The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-15
:rnc Cona1nnnaIng Position OK new
York I'm Support Of tho President.

81 The Empire State, through theac-
ton of both her great political parties
in support of President johnson, ocs
cupies lofty and commanding posi-
ton before the country. For the
first time in the history of the Union,
since the days of Monroe, both parties
have met on the platform of the Ad-
mlnistration, as if to inaugurate an
other e'era of good feeling g." We had
something like this in 1852, when the
Wings and the Democrats adopted
the same national platform in support
of. Henry Clay's great compromise
measures of1s50. Thus both parties,
in 1852, trimmed their sails to the
popular breeze; but the people, while
believing in Clay's adjustment, dis
trusted the Abolition affiliations of
the Wing party, and poor Pierce was
elected by an overwhelming majority
of the popular and electoral vote
North and South That election was
the death of the old Wing party; and
i'll behalf OF the great compromise
settlement, eliminating in this re-
markable event, the State Of New York
led the way.
Had poor Pierce shaped his policy
according to the instructions of the
American people SO emphatically pro
nounced i'll his election, he might
have re-established the Democratic
party in power for half y century
longer. He was puffed mp with his
self-conceit; he was weak and foolish;
he turned his back upon the people.
and was led by 4 clique of Southern
conspirators into the rash, bloody
and disastrous experiment of that
KansasNebraska bill. From that day
began the dissolution of the old Jack
sonian Democratic party, which was
,consummated. in the revolutionary
rupture of th} Charleston Convention
Of 1860, and confirmed in the irrevo-
cable split few weeks later at Balti-
more. All these things, eliminating
In theflate sanguinary rebellion, may
be traced directly to the weakness,
falthlessness and criminal folly of
poor Pierce. Against him, and in
the tremendous Northern anti-slavery
reaction thus brought about, the
State of New York led those resistless
SOAoAAo WdACu Cs1SC UuS OculOCTdCy
out of power and into disgrace in
1860. There, excepting the lucid in
terval of 1862, the party has since re-
NAMED, in consequence of its adhe-
sion is its incurable copperhead
leaders
New York, with the signal from
Fort Sumter, led off in the war for
the Union; and in every great poiti-
Cal revolution or reaction of the coun-
try, we find that New York has exer-
cised the influence which properly
belongs to the most powerful State Of
the Union. It is in this view that we
attach the highest Importance to the
present attitude of both parties in
this State, in reference to President
Johnson's domestic and foreign poll
cy. BY their official action, as we
may term. it, the Democratic party
and the Republican party stand upon
the same platform. In reference to
their principles and their candidates,
there is hardly anything to quarrel
over between them. TIA. .intolerant
Abolition radicals threaten a bolt
against the doings at Syracuse, and
Ihe lntractaDle copperheads are dis
gusted with the doings at Albany,
and Of these two small discordant
factions che opposition elements to
President Johnson's policy are com
posed. If the Republicans are de-
feated in November, it Will be in the
house OF their radical friends; if the
Democrats fail to recover the State,
they may charge the account to their
copperhead brethren. In either event,
however, the Administration VIII
stand endorsed by New York and by
both parties
The moral effect of this emphatic
approval Of President johnson by the
masses OF both parties Of this State
VIII be felt in all the other States, and
WILL be- recognized in Congress as 8
true development of the public OPT
rs IL