The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-01
The MOdus 0peraudi.


The MOdus 0peraudi.
From the NJ Y. Times.
The injunction against counting chickens
before they are hatched does not deter the
opponents Of reconstruction from discussing
the manner of its overthrow. They consider
victory so sure that they feel it incumbent on
them to determine how the fruits of victory
may be most effectually secured. The World
demonstrates in vain. In vain it contends
that when the process of reconstruction shall
be completed, and the States reinvested with
representation in Congress, the power of the
Supreme Court to interfere will be at an end.
Again and again it appeals to the decision in
the DOrr case, and as a clincher, in reply to
Mr.. q. T. Curtis, reproduces the following
passage from Chief Justice Taney's opinion: -
Under this article of the Constitution II
r'sts with Congress to decide what Govern
ment is the established one in state For as
The United States guarantee to each State a
rel ublican government, Congress must neces.
ssriiy decide what government is established
is established or not. And when the Senators
the councils of the Union, the authority OF the
government under which they are appointed,
as well as its republican character, is recog-
Zed by the proper cCnstitu tonal authority.
And its decision is binding upon every other
apartment OF he Cover ment, and could not
be questioned in judicial tribunal"
To any rational man this dictum of Taney
would be conclusive against the expectation
of help from the Supreme Court. But the
Southerners who propose to dictate the Demo-
cratic platform, and the Northerners who are
willing to meet aid help them are not ra-
t'onal. They take counsel of their passions,
not their intelligence, and agree that in some
manner, by some means, the work of Con-
gress shall be undone. Through what agen-
cts, and how
BY white nerve and strength, say the iden-
teal fre-eaters who eight years ago broke up
the Democratic party in Charleston. The war
has wrought no change in them. They are
the same elf-opinionated, arrogant, reckless
advocates of Southern supremacy who then
demanded the surrender and subserviency of
the North. Thus, commenting on an article
of the Tines, one of the editors of the Charles
ton Mercury, over his own signature, threatens
negro Acknowledgement by sheer force.
Verify the Times and its compeers have
| strangely forgotten the oalibre of the Southern
| men they met in the late war! Is it men like
these, tnat are going TO stand up DUMB and
| passive. like yoked oxen to be driven at will by
| negro slaves? To be dominated over by black
! bHrbarians? to be legislated out OF their pro-
armed negro militia? to negro public officers
| and jurors, and judges, and all the nameless
| horrors of mongrelization and miscegenaLion?
And, 1t may as well be said now, and may
| as well be realized now, as at any future time.
that the people of the South don't intend to re-
main under negro domination. You will have
| to quadruple Irelands for hundred years to
| come. TO hold down with the gibbet and the
| yoke of negro slaves The matter had just as
well be looked in the face, squarely and
calmly"
This, however, is mere vaporing. 1t does
| not solve the problem, but on the contrary,
| darkens its complications. Mr.. John Forsyth
in the Mobile Register, is little more specific.
| Here is his statement of the question and his
answer:
How can the white men OF the South get con-
| troll OF their State Governments without diyid-
a W ON inc
| as null and void and "a sum of villanies as you
! admit it TO be Stick to your doctrine OF Fede-
raj non. interveDtion; let us know that you will
| not, as The New YORK Times says YOU viii, send
the army down to settle our domestic lsputes
and turn The scale in the contest of the white
men with black scalawags by the Federal
| sword. Keep your hands on, give us nom
intervention and we shall not trouble you
! to destroy the radical majority in tue
|. Senate, nor TO violate but only to hold sacred
| will adjust this matter on white mans basis
| of lawful political power, and VIC viii restore
| our abolished state Governments, aud yet will
make 20 attempt to divide the negro vote.' As
revolution, tyranl y, and the sword have over
| lurntd our white governments, we will, by a
bloCdless revolution and by the force OF white
blood and white energy, reinstaJe them and
send 10 your Congress the true and lawful
| representatives. of these States The prGcesB might
| be personally inconvenient to a few inierloping
foreign scalawaRs and otf1ce holders under the
| Omnibus wholesale m mqnufacture of States but
| IL would not cost the life of a blacK man or do
auPh bnt rebound to his benefit. Let the in
| cOmIT o De emOoratic Administration only agree
| to keep It's hands of, and shall soon show
hich and what are the de yacto gOvernm
in the Southern STATES and then there will be
| no Rhode Island Dorr precedents To disturb the
| Ecales of the Supreme Court when they come TO
| weigh out justice to the people against lawless
| tyIaDpy and usuTpation"
There can be no misapprehending Mr..
Forsy this meaning. Glands OFF, is the result
he anticipates from Democratic success. He
would have Mr. Buchanan's passive attitude
repeated by the next President and sustained
Ivy the peXt House. Then, in his judgment,
the course will be clear. The white men of
the South will take the law into their own
hands, overturn the new Governments, dis
franchise the blacks and play havoc with re-
construction generally. A process of revolu-
tiOn, beginning with anarchy is what the
Southern extremists propose as means of re-
gaining control.
Are the Northern Democrats prepared to
ratify the bargain Are they ready to help
the Southern game by using the power of a
Democratic administration on the side of
another rebellion The World avoids COM
initial on the subject, though declaring that
ter the Withdrawal of Federal troops the re-
constructed governments will tumble to
pieces. To satisfy the Southern temper our
contemporary ought to declare that they shall
be violently upset-a Democratic Administra-
tiOn looking on cOmplacently.
The leading Pendleton Organ-the Cincin-
natl Enqurr-does so declare, explicitly, in