The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-07

cannot stand we are aware that the Republi.
can Senate can offer a prolonged resistance to
have this obstacle fully weighed and appre-
ciated before the Democratic Convention met
That obstac is but tenn porarv; for the Senate
must ultimately be brought into harmony with
the rublic sentiment OF the country. But the
reconstruction Is settled and insurmountable.
In full view Of the political complexion Of the
Senateand the long terms Of the Senators, the
never voluntarily submit to the usurpations
of Congress. This inflexible opposition Is as
much fact as the long terms OF the
Senators The Senate can In time be changed;
but the intense repugnance OF the Southern
whites TO be ruled by their former slaves is a
permanent feature of the political situation.
This uncopquersble repugnance, which no Oh.
stacles can daunt or opposition shake, renders
and disband our expensive armies unless negro
supremacy in the South is abolished. General
that fact II secured his nomination simply
because the fact is true. The hundreds of arti-
Republican papers, all concede that 1t accu
rately reflects the public sentiment OF the
standing the great obstacle interposed by the
Republican Senate, the Southern whites VIII
y9 @ mn be ced 70 we'll as e
fact that the Senate is, for the present, Repub-
lican:
next President, 1t will be manifest to everybody
that the negro governments cannot be perman-
ent. If the Senate and the Southern negroes
shall then yield TO the will OF the country we
shall have immediate tranquility. But II they
SoUt1ern % ~ whites % viii PROBABLY PROBABLY cut the Sordian
knot without waiting for q change in the
Senate to have it united. II the negro govern
ments should suddenly collapse, q Democratic
administration will not interpose to resuscitate
them, and the local authority will easily revert
into the hands of the whites If there should
be q deviation from the usual forms, 1t will be
because the Senate and the negroes refuse to
comply with the will of the majority, as eX-
pressed in the Presidential election"
Comments by the Tribune.
l. The World falls into the rebel mistake Of
confounding the Southern rebels with "the
Southern people," The census returns and
popular vote concur in demonstrating that a
majority of the whole people of the States
lately in revolt approve and sustain the recon-
struction policy of Congress. In the States
of North and South Carolina Louisiana and
Florida, this majority is decided-unquestion
able. In Mississippi there is large majority
of blacks, and only common sense is needed
to convince any one that they approve the
policy that found them slaves and left them
freemen and legal voters. The recent rebel
triumph in that State was achieved just as
Tories are frequently chosen to represent
Irish Catholics in Parliament-just as Wade
Hampton proposes to carry South Carolina
for Seymour, by saying to the black voters:-
''We own the land you live on; we employ
and pay you; if you do not vote as we die
no bread" We defy any intelligent Demo-
crat to deny that this is the way, and the
only way, in which oOlored men are induced
to vote the Democratic ticket.
But the Rebels are not 'the Southern peo-
ple"-not even maj jority OF them. Assuming
that the ten States recently unrepresented in
Congress have a population OF eight millions,
that population is politically divided very
nearly as follows
White Republi- w mite Demo- go
S99 coo 600 GOO Snorsd erats DO S9 900 goo
otal......4 25O OOOI Total..........3, $50, ,OOO
What sham Democracy demands is the dis
reimbursement and political notification of the
blacks in order that it may work its wicked
will on the Republican whites. "Never speak
to one of the wretches ~ is the watchword OF
Cobb, Toombs, the Mobile Register, Charleston
Me, ctlry and other oracles of Rebellion. "NC
scalawags (white Republicans) are wanted
here, is advertised with their goods by Rebel
merchants. "When Seymour is elected, we'll
make short work of the carpet -baggers," is
the general cry of the Worlds political allies
in Dixie. The Charleston Mercury gives
formal notice that no debt contracted by
General Scott's Government" will be paid OF
acknowledged after the Mercury'S friends gel
the upper hand in South Carolina. Tha
| journal, like the World, recognizes nc
''Southern people, but such as are technically
white.
Now this is an assumption utterly unsup
| ported by fact, reason, or the Federal Consti
! tuition. There is not even a hint in that Con
stitution that free colored man is not equa
in political rights to any other man. "Fre
persons are Disseminated from "aH othe
PERSONS" but blacks from whites never
| Impregnably fortified by that charter, we mos
emphatically deny that "the Southern people,
or majority Of them, are opposed to wha
| the World calls snegro reconstruction"
ii. Now as to ''the intense repugnance o
the Southern whites to being ruled by thei
| former slaves" Is it any stronger than wa
their repugnance to having those slaves freed
or allowing them to give testimony agains
whites or conceding to them civil rights
And have they not conquered their repugnanc,
to these Then why may they not consent Il
their voting alsOf
But admit that ''their inflexible opposition
to negroes voting is a fact. Is it any more
fact than their opposition to the Union re
Gently wasH And have they not bravely sur
mounted this
III. The talk of the Southern whites beinl
"ruled by their former slaves" is dishonest
The blacks are minority of the Southern
people. They have little education and mex
to no property. Nineteen-twentieths OF then
are the tenants and hirelings of Rebels.
these Rebels are now ready to let bygones b
bygones, and close up the controversy on tn
comprehensive basis of universal amnesty
impartial suffrage, they will find the black
in the repeal Of all acknowledgements and dis
qualifications. Why not .....
~. But the World misrepresents Genera
Blair's position as palpably as it deceives b.
its talk of "negro supremacy" "negr
ruling" etc. General Blair proposes tn