The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-14
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
EDITORIAL oPIHIoNs OF THR LEADING JOURNALS
UPON CURRENT ToPICs-CoMPILED EVERY
BAY FOB TUE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
The Campaign Opened.

The Campaign Opened.
From The Boston Post
visible sense of relief is manifested all
over the oou ntry, at the announcement of the
names of Seymour aud Blair as the oonstltu-
tional candidates for President and Vice Pre5l-
dent OF the United States. The universal
feeling of salts faction springs from the assu-
rance that we are now to have government
under civil guidance rather than military con-
troll Horatio Seymour has no match as a
statesman among the public men Of the ooun-
try. By his ability, his experience, and his
shining patriotism, he has established a fame
which cannot be shaken by the most violent
assaults of partisan opposition. If the war
is really over aud the soldiers work is done,
then it is time we proceeded to subordinate
arms to laws, and TO secure through consttu-
tiOnal methods what has already been settled
by the conflict.
The campaign is now fairly opened whose
issue is the salvation of the Union and its free
Government. If we are asked what is to be
opposed we point to that arraignment of the
party in pOwer-factious, frantic, and revo-
lutionary-corrupt, reckless, and usurping-
which is attached to the platform adopted by
the Democratic Convention. II is worth the
utmost effort which can be unitedly made to
drive such party from the places in which
it seeks to entrenoh itself. That it can be
done, nobody doubts who holds fast to his
faith in the people, Radicalism sees clearly
enough how its supports are falling and the
ground is sinking under its feet and it there
fore schemes with the boroughs it would
make of the Southern States, to see how to
Offset the fraudulent electoral votes manufac-
tured by the Freedmens Bureau against the
honest votes of the citizens of the Northern
States. 1t lodges the great issues; relies on
its false boasts; works with all its might
upon such popular prejudices as it IN ~ be
able to excite; and hopes to hide behind
the military reputation OF successful com-
mander until the universal indignation is
passed.
With Radcalism the struggle is one of life
and death; on the part of the people under the
lead of Seymour and Blair, it is a struggle for
the security of the common liberties. The
lines between this rotous political faction and
the real sentiment of the nation, do not require
to be drawn anew. No statement which the
former can adrotly put forth on its own behalf
now, will obliterate the record of its past his
tory. 1t has had full swing with power since
the Union soldiers conquered peace in the
name of the Union; and that power has been
used, not to restore permanent harmony
among discordant States, but to destroy one
branch of the Government to practically
suppress another, and to usurp supreme do
minion for itself When such a revolu-
tionsry body comes before the people
and asks for an extension of power that it may
continue its encroachments until app9als to
the people will be no longer necessary, it
ought to be theme for general gratitude that
a peaceful and orderly method still lies open
by which to disepgage its grasp on the Govern
ment The chief merit of this method, how
ever, consists in our putting it to instant and
vigorous use. In dealing with blosted conspi-
racles under a free government, nothing must
be taken on trust out of all their protests
and professions, but they must be Judged
sternly by their acts. Do we need any further
Illustrations OF the temper or tendencies of
radcalismY
One would be stone blind not to recognize
the expressed sentiment of the people of the
country since this revolutionary body of men
began to develop their real intentions. Pa
tient as the people are accustomed to be under
almost every infliction of misrule, in the belief
that free principles have vitality enough to
work themselves safely through all ordinary
forms OF abuse, they have Enthusiastically
shown their determination to submit to this
tyranny of radicalsm no longer. The recent
popular elections sufficiently prove that. AS
often as a fair and square vote could be reached
on the issues which this body would present,
1T has been vote of unqualified condemna-
tion of its destructive course. And we are to
take up the popular decision where we already
find it, and 60 for ward in its name and with its
support to the final overthrow of all the ee-
ments that are to be found in combination
against Republicanism. We are summoned to
unite as one man against the Jacobins who
think the Government was created for their
use and advantage. All good men, all patriots,
all who hate oppression in every form and be-
lieve in the equality of the States in the
Union, and the people of the States under
their own local Governments, will come for
ward now to renounce interpretations which
make constitutional liberty fraud and con-
vert our republican system into an odious
despotism.
This battle is one that cannot be shirked or
evaded, but must be fought out on it's merits.
Detracton has happily lost its power except
against the guilty party making use Of it. The
people have got over their fears of bug Taboo
epithets. Sham patriots pass for precisely
what they are. 1t is discovered that loudness
is not loyalty. The Cry of freedom works no
favor to the party that values it only as cry.
The heavy load of taxes is the true response
to the radical professions of economy. The
costly continuance of an army in the South is
the best commentary that can be made on re-
construction. Extravaganza and corruption
make the very air rank with the practices that
set off radical professions. Their people have
the matter now in their own hands. Their
welfare, their safety, their liberty itself is
clearly at their own disposal.
Rebels and Carpet-Baggers.