The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-18
A WORD FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS.
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From NE AHei- Slavery Stdnoids%.
Hardly any sick man gets well without
puil.bscS. The American people, rapidly get
ting over tts long disease, has Just had q pull
back, There's no reason to be discouraged.
We pointed out in recent article, how in-
consistent and absurd IL was TO suppose that
few battles had converted the whole American
people into AbolivtOnists. The late elections
ere a comment on that text. Brought squarely
soil That same population would see the ne
cessity of giving TO the South Carolina negro
the ballot. Without thatthey know the Union
would not be safe. Selhshness dictates justice
in the reconstruction of the South; butthe sense
OF Justice is not keen enough to protect the
negroes at home-so Ohio rejects her equal suf-
frage amendment. Pennsylvania, always for
sale and IN the market, has been snapped up
by an eager purchaser In the wrong party.
Some critics insist that these changes are
owing to temperance movements in one place,
nominations in a third. All these causes doubt
less We're acting; but the primary and most efh-
cient cause is that the leaders OF the dominant
party-tbe peoples teachers-have never taught
their followers one single lesson OF justice.
speaker, the cry and the argument has been,
"Do thus much to save the party. Dole out this
and this measure ofJustice, not for It's own sake,
but because we must. The party needs it,"
A people drugged with such opiates, the mo-
ment The burden of the war and the weight Of
danger is taken of, springs back toi It's old race
hatred. Hence the easy victory of the Rebels
in Ohio and Pennsylvania. While a large por-
tion of the people has been ready for any mea-
sure of justice, and would shave followed Lin
cold 10 any height of national honor another
portion, poisoned by his infideliJy 10 principle,
has remained in just that eQuivocal state OF
mind that left them an easy prey to the PEN
dletons and the Vallandighams. Wade reaps
to-day the harvest OF that party atheism which
he has sometimes countenanced, and which his
later and general fidelity has not sufficed to
neutraliZe.
What shall we do? Press bravely on Inn
peach the traitor of the White House. Men
with white lips, who fancy themselves states
men, cry "Oh, no! that will create sympathy
for him and wreck the party" Utter want of
selfrespect has wrecked the party, and nothing
else To bear blows unresist1ngly may be clear
duty for individually is death TO a party.
The nation has gazed and seen johnson Insult
and defy Congress. Men concluded that Con-
geess is either too stupid to understand or too
pusillanimous to resent the insult, Thepanacea
that Senators and Governors propose now is
that we go on and invite more Presidential in
and hate johnson. 1t is fatal policy. Such
pity passes soon into contempt. The old Whig
party marched to its grave in the fond conceit
(onnd TOO late that the masses distrusted its
foes, but despised Wing,
Nothing but daring, courage, gallantry, will
win back popular sympathy. Hang out the
banner of impartial suffrage and Rebel disfran-
the President Clean out The nest of nncIeap
birds-the Cabinet Rally patriotism to the
'front.' The dtsheartening OF Bull Run was never
wholly cured until Grant moved on Richmond.
Teach men to forget Ohio and Pennsylvania in
the blaze Of hercer onset.
Every other policy is death-slow death Slave
masters despised the Whig because they saw he
feared them. They respected the Abolitionist
because they saw he defed, them. Republicans
now. AS an eloquent Western man says ave
have abolished the slave. We haze MOI G6o1fslsed
getting The same policy of defiance which
saved us heretofore is our only reliance now 1t
will COW Rebels alike in Carolina and Ohio; and
it will teach, rally, and unite the people, No
man doubts that the North really means to
s5as To the @ Tss be OF S ctsGpy Act 9 day
now than ever before. WENDELL PHILLIPS.