedy, comprehensive. and decisive
settlement of all the difficulties of Southern
reconstruction and restoration. It is move
ment which, in embracing the settlement of the
next Presidential election in advance, removes
many of the distractions to the pending Con-
stitutional amendment, and which, in relieving
the outside States of the test of disfranchising
their own people concerned in the Rebellion,
makes their reclamation easy TO themselves,
while satisfactory to all concerned.
Looking upon the surface of things at Wash
mgtuu, the various political elements, sections,
factions cllques, and coterles thrown together
there seem 10 be mixed up in hopeless confu-
SION. There l. the Republican financial faction,
directing lts Efforts manly TO preclpitate
return 10 specie payments whereby the national
banks and all their appendages in the interest of
Chief Justice Chase (the founder of the green
back system) for the Presidency expect to
realize, no doubt, clear profits at the expense OF
the people at large of at least one hundred and
fifty millions OF dollars. Then there is the
human rights radical faction, pure and simple,
who viii have nothing less as IA Southern settle
meut than uniyersnl negro suffrage as estab-
lished in the District of Columbia Then there
IS the Copperhead faction, waiting and hoping
ara working Tor yiolena collision between Con-
grcss and the President, under the delusiOn that
n may bring about another civil war; and then
! there are the old state rights hre-eaters OF the
! South stlll vdiuly To- king 10 the administration
| for rescue from the grip Of the Northern radi-
| Gals and the Constitutional amendment 1t Is
/ apparent that II there cannot soon be found
/ way OF dclyerarce from all these conflicting
| iorces the ruling majority OF the Republicans IN
Congress will cut The Gordian knot in the Pre-
| sldents impeachment. As the business classes
! oI the country, however. East and West, dread
| the depressing effects OF this eXpedient II will
prooably be withheld TO the last extremity, and
II may ne indefinitely postponed in view OF the
more graceful and acceptable movement which
We shall presently explain
A cause and a name-a cause which swallows
| up all other political causes, and name which
stands high among the people one essential to
ihe success OF any great measure or system of
measures Involving reconstruction of our
political affairs. such a cause and such name
are now needed 20 fuse the clashine factions of
the dominant party of the North and to settle
the pubic mind of the South In favor of a deh-
nite aud uniform policy of reconstruction and
restoration. For these purposes we understand
movement which Will cover the ground has
been set on loot through a consultation at
Washington OF number of the leading men OF
the Republican party from the principal North
| ern StGtes-a movement which we saw cannot
fail and cannot be seriously resisted. This
movement embraces, first, the ratification OF
the pending Constitutional amendment by the
| Republican States as fast as practicable and
] next, when three-lourths OF the States repre-