The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-22
A JANUS-FACED PARTY.
From The Harrisburg Patriot.

from He HdTfaSOUTg fdUtOJ
Emphatically the radical party is two
faced, double-dealing party. 1t acquired
power by protesting that it was not its inten-
tion to interfere with the rights and domestic
institutions of the States; and yet no sooner
was it well seated than it began, at first
insidiously, and soon openly, to assail both;
and it has continued ever since to do so.
There is not a State, North or South, that has
not had some right invaded, some outrage
committed upon it. Obviously it aims at
concentration of power in Federal hands;
and, slowly perhaps, but certainly, it is ap-
preaching the full consummation of it's de-
signs. Already, under radical construction
of the Constitution, and acts of Congress in
accordance with that construction, the Fede-
raj Government claims and exercises a
power inimical to the spirit of our free
institutions and dangerous to perso-
nal liberty. When soldiers are sent
in favor of the reigning power; when the
radical Governor of q reconstructed State is
sustained by Federal bayonets in making
arbitrary military arrests of limo ,ent citizens
and endeavoring to force from them confess
sions of guilt by revolving and barbarous
punishments-how far, we ask, are we re-
moved from despotism These things
have been done by the administration of
President Grant and approved by the Re-
publican party, and yet they are in direct
conflict with the professions of the radical
party before it came into power; and even
now, in the face of facts which stand out
patent to the world to give the lie to their
assertions, they still profess to be in
favor of the freest institutions and the
largest liberty. Because they have liberated
the slave, they claim to be the friends of
freedom. And yet their actions are all ad-
verse. The pages of the Federal statute
books are covered with laws as arbitrary as
are to be found among the statutes of Eng
land three centuries back, or any of the de-
crees of the Autocrat of all the Russias since
the days of Catharine. We find another in
stance of the two.facedness of the radical
party in this:-It processes now profound
friendship for Germany and the Germans.
1t applauds every act of King William, and
shouts aloud at every victory won by his gene
rails over the French; and yet at the last
session of Congress a naturalization law was
passed, SO stringent in its provisions that
Germans-and all of foreign birth-not
already naturalized, or not already having
filed their intentions, will find it very diff
cult thing to become citizens of the United
States.
We do not wish to do injustice even to this
radical party which has done so much wrong
to the country. But is not what we have
stated true? Its professions and its actual
pollcY are as VIDE asundef as The poles, and
in the name of constitutional liberty, which
it has outraged, wedenounce it. 1t has lived
by hypocrisy and deception. 1t has preached
one thing and practiced another. 1t has
worn two faces, and deserves to be-as we
trust it will be-politicslly damned for its
duplicity and double dealing
MR.. GREELEY'SLASTLU AT GRANT.
FSom the NJ Y. World.
The Tribune, having arranged New York
politics satisfactorily, now exudes on Penn
sylvania. After having persistently de-
nounced Philadelphia as the dirtiest, dullest.
and most disreputable city of our land. ii
now, under the startling caption of ga Dis
aster to be Averted, advises it what to do.
1t seems there is bitter feud among the
radical brethren of that peaceful region;
that the smooth surface of loyal brotherly,
love,
"where birds of calm safe broodng on the charmed
wave,"
is ruffled; and two little stormy petrels-liter-
ally ''Mother Careys chickens" "-ONeill and
Greeley, are heralding Radical tempest.
Each wants to go to Congress. Each has
active and no doubt interested friends. On
the broad shoulders of Covode, O'Neill
perches and twitters Unwashed Radicalism
sustaiDs Greeley. The Tribune eounsels the
sxelusion of both avidanfIw hos No..