The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-26

SUI, tiic SlcIh OF Tic ilSC National
House of Representatives are both
candidates for reelection. Both of
these persons have felt the pulse of
the men whose votes they need, and
have ascertained that it is not only
safe but indispensable to be radical.
They have ascertained that the Re
publican pledge to sustain the recon
struction policy of the President.
which enabled that party to make a
clean sweep of the Northern States.
we're ''mere lovers VOWS" made to be
broken, and they have determined to
utterly disregard them. Both of
these men will hereafter occupy posi-
tlons which will enable them to do an
Infinite amount of mischief, and to
utterly defeat for time the great
object of four years war, to force
the Southern States back into the
Union, and they have evidently re-
solved to do all that they can in the
way Of mischief
Mcpherson has declared that he
will not place upon the list Of mem
bers the names of the members of
Congress elect from the Southern
States, and Colfax says that he is
right. Mcpherson says the next
Speaker must appoint q committee to
report upon the eligibility of the gen
tlemen who claim to represent the
States lately in rebellion, and if the
aforesaid Colfax is elected Speaker of
the next House of Representatives
he will appoint the committee whose
report will go very far to decide the
fate of the Southern members elect.
Colfax having prejudged the whole
question, and announced his decision
in advance of all Congressional dis
cussion, the character of the COM
mittee which he will appoint cannot
be doubted. Thus. ut the moment
when speedy peace andreconstruction
seemed about to crown the nation
with a thousand blessings, the dark
shadow Of continued sectional strife
again casts a gloom like the sun Gin
dim eclipse over the land The pa
trlotic reconstruction policy of the
PRESIDENT is endangered ut the mo-
ment when good men believed that it
was about to receive the support of
all parties. Really, it would seem
that, so far as the South and her peo-
pie are concerned, no concessions, no
sacrifices, no compromises, no pledges
Of fealty to the Union, the laws and
the Constitution will satisfy the radi-
cal element at the North. The Jaco-
bin wolf has determined to invent
some pretext or excuse for devouriag
the lamb, and assigns the unnatural,
monstrous and detestabie reasons for
nc nf Il IL.
lntegration.
Whatever honorable men could do
consistent with honor and self-re-
spect, we have done, or have ex-
pressed q willingness to do, and vet
we are still told that we have given
insufficient proofs of our fitness for
re-admission into the great family of
States.
We sincerely trust that the infu-
ence or President johnson may be
cast III our favor, and that he may be
able to defeat the Vaccinations Of
the radlc:As in Congress; but if he can
not or does not do so, the South, we
fear, IS destined to endure a long
period of degrading probation, Of
taxation without representation, ;"
and OF the subordination Of civil rule
70 martial law. The exclusion of our
representatives. from their seats in
Congress, we fear, is the fixed purpose
OF large majority Of that party.
Now, cui bono, for whose good is
this exclusion to operate? At the
very outset, it will introduce a most
important and exciting debate in
Congress, and may revive all the
slumbering fires of sectional feeling,
which all parties should seek to bury
as deep as possible. 1t will sting the
South with the sense of injury and
injustice. and will deliver her over,