The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-09-25
DAILY NEWS.
CHARLESTON.
MONDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 25. 1865

which he replied "Thcrc is Monochrome what
evor;-therc is no principle they hold Ill common,
or tbat can hold them together, when slavery is
abolished
This opinion must have been very generally
acknowledgements to us and the world; for to
us and the world they have been the cause of
much unoasincss; and agreeable, perhaps, to
large part of even that party itself. Men arc not
fond Of their vices. Dr,lnkards would gladiy quit
drinking and mon in bad company would oI'en
gladly leave it, and it is quite probable therefore,
that the better people Of that party, seeing the
evil it threatens, would gladly leave 1t, and that
they may be rid of it with mpunty, would gladly
see it broken up.
And this opinion, with respect to that particular
organization, is probably truo. They had banked
against slavery. That was the most promi-
nent positive fact-tho one most offensive to pop
ular feeling where it did not exist and the one,
therefore, against which, in such sections, party
could be arrayed more readily than against any
other. And presenting object broad enough
for the display of all their forces against it, there
was no occasion for other issues to hold the party
together; and when the barriers of slavery break
down, the party banked against it, and with no
other principle Of cohesion or support must neces-
sarily be in danger of falling too.
But it is quite certain that the material of that
party will remain; that as many men exist after
that occurrence before-that they will be solicit
GUS for political success-as anxious to retain the
honors of victory the emoluments of Office, as be-
fore-as ready to seize for political success upon
attractive obects-to mako availability the test Of
merit and while, therefore, in sense, the party
may be dissolved-the negro be left without
thought of the ruin that has como upon him, un-
less the South shall make some efficient effort to
relieve sOrne effort in recoonitiop
of his peculiar condition and his peculiar wants to
save him, in which event the party may spring to
his rescue-t is perfectly certain that the principle
of that party will reman-that it will endure so
long there is fact in the condition of society
or government in this country to be presented in
point of view offensive to popular feeling.
There are disruptive tendencies in every state,
as there destructive tendencies in every
nature, and that party is the political express
sion of the disruptive tendencies in this and
80 long as that people shall want something
they have not got-something withheld from them
by law, or constitution, custom of society; and
80 long that something can be procured by COM
bnation of those who want it into political party
that party will be formed, that impeachment will be
antagonzed, that disruptive tendency will be ex-
hibitcd; and the Republican party, under another
name, perhaps, but the Same in material, organi-
evor stood before.
This would be true if the Republican party had
truly fallen with the fall Of slavery That would
be no longer the pretcXt of it's organization, and
no longer the object of it's direct assaults and to
that extent there would be relief to U.S. and to that
extent it might be said the party was dissolved,
though dissolving merely to some other assault
on the structure of the Government. But it has
not fallen yet. 1t stands STILL and in an attitude
OF defiance to the Government itself. No longer
content to mole for succcss-not deemng it neces-
sary to take the Government in detail and sap its
pillars one by one it grasps the throat of Govern
inent itself. Aggrandized, strengthened and de-
yeloped by its recent labors and perhaps blinded
by the full glare Of unexpected success it is not
conscious OF the necessity for artificial support or
Inc cover OF an expedient, but dares to stand
alone-to face the light of day, and even to DEFY
the "Omnipotent to arms"
ferhaps we state the case too broadly. They do
not come entirely from under cover It is still
contonded slavery is not dead 1t is not dead On
long as the better classes of the South are NOT in
exile; 80 long as their lands are not divided ont
among the negroes, or at least are not in the
hands OF bureaus and agents; long as the country
Is not under the harrow of mitarv forooo. az Ior
as 1t is not reduced to the state of n 1o;Iit.r ,r
VINCE ana Its property applied to the public debt
slavery was not tho object, but the pretext.
Spols' ana oihces and aggrandizement, were what
'hey wanted; and now they eNrcrate the Govern
meht 1or the bitter irony of pretending to believe
them-pretending to have been deceived bv tbe;r
professions, and to suppose it possible thew coud
oe satisfied with the abolition of slavery. or tbe
restoration OF the Union or any other such merely
PuDhc pattcr, as, while it may have been of in
terest 70 the country, was of no special advantage
to themselves.
IL s not literally true, therefore, that this party
now enters tho open field to contest with the Gene
raj Government; but the cover behind which II
nghts Is so perfectly transparent that it were
simplicity scarcely consistent with reason To SEQ it
LII any other than its real attitude or to recopnize
more or less in its demands than the bald prono-
slon that certain States shall be given up to them
10 piunder, and the threat that if there shall be
reluctance to comply, they will open their batteries
upon the Government. But, on the other hand, it
~ not true that the party has fallen with the fall
VI slavery. That may be true of the abolition ele
"en'' Dut In consistence with the facts which
"o nave stated, it is not true that that greater
party mas falen nor is it yet perfectly certain that
it will fall. ''
such being the attitude of the Republican marty
ana such beEg tho constant liability to the forma
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