The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-02


clique or no corruption can delay justice.
The convict was rich, defended by all possible |
influence, and was found guilty. None who |
are criminals could unite more elements Ia |
their favor, but popular and legal Judgment |
alike found him to be the murderer. Every |
one may at last sec in practice the poetic
sentment:- !
TOO the mills OF God grind slowly,
Yet they grind exceeding small
Tho with patience he STANDS waiting,
With exactpess grinds be ell'
Reconstruction and the Incoming Adj
ministratiOn.
IT is highly desirable that all the issues aris
ing out of reconstruction should be adjusted
by Congress prior to the fourth Of March.
The interest with which this subject was at one
time invested has already greatly diminished,
and the whole work is so nearly finished that
there is no good reason for procrastination in
reference to the few details requiring
further legislation. Andrew Johnson will
rank in history as the head of reconstruc-
tion administration, and as one who, while
thamefully neglecting all the general duties
Of the Presidential Office, failed utterly in
achieving the objects which specially en-
crossed his attention. He virtually tried to
suppress Congress, and Congress in turn, not
withstanding the failure Of impeachment has
ralsied the arm of the Executive and made
Presidential vetoes as nugatory as De-
mocratic editorials. The real govern
ment of the country has been trans
ferred to Congress to larger extent than
at any former period of national history, the
hain Ifr
ton. Although Andrew Johnson is no longer
a foeman worthy of the steel of the famous
and favorite Representatives Of the people,
they owe it to their own dignity and to the
loyal interests they have espoused, to COM
plete during his term of Office the work they
have thus far auspiciously prosecuted, so that
he may retire to the adermanio shades Of
Greenville SO completely foiled at every point
that his fate may serve as perpetual warning
to traitorous executives who would bstray
confding constituencies and antagonze the
American people. Very little further legisla-
tion is necessary, but the new safeguards
which are required should be promptly esta-
Llished, and an opportunity should be pre-
sented to all the States of adopting uniform
system of suffrage. This whole subject should
be disposed of while the disc ussions to which
it has given rise are fresh in the memory c1
the public. 1t should be finally adjusted now
=, because the pressing necessity for the conside
. ration of financial topics will presently force
it into comparative obscurity. 1t should bt
T.. adjusted to complete the victory of Congress
the overthrow of a treacherous President, anC
g the protection of Southern loyalists. But IL
=. addition to all these cogent reasons, there II
;. another Of equal or even greater Importance
1t arises from the evident propriety of so ar
- ranging the public business that Genera
y, Grant may be unencumbered with the issue
- originated by Johnson, and that he may devet
=, his exclusive attention to the important Pres
=, Dental duties which have recently been sadl
neglected, and to such new questions a
NAV demand Executive action. Whateve
20 may be the leading features of Gener'
~ Grants policy, he can scarcely desire
participate prominently in the conclr
sion Of an efIete controversy, nor wis
:. that Congress should be engrossed with sui
:. ordinate features of an adjourned quarrel at
80 time when their attention may be required
W momentous new questions. The Republics
-. party mas gulueo the ns'lohal uesIinr
" through one Presidential term OF fierce intern
~ war, through another of reconstruction al
- antagonism arising from Presidential treacher
~ and as it is about to enjoy, for the first tim
=, a lease of power under favorable oircu'
81 stapces--pesce prevailing, and concord exi
ing between the Executive and Congress-
~ are anxious that no pains should be spared
-. ensure the success of this experiment. Let I
n0 decks be cleared for General Grant, so Il
:, the ship of state may not be overloaded W
VA old ballast when she commences her n
. o. voyage. We have an abiding faith that
no incoming President will faithfully strive
w. execute the laws, to collect the revenues,
:" protect peaceful citizens, to restore tranquil
was and prosperity, to administer the Governm'
~ OS' economically, and to cause 1t to be respec
'0'' at home and abroad. He will find in
Voc, VOC simple duty of reforming the Executive
n@' part ments of the Government wide field
lou his energies, and we trust that Congress '
n'' evince disposition to render every posi-
uiy assistance to his Efforts to render the Pr
ave Dental Office once more preGminently use
NV NV to the people.
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