The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-10

plans OF those VINO traded on his credullty to
work their own success over the prosperity of
his longest and truest friends.
After this we can see the answer to "Let us
have peace" After this we can see what is
the "success of the Congressional system of
reconstruction on which the Chicago plat
form congratulated the country, and of which
the late election of a minority President has
been proclaimed as a ratification.
No, gentlemen, your house was built upon
the sand. The rains are descending and the
floods are come which beat upon that house.
1t will fall, and great will be the fall of it.
Two Civil Wars at Once-The Oyster aud
Other SpOils.
From the NJ r World.
Old Abe was of opinion that it was best to
have one war at a time, and permitted the
nation to endure at the hands OF England the
insult and outrage OF the Alabama business
rather than violate so safe a rule. Hence the
destruction of our commerce and our temper
and terrible loss of time in reading Stewards
dispatches, to say nothing of the vexatiOn of
Reverdy Johnson, and his apologies to that
famous old Invalid, the British lion, for our
bad behavior. Now we are more than half
ready to convict Old Abe of a too timid spirit,
of too great fearfulness of war; for here We
have actuslly doubled Old Abe's allowance
without evident damage. We have two wars
on hand, raging in full fury, either as bad as
the Dorr war in Rhode Island or the anti-rent
war up the Hudson, or the whisky war in
Pennsylvania, or Peter Stuyvesant's dreadful
war with the Delaware men, or any other of
the famous wars of history--two such wars,
and we are none the worse for them, or not
much the worse. Except for q little tightness
in the money market down in Wall stIeet,
tendency TO speculation and panic in all sorts
of fancy printed paper, an unusual extrava-
gance in the style of ladies' dresses at the
| I'D Ia Af ~.
W. b. in the papers, we might almost fancy
that there was as profound peace in the
land as we all hope there will be when Grant
takes hold.
Yet there is dreadful war on the Chesa-
peake waters between the Virginians and the
Marylanders. From the character of the COM
batants this war evidently is no triile. We
all know how the Virginians fight. Haven't
we heard of the Army of Northern Virginia,
| and Stonewall Jackson, and Governor Wise,
aud Magruder, and Lee, and all the other sons
of the mother of States and of statesmen,
who, though she has lately been looked upon
as no better than she ought to be, is stout
old girl nevertheless We know that the
| Virginians will fght-at least while they pre-
serve that fine sensibility of character that
makes the fear of being laughed at for RAINING
| away more terrible than the fear of an enemy
in front. We also know that the Marylanders
will fight. We know the history of the Balti-
more streets. Moreover, we have heard
of the Maryland line. Whether it is only
q common chalk line, or whether 1t is a
first cousin to the equator, or whether it
is the line with which they catch
| the Spanish mackerel they have at
! Guys, is a point of NO Importance whatever.
| We have heard that this line, like "Solon
| Shingles" grandfather, ''6t into the Revolu-
] tion," and we have no doubt it ''ft'' better
than Mill did, for there good material in it..
1t was composed two regiments Of Infantry
| all lrlshmen. Thus there Is no doubt that
the Marylanders will fight and theVirginians
will fight if there is an object worthy of their
| prowess in dispute, and the object in this case
is-the oyster They will fight, of course.
| Whowould not fight for his oysters Now
that nigger-breediDg as business is done
! with, now that the soil of Virginia is SO ex-
! hausted for tobacco that the best districts
| hardly give crop, and now that, as always,
| it takes labor to raise wheat, the oyster is
| VirginiR's bottom dollar-her last source of
| wealth; SO she will fight in this war with all
| the chivalry of her spirit-frst, because the
object is her beloved oyster; next, because il
| is the last resource of her sons in making
money. Maryland, therefore, is not going to
I have an easy time on the Chesapeake.
| The other war is in Florida, and is trivial to
| the oyster war. 1t is a war Of the politicians
] about the plunder. We have no great respect
for the Florida fighters themselves. They
! threshed little Hay once, Old Abe's secretary,
/ pretty badly; but as Hay was not of much
account on the field Of slaughter, they are en-
titled to no honor for the achievement. But
this Florida war has more serious aspect
when we remember that all the combatants OF
! both sides went from Massachusetts,. Massa-
chusetts will fight terribly when the spoils are
in danger; SO there may be some bloody noses
| yet. 1t seems the Legislature has found out
that the Governor has got better hold on the
| State purse than they have, and that he ''lies''
THAT being radical for difference of opiniOn)
so they have impeached him. He in return
1 has impeached all the members in his way
has declared their seats vacant under the
Constitution because they held other offices
The war win give us a fine view of the way
government is carried on in reconstructed
State, unless (Which fortune forfend y the par
ties, finding each others power, make peace
on a fair distribution OF the spoils.