The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-26

inR:--'My dear friends and fellow citizens,
having observed the situation, which, indeed,
It seems that the Union being in danger, aud
so we must fall back, my friends, upon the
Constitution, and will vindicate the flag of
our country which have always vindicated,
and mean to vindicate, even after | lay sleep
ing in peace in my tomb, where l shall not
hear any more addresses and prayers and
hymns, being one OF the illustrious dead, but
mean now to live in friendship and peace and
as it were, etc. etc. etc. After this the party
will be formed, and will march to triumphant
victory in all those States in which it does not
march to a dissolution pretty nearly con-
genital. Then it will "sleep silent in it's
glave--yes, it wi sleep in silence and peace,
after the earnest conflict has ceased; yes, it
will sleep silent in its tomb"
The new party, if we understand the matter,
is to be an amalgam Of rehabilitated Rebels
and of Northern Democrats supposed to be in
vincible by themselves upon the strength of a
recent gain of about two thousand votes. But
there is nothing specially novel about this.
Put all the Rebels and oU the Democrats to-
gether and the ''demnition total" is nothing
more than the old Democratic party which for
years has been almost a nonentity. If you
take out all the Northern Democrats who are
dead or have become Republicans, and all the
Rebels who are dead either physically or poll
tically, 1t seems to us that the prospects of the
Johnsonian party do not become any roster for
the subtraction. The old Democrats were
beaten without much difficulty in the full flush
of pretty extensive vitality. Where is the
evidence that they cannot be beaten again,
although they take to their reviving bosoms
all the Rebel vipers, all the recreant Repubh-
cans, and all the Johnsonian nondescripts in
the land Perhaps the Presidents recent
neurological studies have given him ideas
somewhat over-lively of the chances of calling
the dead to life; but we can assure him that
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there can be no resurrection of parties. His
faith is charming, but he must not trust in it
too confidently. He should not be so sure of
the dead when he cannot even be sure of the
living.
His Excellency has, no doubt, heard in his
day of squeezed oranges. He has seen the dry
and discarded fruit rotting in the cutters,
despised of the hungriest boys and rejected of
the least fastidious beggars. He may not
know it, but very soon he too will be squeezed
orange; the Democratic vampire, are long,
will have absorbed all his juices, and he will
be tossed into Tennessee to grow old at his
leisure. He does not believe it now; he would
not believe it now, though the Angel Gabriel
! should come down to impart to him the dis
tasteful information; but his political demise
| at an early day is just as sure as the taxes.
! When he comes to make his mixture, be will
| find that one of his ingredients is suddenly
! missing.
The Northern Democrats may be willing
| enough to unite with the Rebels, but it will
not be under the leadership of Mr.. Johnson.
| Would he like to know the reason? Well,
one of them is that lie doesn't know enough;
another is that he doesn't carry guns enough;
| third is that he isn't respectable enough.
| Still another is that he has professed to be a
Republican. Lastly, nobody would vote for
| him. The Democratic leaders are too shrewd
! to commit themselves to the support of a
| do
| Democratic magnates will like to have candi-
| date who is also a gentleman. Mr.. Johnson
! they will use; we expect them to use him; but
Benjamin +. Buffers chance of their nomina-
| ton for the Presidency is as good as his. Some
mournful day, in his retreat, when he has
nothing better to do, he may read this predic-
tion, and, with tears in his eyes, confess that
for once we were right.
Meanwhile, we shall await the birth of the
new party with considerable interest and
shall watch with anxiety for its christening,
should it live, poor thing, to be christened at
all. We have seen many brats of this sort in
our time; various were their names, and
curious their constitutions but they were all
as short-lived as the flea, without exhibiting
the fea's energy. Number three always
comes to grief, and number three Mr.. John
sons party will certainly be; while number
ole will take such excellent care of number
two that its alliance shall hardly be worth
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confused; but we rely upon Republicans to
keep matters mainly right.
"The World" and President johnson.
From The N. Y. World
We have copied from the National InteIli-
gencer leading article, partly critical, partly
hortatory, on the attitude of the World to-
wards the President. We attach no import
ance to the reputed connection, or organship,
or whatever the relation may be, between that
journal and Mr.. Johnson and shall treat the
article as if we were replying to any other re-
spectacle and respectful contemporary. So far as
it is critical, it is in tone of plaintive regret
without any trace of censorious invective, and
its advice is rendered in language of almost
supplicating persuasion. We shall try to
answer with equal courtesy, but still with the
honest freedom which BELTS political discus
sions.
We will first consider the critical or incul-
patoly and afterwards the advisory part of
the article; or, in ether words, we will vindi-
cate our past before attending to the future.
First then, what has the World done which
the Jateiigencer so seriously regrets and repre-
hends 1t has declared that President
Johnson does not belong to the Democratic
party; that he is neither responsible for it,
nor it for him. We might be induced to re-
consider the grounds OF this declaration; but
there is certainly no possibility of our retract-