The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-25
NATIONAL POLITICS.
The Demand for ExJremss-COnhscRtI
and Impeachment

From the Anti Slavery Standard.
The only ef1ec i've oppo lag force with which
successfully TO cope Win the Rebel Dem ocratlc
alliance IN the sphere Of politics is out-and.Olt,
una1ulleIated radicalism. Tue conservative"
Republican policy has been tested aud Is a
failure The advance which has been mate
from time to tine has been in spite OF tue
"pIQCtlCaln managers, and not IN any sense as
the result OF their wi, dom and iorethought.
We have had Johnson's nuhsh and sometimes
frantic opposition, cooperating with the ear
nest radical undercurrent among the people,
and thus have come for ward, lifting the dead
weight Fessendens from one successive level TO
another. 1t is most unfortunate tor our cause
In this State, at this juncture, that johnson
allowed himself to be er-persuaded not to
make speech after the Ohio and Pennsylvania
electiens. But we cannot and ought not to de-
pend upon the excitement OF an unnatural
sIimulant TO eusure success. Disciplined by the
recent defeats, and other losses ioreshadowed
in the near iuture, the radical voices, lately
modified, or sileuced In the Republican ranks,
will again be heard and needed.
Our clients, the blacks of the South, are an
element of strength not TO be ignored or over
looked in the reorganization OF political forces
now going on. They are, and will continue to
be, the allies OF the genuine radicals OF the
North. With this alliance will rest the future
balance OF power. That party will be wisest
which bet meets the reasonable demands of
the newly entrauch'sed black race, and OF the
sincere and earnest advocates of an impartial,
enlightened democracy. 1t will not be enough
to simply gain the organization OF State Govern
ments In the South, upon the basis of the pre-
sent Congressional plan, and then Withdraw the
military protection OF the Federal arm, aud
leave the recently emancipated, landless blacks
to the chances of an equal struggle with the
rebellious white land monopolists OF that sec
ton OF the country.
The blacks OF the South are entitled to home
steads on the soil which their unrequlted labor
in past years has paid Tor many times over.
They have not only earned title to such home
steads, but il viii presently be seen that landed
Al. u -,
maintain their political freedom. Those i'm.
mense undivided estates are, by the laws of
war, really the property OF the Federal Govern
ment. They are now IN possession OF their pre-
sent occupants only by the treachery aud pad
faith OF the usurper at the White House. 1t re-
mains, therefore, duty of Congress to depose
johnson aud dispossess the rebellIOus occupants
OF the large landed estates traudulentiy con.
Yeyed 10 them by the traitor President
Next, to provide for the division of those
estates, and 10 guarantee hOmesteads of forty
acres each to the now dependent landless black
and loyal poor whites, and also to pre-empt
similar claims in iavOr of the soldiers Of the
Union army. Such condscation and distribu-
tion of the Southern lanos, which are rightfully
the property of the Federal Government, if par
celled out and sold at merely nominal rates,
would put an immense sum in the National
Treasury, and forever Reputation schemes, and,
ii combined with a wise educational system,
would secure the freedom and independence of
the blacks and the roor whites, make welcome
provision for a deserving solOiery and in pro-
noting the general welfare bless even the ours
ing Rebels themselves.
The radical standard cannot be lowered. In
the face of the enemy 10 be conronte1 that
would be as inexpedient as IL would be unjust.
Southerners are still occasionally threatened
with confscation provided they reject the pre-
sent Congressional reconstruction. The threat
implies the right to condscate. 1t Is not only
the right, but O duty which Congress owes to
our only true friends in the South. The only
thing now most needed is TO take the dangerous
power of rebellious land monopoly and trans
Ter its strength to trustworthy and deserving
parties. This question OF land and education in
the south, rs connected with the ballot for the
negro, the Republican National Convention will
have to meet. So, also, with The standard
bearer TO be chosen by that Convention. There
is no need of ialterng or compromise. The
present Congress may and ought 10 90 promptly
the work we have indicated. Added thereunto,
1t can also choose a President, II the votes OF
the people, in possible contingency, should
fail to elect WENDELL PHILLIPS,