The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-19
DEMONSTRATION" in Georgia.
rom fbe NJ " World

cities.
"RecOnstructiOh" in Georgia.
From the N. y World
The Republicans are, with good reason,
confounded and chagrined at the result of theii
so-called Reconstruction" in Georgia. Georgia
is, in all respects, the most important of the
States which have passed from under the
military yoke, Virginia being one of the three
which have not been RECONSTRUCTED" Georgia
is the Empire Sta'e of the South, destined to
hold the same relation to Southern commerce
that New York does to that of the whole country.
Her size, fertility, resources rivers, railroads,
harbors, position, enterprise, intelligence,
and population place her in the first rank of
States. Her example cannot fail to exert a
potential influence in all the States said to
have been "reconstructed.n What has been
done in one may be done in all. The perfected
reconstruction about which there is a
vaunting, grandiose declaration in the Chi
cago platform, is an abortion in three of the
States, and is not likely to live long enough
to cry in the other seven. It has collapsed in
Georgia while the Republican party is still in
power, thus demonstrating its inherent
weakness, aud the superlative folly of it's
malignant fanatical authors. Its utter failure
is lugubriously confessed by the Tribune,
thus
THE letter of our able correspondent at
<atldnla gives view OF the prOYC6SS of
the Sey mour and Blair revolution which has
been 1naugurated in the Georgia Legislature
All the colored members Of goth Senate and
House have now been expelled, the defea ted
Rebel Democratic candidates seated in their
places and the overwhelming Democratic
majority in the Legislature being thus enabled
to snap their fingers at the Governors protests
and vetots, the State is virtually IN the hands
OF Toombs. Cobb and Ben. II i'll" --.-.
And this, we are told, marks ''the progress
of the Seymour and Blair revolution" Ac-
tn no not TOM nf Rnn al.
pioneering, the revolution" was to take place
after the election of Seymour and Blair, and
by very different method. That portentous
son of terror, the redoubtable General Blair,
was to disperse the carpet-bag Legislatures at
the point of the bayonet. We half suspect
that the future Vice-President will relent and
think twice before he disperses the Legisla-
ture of Georgia, especially as he will be an
officer without power, having no other func-
tion than that of putting questions for the Re-
publican Senate to vote upon. But if he
should decide to send the Georgia Legislature
packing, we dare say the Tribune would be
glad to have him do it, without even waiting
until he is inaugurated as Vice PRESIDENT.
"The Seymour and Blair revolution is
foolish phrase that cannot conceal the weak
ness and unwisdom of a rickety system which
tumbles into ruins of itself the moment its
blundering architects take away the scatfold-
ing. 1t is repugnant to the preponderating
public sentiment of the State and was known
to be so when 1t was invented. 1t required an
army to force it into existence, but none is
necessary to demolish it. Negro supremacy
can be reinstated in Georgia by no other
means than a fresh resort To military force.
The Commercial Advertiser, with the spas
modic mental debility which makes that Jour
nal an object OF pity in Mr.. Weeds absence,
thinks it has discovered ian etfeclual mode OF
heading off these conspiratOrS," and predicts
that "before three months time" they will be
"foored." We will let this sage ana sapient
Journal advertise its nostrum:-
This is very nice little programme which
nas been arranged uuder the guidance of CDbb,
foombs, b. III Hill. asd the ot1er vitulenG
els who aim TO bling about fresh revolu-
llon But 1t so happens htt tnere Is au effect
nal mode OF heading of these nspirators. and
we predict that before three months time mas
elapsed, they will find themselves effec. .ually
Hnored. The Supreme Court of Georgia Will ue
appealed 10 TO pronounce uDon III $50 out
rageous proceedings, ana It's dscistoD will be
sustained by the So prene court of the United
states We warn these reckless men to pause
10 their mad career before he arm of The law
m miaIis p3weriully upon them, aud hey age hurled
from the positions of trust tO which an unto
"aIu fortune has temporarily assigned them"
Now it so happens that every legislative
body in the United States is the sole and final
Judge OF the election and qualifications of its
members. When member is rejected or ex-
peiled no appeal lies to the courts. Instances
OF the rejection OF members are of perpetual
occurrence but the Commercial never learned
OF an instance of rejected or expelled men,
ber OF Congress, or OF State Legislature, ap-
plying to court for redress, however flagrant
his wrongs. 1t is class of cases over which
no court has jurisdiction. But even il the
courts had jurisdiction, the commercial must
have curious notion of the state of the docket
and the order of business in the Supreme Court
OF the United States to suppose that the elected
negroes can be restored to their seats 'before
three months time" And even supposins
that difficulty surmounted, how does our
wise contemporary suppose the expelled
negroes are to be benefited Before three
months, the Georgia Legislature will have
completed its business and adjourned. What
good would 1t do the negroes to be declared
members of Legislature that will never again
sitS They will not be members of the next
Legislature unless elected al such; and the
next Legislature will be elected under a new
registration law, in the absence both of the
Freedmens Bureau and the army. The
Times, which is paper OF some intelligence,