Year: 1866

The cable speaks loudly to the tax payers o


the United States. 1t tells us that the first efec


of the news from the Philadelphia Convention
was to raise the price of rebel bonds. Was tina


Legitimate result of the action of that body =


Most assuredly it was for its whole object ant


purpose was to justify the South, and prove thu


North, or rather the Nation, to be in the wrong


The avowed object was to overbear the decision


of Congress, that rebel States should wait foi
representation till we got security for the future


The Convention demands the immediate admls


sion of those representatives. What Will AT once


follow they have taken great care not to teli Us


The English rebel bondholders answer witnou,


the least hesitation. Let Congress be luii y, .,


rebels and Copperheads and the rebel debt VIII


be provided for. Their argument is this : ue'


half of Congress the rebel side, or even gel a


third, then bring two or three thousand millions


Of rebel bonds and scatter them freely among


Congressman and their friends and the worn VI


getting them paid in full or in part is easy


That is the way they reason, doubtless now Is


it fair inference from the action of the fnila-


delpha Convention that they desire this or wnat-


ever they desire, that the result will follow Let


us see They certainly mean to get anybody IN


to Congress that will oppose the present MAJOR


ty. They can elect nobody by themselves they


can unite with nobody but Democrats therefore
anybody that opposes the present Congress tnat
be elected will receive their votes 1T will be


Democrats, and they will go with the South in
everything. The result will certainly and surely


be to get men who will 60 for any scheme of
plunder that will pay, especially one at once so
profitable and so grateful to the feelings of Sc
csssionists North and South. The fact is and
there is no Disgusting it, the whole tendency of
the Philadelphia movement is to get the same
men into power that made the rebellion at first !;
with the same hearts and purposes that then pos
sessed them-with this additional advantage, that
they will have the Government and will only
need to rule, and not secede or rebel. And if
any man goes with the new party he goes with
his eyes open into the rebel camp, ready to strike
at the heart of the nation if they cannot rule it.
In fact, the movement itself is such a blow. The
President and Mr.. Seward may profess to stand
on the Baltimore platform, but the fact that
they have seeded from the Union party is still
too stubborn to be denied And they are self
convicted by their very attitude. If the contest
was one of Interpretation alone, staying in the
party their voices would have been potential in
the highest degree, and might have drawn ma
jority to their views but they left the Union
ranks and went out from us, and now it is too
late to claim that they stand upon our platform.
And they may deny the perfectly logical infer
ences which the keeneyed rebels and their friends,
the rebel bondholders draw, but intelligent men
everywhere see just where they are bound to go
and what their attitude and end must inevitably
be. But there is another side beside the financial
that is readily seen by the British sympathizers
with the rebellion. They that it is a reaction
in favor of despotsn, it is plainly another defec


tion from liberty, equality and fraternity, and as
such they rejoice and glad in it Tyrants,
however blind in other respects, are keen to per-
ceive the family likeness they never mistake
their own relations. They had been startled to
watchfulness by the tyrannical treachery of the
President toward the Fenians they could hardly
believe their own eyes when they saw it. But
now comes 90 confirmation strong as proofs of
holy writ, and they are abundently satisfied :;
then clap their hands in high glee. They thought
when the great mob up the mightiest nation
of the earth, and made land shake and the sea
boil with their prowess, and buried the monster
rebellion amid the ruins of its desoation,
disbanded its army and moved quietly on to its
great destiny, that Despotism dead and Lib
erty triumphant; and they hung their harps on THE
willows, and sighed sweetly for our cotton trade
and whispered lovingly of amity but their hopes
revive again when they the fallen Con-
federacy lifted up by the Executive of the nation
with one hand, while with the other he smites
the men who smote down treason. All the des


pots will sing again, and they begin, early, as
they did before and they do well to improve the
moments as they fly, for as the people were equal
to the emergency then will they be now, and
rebel bonds and despotc hopes will fall together.
And while the President helps raise monument
to Senator Douglas, let him ponder well the
form of one to stand above the young Johnson
party, for its days numbered. 90 Who the
gods love die young" and the gods of Demo-
cracy love the young thing with exceeding great
affection, and it will soon repose, sleeping its
last long sleep, in the bosom of Democracy As
he looks about upon the acres of Democrats that
surrounded him to catch his lightest word, let
him say to his followers, aye living men, come
view the ground where you must shortly lie ~