The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-23
PHILLIPS.
What he has to Say on the State OF the


Canvass.
From The Anti slavery Standard
Ii the Iate elections mean all they seem to,
the panic in the Rebel ranks was natural
enough. The vote in Pennsylvanle aud Indians
is The death. warrant OF the old Democratic
party That vote shows that the attempt To
is annibilated. There is no need to inquire
which caused the trouble, the platform or the
candiSaIes, since tne i I've are % S1amese i. Wins
and Blair. Seymour and Blair could coAstst-
emily have stood on no other pla form. Toe
slavehoIder, and its left a doughface which
spoke only lies, and sought only plnuder, Is
shame TO the nation that allowed it, Still it is
something 10 take comfort In, though nothing
10 boast OF, that the people have at last risen SO
far as 10 be Thoroughly disgusted with It and
"spew IL out of their mouths"
For us aboli,ionists the event has a deep sig,
composed that party come together again, 1t
must be to run race with the Republican
Democratic party died of o negro Conqueror
of Federalism despot over the nation for sixty
years. justice has at last killed It. Let no re-
former henceforth despair. This great power
represented all the base selfish, and material
interests Of the land. It was intrencned in
was its tool. But ideas have eaten away its
root. AT the very moment When II seemed
strongest and most threatening, 1t topples, a
hideous ruin, 10 the ground. We wish we could
attribute its fall to the moral sense of the ma
Of forty years, never lifted It's hand once for
emancipation, but left us to owe " at last to
slty Than to conscience. 1t is an intellectual
recognition of our need, not moral conviction
Of our duty. In healthy, moral ,s state S we ough.
States the process is reversed.
Still-Nationality, covering negro citizenship
and suffrage, with one hand smttes the Demo-
cratic arty, and Yields, in the other, the
strength of The Republican. There Is hardly
and suffrage must be the substratum aud ad.
mitted basis of all political organizations in
this country Over the grave OF the last effort
IN Of nd cnI q nv
names OF Seymour and Blair In the history of
our race the grave of Charles StuarC marks the
ple that of his son James, to dictate In reigion;
those of Burr and Davis to divide The national
Blair mark the last effort to rule this nalion
without accepting the negro as an equal partner.
Here lhen a. we may SET up onT emoriai st9ne
Lord helped u.s."
likely to have on the Republican party. Over
confident, presuming on tts strength, 1t will be
be TO oeoM f paTss S
educate the masses to demand every right
fecogsruction @ ~ i cannot be finally setted except
on the right basis. Stern justice reigns despotic
there; no escape, no evasion. dts cnampions
Wade; and IL laughs respectable conservatism
and fastideous pedantry 10 scorh. For Its per-
suasive advocates are starvation and snarohy,
bloodshed, choked trade, Impoverished masses,
and Government staggering into bankruptcy.
Arguments which might have been unheeded
from Apostle become oracular from the
And beside. the soured Democrat watches his
chances. However much we may fairly ask of
the dominant party, and however little We may
expect of their candidate. what we hope for Is
We ehaVe never yet met-oertainly not among
Abolitionists-any man foolish enough TO sup.
pose that the effects of slavery could be RACED
out in one generation, or cured by the pauacea
of any mere political arrangements Out OF
saSsIy ssem
Fashion, trade, religion, took shape from it. 1t
win require century. and Inc co.operating
Christianity to remodel these. Wnen the Gov
ernment, which has robbed the negro for
two centuries and tattened on its pilage.
returns him q homeopathic share of his
damages in the shape OF forty acres Of
national necessity; when it secures him educa-
tion-another national necessity-and when it
protects him In The exercise OF political rights,
The insult which dilettanti and snobbish re-
form offers him by discussing measures TO
the Government must keep the channels open
so that the great forces of the enemy may have
south. That. too. will take time. By which we
do not mean, as Whately says, that mems
SySs 6em Sg and ene the@ Ny
We mean that we will be patient for htty years.
provided great & forces o are osi all9Wed ,noso to
an earthly, SKY. God, in his mercy,
path. And yet we recognize that there is more
hope of many of them than of their Northern
hunkies. Many a Southerner was blindly
honest. He did not shut his eyes. He lived in
darkness. All he needs Is light. not honesty.
The worst obstacles we have are Seymours and
Adamses. The first Adams cheated his party;
was the assassin of the most intellectual states
man of that age. Alexander Hamilton. There
has never been a generation of the family
since which has not repeated that treason:
Choate dreamed once OF "last Adams I"
Heaven Vouchsafes no such luck. They are q
type OF the worst rot that attacks repubiics-a
vain. greedy, decorous race. always In the
Market and In making up which their maker
whoever he was-omitted every generous
emotion and a moral sense.
WENDELL PHILLIPS.