The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-17


the President and his administration, as we
feel quite sure, Of weight of doubt and
sadness; you will battle your enemies, be-
cause you will thereby empty their maga-
zines Of offence, and you will entitle your
selves to the spen and earnest support OF
the y orthern masses as against all the
/ trick # conspiring politicians. Then these
Northern aggressives will yield voluntarily,
or be forced to yield by a just people, who,
while they arc resolved that the South shall
give up forever all the points acquired and
won by the hard-fonght war-and this for
the sake Of the future of the whole natl on
arc, nevertheless, the defenders of the South
even as their brethren, against mere cruel
ty: bigot1y and persecution"
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THE PRESIDENT WILL NOT FORCE NEGRO SUF-
FRAGE ON THE SOUTH.
The President Of the United States
we affirm this from his public acts-has no
design to force negro suffrage on the South.
Therefore let this : bugbear' die Such an
Issue would defeat any party in the North
that tlha is unless the South shall. turn out in
the end to deceive the hopes of it's Northern
friends. The Chief Magistrate rcposes on a
clear and immovablc position. His policy,
Ill effect says: You see the provisions of
my act of amnesty 1 have also given YOU
the form of civil life II also desire to see n
iioW ortte, " 1,,i otiisiIi iii tic Souti,
While recognize the States us within the
Union, I-demand likewise for the nation all
the results for which the war was FOUGHT
1t is for you to do the rest. I garr;son the
South for an obvious reason. It is for the
South herself to say whether her probation
shall be long or short And these things
he has a constitutional right to say and to
demand.
THE PEOPLE or TIE SOUTH MUST NOT CON-
FOUND RADICAL PARTY TR1e:KERy WITH
NORTHERN SENTIMENT.
t'Ihere may, and probably will be. CAN
dldates OF bad antecedents presented, and
silly resolutions passed by poSetical bodies
IN the North, whose efforts will surely be
crushed by utter defeat, whose effect may
be to feed Northern radicalism in its uncon-
stltut1onal demands against the South; but
1t is in the power of the South, by public
meetings and addresses, to disavogv and to
rebuke these jugglers, who are not incorpo-
rate with any great Northern organization,
but who only play local parts for local ends.
BE not deceived by such! The great body
OF the North marches one way, under the
present guidance of the President, and that
way the Wal has demonstrated as we have
hereinbefore explained. SO, on the other
hand, other parties will desire to set up the
rebellion only to knock it down again as so
political thunder, b,uune fulneaa. But
let not the South be discouraged or dismayed
on that account, for these likewise are but
the games OF local politicians, and they will
simply react and strengthen the South. if
the South will only promptly instantly
assert itself i'll uct as it represents itself in
the Southern journals and through the
voice 81 of well-known Southern gentlemen.
The South must hasten to place itself above
suspicion by all its public acts, if it would
get rid Of the numerous 'nlisrepresenta-
t1ons' of which it complains. The time is
short, for prejudlces soon harden into ada
mantl1e walls of separatioh-and the Union
is the only place of refuge and of. hope for
the South-'he Union, where the loyal
Northern masses long to see and to welcome
her.
VI
PRESIDENT JOHNSON. :.
''Abovc all, if their intentions are good
they must not despond, but cheerily and
courageous!y they must bear the thorns of
punishment, though they bleed; rernem-
bering always that the President of the
land is the President and father of the
whole people, and that heiis' not the head of,
Il mercless and barbarous party, bent on
Southern humiliation and destruction We
belleve him 70 be an able, sonnd-headed,
Ptliehe, I,ilClIVtIc, humane, him, cautious
and candid man, whose hearts desire it is
to crown his administration with the union
OF these States-a reward higher and
brighter than any other within mortal
powerto confer; and he is shrewd enough
to see through tricksters when theirgame is
clearly before him, if it shall be esposed as
a foul game by the undertaking byetlly OF the
South; and, furthermore, let the South be
assured, if they are patient and true, that
behind the President there - u Northern
sentiment even stronger than hel '.'yriad OF
res,stless armies. hnd whic.. i: that or
Union OF consent and equality shall be re-
stored on the ,basisof universal freedom and
OF Uncover ruling sovereign nationality. Let
the South instantly accept, and everywhere
declare, and politically act upon this plat
form, and our glorious Union is alive again
in all it's original spirit Then those foul
birds called demagogues will flee, for q time,
at any rate, from before the face Of q re,
awakened and united nation. and wa sbaJl