The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-11

Mr.. johnson not been blinded by his unexpected
advancement to the White House, he would have
called Congress together and laid this whole
business OF reCOnstructOn before the two
Houses. That was mis- path OF safety and success.
In taking the opposite course, and in holding to
It, he has brought himself at length TO that pass
from which he must back out or be cast over
board, like Jonah, into the depths of the sea,
whale or no whale to pick him up 49,.
Having forborne until forbearance mas
ceased to be virtue, Congress assuming ~ Is
riehtful authority, proposes now to cast ASIDE
all this clumsy slipshOd PATCHWORK OF recon-
structlon attempted by Mr.iJ Jonnson, land TO give
General Grant trial. Is ne n4I 1me raI Ia
the task? Does he not Thoroughly unaefstan1
the necessities of the Rebel States on Oeha,I OF
law and order, and do not the rul ing poh5lcians
of those States thoroughly understand nln
We dare say that under this bill the very name
of Grant will produce such chance all over tue
South among all classes, Rebel fre'eaters
Yankees, native white loyal1sts, negroes ana
all that they will think the millennium Is
coming, and thank God for the end of ANDY
JohnsOns pelicy." Under his mesmeric sham
pooing the Southern politicians believe in the
delusons that he has given them only their
constitutional righs and that the two Houses
of Congress as they stand are illegal, and some
how or other will be compelled to give way to
'the Union as it wasn and to the South as It was
in the Senate OF 1860-6l, including JEFF. Davis,
Toombs, BENJAMIN, Mason, and Sidel. But
General Grant, under this bull, will soon dispel
all such mesmerisms. We cannot doubtit when
the measure is advocated by such sterling and
Sheridan, Schoteld, Baird Wood, Sickles, and
others, whose Southern experience and SER
vices, even since the war, entitle them to the
highest respect.
As to the present status of the rebellious
States, inside or outside or half way, it is
enough that they are not recognized by Con-
gress as reinstated IN the general Government
under the legislation OF the Executive. They
stand (eXcepting Tennessee) as they stood with
the surrender OF the last of their Rebel armies
sut ject to the terms of Congress. Mr.. johnson
having no authority to prescribe the terms or
make the laws of their restoration, all that he
has done, in being at last repudiated by Con-
gIess, goes for nothing. Such, too, is their con-
diton of general Generalization and confusion,
from his blundering policy, that the efficient lE-
tervention Of Grant is needed to restore the
primary elements of law and order. This object
he can soon achieve, and then the Constitutional
amendment, made the supreme law by three
tourths OF the States constituting the general
Government, will without difficulty be made
the basis of Southern State reorganization,
from Virginia to Texas. We care no more for
this party or that party than the man in the
moon. The Herald, regardless Of Presidents,
parties, or party leaders, aims to be the organ
Of that public opinion which gives shape to the
measures of the Government and the manifest
destiny of this great Republic. So now we stand
by the sovereignty of Congress as the law.making
power of the Union, by the issues of the war
and the ultlmatum OF the North.