The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-02

nizes and treats blacks as men. To reject the
terms of Congress would be to defy that body
to do its worst.
Let us have peace mot some time nor per-
haps, but surely and soon Industry and
business are weary of waiting while politicians
play out their little game. Let us have none
other than real peace; but let us have this
surely and soon
The FatO of the RspubIic-DespOtism or
Anarchy.
From The ". y Herald.
For two years the party which has held the
power has been trying to restore harmony to
the country. For six months the work went
bravely on, and we had hope. The President
however, backed by Cabinet created only for
evil, and urged on by a rabid rebel faction
which appreciates nothing but force threw in
the first element of discord, and the political
duel between the Executive and Congress then.
had its birth. The radical faction were
apparently only too happy to pick up the
gauntlet which Mr.. Johnson threw to them
The contest continued for many months; the
President almost reached out his hand for the
purple. Congress, defeating the effort has struck
in its turn for military dictatorship. Still
the fight goes on, and the end is not yet. Now,
the struggle is narrowed down, and argument
almost ceases to be one of its elements. Now
it is force Who is to reconstruct the coun-
try, the Congressional or the Executive
power? If the former alone, then we have a
usurpation and a dictatoral government; if
the latter alone, then here, too, we have die
tator. Congress undoubtedly intended in its
late laws, to make General Grant the focus of
force, who thus, as ''Mayor of the Palace"
was to hold Mr.. Johnson a nonentity-a
mythical power. The contest between the
rivals trembles in the brink of open war; In
| mi time in
! terest of the country; wrecked our finances
| and internal improvements; swept the ocean
of our commerce; marched on in such a mad
party race that nothing save the youthful vigor
of the nation stands the staggering blows
dealt against it. 1t is evident that the pro-
blem of reconstruction has not been well dealt
| with. 1t was not commenced in proper
manner, and the mending process has been
going on from bad to worse until the sword
alone threatens to cut the knot so stupidity
entangled.
What are the remedies proposed in this
crisis On the part of Congress it is advo-
Gated that the President be impeached, and
that the President of the Senate, Mr. Wade,
on the moment and before trial, proceed to
the White House and eject Mr.. Johnson by
force if necessary. If General Grant refuses
to lend himself to the seizing of the Govern
ment by one of its branches, he must give
place to some general who will not so refuse
The executive plan is not inferior in boldness,
and leans for support upon the Bonaparte
method-the overthrow of Congress and the
absorption of its powers within the Executive
in fact, dictatorship. In all this turmoil
the radical organs published throughout the
country, and especially in this city, know not
where they stand. They and the radical
leaders have, like Phaeten, tried to drive the
chariot of the sun for day, and, finding the
task beyond their Skill now require
20 hor ho,,,
yet the boldness to take extreme measures
but are TREMENDOUSLY trying to push each other
up to the point. One of their great leaders
Mr.. Stevens bolder and more honest than his
fellows, frankly avews that Congress has at
tempted a usurpation of all power-an over
throw of the Constitution and the establish
ment OF revolutionary government. The
political weapon, the negro franchise, will
which they struck for power in the South
has such a dread recOn that it makes tn,
North tremble and society, as reconstructed
there threatens, by its prOconsular system, tC
contaminate the whole nation; threatens tC
pour its wave of ignorance northward; threat
ems the stability of the republic; for this is
representative government, and intelligence il
now in the minority.
If the country is allowed in this way to b
made a political football, kicked and torn b.
the narrow ideas of party rule, then we arr
to have naught but anarchy its atteIidan
internal dissensions; the splitting into frag
ments the overturning OF all social progres
and material development; and, after lonI
labor and pains that will destroy all that W
r prize, then must come the birth of despotism
, for despotsm reaches and eliminates in power
: side by side with ruin. To this we marc
with such rapid strides that few among thos
who now contend for power dare face tn
results which they have challenged. Their
1 but one exit from the maelstrom, and tina
lies in the intelligence, the common sense
e our people. both North and South. The
) must rise in the coming elections, overtur
the contending factions, and, basing the Coy
u u eminent on Intelligence, not ignorance, re
. . store the republic.
y The Ou.st,o,, Of RoI.ttva AuthorItv-