The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-18
The New York Tribune.

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The New York Tribune.
The following excellent article on
the New York Tribune is from a
Catholic paper, the Philadelphia Uni
De1-Se:
The Tribune has two great talents
one for exciting fanatics to spill
blood, aud one for collecting the
blood and fastening all the crime
attached to it on innocent parties. It
is from rabid negrophily it has con-
celved this duplex diabolical charac
ter. An instance has just occi rred,
We mean the late riot in New Or
leans. The Tribune is the gospel of
the miserable wretches who provoked
that shocking tumult; and all the gore
shed in it, Mr.. Greeley has cupped
up and dashed into the face of the
President of the United States him
self. Can wicked journalism 90 to a
greater excess in public atrocity?
But 1t is in strict accordance with
the spirit which taught. and even still
lnsinuates, that the Constitution is a
league with hell; and which had much
more than half to do in causing the
late rebellion. Nothing can be more
remote from the truth than that the
President is culpable in any degree
whatever for the blood spilled in New
Orleans The contrary is entirely the
case. At the moment when riot was
apprehended, he was notified by tele-
graph OF the danger. He responded
at once, directing Gen. Sheridan to
be brought in to preserve the peace.
But 1t was too late. The negro and
the radical tempers were up, and the
riot broke out. The only thing
agreeable in the matter is, that the
rioters have been the chief sufferers.
Ihis is the whole subject i'm nut
shell.
The President was never a rioter.
He never employed unfair means to
effect political ends. He never de-
hvered infammatory hurangues. He
must be supposed to have higher
regard for the splendid dignity Of his
Office than to provoke bloody, politi
cal tumult in any place. He is too
humane as man to have any part
whatever in sanguinary outbreaks.
And, certainly, his plan of recon
strnction, as elevated in wisdom as
his adherence to it is heroic against
the radical opposition pitted against
hlm, needs no support from riot. The
Tribune is not ignorant Of this. But,
fanaticism for the negro, part;zan
malice, and recklessness in provok-
ing riot, to charge. the blood spilled
on political enemy, weigh more
with it than knowledge, truth and
justice.
a great political campaign is at
hand. To win it, the Tribune incites
tumult, and, gathering up the blood
shed in the tumult, charges all, with
fiendish glee, on the Chief NIagis-
trate OF the nation. The Robe
spheres of the French Revolution
did nothing worse against the King
than this. Perhaps the Tribune is
aiming at the assassination of the
President. 1t is not q blacker crime
to plot such a murder than to pro-
woke negroes and white fanatics to
riot, and then to sponge up the blood
shed in the riot, and squeeze it down
on the Presidents head, making him
guilty for all. And certainly there
can be no difficulty for the Tribune
in making the negroes and white IA
natics whom it has both goaded into
riot, and convinced that the blood
shed on the occasion is entirely
chargeable to Andrew johnson, look
upon the death of the same Andrew
johnson as a thing of great private
and public justice and expediency.
Negroes and white fanatics are rapid
in bloody conclusions, and writers
like those in the Tribune office do not
hesitate much to insinuate them. But
for ali these riots and nefarious re-
solves among negroes and fanatics,
condition of things nationally good
exists. The radical Congress has nd
Joumed, utterly defeated in its bad
purposes; the wise reconstruction
plan of the President cannot be baf-
fed; and a true National Convention,
the design Of the President, is at
hand, which will re-knit the North
and the South.