The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-24

THE political friends of Mr.. Joseph M PeirsOi
felioitate tbemselves upon the fact that he has
''always been a consistent Democrat, anu VIC
have no disposition to deprive them OF any Oh
the pleasure they derive from this fact by de-
nvine it. We freely admit that he has ever
been a consistent adherent to the Democratic
party and a strong advocate of its doctrines.
He fully indorsed the Chicago platform de-
claring the war for the Union ga failure" and
virtually pronouncing it a wrong and an out
rage against Sour Southern brethren, and
he believes in Judge Woodward whom the
people of Pennsylvania repudiated in 1868,
and in Judge Sharswood, who has from the
Bench declared our currency unconstitutional,
and whom, therefore, the people of this Com
monwealth will repudiate in 1867. We do
not deny Mr.. Peirsol's "soundness" as a
modern Democrat, and those who nominated
him for the Office of City Treasurer are well
come to all the glory the fact can give
him. If the fact that he has ever
sympathized with and ardently sup
ported the party whose heart was with the
Rebels during the Rebellion, and is with them
still, can do him any good before the loyal
citizens Of Philadelphia, so be it: if the fact
that he was a oo-worker in political iniquity
with such men as Charles Ingersol, Vallan-
digham, and Fernando Wood, while our citi-
zens were pouring out their blood and treasure
to save the country from the ruin which
armed treason sought to bring upon it, will
aid him to get the votes of our citizens, he is
welcome to them. Whatever benefit may
accrue to Mr.. Peirsol from the fact which his
friends boast of, that he has ever been "con-
sistent Democrat" that benefit let him enjoy.
But how far will this fact benefit him in
loyal Philadelphia. "That's the question"
Will the men whose brothers, sons, fathers,
and friends fell in the defense of the flag fly
to the support of a man whose chief boast is
that he has always been Democrat Will
those whose relatives and friends were
murdered in the Andersonville, Sails
bury, Libby, and other Rebel prisons,
support a man because, while these friends
and relatives were being starved
and tortured to death, he was cooperating
with the Northern friends of the Rebels Will
it aid Mr.. Peirsol for the public to know that
he was Consistent Democrat" when nine
tenths of the Democrats of this city rejoiced
and sang hosannas Gin their malignant hearts,
at least) over every Rebel victory or Union
defeat, and read with joy the long lists of
Union soldiers killed and wounded Will the
thousands of 'Lincoln hirelings' who have
returned MANNED and crippled from the war,
and their relatives and friends, see any great
merit in the fact that "Mr. Peirsol has always
been consistent Democrat ?" We think not.
While Consistent Democracy required
Democrat to sympathize with the Rebels
during the war, it requires him to sympathize
with them still, and, therefore, to favor John
sons plan of reconstruction, which would re-
store every Rebel in the land to full citizen
ship, and give the control of the Southern
States into hands still red and reeking with
the blood of our fathers, sons, brothers, and
friends. This consistent Democracy" in the
North would do this, and by cooperating with
Rebels in Congress and in the electoral col
leges, would gain control of the General Gov
ernment and enable the conquered Rebels to
rule the land.
Mr.. Peirsol's consistent Democracy" re-
quires him also to endorse Judge Sharswood' 5
Ne0AolOu OAaI ZIG ulOuey Oh Lne UOV6ruIn0nJ Is
not constitutionally legal-tender. During
the war Mr.. P.'s political associations were
with those who predicted that the time was
not far distant when the people would paper
their walls with the "Lincoln rags" as
they termed the greenbacks and bonds of the
Government. Judge Sharswood, probably,
had this belief in his mind when he decided
the greenbacks unconstitutional. One of the
candidates ON the Democratic ticket declared
during the war, in rather broken English
that the time would not be
long ere he would be able to paper his saloer
walls with the bonds and notes of the Govern
ment Mr.. Peirsol, to have been "consisten
Democrat" must have entertained similar
belief and the fact that he is now seeking ar
Office in which, if elected, he would have tt
handle such trash, is the only thing we car
accuse him of that clashes with "consisten
Democracy" Might there not be danger
in case of his election as City Treasurer, tha
Mr. Peirsol would not attach proper valu,
to the money and bonds placed in his keep
ing 2 Might not his contempt for the "worth
less stuff render him Indifferent to its saft
keeping3 1t is certainly necessary that oul
City Treasurer should fully appreciate tn,
moneys and securities confded to his care
and we very much fear that Mr.. Peirsor
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