The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-07-04
From the New York Metropolitan Record.
A Lesson of Prudence and True Policy.


Our friends viii believe US when we
tell them that there is party still here
in the North--the party of strife and dis.
cord the party ofblood and fiendish hate,
and that it will leave no means untried
to provoke them TO uprlsings, to futile
and sanguinary instructions in this and
that locality in the hope that it will thus
be afforded moro pretexts for the execu
tion of its Gevilish designs. At present
this party is engaged in the fiendish,
but we believe impracticable, work Of
incitirg the masses of the Northern peo-
pie to new war upon the South and
two distinct parties are being formed
upon the issue which it has presented to
the country. We regard this movement
as an exceedingly auspicious one for the
South, and, therefore, we desire that
nothing shall be done by the Southern
people that will aid or strengthen it in
any way. This issue has been presented
to the public by Wendell Phillips and has
already produced quite sensation
throughout the North. He has announc.
ed it as the intenrion of the faction, or
party of which he is the head, to Hivo.
cate reputation of our great and crush
ing war debt, if the emancipated negro
is by the radical abolitionists. There
can be no evading the question now !;
the inferior race shall or shall not
be allowed the right to vote, and
everything else that follows and accom-.
panies that refused equal political rights
with the white voters. We are glad
that the matter has been at last brought
to head, and that the people of the
North must take their stand upon one
side or other OF the line which has been
drawn right--social equality, official posi-.
lion and intercourse with the white
population in all the relations of life.
The radicals have thus defined their
position, and they have already COM
menced tile new warby assailing-who2 ?
President Johnson They do not, as
we suspected from the very first, like
him; they are dissatisfied with certain
indications he has thus far given Of his
policy, and they have all their ire arous.
ed by their knowledge Of the fact that
he has determined to leave the question
ofnegro suffrage 10 be decided by the
States themselves. No man knows bet.
ter than he that the granting of such
political power would be employed to
his disadvantage hereafter, and that it
would affect hls prospects of reelection
to an injurious degree. He cannot
yield to the radicals, and the resolute
stand he has taken at the outset proves
that he is determined not to yield to
them. #
Now, there is only one thing that can
alter. this new position OF parties, and
give strength to the faction which de-
mands political equality for the negro
local outbreaks and instructions in the
Southern States. All provocations must
be met by firm determination not to be
driven or seduced into such disastrous,
such a ruinous course. The efforts of
the Abolitionists will be directed to.
wards the embodiment of tho people of
the South with the Administration, that
they may thus control its policy, as they
to great extent controlled that of the
late President. 1t willbe their purpose
to re-establish military rule over the
South.as it existed during the war, and
to pfevsht, if possible, the restoration of
peacs:I They would, if they could, re.
dpce it to desert, but we believe, not.
withstandmg the late proclamation of
President Johnson, that it is his design
to defeat their plans, and although no
partisan of his in any sense, we believe
he is entitled to the support of every true
friend of the South in his efforts in this
direction. Certain allowances must be
made. for the position in which he is
placed, and full credit must be awarded
for what has been already done, and we
say that for the firm stand he has taken on,
this most serious question of negro suE:
ffage the friends ofthe South haze evtry
reason to feel grahfed. Standing hy it
self this is indeed favorable indication,
and while we have not hesitated to speak
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