The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-09

more years to Danish the last vestipes Of
human chattelhood from tropical Americl
but the end is no longer doubtful nor remote
The dawn of the next century will irradiate no
slave-hut in Christendom.
For what has been achieved, as also for its
fruits not yet realized, let universal thanks
givings ascend to God. The Millennium is
not here, and not likely soon to be. Injustice,
oppression, and tyranny-fraud, prohigacy,
and misery-still darken the earth Sensual
ity and iniquity abound. Corruption and
prodigality profane the high places of the
land. Abject poverty and brutal ignorance
are still the lot of millions, even in this
boasted land of freedom and opportunity
Yet it is very much to have established firmly
the principle that the law is no good mans
enemy, but the friend of every virtuous
effort. If the State is yet unable to lift all
men up, 1t no longer holds any down. The
child born tomorrow in the most squalid
hovel may yet become President of the United
States.
And now is the time to seal our great tri-
umph by enacting and proclaiming universal
amnesty. Our civil war virtually closed with
Lees surrender five years ago. No armed
force has marched or fred shot under the
flag of the Southern Confederacy since May,
1865. There are bad men who still commit
outrages there is not, and for years has not
been, any open, embodied resistance to the
Federal authority and laws. 1t is high time
that every one were officially assured that no
penalty still impends over him for anything
done or threatened in the interest and under
the flag of the Rebellion.
We ought for our own sakes to identify
universal amnesty with impartial suffrage.
We ought to make one the complement of the
other so that they should henceforth have a
common vitality, common longevity. We
ought to be able to say, 1.-The edifice is
crowned; the work is complete; henceforth,
woe to him who recklessly disturbs and i'm
perils it !"
There are still heart -burnings at the South.
There are men who lament the fall of the
Confederacy, and do not love the flag of the
Union. Prescription and disfranchisement
are the aliment whereon their morbid feel
ings subsist. They are Gin effect) patents of
nobility in the eyes of class respectable in
! numbers and strong in social position. To say
! of Southron, ''He cannot vote: he is for
! hidden to hold Office, is to invest him with
peculiar and often envied distinction. His
children take up the quarrel which a mis-
taken policy fastens upon him; they are
trained to hate the Government which brands
him as unworthy the rights of citizen, and
| to detest the race with whose enfranchise-
ment his prescription is in their minds iden-
titled. We can never have genuine peace
while we still hold many thousands as virtual
! prisoners of war.
Let us close the contest Let those who
are grandly triumphant be wisely magnani
NOUS Let us shut the temple of Janus, anG
proclaim to all mankind that we have for
gotten that we were lately enemies ant
remember only that we were formerly
brethren. Let us fill the ranks of loyalty by
effacing all pretext for further disloyalty
Let the world rejoicingly note that, as tn,
| blood of no PROSTATE foe stains our triumph
no vindictive feeling fingers in our hearts
that we conquered, not for party, caste,
section, but for all humanity. Let us hav,
| Peace