The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-20
Southern RecOnstructiOn and ReStOra-
tiOn-A Decisive Settlement.


From the Herald.
Gland ho!'' waking up from an ugly
dream, Gland no ~ shouts Greeley. ga CLEAN
of daylight ~ in a feeble voice responds Ray
mond over the new Senate bill for the recon-
struction and restoration of the Rebel States;
and when such doubling Thomases are salts
fed, we must be near the island of San Saliva
dor. In truth, this Senate bill gives us sim
pie, complete, comprehensive, and decisive
settlement of this whole Southern difficulty,
starting with the collapse of jeff. Davis at Ap-
pomattox Court House, and covering the
whole ground to the readmission of the re-
generated Rebel States into full communion
in Congress.
In the first place, all the Southern legislative
experiments of President Johnson from the
beginning, are swept aside, experiments which,
as experience has proved, have been the only
distractions in the way. In the next place
Congress, assuming its full authority pro-
poses the temporary re-establishmept of mar
tial law over the ten outside Rebel States, thus
placing them back at the point of the Presi-
dents unauthorized departure. Next on
basis of universal male suffrage, excepting
such persons, guilty of rebellion or other
crimes as may be disfranchised, F" the bill pro-
vides for the reorganization of said States and
next on the basis of the great Constitutional
amendment, when it shall have been pro
claimed part of the supreme law of the land
these States are to be restored to Congress.
E'Death and destruction" cry the intractable
Copperheads; life andsalvation to the South say
we, are embodied in the measure. "Negro domi-
nation" eXclaims Senator Salisbury. But
why should he be alarmed, when by his own
testimony, ''the negro never has been the
superior of the white man, and God Almighty
and the valor of our race will prevent him
(the Lord be praised) from ever becoming his
superior" ''You propose to organize hell in
the State of Louisiana, says Mr.. Doolittle-
but Mr.. Doolittle, this bill proposes to do
much the other way. ''This is war" he again
exclaims but, Mr.. Doolittle, you are again
mistaken for it is peace.
Remembering that Southern slavery and al
its political safeguards Ga mighty mass o
broken rubbsh) have been consumed in tn
fires of war, the bill takes the Southern black
out of the field of Northern politics and place
them under the care and control of the South
ern whites. 1t ends the negro agitation il
bringing the negro to the political statu
which he must ultimately be granted; and il
hamonizng the interests of both races South
it will bring them into a happy accord. Other
wise, in the effort to rebuild upon the law
ana prejudices of slavery, of caste and color
the two races, though relieved of slavery, mus
drift to the bloody scenes of st. Domingo frOn
the same Indictments of political inequality
If the Southern dominant white race, thert
fore, will only recognize their present situa
tion and act upon these ideas with will, the
may, under this ultimatum of Congress, still
be restored in season TO WELD the Souther
balance of power with the aid of their blacks
in the approaching Presidential election. Tn
choice viii rest with them to come in o
remain outside till they have learned thei
lesson.
The alternative presented TO Mr.. Johnson
equally clear. He must cut loose from TIA