The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-17


dates for the Governorship were TO be nomi-
mated by both wings of the Republican party
who represented both sides of the question at
issue between Republicans. But whilst the
question among the Republicans more and
more assumed the character Of mere family
quarrel the citizens of Virginia took the thing
up in good earnest. and, using the opportu-
nifty SO generously offered to them, freed
themselves of their oppressors together with
the proposed oppressive restrictions. This is
the simple history of the attempts to divide
the radical party IL was evidently intended
by the President himself, and he and some of
his most devoted friends based The whole
glory Of his administration upon this split
and upon the subsequent establishment and
predominance of a conservative Republican
party. When he was nearer to success than
he probably knew himself some radical part-
san bulles in his own Cabinet frightened
him, and now he disowns what he him
self originally inaugurated. There is
not the least doubt that the watchword Of
General Grants concliatory policy was
given to all the managers and fabricators of
the radical public opinion. Not only did we
discover the signs of this in the whole radical
press of the Union, but the same conciliatory
views were also communicated 10y regular radi-
cal correspondents to foreign newspapers We
will translate an extract from letter written
to the G0.cttc, of Cologne, by its regular cor
respondent, which bears on its face the in
junction of preparing the way in Germany,
which so far was only accessible to ultra radi-
cal views on American politics, for the new
conservative policy of the present administra-
ton. The radical ietter-writer says:-
'The election in Virginia is over, and it has re-
suited in large maJorites for the so-caed conserva-
tivCs c. G. Walker merchant, born in the State
of New York, was elected by forty thousand ma
orty against Wells, the candidate of the radicals
a
forty to hfty in the Assembly, and the Constitution,
exclusive of the dsfranchsing clauses was adj d5pted
by majority of upwards of 10000. This is an i'm
mense and important triumph Of the COnciliatOry
policy OF the present administration
And then the correspondent goes on de-
nouncing the carpet-baggers as a band of ad-
Venturers and reckless Office hunters: con-
gratuating Virginia upon being delivered
from them and predicting the return of the
Old Dominion to it's former glory and rank
among the States of the Union.
Every word of this panegyric of the present
| administration, and the effect of its policy in
| Virginia-undeniably true as it was for short
while, still very creditable to the President
| also-is now disowned by him; and what was
| called triumph Of his concliatory policy is
now treated as an attempt to split the Repub-
| lican party, and as an attempt which it's ori-
| ginator himself denounces and deprecates.
1t required fully eighteen years to show the
! impOssibility of establishing a so-called just
medium between right and wrong in France
| The common sense of General Lafayette, as
| early as 1880, discovered that ''between two
times two are four and two times two are
| five there could be no just medium, but that
everything between the two must constantly
! be wrong. France had either to be ruled
| despoticaIly OF in accordance with a liberal
constitution; and, whilst he was for liberty,
Louis Philippe expected to rule the French
with a whip in his hand and the Jacobin bon
net on his head. 1t is exactly the same thing
in regard to a conciliatory policy here. If it
is really intended to reconcile, the administra-
tion must do right throughout, and not talk
Cancellation and act disfranchisement, and
thereby please nobody. A reconciliation, by
which it meant that Southern men should
elect Northern carpet-baggers or send to the
| United States Senate politicians who would
| trample the rights of those who elected them
| in the dust is no reconciliation at all. 1t is q
phantom created in the imagination of per-
haps awell-meaning man, but evidently not of
a man of clear understanding.