The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-09

indecently proclaimed that should General
Grant be chosen President he would never
quit the White House while he lived; perps-
tual anarchy, 'negro supremacy" and an
discriminating war of races at the South we're
widely proclaimed as the inevitable oonse.
quences OF his election.
But he is elected, nevertheless; and the
telegraph had hardly flashed the tidings over
the sea and land till, presto this raving rad-
cal Is transformed into paragon of good sense
and moderation! ReveIdy Johnsou-who
never before breathed a hint of it--tells
Europe that the American people would have
shown themselves ungrateful II they had not
elected General Grant (Then what does he
think Of his own MarylaudO The National
Inteiigencer would like to fall into his arms in
a sudden swoon of admiration; even Mont
gomery Blair threatens the President elect
with his appropriations: and we learn from
myriad throats newly attuusd TO this strain
that General Grant is essentially a Democrat
and conservative, who will exert all the
power OF his great Office for q speedy restora-
tion of the Union
And this, for wonder, is true General
Grants instincts are all democrats in the
proper sense OF that much-a abused term, while
his leaniDgs are conservative, and his heart
yearns for a prompt reGstablshment of the
Union in its integrity. You are right now,
however wrong you may have hitherto been.
But how could you, thus regarding him, have
fought his election so strenuouslyi Might he
not say to you, in the words of hackneyed
ballad
: suppose 1t was right to dlssemble your love:
But why did YOU kick me down stalrs?"
or kick your utmost with intent so to do If
General Grant is the man you now proclaim
him, how is your past abuse Of him to be ius-
titled If your present faith in him is sin
cere, what meant your recent frantic opposi-
ton?
For our own part, we are nowise amazed by
this sudden spasm of adulaton. We expected
and predicted it. We assured the people that
Grants election would give peace to the couu-
| try, seeing that it could not fail to have that
effect. We told them that the Rebels would
| soon swarm around the President elect, pro-
| testing that they had misunderstood him, and
were now anxious to cooperate with him in
| the prompt and perfect reGstablishment OF
peace, fraternity, and general prosperity. This
| is certain to elicit fit responses; and, ere he
has been six weeks President, General Grant
will seem to be as popular and potent at the
South as he is at the North.
We do confidently trust that Ku-KluX
| operations at the South, from the burning Of
negro school-hOuses up to Camilla butcheries
inclusive, are already in their last quarter,
because it would plainly be suicidal madness
to persist in them. There may yet be few
sporadic outbreaks, but no systematic perse
verance in Rebel atrocities. The chief aristo-
Gratis will quietly hint to the rufians that
they must stop, and the hint will be taken
The new State Governments will stand, anG
''the cbivalry" will find or fancy them more
tolerable day by day. The blacks will hence
forth vote without fear of general massacre or
even hOuseless famine. Their late mas
ters will stop waylaying their path tx
the bsllot-box, and will instead insist tha
they have always favored impartial suffrage
which some Of the negroes will bs cajoleC
into believing by-and- by. The new maohiner.
of government will work rather roughly for
time, but will wear smoother day by day. TIL
three States yet standing out will make hast
to resume their old places in the Union, re
deemed, regeneratei, disenthralled." We d.
earnestly believe that General Grants fou
years will serve to effsce all the ugly scar
left by our late fratricidal war; but, If not, w
shall have to insist on his serving
second term, and that will certainly see th
good work completed. Sulky chagrin canno
outlive twelve years of blasted hopes.
Our terms of adjustment are the same sine
as before our riumph-Universal amnesty
impartial suffrage; or, az our Vice-Presiden
elsct happily expressed them at Pittsburg o.
Thursday evening, "Liberty for all; justice 70
all; protection for ALL" When the smoke G
the battle shall have fully rolled away it wi
be seen that our triumph is of no party or sec
tion exclusively, but that of South as well a
NOrth-of our country and of mankind.
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