The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-05

say, OF omit to say, in verbose di.
spatches, "windy and wordy," while
they may instruct, crafty, or alarm
the 11ninformed, will not, to thcse
acquainted with his intellectual and
moral peculiarities, and aware of the
relation he bears to the Executive, be
considered very strong evidence o1
what Mr.. johnson Will, in the end,
decide shall be done.
The imperative pre-occupations OF
the President in carrying out his plans
for restoring the Union, doubtless
prevent him, just now, from taking up
for final action our pending difficulties
with the British Government. There
IS no necessity for instant decision in
relation thereto, and he prefers to
unite the States of the Union, and
secure their representation in Con-
gress, before submitting to that body
his recommendation in respect 70
foreign affairs.
The country is at present. therefore,
compelled to discuss our English com
pllcations-if DISCUSSED at aIl--upon
an imperfect basis of facts but upon
the information we have, the Demo
cratic party unite in taking very high
ground. Indeed, q large portion of
that organization, the foreign element,
reinforced by the Fenian organization,
will demand that England be visited
With the extreme penalty Of violated
international law.
But prompt and successful settle
ment of our foreign difficulties de-
pends upon prompt and satisfactory
settlement Of our domestic affairs If
Mr.. johnson can, within the next
three months, firmly re-establish the
Union of all the States in Congress,
he Will then be in a condition to make
very short work with England. Her
arrogant will, without basis of inter
national law, will then be speedily
brought into subjection, despite the
opposition of the radical Republicans
of the Sumner and Beecher school,
whose sympathies are with Exeter
Hall. With the Union restored, what
ever things the United States are en-
titled to, and demand, those things
England must do. She has no path
open to her but submission to our
rightful ulinadtatns. She cannot fail to
have reflected what will happen to her
dominions whenever President John
son but speaks the word to the Irish
population of America. She must
foresee what an army directed against
her can accomplish when recruited
from every section of the reunited re-
public, organized and commanded by
Grant and Lee, Sherman and John.
ston, Slocum and Dick Taylor, and
their associates, on both sides, in the
late rebellion
There is no denying that the Demo.
cratic party, North and South, would
rather relish than otherwise a wa,
with England. Its neyer-failing sym
pathies with the aspirations and hope:
of the adopted citizens of the repub
lie, tend powerfully, if not irresistibly
to action in that direction. But w
wait for the word from Presiden
Johnson. Mr.. Seward's record in hi
Trent collapse, and in the Mexica,
humiliation, warns all men who valu,
persistency in the right, not to pu
themselves under his infirm lead, no
to act upon his vapid generelities
We want the signal from captain
whose moral courage is guarantee tha
we shall not be forsakcn in the darl
hour Such man is Andrew John
son, and the Democracy need but
hint from him ! But, first of all, lc
us restore the Union!
Neto York World, 27M.
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