The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-27
"FRANCIS HERMAN,
SANFORD E CHURCH,
"MILLIAM WILLIAMS"
How Grants Election VIII Give Us
Peace.
From The N. Y. TY2nes.

LVs II 4
I'VE asked tho Tribune how Grant was going
to let Us % hsYs @ %ounds s HT ask t6e
Times. Out with it, some OF you. How is Grant
going to give us peace? IL is the all-im portaut
structiOn is dead failure. Is he going TO main-
tain and perpeiuate the carcase, or has he
little pet plan of his own?'- World.
The Reconstruction laws have been on tn
statute books about year; they encountered
from the outset the most bitter aud envenomed
hostility of the Rebels in the Southern S ates
and of their political allies in the North. They
have never had the approval OF the President
of the United States, nor has he given the aid
and influence of his Office to securing for them
fair and impartial trial. On the contrary,
he has given the ex-Rebels of the South to
understand that they could rely upon what
ever aid it was in his power to give them to
defeat the object of those laws and to secure
tkeir overthrow. How was it possible, under
such circumstances, to give those laws such
trial as would fairly test their character
Yet the World insists that they are failures"
and insists that the whole policy shall be
abandoned.
So the Democratic party and the World in
1864 insisted that the was a 'failure"-
that the Rebellion could not be crushed-and
they called for truce and for terms of peace
with the Rebel Confederacy. The people did
not concur in this opinion. They rejected this
advice, and determined to push the war. And
the result proved the utter falsity of the Rebel
plea. The very fact of LincOln's reelection
satisfied the Rebels that the war would not be
abandoned, and gave a death-blow to their
hopes of success; and in less than two months
after his second Inauguration the whole Rebel
army had surrendered, and the Rebellion was
completely suppressed.
Now, the election of Grant will have pre-
cisely similar effect on the temper of the
Southern people now; and that is one of the
ways, we beg to inform the World, in which
"GTant is going to give us peace" His cleo
tiOn will give the country, North and South,
to understand that those laws, and the State
governments organized under their authority,
shall have a fair trial; that they shall not be
swept away by violence nor destroyed until
the people who live under them shall be salts
fed by their practical operation that they are
not such as their necessities require; aud
that even then they shall be superseded
only by such other laws and forms as
the people of the States shall prefer.
which supports him stand pledged to
maintain these laws just as they are, without
regard to the will of the people or to the
practical results of their operation. The South
ern State Governments, which Frank Blair
decAeres must be dispersed by force, were
oreateu py the people OF those States. Their
constitutions were framed, their laws were
made, by men chosen for that purpose by the
great body OF the people Tor whom they exist.
And those who made them have the same
right to amend, modify, or change which
they had to make them. Those States are
now in "practcal relations" with the Govern
ment of the Union: and like all other States
similarly situated, they are sslf-goVerning in
local affairs. Their people have a right TO
make such laws as they see fit, to change
their Constitutions at will, and to manage their
own affairs in their own way, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States.
The rejecting leaders of opinion in the
General Grant. They know that he will do
nothing from revenge or passiOn-that his aim
will be to promote the welfare OF every sec
tion, to silence, strife and to make all portions