The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-27
THE FENIAN SCARE.

the number of Chinese in their employment.
THE FENIAN SCARE.
From the Toronto Globe
We are unable, from the information before
us, to discover the faintest CLEAN of Fenan
bayonets along the whole line of frontier now
supposed to be guarded with such jealous
care by the volunteer troops of the Dominion.
We say supposed, because there are indica-
tions in the kilograms that Just where the
Fenians ought to come the preparations are
stupidity inadequate and even of a nature to
invite successful attack. Soldiers without
pants in Quebec-artillery without supports
in Ontario 'Twould make one angry if the
conviction were not forced upon the mind,
that after all the whole thing is bogus, and
that the men who have control of affairs
don't really believe in it. If SO, the cost of
the pants and of sending another corps of
infantry to the front may as we'll be saved.
As matters stand, either the Government is
fooling the people or criminally neglecting
its duty.
We noticed in q recent issue the negligence
of persons in charge of the commissariat of
q volunteer regiment which was compelled, in
consequence, to travel whole day without
food. Our Quebec correspondent gives rather
dismal picture of militia administration in
that province generally. Not only do the mus
ters fall far short of the enrolled strength, but
there are no uniforms for many of the men
when they present themselves. acquisitions
have been kept for year in the circumlocu-
tion Office at Ottawa, and then finally have
been lost. When there is stir and the
young gentlemen of Ottawa are persuaded to
drop the Saturday Reoieao the Minister pro-
vides for the improvementsof their minds,
and attend to business, they find tunics and
caps in abundance, but no pants We once
heard of savage chief whose sole article of
dress was a gorgeous military cap, nature
being left to provide the remainder of his
uniform. This seems to be the sort of notion
about a soldiers equipment prevailing at
Ottawa, if there are any ''notions" at all in
that region. The pants, before mentioned,
are on one side of the Atlantic, the caps and
TUNES on the other. This reminds one of the
old Crimean story over again, and those blum
ders of inefficient and supercilious ministers
and their clerks cost the lives of an army.
THE AMENDMENT CELEBRATION.
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
The negroes of Pennsylvania generally
devoted yesterday April 26) to the formal cele-
bration of the adoption of the fifteenth
amendment. There was nothing in the day
which distinguished it from any other in the
rolling year, but with race which has made
no record in political or military achieve
ment, the 26th of April will serve their pur-
| pose as we'll as any of those which have been
made memorable in the history of other races
| The anniversary of San Domingo massacre,
| to which alone the negroes can recur, would
| i'll befit the tame celebration of victory in
| the accomplishment of which they have
| struck scarcely blow. From the abundant
preparations for this day it is quite evident
that the negroes have been at more pains to
appropriately celebrate the amendment than
they have ever been at to achieve it.
tI.-I Al,Asn l~.1.l,a ,aat
glory and pride in wrestling their own privi-
leges from those who sought to withhold
them, and have left posterity to sing the
peans of victory. Having won their fran
chises with their own good right hands, they
have jealously guarded what they SO dearly
earned. But in this case the fruit has fallen
without shaking, and is rotten before ripe.
The Anglo-Saxons made their amendments at
Runnymeae and Philadelphia, and celebrated
them with hard blows on the field of battle.
But the careless negroes exult to-day over
the possession of franchise, the struggle
for which cost them nothing, and which can
be lost for them with the same indifference
with which it was gained. The Caucasians
have built with their own hands the bridges
over which they have marched in the conflict
for their rights and liberties. They have ex
perienced the truth that the bread of liberty
must be earned in bloody sweat. Their in
| uOmluaDle SplrlC mas kepI UneHl lrou perina
nent subjugation, and has rendered then
worthy of the enjoyment of freedom.
But without struggle, by the accident o.
a civil conflict in which they had little part
the negroes come into the possession of {
franchise which has cost the Anglo-Saxon
years of revolution and conflict. The negroes
gain ignorant enjoyment of the suffrage il
the selfish determination of political part.
to maintain possession of power, at ever!
hazard to liberty itself BY giving them th'
privileges of the ballot, the radicals have de
graded it, and given a wider scope for tn
operations of the demagogues who prey oil
the prejudices of the ignorant. With tn
franchise the negroes only change thei
masters. The same want of spiri
which has made them slaves through
all the centuries in which tn
Caucasians have been marching to thu
proudest triumphs of intellect, will keeI
them slaves, even though they be armed will
ballots. The yoke will remain yoke, whethe
they obey master in the Georgia rice-felds
or the DEGREES of a lodge of loyal leaguers
Instead of enlarging the area of freedom, tn
radicals, by admitting the negroes to the suf
frage, have made the outposts of liberty onl
the more difficult of defense With the newly
enfranchised field hands in the numerica
superiority in a number of States, it will b
, hard to defeat the schemes of corrupt dema
gogues by the most unremitting efforts of tn
truly patriotic and well-disposed.
r While the procession passes, it may not b
A | out of Dlace to once more remind the whit