The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-07
%H A ARLES TON,
FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1856.
THE SITUA 11ON-THE FATE OF THE
SOUTH.

Inc South may now make ready to accept
her fate. The painful and protracted contest
for the preservation Of political liberty. we pre-
sumo, IS over. It was, in fact, ended at the
cessation of hostilities. She was then able of
herself to do nothing more, and though it ap-
peared to be the purpose of the Government to
intervene. assert itself, and to protect her
from the most seventies Of subjugation, and
it seemed to have the power to do so, vet even
that Elusive hope has faded The Radical
party Of the North has come to Congress with
even more of power. It is more assured of its
strength and its resources. 1t has become in
structed in the Office and the forms Of dominion.
The PRESIDENT is without the constitutional
power further to impede its action. His veto
fails of it's Office longer to neutralize the acts
Of Congress; he has failed to indicate, and it
is to be presumed has failed to perceive, the
method or the means to do so and the South.
therefore, stripped and powerless, is but in q
condition to receive what more Of impositions
that party, new completely masters Of the
Government, may see proper to infict
The prospect is unpleasant It is sad to
realize, and sadder to be obliged to confess that
our political fortunes arc SO hopeless. Nor IS
there grounds to assume that this party will be
sparing or considerate in tie exhibition Of its
power. There are persons with it, and Of it.
perhaps, who would be glad to be SO. The
men Of the North and of that party, perhaps, are
not individually blacker-hearted than are per
sons elsewhere, nor are they without the
average Of intelligence; and it is to be presumed
tEat, if it were possible, they would spare us IN
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no wrong we have ever done them, and thev
can scarcely fail to perceive that threaten
ing spectre Of despotism, even to themselves.
still lurking in the shadow Of their sectional do
minion. Many express reluctance to the further
injury they feel themselves impelled to com
nit; and the conductors Of leading Radical
Journals and some public men have staked
their political fortunes in the effort to moderate
exactlons. But in these facts there is little to
assure us. An organization like that of which
we are to be the victims, is not susceptible Of
intellectual discretion. The party that started
the movement against CHARLES the First in Eng
Aanu M nau AtC1e eaA-..eht -nf tho ,.e-
contamination. Yet,- starting from those hor
Tors as they rose in view, they had no option
but to go on, or be crushed by the pressure from
n
dists were the miserable victims of their own
revolutionary impulse. Already at the North
| those Who fa1ter are forsaken, those who doubt
are damned; and, as it is true of every movement
upon the conservatisms Of a State, so is it true
here, that from its centre there continues to ex-
follate redder aad intenser spirit of maligni
ana ruin, and vain were the hope, therefore
that 1t can have moderation or method in it's
madness, OF can stop until its utmost forces are
| exhausted in the consummation Of it's course.
Assuming that the Radical party is, through
Congress, master Of the situation, it becomes
| important to consider what will be the conse
quences To US its attention will Of course be
directed. At present it seems even more con
| cerned about the Government That Gov
ernment has ventured to assert itself. and
to interpose for our protection. For that
act OF temerlty It is made to answer; and at
present the object is to strip that Government
Of power; and in inaicting indignities upon. us,
the present object seems to be as much to NOR
thy the Government by an exhibition Of it's
impotence, as to visit us with any especial rigor
Of intaiction: But achieving whatever Of
triumph or capital there may be in suppressing
Lie dOVerumenl, IL Will be next in order to
operate upon the South. What precisely shall
be done to us is not even yet apparent We
will be stripped Of liberty Of course, but that is
| loss which we will only share in common with
every other section Of the country ;-for gov
ernment despotic to one section must be despotic
as-to all, and imposed upon us, will necessarily
extend to other States. Impartial suffrage,
which means the equal participation of the
negro in the elective franchise, will doubtless
be required. At caucus held at Washington
on the evening Of the second instant, and CON
tinued by adjournment, that has been resolved
on. It was resolved, also, that it should be
taken without amnesty that the power Of the
President to pardon should be taken away
from him !; that the Congressional Amendment,
even, should be no basis for reconstruction and
generally it has been agreed upon, though it
was rot formally nnounced, that Congress shall
be the Government, and, like the National AS
sembly of France at its removal from Versailles
to Paris, shall be supreme not only over the
laws but the constitution Of the country .
| It would seem, therefore, that the South must