Year: 1866




The Niger Wershippers' Convention i'm Phil
adclphia.


In our graphic reports of the present Phila-
delphia Convention, as In mirror, radicalism
may see It's own hideous and grotesque image
clearly reflected The Convention is composed
Of the worst fanatics of the North and the
South, and the only contest between them is as
to which shall go to the greater extremes. The
Northern radicals are in favor Of cheating the
negroes by postponing all declarations upon
the subject Of negro suffrage, for expediency's
sake, so as to delude our voters into retaining
them in favor at the coming elections but the
Southern radicals, who have no supporters
among the white men, and whose only hope Is
in the blacks, oppose this policy bitterly and
insist that the right Of the negroes to vote shall
be emphatically asserted. Reinforced by Mr.
Greeley, who was beaten upon this very ques-
ton in the Syracuse Convention, they may pos
sibly succeed but no matter what right is
claimed for the negroes, it is universally con-
ceded by these radicals, in the language Of Sen
ator Chandler, that the only rights which the
Southern white people possess are the con-
stitutional right to be hanged and the divine
right to be damned"


In froth and fury, in violence and vindictive-
ness, in rant and rage, this radical cabal ex-
ceeds any Jacobin club or any assemblage Of
fire eaters. The Convention was opened on
Wednesday by a blasphemous TRADE from the
irreverend Mr.. Newman, who prayed God to
deliver US from the rule OF bad men, espe-
cially from him who through Satanic agency
has been raised to authority over u.s." and
who asked still more directly for the assassi-
nation Of the President by shouting, Great
God, interpose, and, in making bare Thine arm
for vengeance, save US from his infamous and
ruinous policy" Not many months ago. we
remember, clergymen were fined and impris-
oned, at the solicitation Of these very radicals.
for simply emitting the name of the President
in their prayers. What, then, shall be said of
those who pray for the Presidents death or
assassination? They must not forget that their
curses may yet come home to roost and that
the poisoned chalice they prepare for him may
be commended to their own lips. John Minor
Bolts, who said that some one ought to be
found to put out Secretary Seward's light = the
Illinois delegate, who "promiscd good row
in Chicago y Mr.. Greeley, who wrote that Pre-
sident johnson should "hang outside the
VERGE" and all the other radicals who indulge
in these threats are but storing up wrath against
the day of wrath. Should any harm befall the
President in consequence of their utterances
nothing can save them from the indignation Of
of the people. They will die, hunted and
crippled, like J. Wilkes Booth, or manned and
bleeding, like Robespierre, and in oil our large
cities few lamp posts will be without their radi-
cal pendants. Those who sow the winds will
reap the whirlwinds.


The country is now upon the eve Of terrible
dangers The Northern rebellion has de-
veloped its purposes, and Il must be as sternly
suppressed as the Southern rebellion ought to
have been at its inception. The radical plots
which we have long since exposed are now
openly avowed. Speaker Tremain, at the SYRIA
cuse Convention, announced that the radical
programme was to exclude the electoral votes
Of the Southern States from the next Presiden-
tial election; TO remove the President IL he
objected to this exclusion and to march rad
ical army through the South il any resistance
were offered to this course. The delegates to
tho Philadelphia Convention I'LL up the out
lines of the plan sketched by Tremain and
assert that President johnson must be got out
of the way, either by impeachment or assassi-
nation, and TIM. negro insurrection must be
melted to still further cripple and weaken the
South. The extracts from radical papers
which we publish elsewhere are full Of the
same diabolical language. All these threats
are omlnous Of trouble. Should the worst
come TO the worst we 90 not fear the issue,
because we know that the loyal, patriotic and
conservative men OF the country are in so vast
majority that they will be able to crush the
radicals at once. But are we ready for an
other civil war at our own doorsy Is the pros
perity of the country to be again checked and
the safety Of republican institutions again i'm
periled! Are our streets to run with blood
and our houses to be transformed into private
arsenasy The bitter experiences Of the past
four years will be exceeded IL the radicals
carry ont their revolutionary projects. Then
the worst miseries OF the war were reserved
Tor the South but In the new rebellion they
will be brought to our own firesides. The
only way to avert this catastrophe is for the
people 10 administer to the radicals so over
whelmng rebuke at the polls this fall that
oil thoughts Of insurrection will be abandoned
as futile. The ballot box fortunately psecedes
the bayonet and the bullet Let the people
take care that in this case Il shall also super
sedc these weapons Of death.


REDUcToN OF THE NATIONAL DEBr AND In
CONE OF THE GovrRNxEST.--The periodical
statement OF the public debt and our national
finances by the Secretary Of the Treasury is
very encouraging. The public debt was re,