The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-01
what Hcndsrs ReOonstructionT


FIosa me N. Y Tribune.
The great body of the American people earn
estlv desire an early and complete adjustment
Of all remaining difficulties connected with or
c,rowino ont of our late civil war; The inte-
rests of business and industry imperatively
demand it. Property and enterprise unques-
tionably need it. There are millions OF acres
of Southern lands held in tracts of 500 to
20 600 acres by men who are hunted by
sberiAs and pinched for bread, yet who could
pay every dime they owe if our troubles were
settled so that immigration and capital would
be attracted to their section and their lands be
salable at something near their actual value.
The South, badly shattered and soathed, is
still rich in natural resources, and could soon
pay all she owes and become thrifty if our
country were really at peace; while her paying
would diffuse activity and thrift throughout
the North. Every thing good waits for a real,
essential closing up OF our great struggle.
What hinders that benefcent consummation
The Herald is the special organ of Johnson
(for whose impeachment it fercely clamored
through the year which closed with last July)
and Johnsonized Democracy. 1t has bevy
of correspondents traversing the South to
report whatever can be twisted into the SER
vice of Johnsonism. Here is a sample extract
from the report of its Mississippi correspondent,
dated Vicksburg, September 2l:-
until quite recently, it seemed to be acknow-
lodged that the Convention party must succeed,
and that the only ground for Southern men to
take was that of a mastery inactivity hoping
in this way TO avoid the appearance of consent
ing to the yoke of negro suffrage and leaving
possible, abolish It, when the State shall have
been restored to the Union. But since the re-
turns from the elections In Maine and in Cali
fornia have come in, very different feeling
In ha md of
Democratic ascendaucy, has awakened the
hope of defeating the Convention, and, from
supineness and inactivity, the Southern leaders
have launched out, with equal suddenness and
Inactivity, upon an earnest campaign to secure
reaction is this, that the party that has all
ali along been inveghing bitterly against the
military rule is now working most earnestly
and heartily for Its continuance for years, sim
ply as an escape from themOre odious domina-
"To.day a general meeting or convention is
held in jackson, to commence the organization
may be expected in Mississippi for some time
to come The white party work at great dis
advantage, from their lateness of organization
and sudden and complete change OF policy.
'"The methods adopted by these two great
quiet, secret, burrowing in the League room
at night, and pledging their partisans to CO.
4isregaTd The other bold outspokeo, 10" vene gi
ment and pugnacious IN words, luxuriating In
offensive epithets: This is very bad policy. to
say nothing OF bad taste.
''The Vicksburg Herald delights to call the
Republican Convention 'rne Baboon Conven-
tion.' The Times calls IL the Black and Tan Con-
Vention, and others follow in the same style of
graceful description. But, however appropriate
and descriptive may be the name. The Baboon
Convention and OF gorillas as members of it,
1t is quite certain that no baboon would d SO
that may very soon control the affairs IL Mis-
sissippi,an constitute anew the State. But COM
mon sense has never had much to do with Mis-
sissippi politics. The blacks listen eagerly to this
sortof talk and inwardly, ,butd decsively resolve
that they will never consent to place in power
the men who thus betray their hatred and con-
tempt of the black people; and thus the fire
eating whites are unconsciously cooperating
with the Yankees in consolidating and unifying
the sixty thousand negro votes of Mississippi,
Convention; the election of radical members to
IL; the adoption of a radical Constitution; aud
sentatives to Congress. The ekcitement of the
great heat"
Here you see exactly why and how the
Southern States are to be kept out of their
proper place in the Union for years longer if
'the white mans party have power to
achieve that result. They have been groaning
over "military despotism, +" ''the five satra-
pies" etc., for months; but they are doing
their best to keep their States for years longer
under military rule, in the hope that their
Northern friends may meantime achieve
power, and then help them to trample blacks
under foot. They complain that the blacks are
banded against them, when their organs are
daily calling these blacks "baboons" and
gorluas, ana openly proclalmlng their pur-
pose to remand them to serfdom whenever
they can. Is it any wonder that the blacks
are Republicans Who can blame them
Mississippi has some 100000 inhabitants,
whereof nearly 400, 900 are black. The HeraLd's
reporter says there are 20, 900 more black than
white men in the State. Every one of those
blacks will vote tomorrow to enfranchise
every white however bitter pro slavery Rebel
he has been, provided the whites will agree
that there shall be no Acknowledgement of
either race evermore. But Democratic gains
at the North are stimulating the whites
Rebels though they were, and some of them
still disfranchised therefor-to band together
for the single, absorbing purpose of disfran-
ohising the blacks evermore. Democracy at
the North means the restoration of the late
Rebels to uncontested power at the South, in
order that they two Qf you can call them two)
may combine to rule the country as of old
And 1t is this conspiracy that now stops the
car OF reconstruction and compels the maints-
nance of military rule at the South. Tue
country ought to be rid of the cost and trouble
oft forthwith; but Democrats and Rebels con
ssPire to perpetuate 1t, in the hope of thus fur
therlng their mutual ends. VIII the country
permit them thus to triumph
Vhe Southern Elections,