The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-03

to deny IT. Both objects are dear enough to
it to justify revolution by this party now so
anxious for ''peaoe." Every naturalized citizen
should remember this insult at the polls.
The Republican Party After the Election.
From ne ". Y. Nation.
AS we go to press, the reports which reach
us from all quarters indicate that, although
MIR. Danas cUances OF election in the Essex
district are by no means desperate, General
Butler will very likely be successful and the
Fifth Massachusetts district unfortunate.
What we shall say in the present article is
founded ON the assumption OF that probability,
and il the assumption is incorrect, falls to the
ground. Assuming therefore, that General
Butler succeeds in defeating Mr.. Dana, what
effect will the result have, not upon the nam.
bers OF the Butlerite sect of moraists, but
upon the Republican party-upon the party
which, for the past eight years, has held the
reins of recommendation the party which
has defeated the South aud reconstructed the
Unionl
With tho election of Grant and Colfax, the
conflict about slavery, negro suffrage, and re-
construction must come to an end. For this
election assures us that there shall be no re-
enslavement, that in the States still disor-
ganized the forces of the United States shall
be used to the extent of the power of tue
Executive in protecting citizens at the South,
whether black or white, in the exercise of all
their rights, pOnLlCal as well as CIVIL, auQ LnaL
the reconstruction acts shall be considered
valid by all departments of the Government.
More than this, as we have frequently pointed
out, cannot be done. Military government of
the South for the next twenty years-which
were it only possible, would be by far the
best means of fostering the growth of peace
there, accompanied as it would be by ipstruc-
tion for the negro and poor white, and afford
ing, as it would protection to Northern emil
grsnts-is unfortunately totally impossibls.
Unfortunately all parties are with rare una
nimity agreed that the Southern States must,
for the future, be left to themselves.
A limit is already set to the Freedmen's
Bureau, both by act of Congress and by COM
| mon CONSENT and the minor theoretical topics
of disagreement between the two partes-as,
for instance, the criminality of treason and
| the question whether the Southern States at
| the end of the war were in or out of the Union
cannot very we'll any longer form substan-
| tial ground for difference In other words,
| the chief points of dispute between Republi-
cans and Democrats Will be settled; the war
which began forty years ago with the publca-
| tion of the Liberdtor will have been ended in
| the complete triumph OF the Liberdtor'S cause.
! The Democrats will have been beaten, and the
victorious hosts OF the Republicans will be
| looking about them, uncertain in what fields
| 10 display their activity.
The Republicans will then fud themselves
|
aims, different in origin, different in destiny.
We do not propose to enumerate them ALL but
| some of them are these:-Iu the first place, the
old abolitionists, party resting its claims to
! existence solely on the vigor of its cOuscience
in the second place, what may be called tue
later school of abOlitionists, who began life
by believing slavery to be not the most crying
| evil in America, but who were persuaded
sooner or later into admitting that it was; in
the third place, The ma jority OF the party,
| W no Joined it to put down the Rebellion with
the simple feeling OF patriotism; in the fourth
place, the new negro voters, body about
which almost nothing is known, except that
it is docile body; and, in the fifth place, in
dividual men OF ability and distinguished un-
scrupulOusness, who left their old party at the
last moment to take sides with the stronger
forces and who are willing to do the same
thing again. The fifth class is represented
by if not composed of, General Butler.
The aim of the first class is the reign of
"truth, y" vague and unsatisfactory aim, be-
cause each one of them has his own notions
of the proper definition of the word. The aim
of the second class is simply good government
| and the application of the laws of reasoning
and the deductions of experience to affairs of
state. The third is quite as vague in its
views as the first, and qrite as much under
the influence of its feelings. The object of
the fourth is simply to be led to do what will
make tolerabe life possible; while the
fifth merely desires personal aggrandize-
ment. Four of these classes were united
by the war in the pursuit of a COM
mon enemy the termination of the war and
reconstruction leave them without any we'll
defined plan of action. One of them has just
been called into existence. Meanwhile, it is
necessary to observe that, though four Of the
classes are divided at hap-hazard into bond
holders and non-bondholders, the limits of no
one of them coincide with the limits of the
bondholding and non. bondholding classes
The negroes, for example, are practically
entirely nom bondholding. On the other hand
the Democrats also find their occupation gone
for slavery is abolished and the South is re-
constructed. They are demoralized utterly.
Now, one of the two great parties being in
a thoroughly disorganized state, and the other
being undecided as to its fut are policy a ques-
ton of vital Importance arises as to the pay
IL ent of the debt. 1t is generally assumed
that this question is settled by the announce
ment by the Democrats of their intention to
pay the debt in greenbacks and to tax the
bonds, and by the Republican declaration at
Chicago that the debt is to be- paid in good
faith and that reputation is national crime.
But although we are disposed to agree to the
proposition that this might have been so had
not the question of electing General Butler
been made so prominent and interesting one,
by the refusal of a very large and respectable
body of Republicans to support a man pledged
to violate the honor of the country it seems
to us more probable that if General Butler
is elected the tive-twenty question will
assume new and alarming proportions. And
our reasons are these-The eyes of intell-
gent men all over the country are at this
moment turned upon the Fifth Massachusetts