The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-15

/ mittee of three was appointed to confer with
the New York delegation and express our pre-
ference, in tho hope Of accomplishing some
| thing against the Seward Johnson-W in
fuenCe.
II was Of no use. The facile and unscru-
pulous Thurlow had packed his cards, and
there were (it my memory is accurately thirty
two votes for Andrew Johnson for Vice -Presi-
dent. That settled the fate of the day, and,
| alas also of the future. The speeches of the
New Jersey legation--Newell, Socrates Tut
tie 10. Crowell, etc.-all vanished into thin air.
The fatal mistake of the Baltimore Conven-
tion was made when it permitted Hannibal
| Halnliu TO be displaced. Those who knew Mr.
Lincoln best know that he preferred that no
| change from the ticket of 1860 should be made
in the ticket of 1864.
If Andrew Johnson ever made a real hearty
! anti-slavery speech, have yet to see it. And
looking around for Victims the dying but not
despairing pro-slavery spirit did not hesitate
to kill one President and purchase another to
carry out its policy" the result of the
treacherous and devilish councils of half
century. Explain, if you can, Andrew John
sons treachery upon any other hypothesis
than this, that he sold his soul to the South
for power. And a most willing and supple
servant he has been, and is to the most ex-
acting, unlind, and remorseless master ever
instigated by the spirit of evil. The 100000
late slave-owners, after Lees surrender, took
possession of the ballot-bOXes of the South, so
Tar as ballot-boXes were necessary for their
purposes; governed their country with Lees
eX-soldiers about as completely as they did
before their chiefs surrender, and they now
dictate terms to their servant in the White
House CA. j., whose inspiration, instead of
being the forms and spirit of the Constitu-
ton can be traced to the spot where John c.
Breckenridge now lives, and where the lying
spirit which tenants the mortal body Of JefIer-
son Davis is still incarcerated.
No wonder, then, the friends of freedom are
alive and alert when threatened from the capi-
tai where the beloved Lincoln ought still to be
ruling this land by that sweet, Just spirit Of
his no wonder they stand upon their arms
when the Rebel flank is cautiously moving
-exemplifed in the White House--rom New
Orleans to Maine, preparing for the next con-
fiict of 1868.
If the last veto did not kindle derision, it
would provoke pity. The President says 'it
is a concious falsehood." "The negroes have
not asked for the privilege of voting: the caSt
majority hGUe no 1ed Ubdt It means. This bill
not only thrusts it into their hands, but com
pels them to use it in a particular way" o
tcmporaH NosesH
Not a grave filed by patriot soldier, be he
black OF white is there in all this land from
which would not come, if the dead could speak,
FNlNt VI tllll''NlD " SlAC -A4IOAlNttLA GCOp4O
saying, ''lf you value your safety, let peace
put the ballot into every hand into which war
thrust the musket''-Not ask it
To taunt the harassed, hunted, and per-
secuted blacks with the fact that they had had
no public proclamation that they demand pro-
lection by the ballot, is to put out mans
eyes, and then swear at him because he don't
see.
Such reasoning as this-and the veto mes
L. Ill "a -,
Of derisiOn by the intelligence of the world.
1t is useless to waste words about the mes
sage, for the only thing that can be favorably
said OF 1t Is, that there Is pretentiOus aitecta
ton of fine writing in this, as in the veto to
the Tenure of Office bill, in which President
Johnson says, ~ think experience has shown
that it Is the most attractive of studies to frame
constitutions for the selfgovernment of free
States" He (Andrew Johnson) surely meant
it was the most attractive Cif the most un-
prOtitable) OF occupations to frame vetOes
Politics make q man better or worse The
trade Of politics has sapped and ruined the
| little virtue left in Andrew Johnson. He
could stand adversely, and shone in it. but he
went down in prosperity. The Vice-Presi-
dency gave the first lesson in treason to Cal
hOun, to Aaron Burr and to John c. Breclz
inridge, and the last disciple of that infamv in
his EXcellency, Andrew Johnson. and his
u
only 50 back to the days of one of the gentlest
and best of men who ever wore earth about
him, and say as We could in the days of
Lincoln -
"Howe'er it be- il seems to me
'Iis only aC5ie to be good:
Kind hearts are more than cOrOnetS
And simple Jdih than Norman blood"
The President and his Secretary of State are
bent on believing, in spite of all history and
all legislative enactments that there never
was any Rebellion.
They forget that the enjoyment of privi-
leges goes hand in hand with the discharge Of
Obligations and to rake out the anti-subiuga-
tion resolutions of 1861 from the ashes which
yet thinly cover the fires ofrebellion, after the
men for whose benefit those resolutions were
framed had scorned and spit upon them, pro-
vokes only our pity. Sympathy with bad,
defeated cause, and not healthy love of
popular liberty, lays at the foundation of all
such "dabbling in the fount of fctive tears. -
Shame ON it in the President of the United
States Honest people demand now and then
at least a word for dead patriots, and not so
much sympathy for living treason.
The most mOnstrOus proposition in the veto
is the Presidents distinct declaration that
by such bills as the Military Reconstruction
bill we will elevate Slidell, Benjamin, and
Jefferson Davis (tor that is his plain meaning)
to the standard of such patriots as Hampden,
| Sydney, and George Washington. Remember
that the people at two separate elections have
| condemned President Johnson as no Chief
! Magistrate was ever before condemned, and
then read the following words, by the light
! OF these popular judgments and verdicts, and
warrant you blush will mantle the cheek