SPIRIT OF TIIE TRESS. MWTOBlAl OrtHIOKB Of TH1 LBADIHO JOCHHALB VTOW ODKBKS TOPICS COMPILED EVKBT DAT FOB TBI BTBNINO TKLKORiFH. Grimes o Protection. From theF. Y. Tribune. The Hon. James W. Grimes, Lnitod States Senator from Iowa, has writteu a letter touch lugtbe tariff question, which, we published a fevr days since. He says truly that "tha Republican party lias never taken any position on the subjeot Of a tariff." That is not quite oorreet, as he trill flee by consulting the Chicago Platform 0f I860. But we quite agree with him on the Xnain point, that the Republican party was founded on other iasuos and contemplates Other ends than those of protection or free trade. -And we will unite with him in main taining the right of every Republican to be a rrotectioniat or free trader, as he shall see fit. jio man ia the less a Republican for any opinion he may cherish on questions of politi cal economy. - But Mr. Grimes seems to us uncandid in his treatment of the Tariff question, lie may or may not be right in his astertion that four fifths of the Republicans of Iowa think as he does on this question; if he is right, he has the less excuse for treating the matter un fairly. And when he asserts that the end 'avowed'y sought by the advocates of the tariff bill of last winter" was "to destroy the reve nue from imports," he says what is not true. We regret the necessity of saying this; but lattice must take precedence of courtesy. We do not doubt that the Senator can cite some Isolated expression that seems to countenance his assertion; but we appeal to the general tenor of the tariff speeches in Congress, as officially reported In the Globe, as demon strating the inaccuracy of the Senator's asser tion. Morethan forty years ago, when a boy In Vermont, we heard the chief land-owner of our Bection declare that, if the protective policy were adopted, it would destroy the revenue from imports and compel the impo sition of a Federal laud tax: then, he said, lie should sell out his real estate and re turn to Boston to spend the remainder of his days. He read the Boston papers then all for free trade and he really believed that a protective taiitf would have the effect he as serted. The Evening 1'ort reiterated the like wna assertions iu io-o, am k"u " vre have repeatedly quoted. Then "the Black tariff1 was to destroy our foreigu co.umrtrce and dry up our revenue from imports. Kx . perience proved these doleful prophecies Utterly mistaken. Our revenue from imports was increased by protection, just as it has been large beyond precedent for the last three years, under a tariff which Mr. Grimes pronounces 'the highest ' ever known in a civilized country." That the present tariff is high on many arti cles is true; but Mr. Grimes keeps out of Bight the facts that we have an excise on raw cotton, and another on every description of Lome-made textile fabrics; and thus tax upon tax is piled upon our home manufactures, while our inflated circulating medium increases the cost of home production in every particu lar, and taxes on property, production, and income hunt the American producer through every stage of his effort. Governor Grimes, we submit, deals unfairly with the matter in HurvDressine these vital facta. We quite agree with the Senator that the ' business first in order and in importance is Re construction. We trust that ia to be taken in hand with firm resolve to complete it this winter, if Johnson and lm backers do not prevent. But it is not possible to repress either discussion or action on the tariff ques " tion; and Governor Grimes, seeing that hp differs with the great majority of Republicans in Congress and out of it, ought to treat that " majority and their views with fairness, if not 1 with respect. He has changed, they have not, since the good old days when we stood together for Harry Clay and protection to home industry; and a decent regard for the principles which he maintained through the better part of his life should have prevented uio w ruing ma laie tetter. Pennsylvania. From the N. Y. Tribune. There ia no great excitement in Pennsylva , nia in political matters, and the canvass pro ceeds in a very quiet way. There being . either President, Governor, nor Congross " man to vote for, we cannot expect a very full poll.' The highest officer to be chosen is a .Judge of the Supreme Court, for which place the Republicans name Judge Henry W, Wil - iiams of Pittsburg, and the Democrats put forth Judge George Sharswood of PMladel-, phia. The whole vote of the State last year, ' When Governor Geary was elected, was 97,370; but the year before, on Auditor General, It was only 454, 2o3 a difference of 143,107. The coming vote will probably reach contdderably over 600,000, though it will '' doubtless fall far short of that in lfco'O. There is a Congressman to elect in the Twelfth Dis ' triot, in place of the Hon. Charles Denisoa (Dem.), deceased, who served in the last two :i Congresses, and was again chosen by a small : majority. For this vacancy the Democrats have nominated ex-Chief Justice Woodward, who ' held the draft to be unconstitutional, and ' wished that the line between the Northern and Southern States could be drawn along the Delaware river, so that he might become a citizen of the Confederacy. At the last elec , tion the . Democratic majority in this District " (Luzurne and Susquehanna counties) was but 615, and Mr. Ketchum, the Union candidate, gave notice that he ehiuuld contest the seat. With Mr. Woodward in the field, the Republi cans ought to carry the District by a haud sorne majority. - . Ordinarily, it would be a matter pf small oousequenee whether a Republican or a Deuio : crat should be chosen to the bench of the Su , preme Court, but in the present instance the L case is vitally important. Judge Kharewood , ia the standard-bearer of a principle, and that "..principle Inspires the foes of speedy and just reconstruction. His triumph would be that ' of the party which opposed the war, and has -el nee labored to pervert its natural results. : Ilia election wQtild be a Copperhead victory. Judge Williams, the Republican candidate, . is an able, upright, loyal man, descended from i Connecticut family, educated at Amherst College, and eminent at the bar for extensive legal acquirements and natural ability. The i only charge thus far brought againbt him by tha onnositlon is that he is a Connecticut Yan ' but that absurdity lost its point when the lS'ntineg State elected English for Governor j It la DeinocrftiiQ. lerniui uv, uu. u w ir,t Kfate to niicrate from. '' .'. ' Until their unexpected success in California, the Democrats bad no nope ot carrying renn. ' aylvaiiia; but since that event they have wua THE DAILl EVENING TELEG R AFII PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 18G7. tered courage and are growing quite confident. It is certain that they win poll a heavy vote, and we warn our friends to pi f pare for a hard fight. They can win by twenty thousand ma jority if they do their duty; but to do this iu fact, to win at all the vote must be got out. Bo far the canvass has Wn tame. Let our friends take pattern by Ohio, and wake up the sluggards. The gain "oi Pennsylvania would give the Democracy substantial cause for hope in the next Presidential contest; and should it be carried with a half diHguiaed repudiator at the head of the sueeessfnl ticket, the dam age 10 me puono credit would be deplorable. There are not quite three weeks of working time left; bnt a great deal may be done in that period. While we have no tears of the result, we repeat the suggestion that it will require hard work and constant vigilauce to secure the victory which is clemly our due. The President and Congress Dlajrrarlnft T.t ""tfr-N'aaaUy for a flaw Con tltntlonal Party. From the iV. Y. Herald. He who is always under the influence of un reasonable prejudices and bad temper, who suffers his conduct to be guided by whimsical likes and dislikes, rather than by his judg ment, and who at all times is ready to engage in the undignified strife of epithets, to contend in vile phrases and exhaust the vocabulary of personal abuse such a man will scarcely retain the respect of his associates In any grade of life, and will be peculiarly fortunate if he is not sooner or later ruled out of all company that has any lingering sense of what is decent. As it is with individuals and in ordinary social intercourse, bo it is with men and bodies of men in higher relations. Between tha Presi dent on one hand and Congress on the other there has raged too long already an unseemly, undignified, altogether disgraceful contention, that is only different from the ill-natured quar rels of common life in being worse, since in the one case the parties to a vile dispute could only degrade themselves, while here the coun try also must take a portion of the opprobrium the very national name must be dragged in the mire. At least, unless the people of the country shall show that they are outraged by the spectacle, shall protest agaiust the dis graceful conduct of Presideut and Congress together as manifested in this pitiful quarrel, and shall indicate unmistakably the disp3si tion to rule 6ueh parties out of the nation's councils, this war of President and party must stand as the characteristic conduct of our higher political life and as the nation's dis grace. An undue license of speech was indulged on the floor of Congress in referring to ?.Ir. John son's course iu the attempted reconstruction of the Southern . States; and the peculiarly violent and virulent radical leaders assailed not only the acts, but the motives of the Presi dent, in terms more fitting a bar-room brawl than a Congressional discussion. This was an unworthy departure from the dignity of par liamentary usage. Words thus- spoken an noyed and irritated the President, and he so far forgot the decorum of his high position as to exhibit himself to the country writhing uuder the smart of that irritation. His vindictive speech in reply will be memorable iu our his tory as the first speech by which a President of the United States ever deliberately showed that he had no conception of the proprieties of his office. Congressmen in both houses showed but too great readiness to descend with the President to the lowest level disputation cau take, as if moved by the instinct that teajshes thenar to heal his wounds with his tongue. So from one point af degradation to another the mieerable quarrel went, and all the factions developed their games from one side to the other of this difference. The impudence and the atrocious principles of the radicals, who concealed their minority in Congress under the noise of this dispute, had full soope. By this dispute the Republican majority, that was conservative and inclined to mild measures, was driven to accept the measures of the radi cals for fear of seeming to side with the Presi dent in what was made to appear his quarrel with the whole party. Even the next to idiotic Copperheads, who thought, with a Machiavellian fancy, that by voting with the radicals, and helping to carry their extreme measures, they might frighten the country, even they fell in t- be the mere tools of those who started the fight, and the political senti ment and tone of that quarrel affects the way in which polilios are discussed ever siuoe. The latest speech of the Vice-President of the United States outdoes the most violent of the President's own diatribes; and not long since the sarnn distinguished politician deliberately proposed the overturning of the old established order of society. Must we go on thus from bad to worse, and follow to its last result the direction' given to political events by the disgraceful quarrel of i he President and the factious? Is there no Stopping place short of absolute national degra- elation r There is but one way to etieot a change. The moderate and sensible people, the respectable masses of the Republican party that vast indefinite body of thinking men that form the nation aud cannot become the tools of the factions theite must come out, boldly, openly, aud distinctly, aud declare against the radical faction, tha so-called con servative faction, the 'Copperhead faction, and the President with the rest. They uiiut throw over all the parties to this quarrel that have disgraced the nation and turned publio atten tion asuie from the great important issues, of the hour. They mut 'form a new party around new men, or around men not com mitted to the perpetuation of disgraoeful strife. They must take up the meu of the war, the men whom the factions in this quarrel have driven to the four winds. Let the people now vote in the coming elections against the radical tickets everywhere, and pile up in Pennsylvania and Now York a groat majority that shall tell in no equivocal way that they have opened their eyes to the nation's danger. And upon the strength of such majorities, upon the confidence they will give to the people in their own power, ths masses may rally round some one of the country's great leaders around Grant, Sheridan, Sickles, or MoClellan and form a party that will demolish all radical or other opposition to the people's will. The Crops and the Business Prospects. lYom the Jf. Y. Time. , During the past fortnight we have received a larger number than usual of unfavorable reports regaiding the crops, especially from the West and South. There has been a drouth in Kentucky and Ohio which is said to have .injured the coin and delayed the preparation of the ground for next year's planting. But the reports on this subjeot were probably exaggerated with the design of causing a rise in the price 0f pork, and of Inducing ship taenia of cattle to the East. From Illinois w have recent rumor, regarding a short cord crop.- One estimate mBite, n little if anv over one-third of the avei-aU i ,', 71 that the average yiU ifTl''. i ""n er m'V rettled j.oitioj , of Viscon 1 a iV K o' litioUwill ot be overrbuq sere. In connection with these discouraging repoits, a statement has been published show ing a falling off in receipts of flour, wheat, coin, oats, barley, and rye at five of the chief shipping ports on the lake-i. This decrease from Jan. 1 to Sett. 1, as compared with the 8in time in 18(10, amounted to about twelve millions of bushels. But the total receipts were only a trifle less than in 18(i5. Turning to the South, we find a larger num ber of complaints. The recent rains along the Atlantic seaboard have caused much grum bling. It is said that the rains for weeks past iu the lower portl ns of South Carolina have been almost unprecedented for volume of water and destructive capacity. During the second week in September large quanti ties of lain fell along the whole coast from North Carolit a to Florida, and west to Augufta. At Charleston it was estimated that the cotton crop would be reduced one third, and that the rice crop would be almost ruined in some sections by freshets. Later reports partially confirm these gloomy anti cipations. The receipts of cotton at the Atlan tio ports show a falling off, aud the stock ou hand at shipping places is lower than at the same time last year. The reports from the Mississippi Valley have recently been of the same unfavorable character. The ootton crop in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee is said to have suf fered from the worm. Then the yellow fever along the Lower Mississippi and on the Gulf had retarded the movement of the crop to market. Then it was reported that equinoc tial weather had appeared unusually early iu Louisiana, and it was feared that between the worm and the coming frost there would be a considerable loss of cotton. From Texas the latest despatches say that the corn crop will be large, and in some sections enormous. But tho cotton crop of the State is expected not to realize over one-third, and it is thought that there will not be over fifty or sixty thousand bales for shipment from the Gulf. The tone of most of these despatches might lead the publio to suspect that they were set afloat by the stockjobbers and speculators. Accepting a portion of them from the South and West as correct, it should not be forgotten that the breadth of land planted this year is much larger than last, and that over the gi eater portion of the country the weather has been favorable for the farmers. . The cotton crop, however much injured it may nave been in some localities, now pro mises to be very nearly as lame as last year. though, perhaps, we may not have so much tor export. Ihe decrease this year, estr mated variously at from 180,000 to 500,000 bales, is not likely to affect very seriously the markets of the world. To make ud for this deficiency our cereal crops are, iu the aggregate, much larger than usual, and they will probably more than cover our anti cipated lopses on cotton, sugar, tobicco, and. rice. In the South the wheat and corn crops are much more abundant thau ever be fore. The total value of all the Southern pro ducts this year is estimated at $400,000,000, of which the negroes will receive about one fourth. The remainder will help to restore the white people of that section to something like their iormer comfort. Cap t-.1 is becoming more abundant there. Cities like Atlanta are being rai idly rebuilt. Factoiies and railroads are sharing in the returning prosperity, and it U believed even by those who oppose reconstruc tion on the present plan, that within a few years the crops of tha South will be worth $1,000,000,COO. In regard to the country generally, it may be said that we are not running iu debt so fast this year as last. Our imports are less, though the large amounts withdrawn from bonded warehouses show that our trade is relatively better than last j'ear. Between the 1st of January and the 1st instant, our exuorts have been about twenty-five millious of dollars less in value than during the same time in 18JG, and our imports have been, during the same period, about thirty millions in gold less. ' But while the whole volume of our foreign trade has decreased since January last, as compared with lSGo, about forty-three millions, there has been an increase of about seven millions in the value of foreign goods thrown upon our markets. Hence there is no good reason for any complaint about trade generally being dull. It is, on the whole, tnucu better tnau at this time last year; and the certain prospect of more than our usual supply of breadstuffs and raw products raised by our own industry, gives good reason to hope for brisker trade and better times. Russia and Turkey. From the 2?. Y. Iribune. The important cable despatch to the Tribune of September 9, announcing that the Russian Government had requested of Turkey the im mediate cession of Crete to Greece, and that Christians should be put upon terms of abso lute equality with Mussulmen, is confirmed hy the letter we printed recently from our correspondent in Constantinople. The Russian Ambassador, General Ignatief, presented to the Sultan a plan of refirm based upon the3e measures, which proposes a complete revolu tion of the Turkish Government. General Ignatief requested that an answer should be given within ten days, aud stated that if Turkey refused to comply with the terms, the Czar would not be responsible for the conse quences. Our correspondent probably doe3 not exaggerate when he says that nothiug as important has happened since the Crimean war, and that it is evidently a preparation lor a new struggle. For even if no formal demand has been made by Russia, her pur pose is clear. It is interference and aggres sion. Russia has long been the natural enemy of Turkey. For more than a century she has peiMftently sought to extend her territory on the Mediterranean, and reasous uioie profouud thau those of ambition have made it impossible for the ther powers to establish permanent peace between the two countries. The popula tion oi Turkey is an aggregation of races. Of her 28,000,000 less than oue-half are the Osmanlis the real Turks the rest are Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Arabs, etc. The religion of Mohammed virtually controls millions who do not believe in it, and an Abiutic rule is imposed upou whole provinces and peoples who essentially belong to Europe. Rusbia has found in this unnatural sys tem of government directly opposed to the progressive idea that nationalities should hv based upon unity of race cause as well as pretext tor interference. The Christian races of Kuropean Turkey have ia this century insisted upon independence. ' Greece achieved it, and in lSGo Roumania, with nearly 4,(.e0,UO0 inhabitants,, successfully rebelled, while Crete is still lighting. These dippajisiled races have always looked to Russia as their ally, and Russia has rarely failed to reipoud to their appeal, always with protest, often with war. . The .Crimean war began when the Czar Nicholas declared his right to piotect the Christians in Turkey, and that light has never been yielded by Russia, and is apain asserted. " It is clear that the opposition ot the, two nations U the inevitable result of the necessity of Russia to acquire Mediterra nean territory, and of the radical disorgani zation of Kuropean Turkey. In the long struggle which may be said to have begnn when Potemkin won the Crimea, Turkey has n.t leen the real foe of Russia. The ambition of the Crars was ba filed by England and France; Western Euroe perpetuated the servitude of the Christian raees to the Turk. Iu 1841 the great powers guaranteed the in tegrity of the Turkish Empire, and the ruins of Sevastopol are monuments of the stubborn i.ees with which .they have met the onward march of Russia. In this new menaoe Russia has wisely chosen her time. The range -of the needle-gnn is further than the hills of Sadowa, and its havoc was not confined to the Austrian ranks. Tiussla is revolutionizing Kuropean bounda lics; the old balance of power Is gone. An other Turkish war now chiefly depends upon the relations of France and Prussia. War in Western Europe raan war in Eastern Eu rope. Peace in France a permanent peace, not the present truce, whioh a few months may end is security for Turkey. Far more than any mind can even dimly foresee depends upon the attitude Prussia chooses to assume, and the future of Turkey is probably first among the great questions her action will decide. The Constitution ot the United States. from tht y. y. Evening Krpres. This instrument was done in convention, and signed by George Washington, President of that body, on the 17th day of September, in the year of our Lord 1787. Tuesday was the 60th anniversary of that great transaction. That Constitution constituted not a confedera tion of several States, not a league between States, but a' government for the whole people of the United States, made by the people. It reads, "We the people do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." It ordained a government of limited powers; the exercise of the powers granted through a period of eighty years has made us what we are a nation second to no other in the world in power, enterprise, and intelli gence. Are not the people of the United States beund. by every consideration of duty and patriotism, to cherish this Constitution, and defend it against all violations f Has it been violated? There can be no more dangerous violations of the Constitution, than when the agents of the people in any department of the Goveinment exercise powers not granted to them this constitutes usurpation. We en deavored to show on Thursday last that the Congress of the United States the legislative department naa oeen guuiy or usurpation. The argument to prove this averment is very brief; it lias not oeen answered, aud it snail be kept before the publio until it receives an answer. Congress has no powers except those granted in the Constitution the powers vested in that body, says the Constitution, are those herein granted. It follows, therefore, that the exercise by that body of powers not granted, is usurpation. What is the admitted state of facts f The leading member of the House ol Representatives says: "Some of the members of the Senate seemed to doubt their powers under the Constitution, which they had just repudiated, and wholly outside of which all agreed that we were actiug, else our whole work of reconstruction was usurpa tion." The editor of the New York Times. in that paper of Tuesday, says: "So much of the strong effort ot tne last six 3'ears mili tary and civil has been done outside of the letter of the Constitution, that it is vain labor to appeal to any absolute constitutional guide, however earnestly moderate and con servative men may desire to make such an appeal." We are here plainly told that it is in vain to appeal to any constitutional guide. Indeed 1 has it come to this ? Have we no Government with defined powers ? May Congress do what it pleases without any reference to the funda mental law ? Can this be so ? We do not be lieve it, and we shall appeal to a constitu tional guide over aud over again, until we are heard, and the publio come to the rescue of their own Constitution. - Let us see how this doctrine of a repudiated Constitution will WOik what will be its practical operation upon the business of the country. If the Con stitution can be repudiated by imposing milit ary governments upon, the people of the States lately in rebellion, its charm will be dispelled the reverence of the people for this funda mental law will be lost, and it will be lejs difficult to violate it in other requirements. For instance, the Constitution strongly maintains the sacredness of contracts. Now it is well known, and comes to be sorely felt, that the Government has incurred an enormous publio debt. Good faith, national honor, require that this debt should be paid. The morality which pervades every line of the Constitution re quires the Bame thing. All can see that the time is not far distant when the payment of this debt will become very inconvenient for the people. Can anybody doubt that a repu diating party will arise, when just such dema gogues as now rule in Congress will seek to sweep away all the obligations of j astlce and honor, now embalmed in the Constitution ? If it is in vain now that moderate and conside rate men appeal to the Constitution, what will it be then, after the people have been taught not only to repudiate, but to despise this in strument? Let us, fellow-citizens, cling to the Consti tutionthe people have been taught through a long series of years to love and venerate it. Nothing can be more dangerous than to impair this popular respect and veneration. . THE PUBLIC SITUATION. fiomlhe JV. 1'. Independent, k thoughtful friend or ours, wnoe present stand-point lor observing publio affairs is tue green tiope and tranquil air of a country hill side, writes to u: "I beg of you, my dear sir, to use your pen briskly at the present critical juncture, (or the purpose of making the nation reudy tor an inevitable coming event -ano tbat is, tUe impeachment ot the President." We beg to inform our trlend tbat the nation was long ugo, and Is now, abundantly ready for the impeachment of the President. The people arc waiting for it aur'ously-nay. with an almost impatient atxiety. In the Republican party, not only the radical wing, but a large rartof the conservative, are at lust united in demanding the removal ol the only remaining hindrance to reconstruction; and thai U, tht President. A tew lar-sicuted public men, hiiou, for instance, as Wendell Phillips, Charles Sum tier Tbuddeus Btevtus. and (lerernl Butler, have been, for many months ip.tst, nrRlusr tm. ncachment. tfnch men are the coulter ot tue p S Vhcy b.eok ground just a little ohoal of Fie geicial luirowT Find where these men n andto-dav, aud jou have lo.iud where the mt il.o mu'tv will btnnd lo-tm.rrow. And, n these i nun lone ago elcuiandcd impeachment J d observers m'ubt have hen precious.! I hit, about the rresent time, the re,t ot the p rl would, wim general voice be ready to ie-echo the demaud. Accoriiinalv, even the i.TLt of less propbetio btute.-meo arc now redinr iht sfons of the I times. Tho BprfnpJcl.l' ,,,ttb. 'oui a journal which speak3 as accurately as knv other the conservative, "a dKiimjulblieJ from the Tudicnl, porpce of the hiublicau 'MU'tv 'flvs; ' If ' CongreM were -no- iu Bohicn tbeve onn b bHle doubt that th 11'Vine vot'ld iniij articles of lmpeavbu ent Against the aT f -w Tk . " 77 V QUE LARGEST AND BEST STOCK OE!. FINE OLD RYE WHIG K I G Q IN THE LAND IS NOW TOSSESSED BY HENHY S. HANNIS & CO,, Kos. 218 and 220 SOUTH FRONT STREET, wno rrEt the tine to tub tbadb ih lots oh test advantageous - TEBHS. Tbslr Stock of Iljr Wkliklti, III DORD, eomprltui all tht rvTlu sntai xtant, id rvai through tfcie variona moist hs of Jb05,'00, and of this ysar, an tm present data. Liberal contracts mad for lota to arrl-va at Psnasyl-ranla Railroad Dptj Krrltssoa Ian Wharf, or at lioaded Warsboasss, aa partis may slact. President." Senator Wilson who is always aa well acquainted with fresh Doliticnt fact km snv other ltepubliran Doliticuin has lust nuhliniv said: "Ibe preat mass ol the Republican party ui-uryr inm me nesiueni win oe t:nreacupd, and tbat he deserves impeachment." The New trK jnoune, which, nntil lately, lent its pow erful influence decidedly asainst impeachment, is now an.ooR it a strongest advocates. biern duties are the teats of heroic men. tie ol the fcternest duties ever laid upon Ameri can Ptniesmen has been, and still K the im reachmcnt of Andiew Johnson. But, notwith ssanding ihe patent fact .that the public wel lare lias imperative!? demanded this measure, many eminent Itehublicaus have hitherto op posed nnd delested It because they have been in it some risk to the fortunei of some favorite Pretidential candidate. But in all such paltry uaous apinst impeachment we can nre, not a pardonable expediency, but an unpardon able cowardice. If Mr. Johnson rli-sercn im. peachment, lie deserves It Irrespective of thel quecuou hb 10 w nicn oi a uozcu or twenty can didates is to be the fortunate winner of the next Presidency. If any political event in the future may be legarded as sure, it is that the Reoublt can Dartv is to carrv the next .Presidential elec tion. The impeachment or non-tmpeachment ot lur. jounou win not alter this inevitable lact. Isit not, therefore, a nioclcerv of st.v.es- munsbiD to allow so crave a auestion as the impeachment ot the President to turn on the minor and almost priva e question of the political promotion ot some one member of the Uenubu- can party over another of equal fitness and opportunities r If it could be now thoroughly understood (a? it ought to be) tbat the Republican party meant to omit from the list of Presidential candidates next enmnier all Its senators, governor, and generais who are now opposing the Impeach ment of the President, all such oonoiition would instantly cease, and the. President would be speedily put oucot the way. Meanwhile, we have heard a sueestion male that the rauical Governors should assemble (as once during the war) lor a consultation on public affairs, with a vie to arrest the course of Air. Johnson on hisroal to ruin. An able cortcspondeut, well versed in public matters, has written us an energetic note, giving the reatons lor such a convention. As he speuks the voice of many advisers, we a?k our readers to look at his appeal. , Chicago. 111., Sept. 12. -To the Editor of the InU-pmd-nt: War Is imminent. You know It. All cieur-Ditshled men know It. Capitalists realize Ik U:d leels It, and lumps to H") . In your city. The lness Iiub mounded the alarm. Kveryuody Is anxious, s.ive Coppprlieiida and ltebeis, who Lave their "call ing end eleeiioB nine" in Andrew Johnson. The ItebelH umlereland Hint war li com Ing, and Unit the President is "Uielr man'' lo lucllitute its rapid cou auinniHiloi). l;ul cow can the President berherked? TIow enn the li yul matures confront htm ? How can the people 8. J lo Ai diew Jolmaon, Tuu tarshkU thou t:o, but noiurtherT How can they deinuubtiaie to him that tb ii onle rule? The ptople have a rppresentative body In tho Gov. erunn-ol Congress, llul ( onsrois Is dlHiierxud. It cinnot ussi mine uutll .November 21st, unless culled by ibe Prt aideuU It caur ot meet earlier, lor the suo-ct-KS ot Mr. Jubnson'H plans depends upou the con tinued absence Horn Washington ot the people's iitrm ntJtives. But bave the uople uo oilier ser vants? "Yes. They have btute legislatures. Tlirounu II em ir.ey enn speak, and mure act. Henca I Uine ui'Oii you, as u rouiroliiug power over publio neuil menl, lo think of the proposition tbat lias been made In the Went calling lor aoouveiuiou ot the loyal Gov ernors. 1 beartlly sympatb'ze wltb the call. The Governors can summon their LeKlslaluree together In ex.iaordl uurv 8-h-lon. Tbee otale loKlblulors will be fresh irom the people. Th(-y will be i he nioutli-pieces of the people, and assucurati Instruct the Governors to call atonvtntli n, The Oavemors tbeu, backed by tl.eir l miniatures, repieueutlug ibe loyal masses, can wlih pc.wer and riKhl decla e lo the President that lliey will prevent him by lorce, If necessary, from bilriKli'K on a war. General Grant, although I regard hint as only a mere "molest," is In a position to help save tbe coun try. If hv lino's tbat tl.e people are thoroughly orga n zed, lb oukIi their (state Governors, who cau com mand a million bayonets, he will be more luc Ined to disobey the Prefldeiil's nilllu.ry orders thau 11 tuose Lnyoneis lay In Mate aiseuals uurepresenied. f-oninliing must be done ut once. Johnson means revolution. Kivoiullon can be met only by another. Is II, e LsfUiiH Hon of supreme control ol national iilluirs by the Governmeut revolution? It ills, it Is the Ham oljctlouable of any pcheuie, as I sea It, that ran be devised. It may yft be necessary, beiore November, to imprison Mr.Andrew Jounnou. losave lis In in war, or prevent tbe surrender of Washlnxton lo tbe Aluljland ltebels. Who cau dolt? General Grant. By w hose orders ? T ue people's, transmitted tbiougb their Stale Governors. This striking letter Is not from tho pen of an alarmist, but from a philosophic obden-er of puulic evtuf9. We do not share tbe apprehen sions of onr esteemed correspondent that "war is imminent:" neitherdo we believe that Aud row 'Johnson is Oliver Cromwell. We Bimply believe that Mr. Johnson will act as wtckeJly as his evil heart and his large opportunities will per mit. That he is inherently the worst public man known to' American history 19 our solemn conviction. Thtt he would destroy the liucrty of his country, if he could successfully accom plish fuch a crime, is evident to all tbe world. But he cannot ruin, he can simply disgrace, the republic. Aud yet, in taying this, let us not, in any deene. underestimate the public peril. Letter pret. are tor tbe worst possiblo contin gency. Certainly we lieattily sympathize with ti e Idea of a c invention ot loyal fiovernors. Isuch a convention, if full of plm;k-, tnitr'it re nucr the coentry an illustrious service, we have only one apprehension in view of Its as pcmblinfi: and that Is tbis tbe so-called radical Governors who nut at the Southern Loyalists' Convention, in Philadelphia, exhibited a degree ot cowardice which it it were to be re-esbl-tiled now, woel'l only cn'ronraae aud not inti midate the reneeadc ol the White House. If our Governors aid not all expect to be Senators, and it at least halt a flozeu of them did not con tinently hope to be on the ticket for the next Vice Ptesidency, we should be reasonably sure tbat their meeting would.be a public bouedt. But it, ou their gathering; together, thev shall find themselves airaid to demand the impeach ment of tho President, and stmll be simply in clined tolollowthe half way polio of General Grant, they nii;ht as well iave their travelling expeuses, aud ktoy at home. Aleunwbiie, It Andrew Johnson makes an at tempt at war auainct the republic, let bun be trh'd by a court-martial, and shot Py twelve aol dier.JojtollojvoirP; : GAS FIXTURES. c ALL AND BT'Y YOUK GAS KUTUBItS lioui tbe mumii'U'turera. VASK1HK A MAHBHALL, iSo. t12 AHCU fcueet. VAN Kill K A MARSHALL, -No. 912 AUG 11 f-lrei i, nmnnlut lure and keep all styles ol Gai Fixture and I ln.ijilolieib; iilso reliulsb old fixtures, YAKKIUK & MARSHALL HAVE A COM pit le fetoi'k of Clinndt-lHT.-,, Brucltets, l'.iUaiile Funds, and Kionsses, at hu. Dlii AltC'H eireet. TANKIKK i MARSHALL, No. 012 ARCH V Succt. five eM.ei'lal iiUenllon to litllnir up , C linrrtien. Public Halla, and lwelllnnn. PJi'M mo if AT Til. l.OWIKI' sm ... . ( MIA tilLT. AND FL t-Il A 1 I. S . No. III? A 1:1 i 1 Kli i-i L F-LKPTHO SILVER- VA-NMUK MAM- AH wmk ki.ui ;u,;i i il lo fcjive nutl.ifHC'tiin. None hut firfct-oliibs til,uu eu iiloC. a 12JJW luwljui j GROCERIES, ETC. FRESH FRUITS, 1007. PBACIIEK, PFABS, PIHEAPFLES, PLVBII, APBICOTfl, CHERRIES, BLACKBF.BRICM, nVINl'ES, ETC. PRESERVED AND FREAII, IN CAMS AMD ULAkM JARM, Put np for onr particular trade, and ror sale by the dozea, or In smaller quantities, by MITCHELL & FLETCHER, 9 10 Sm SO. ISO f'llRNlVUT NTBCET. SUPERIOR VINEGARS. OEKVIRC t IIEKCII WUI1E WINS AND ri'RK OlD C1DER VINEOARjt, FOR BALK BY JAMES R. WEBB, Corner WALNUT and EIGHTH Bta. "niITE rKESERVIXG BRANDY, TURK CIDKR AND WINK VINEGAR, GP.EKN U1NOEK. UCBTARD 8EKO, HPICE3, ETC. All the requisites for Preserving and Pickling pat noses. ALLERT C. ROBERTA, Dealer In Fine Groceries, lj7jrp Co-ner FLKVENTH andVINE Rul EXCURSIONS. RICTTf FAKE I'O WILMINGTON, 15 att'iirfnln l,J, cenus: Chester or Hook, 10 cents. on ana alter ' MONjDA Y. July 8, the steamer ARIEL WeeV,UUTHtreetwh'"-'' A. M. and K . t. timing, leaves Wilmington at 616 A. At. Fare to Wilmington, 15 rents: excursion tickets, cent. Pare to Cheater or Hook. 10 cents. 9 8 nil DAILY EXCURSIONS TO WIL. aHrtnarrV-raada mlngton, Del, On aud after TUEH 'ei'ltmber It), Ibe Bteamer ELIZA UANOuX jyill leave second wharf above Arch btreet dally at 1) A..M. and 4 P. M. Returning, leave MAHKET Mreet Wharf. Wl mlnmon, at 7 A. M. and 1 P. M. J.re,ro.r.,ile.roun(1 tr'P 60 oenta blngle ticket... m Chester and Uarrua Hook ..............Jo ceala J or further particulars, apply on board. 1 L. W. BURNS, Captain. L OOK I U G -GLASSES OP TUB BE&T FUljNClI PLATE, In ..Everv Stlye of Frames, ON HAND OR MADE TO ORDER. NEW ART GALLERY", F. BO LA HO & CO., 8 2 lm2p Is'6. AllCH Htreet. E. M. NEEDLES & CO., Eleventh and Chetaut Streets. HOUSE-FURBISHING DRY GOODS, Bought at the Reoent Depressed Prices. PMrtlntr, Pillow. Fhreting, and Table Linens. Table Cloths aud Is'apklus, to watch. Wl ue Cloths, Doylies, Towels and Towelling. Jlare. Ille. Quills and Toilet Covers. iiluukew. X oueycomb. Lancaster. Allendale. Jacauard. DOMESTIC JUUSLIN8 AND SHEETINGS, In all qualities and widths, at the lowest rates. mom flHvmn BALTIMORE IMPROVED BASE BURNING FIRE-PLACE HEA.TEK, 'imt Magazine and Illuminating j. no f "p - " - i H7.. ixrnLrr iu I'M", 'i n be hud WholttttUt- unci JtHall ot J. ft. t',AKK. tUu2p No. lixw MARKKTbireet. PntU. GEORGE .PLOWMAN, CARPENTER AND BUILDER ltEBIOV12X To No. 134 DOCK Street, 111 PHILADELPHIA. JOHN CRUMP, CARPENTER AND BUILDBU: t.inut Phnrtfiil anil Tafv.. . KUOFHi KO, SIS lODUK MTKEKT, AMU WO. I7t ClltUaBi UT HI 11KKT, PHILAOKLP HI. GA11DNER & FLEMING, , OOACII MAKERS. , " .', .'no. sit MmiH rimi mm, New unO Hecfind-hatidtHiiTlftgesforBalo.1 lr t Icnlar attention j aid to repairing, 6 U0 . ! i .'. f j.i
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