The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-09
Let the Presid ent Resign!

The political war has at length reached that
point where q strong bold movement on the
part of President Johnson is the only thing that
will restore the country to peace and prosperity.
the intelligence of the country, until they
threaten to level 1t with the vileststandar6 that
the land can produce To obtain political vic
principles they trample under foot; how
many safeguards of our republican1sm they
every element of stability in the country; how
near to the verge of military despotism they
ming the race for party, and they have sunk
country far in the background, as considera-
tion of little Importance in comparison. To
defeat them, to restore our republican insti-
tutions, now becomes with us the mighty
eo% the radcs and n
rent seek safety In the almost buried common
t6e 9 mpoPt Of that WHICH rests So Heavily
upon them, Andrew Johnson should resign and
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take measures against this political ruin that
be is nsan & gans hs nds Gns IL
to resist entirely this attempt OF Cong ess TO
assume dictatorial power and inaugurate new
revolution. Let him show to them the political
picture it eXistS-commerce wrecked, the
ministered for the benefit of those who hold the
Offices the wealth of the nation squandered an
exhaustive Indian war on hand for the benefit
of agents and contractors half the States under
military dictatorship, the other half threatened
with a similar government, corruption every
where, vice making throne of virtue, and the
country driving madly through the same politi-
cal phases that preceded the French revolution.
Are the people prepared for all this? Are they
prepared to see the negro element set up at
auction as the instrument through which the
unprincipled politicians may ride into power?
Do they taste the bitterness In advance of what
such future has in store for them? If they
do not, then is the country already dead, and
naught but long night of anarchy and
revolution can awaken it from its lethargy
The negro to shape our political future! to
drive our great republic to its destiny! Are
we so lost to all respect OF race and brain
power that we can settle down before this
radical idol, and see in its blackness the glory
OF the land, instead of its ruin? Let Mr.. John
son look to this, and let him rise to the de-
mands of the time by throwing himself into
the arms of the people, who, nauseated with
this radical rule, are ready for q change and q
reaction which Will restore health and Vigor
movement, may form a new party and,
through the overwhelming votes of the intelli-
gence of the country, be restored to the eXecu-
tive power The country wants in such party
no narrow platform of faction, but the great
and broad elements of action that will
restore the nation to its former vigor.
Finances and progress must be the moving
forces. The Rebellion must be forgotten, and
universal amnesty must cut the South aloof
from the proconsulships that threaten to adj
that there is something besides party ambition
for the spOils to give motive power to political
faction. They must learn, too, that the nation,
in terrible reaction, will hold them to account
marked their political track. The negro, too,
filled with false ideas of the role he Is to play
in the future must be placed on the level of his
intellectual ability; and with every guarantee
of freedom, let him work his way upwards to
the full extent of his powers NOW Is the mo.
ment for Mr.. Johnson to seize fortune at the
flood. The reaction is coming. Let him resign
! and lead it.-N. Y. Herald.