The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-09


ernment is entitled also to interest for what IL
has given as the equivalent of the gold, and
which evidently answers the same purpose as
the basis of their representative circulation.
Congress should destroy this game, and end
this grand piece of demoralizing jobbery by
the immediate passage of law depriving the
banks Of the privilege to issue notes on its
bonds, and oanoelling the bonds themselves by
issuing an equivalent amount Of greenbacks in
their stead. This would give a better cur
rency, and would save some twenty millions
year to the tax ridden people. gV raang,
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The RspuBlican Party in the south. (,
From ne World. ,rt 40. 4.
The same method of reasoning by which
the Times undertakes to prove that the tide
of pubic sentiment in the South is running
strongly in favor of the Republican party,
would equally prove, if transferred from
politics to geography, that the Mississippi
river runs north, and that future explorers
may be expected to discover that it discharges
its waters into the Arctic Ocean. The Mis-
sissippi frequently bends like an ox-bow,
doubling itself into loops which lie, at differ
ent turns, towards all the different points OF
the compass. In the great bend above Cairo
it flows for considerable distance due north, as
it does also at the bend near New Madrid,
and, we believ in several other places. II
a person should observe the river at these
places only, and at no others, he might draw
3 totally false inference respecting its general
direction, an error which wonld be- easily cor
rected by a single glance at a map.
The Times argument that the Southern
people are flowing towards the Republican
party can no more survive a broad view of
the situation than notion that the Mississippi
runs north could stand a look at the map. The
Times supports its opinion by five isolated
facts, gathered from the whole vast area of
the ten excluded States. Fact first, Governor
Orr's speech, some three months ago, dis
claiming connection with the Democratic
party; fact second, advice by Southern
journal too obscure oor insignificant for the
Times to name it, that the Southern people
should proclaim that they will not train in the
Democratic ranks; fact third, General Long
streets letter; fact fourth, a Republican (white
men's) meeting in Charlottesville; fact fifth
and last an article in the Jackson, Missis-
sippi, Clarion. And from this formidable
body of evidence, representing the opinions of
four Southern citizens plus the attendants of
the Charlottesville meeting, the Times CON
cludes thatthe Southern whites are going over
en- mdSSe to the Republican party. .7-.i..t
Per contra; There happens to be assembled
in Washington, at the present time, body of
men calling themselves the Congress of the
United States, who have met out of due sea-
son, as If in great public emergency, to legis-
late concerning these same political neo-
phytes and catechumens who, the Times
assures us, are becoming good Republicans.
A glance at the doings and designs of this
Republican Congress is as enlightening as
look at the map would be in disputed ques-
tions of geography The Tines amiable
view of the Republicanized Southern States
must, we suppose, be very solacing, but Con-
gress "don't see it," If the mass of the
Southern whites stand with one foot on the
threshold of the Republican party, it is a
queer sort of welcome that Congress is lust
now employed in giving them. Why is all
civil authority forcibly subverted and the
whole Southern people kept under the iron
heel OF military despotism, if the Southern
people are freely renouncing the Democracy
and all its works, as the Times argues What
is the need of all this formidable machinery
OF generals whom Congress thanks for thwart-
ing the people, military departments which
are territorial badge of subugation, and
armies extorting submission at the point of
the bayonet, if the great body of the people
incline to be such good Republicans Why
does Congress propose to give General Sheri-
dan and the others power to unmake and
make all civil officers at their pleasure,
instead of entrusting the Times nascent Re-
publicans'with their election. If the Tines
view is correct, the fit thing for Congress to
do, even as body of partisans, is to repeal
forthwith all the Reconstruction acts (instead
of keying them up to greater rigor and
severity, recall and disband the armies, and
let the public opinion of the South have free
course in recognizing its local institutions.
If the Times believes its own assertions about
the Repubicanized South, it is bound to lift
up its voice like trumpet, and give Congress
this advice. Why should all these hopeful
neophytes of the political church be muzzled
and kennelled and cudgelled as if they were
so many mad dogs
What is the purpose of this stark, self-ex-
ploded absurdity about great ingathering of
the South into the Republican party? Il is
evident that the broachers of this pretense do
not believe it; or if they do, let them prove
their sincerity by advocating the immediate
removal of all outside political and military
pressure upon the South, and the full restora-
tion OF local freedom. Until they thus indi-
cate their consistency, they must excuse our
distrust OF their motives. Their object is
doubtless to discourage and disorganize the
Democratic party by creating an impression
that 1t can have no further hope of Southern
alliance. This game is as shallow as the pre-
tense on which it is played is deceitful. Even
granting the premises, the expected disband-
ment OF the Democratic party would not fol-
low, If the Southern Rebels should all join
the Republican party, its most formidable
guns would be spiked by its inability to re-
peat its favorite charge that many Democrats
sympathized with the Rebellion. Sgmpathized
with the Rebellion la great portion of the
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