The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-05


bOunties, state claims, ETC., etc. We have
paid not less than 800 600 600 per annum OF
national debt, beside interest, since the Rebel
armies surrendered. At this rate, twenty
five years more would pay every dollar that
we owe, without fraud and without shame.
Better by far that we should have been beaten
by the Rebels than that we should now prove
ourselves a naticn of swindlers. But we must
not, we will not. We have saved the Union;
we shall now save our faith and our honor.
The Radical Triton.
From the NJ ?. World. ....
"Hear you this Triton of the minnows
Mark you his absolute shall p" The Ameri
can people propose to pass upon the hasty
last years legislation OF violent and revolu-
tiOnary Congress. They propose to elect a
Democratic President and Democratic House
of Representatives. They propose to restore
the Constitution and the Union. Aud here
gets me up Mr.. Horace Greeley, in the Tribune,
and flourishing his fists ferociously in the
faces of his countrymen, screams out that the
American people shall do no such thing; that
the American people are bound hand aud foot
by the acts Of the Fortieth Congress, which
stand to them in the stead of Providence and
of history; that if they choose a President to
execute their will, that President shall not be
allowed to execute their will, but that, on the
contrary, he shall be coerced into being the
the servant of Senate which refuses to trust
him.
The "servant of the Senate" quotha
This is the radical plot then 2 The radical
oligarchy in the Senate, propose, do they, to
nullify the will of the American people deli
berately expressed in great Presidential
election, and to treat as their Servant the
chosen Chief Magistrate of the Republic-the
constitutional COMMANDMENT. chief of the
Army and Navy of the United States 2 Have
they, then, made their arrangements with
some unconstitutional Commauder-n-chief of
the Army of the United States, for the purpose
of using him to carry ont this audaciouS plan
of revolution Was this the meaning of
| General Grants nomination. Was be selected
"a radical defeat at the polls being
clearly foreseen by the party leaders) as
the only candidate who could be relied upon
in case of defeat to make an armed stand with
the Senatorial oligarchy in opposition to the
| popular will? If this be not so, from whence
| gets our Triton his absolute shall p"
If the talk OF the T. iJu7e be not the widest
! rhodomOntade, it is the lncautious revelation
! of deliberate resolve on the part of the radi-
| Gals to impose their au hority upon this nation
for four years more by force of arms. That
there are men, and very conspicuous men,
among the radical leaders who would not
| hesitate to plan such a conspiracy as this
against the rights and liberties of their fellow
citizens is no secret. For that matter, the
open and cynical way in which the radical
majority at Washington have thrown to the
| dogs even the pretence of keeping the
pledged faith of the nation as to the objects
! of the recent war, stares us all in tho faoe, to
show that there is no possible curb for the
| encroachments of these men upon law and
right but the curb of their fears. They
! have availed themselves of the saddest
| legacies of the war, of it's bitterest passions
and animosities, to blind the Northern people
into acquiescing in policy which has reduced
| eleven American States to a political condition
| as degraded as that OF the Polish provinces of
| Russia. 1t is only question of courage whe-
ther they will attempt to carry out the pro-
gramme thus published by the Tribune, and to
| void the election of Democratic President by
| the will of a Senatorial Olgarchy acting in con-
cert with the General of the Armies" We
| do not believe they will dare undertake to
| do it. The Democratic President and the
| Democratic Representatives whom the people
| will put into power next November will be
put into power for the express purpose of re-
ducing to order and to deoency these radical
rebels against the Constitution and the laws;
| and what the people elect them to do they
will do, though all the Summers rage and all
the brakes imagine vain things. And of one
thing be sure that the election of Seymour
and Blair has been made, and that it
is felt by the people to have been
made a political necessity by precisely
this lawless, insolent, threatening, and trucu-
lent temper of the radicals in and out of Con-
gress. Their Triton blows too loud. The
American people-over-taxed, fettered, both
cred, tormented in all sorts of ways by the
political despots whom the Tribune truckles
| to and serves-aTe in no mood to be- buliied
out of their one last remedy by any such Tri.
ton as this
"Fhat with his peremrtory 'snan' being but
The horn and noise OF the monster, wants NOT
spirit r.
| To say bell turn their current in q ditch
And make their ch nnel his"