The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-05
WHAT NEXT?
wendell Phillips is Very SOlicitOus for
the Future, aud Lectures the feOpIe.

the Future, nnd Lectures the teople.
From the AnttStaUery Standard cfthis peek.
Abol ,tiOLlst. aud all earnest radicals are now
summoned 10 addess themselves TO the work
which Is Yet to be accomplished. 1t has become
very apparent through what has tracsp red III
Georgia and elsewhere, that The Rec 'nstrdctton
laws require careful levis on ana FER ec'Ing Ia
sundry particulars. The NEGROES aud loyal
whites oil the Sou.h greatly iced the means OF
sell defense. The question OF coniscation, esps-
ctally with reference to the large amounL OF
land traudulently conveyed from tue po>-
session OF the Utlled Siaes Government to
the hands OF Rebels, should be at once con-
sidered IN the interest OF the landless blacks, TO
when, by virtue OF their past unrequiled toll,
the soil rig ht ullY belongs. A sps'em OF national
education which snail oe comprehensive, and at
least co.ex,euslve with The extension OF the
ballot, should early be inaugurated by Congless.
The measura OF primary Importance nov 10 be
promptly in, tiated and adopted on the reassem-
bling OF Congress is an additional amendment
of the Constitution forblddlng dlsirauchisement
or prescription IRON official trust on account OF
race or color. IN any Sta'e or Territory OF the
Union. such ali amendment, If adopted
promptly by Congress and submitted 10 the
Legislatures OF the several States, would. with
out doubt, now be ratified by the requisite
number.
With the triumphant reelection of General
Butler, and the welrkrown desire OF most OF
the new Southern members Tor the revival OF
the measure we have strong hopes OF the
successful ConsummutiOn OF the impeachment
and deposition of Johu son by the beginning of
the ne year. With Wade even two months in
the White House, and such tools of treason as
Rousseau, Steedman q Company, OF New
Orleans, replaced by Sheridan and other
Trustworthy, 10y al men; with the reconstruction
laws properly revised and amended; with
suffrage and the right 10 hold office vouchsaed
to the neero everywhere. the nation may be
we'll on the way towards "peace," having
secured its essential conditions, berore Grant
is inaugurated. While deliberate and orgauizel
Injustice TO the negro Is perpeuated, tue
lrTpD n DlA
who may be President. Let us have peace,n
then, by promptly doing those things which
make for peace.
The new era which opens before us, with the
significant defeat OF the shareholders and their
aD"logsts on Tnestav, Is full OF interest to
abolitionists and conscious radicals, to whom
the national contest means something more than
mere partisan strife, 10 end with elec ION day.
Our many trium phs In the past have been won
under circums' ances OF adverse opposition
much more formidable than anything we are
| likely to have to encounter in the near future.
| Oppost. on we are likely 10 have, but
now, as heretofore, logic aud right are
on our side. We have but to press
urgently and perseveringlg our demand, aud
cur past successes are guarantee OF ultimate
complete triumph. The Times, the Post. the
Herald, and the "con ervatives" for whom they
speak, already eXuitaut ~ what tney deem the
eclipse OF radcalism, reckon without their host
in supposing IL to be within The po yer of 'ieLe-
raj Grant, if as they allege it be his disposition
TO materially obstruct the proaress OF Radical
reformation in national politics. If the
Republican party consents to be the in
slrsmeut of thai benedcent reformation, AL
will be well with both the parry aud the couu-
try. II it refuses, it will be worse for
the party. There is no hallway house Ior per-
manept lodgment between slavery and genuine
republ cansm. Tue only true tormidao
opponents The abolitionists ever bad we're the
brain champions OF the slave system while their
power was co-eXtpnsive with the nation, and
their leadership acknowledged Nor and South.
Their day IL over. The earnest radicals are the
nnsit in no N n pU n
tendency of this century is to universal radical
republlcansm.