The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-26
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IL Congress can spare seven "nationar'
Legislators to look after the political affairs of
this national metropolis Of New York.
cannot the army headquarters spare one briga-
dier to reconstruct the disorganized State OF
IudanaH Itis perfectly obvious that Indiana
needs reconstruction at least as badly as Texas.
II Texas is ruled by the "Ku-K Klux," Indiana
Is ruled by 'Vigilano9 Committees" Proba
bly, 1t makes very little difference to a man
hanged by a 'Ku-Klux" or by "Vigilanos
Committee" and just as little whether he
look his last on life from the banks Of the Rio
Grande or from those OF the Ohio. Our
domestic order and our foreign relations are
equally menaoed in both cases, IL is quite
possible that the Ku-Kux-if there really are
any Ku-Klux in Texas-may one of these
days catch and strangle a stray ''greaser''
from Mexico; and it is quite certain that the
Indiana "Vigilants" have already caught and
strangled person surrendered by the British
Government to American justice, the
strength of a treaty which never would have
been made by England had not English
statesmen supposed the United States to be a
civilized and responsible power. Now, Mr..
Schuyler Colfax, OF Indians-whose habitusl
smile, like the discourse of Plato, might WOO
bees from a clover field, and who is at present
rioting in the double honeymoon of an elect
ce-President and an inaugurated bridegroom
made Enthusiastically mellifiuous speech
at the New Euglanders on Tuesday evening,
in the course of which he became posi-
lively ecstatic about the privileges aud
the potency of "American citizenship. He
thought that "American citizenship" had
"been stamped by the approval of the
Divinity" also, that We should "consecrate it
in our hearts like the vestal fire of the an
GENTS" Also, he thought it should enable
our ambassadors to stand unsbashed in the
shadow of the thrones of the Old World"
Also, that it "would lift America to a prouder
position among the nations of the world"
Also, that it sis to allow it to sweep onward in
the van of the march of empires and of nations
as our great principles, triumphant here, are
even now impressing the monarchs of the Old
World with the doctrine that throue hout this
globe the people must rule" Also, that it
should ''make American citizenship as poten-
tisl in Texas as III The city OF New York.
BY all means, most noble Colfax
When We saw you swing off into space in
this astounding fashion on your rhetorical
trapeZe, like bolder Leotard or more aerial
Hanlon Brother, we never dared to hope you
would land upon so safe and practical a con-
clusion. We are with You heartily for
''making American citizenship as potential in
Texas as in New York; But are you with us
to make it as potential in your own State of
Indiana as in New York; And If so, how2
Your way of making american citizen
ship potential in Texas" is to declare Texas
province by act OF Congress, and to put Texas
under tutelage, and TO disfranchise it's citi-
zens, and to send down soldiers and briga-
dier to rule over them; and all this on the
pretense that "American citizenship in Texas"
will not otherwise be potential enough to
secure ''order" and the "due administration
of Justice" On like pretense, you propose
to put American citizenship" in New York
under the supervision of Congressional COM
mittee who are to see that we do not emascu-
late our citizenship, without knowing it, by
our incapaoity OF regulating our own elections
and protecting ourselves against frauds upon
the suffrage. Ii this method be wise method
with Texas and with New York. why not with
Indiana
IL is notorious, as We have said, that "order'
and the educ administration of justice" are
highly pertuTbed in Indiana to day. We
belive, too, that there were some very queer
things done at the polls ia Indiana last fall,
whereby Indiana lost the credit of choosing as
her Governor the ablest statesman who now
represents her in the ''national' councils.
But we will deal with one thing at time,
most noble Colfax You cannot desire to
have the "nstioDal' honor smirched, "order"
broken up, the 'due administration of justice"
made impossible in Indiana. You must long
to "see american citizenship as potential"
in your adopted as in your native State. How
will you set about 1t VIII you vote for the
appointmentSof Congressional committee to
visit Indiana, with power to send for persons
| and papers, and with orders to ascertain how
it comes to pass that the radical authorities of
Indiana are unable to enforce the laws of that
State, and to prevent the flag and faith of the
United States from being trampled underfoot
by brutal and irresponsible mobs9 Will you
vote for a bill putting Indiana under the au-
thority of the General of the Armies" and
requesting that eminent parsonage to appoint
briga0ier with power to see order main
tanned and the laws enforced
Will you do either, or both, or neither of
these thiDgsY
And if neither, will yon be so good as to
cease your acrobatic perform 4nces over the
heads of the 'moparchs of the Old World, I"
and the etfete despotisms and aristocracies
| generally, until such time as american citi-
zeDship III Texas shall have become "poten-
| tial'' enough to protect itself against an un-
| scrupulous and unconstitutional military
| tyranny, and american citizenship in New
| York" sacred enough TO command the re-
| spect and repel the intermeddling of a knot of
impertinent fanatics calling themselves the
majority of National Congress ~
A European Conference.
| From the ". Y Tribune.
IL may now be regarded as certain that the
| Eastern complication will, for the present, not
| lead to war. The Czar of Russia, supported
by the King of Prussia, has proposed to the
other great powers the holding of a European
! Conference for pacific solution of the intri-
cate question, and the proposition is said to
have been received with general favor, and to
ba sura of exacutiOn The freouent maatinp