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

The South.
T.
WHAT THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONSERVATIVES
> OF THE NORTH ALIKE DEMAND OF THE PEG
PILE oT-TME SOUTH.
'tThe North will not accept any condition
Of restoration which does not embrace the
extinction of slavery by positive constitu-
tl0nal law. The patriotic and eminent Pre-
sident of the United States has informally
declared this fact; and his lamented rrede-
cassor emphaticaflv -nvowed it when he
referred the ultimate question on his emanci-
patton proclamation to the courts Con
traband of war, slavery has peSished by the
sword, and it is only q renewal of civil war
to assert any claim to it, 1t has met the
fate to which in the order OF Providence it
was doomed, and this fate was decreed by
yourselves at the moment when the flag Of
our country was fired upon as it foated over
Fort Sumter. Pray do no. deceive, do not
stult1fy yourselves on this point What
ever absurd politicians in the North may
say or attempt to the contrary, slavery is
I. doomed by the people, and those are only
your enemies in the North who seek for
party purposes, to deIIide you that there is
the slightest hope for that institution, In
future. Just 30 long as any claim is set UP
for the resuscitation Of slavery by anything
that can be, made to look like conspiracy
to that effect among the politicians North
and South, just SO long will the masses of
the North Justly insist that you shall be
keld down i'll q terl .torial condition, and
that you shall be denied equality as States
within tile Union''
THE CLASS OF PERSONS WHO SHOULD BE ELECT
ED TO OFFICE BY THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
80 with regard to such men as you shall
put forward to fill Offices of dignity and
trust. If theseare selected to fill your local
posts of honor and credit from among no.
torious rebels-men whose names have Ieen
associated with the conspiracy that led to
the rebellion-such> acts will be received as
evidence and such evidence will ripcn IL @.
Judgment, that the toue of the South is Sc
dfious, and that the rebellion is unsubdued; ;
while it is simply impossible that men of
that class can be admitted to the Congress
OF the United Sta IS Let us admonish
you to look these facts in the face with the
keen sight G. patriotism and common sense,
and to regulate your conduct accordingly
1t will be only kicking against the pricks,'
1t Will be only overturning conservatism and
cnthronlng radicalisn1 in the North, it will
be only prolonging military rule in the
South, If you shall insist Oh the experiment
OF seeking to restore such old traitors, or to
give position to new ones with like senti-
ments III regard to the issues which the
nation means shall now be forever settled
And these remarks apply with like force to
all State legislation which diverges from the
great judgment pronounced by the Ameri-
can people who have now suppressed the
armed rebellion
THE SOUTH MUST SrEEDILY AND WITH A WILL,
by IT'S LEGISLATURES, CONVENTIONS, NEWS
PAPERS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, RESOLUTIONS,
&C., SHOW ITS GOOD FAITH AND HONESTY
OF PURPOSE.
''And therefore it is indispensable to
Southern interests, to their speedy equality,
TO the life of commerce, to their national
representation, to the supremacy sof civil
law, to the freedom they covet from the
military power established among them,
that they shall fly as it were to put at rest
the possibility Of future national distur-
Dances or account OF slavery, by accepting
the amendment to the Constitution OF the
United States and by ratifying the same
unanimously, if possible, which interdicts
siavery fcrevnrnlore npon orr soil I.et
this be done with "a WILL and superadd to
this the selection of candidates for Office
from among men OF honest intentions and
sentiments towards the new order of things;
give expression by conventions and resolu-
tions to the sentiments which your newspa-
pers declare that the great masses of the
people of the South entertain; throw away
as unworthy, even of the few who so act,
such notices rs 'Subdued but not conquer
ed;' strive daily against disturbances with
the wretched and often insolent blacks. Do
these things, and it will be out Of the power
other of the enemies in your midst who
maiign you TO the President and to the pub
lie through interested sources, or of the ex-
trelne radicals of the North, to subject you
long to tho burdens and humiliations of