The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-27

Immediately followed, from Virginia 60 Texas.
But when Il became apparent, after the South
ern mission of Senator Wilson and the confs-
cation hints Of Thaddeus Stevens, and from
the movements Of the Freedmens Bureau
officials, and from the proceedings of the mill
tary district commanders and their subordi-
mates, that the Southern blacks en- masse, and
a portion of the Southern whites, were rally
ing to the Republican party, and would pro-
badly carry two or three of the ten States con-
cerned, it would seem that President Johnson
took the alarm. But in undertaking TO defeat
the radicals with their own weapons, he has
again been playing into their hands.
The Attorney Generals remarkable rigma-
role on registration, though inoomprehensible
to the Southern anti-radical elements, was
still encouraging, and his more extended opin-
ion on the laws Of reconstruction would per-
haps, have brought every man to the registra-
tion Office who breads the ultimatum of
Stevens, but for the immediate warning of a
July session Of Congress. From that mo-
ment, as we learn from careful observers on
the ground those Southern opposition ele-
nents so far gave ny the fight that 1t is be-
heved, as matters stand to-day, they have
turned over to the Republican Union Leagues
of the South every State from the Potomac to
the Rio Grande. 1t appears that these leagues,
encouraged by Congress, the War Department,
and the military authorities South, and sup
ported by the Freedmen's Bureau, form
already comprehensive compact, and power
full party organization, while the Southern
opposition, without leaders or means, all
moneyless and all adrift, are utterly hopeless
of any effective resistance.
Is this condition of things likely to be
changed by the approaching July session of
Congress6 By no means. On the contrary,
the underground thus gained by the Repub-
ican party will be strengthened at all points
in new Reconstruction bill, and this will
probably be the exclusive business of this ex !,
traordinary session. This confsoation scheme
of cold Thad. Stevens" :" the still more revo-
lutionary agrarian notions of cold Ben Wade"
the preposterous women's rights theories of
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the financial
reforms of moonshine and green cheese
preached in the prairies by George Francis
Train, will all have to be postponed at least
till the cooler season of next December. Nor
do we apprehend the impeachment of Presi-
dent Johnson. He is too useful to the radicals
to be removed. He has been the making of
them, and when they show any signs of de-
moralization, he is sure to commit some taur
pas that harmonizes them. He may expect to
be badgered and frightened considerably with
this impeachment prosecution, but it will only
be fourished as a flaming sword over his head
to keep him within the control of Congress.
The solution of this conflict will most likely be
the reconstruction of the ten outside States
under the banner of the Republican party, the
complete abandonment of President Johnson
by the South, as a disastrous failure from first
to last; the extinction of the last chickering's Of
those old Southern State rights fallacies which
have broken down his administration, and a
struggle in the Republican National Conven-
tion of 1868 between the followers of Chase,
sustained by the national banks, and the
supporters of Grant, backed by the army,
which will bring to the severest trial "the
cohesive power of public plunder." AS
to the restoration of all or any of the States
of the five military districts in season to give
them a voice in the next Presidential contest,
the chances are now against them; and for
! this, if disposed to be thankful, their thanks
are especially due to Mr.. Johnson and his
learned Attorney General.