The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-31
COLUMBIA y
Friday Morning, August 81. 1855.
Radical Tactics. %

Norlh and West, in the coming cleo
tions for Congress, to nominate can
didates who favor ithe immediate adj
mission OF -mamhers.- -frosn .aA~.the
States, subject to. the coRstitptiopal
dccisionS of each hoase. 3 The Pos
may be sincere iuthist treeommends1
ton. or it may be putting it forth as
Il mere electioneering trick. The ra-
dicals got into power by false profes,
sions and promises, and tire people
of the North! aud West will under
stand this new dodge, which. is,\ we
think. simply intended to weaken
that opposition. to- the party which is
concentrating In gignnSic magnitude
from all the other political parties in
the North. The Post! however,
speaks the truth in the following pa
ragraph:s LoOV .W@AT2
we have. found reason to believe
since then, however that the wndic-
tive obstinate men Who have gained
the control Of the Republican maio-
rity IN Congress, are fully determined
to ctrry cut tHeif designs at all ha-
.'5dt, r. ana 18th that thHsy Hy VII refuse to ad
despotically i'll this Congress that
they may have the influence to rule
that l,osfyd duriug the remain derpf its
existence: and therefore the question,
whether o. no the Southern States,
hately in rebelliob shall be represent
eds m Congress, is forced upon the
people"
Tms-loo honest and sincere;g Be-
C cause use it is the truth, and it may be
that the sensible men of. the radical
party, taking the alarm at tile oyer
whelming opposition that is daily
manifesting itself. are going to ride
this hobby, and, if possible, thus re-
tam their, their, power, But the Post
knows, rs well as the leaders of the
party, that the admission Of the mem
bcrs elect from the Southern States
would. deprive tie faction OF It's su-
prcmacy in Congress. And therefore
We are. inclined to believe that the
above apparently fair and honest Ian
guage is merely u party clap trap to
catch votes. ,,
81 Affairs i'm England..s
TIE political situation in our own
eonntry attracts so much attention
that we overlook the, progress, OF
events elsewhere. The Atlantic teIe-
graph brought 4us dispatches, pub
lished on Wednesday morning, that
the. great advocate of reform, John
Bright. addressed on immense meet
ing Of the people, on Monday night
lasf,aat.d tllattllis remafks created the
most enthusiastic excitement among
MS iearetsy England IS on Che eve
of important changes. if not of n
reyeiatiens "a writer rin the Liver
pool Mafhly ssoverheafd d conversa-
tiorf betweens Two Sstone-naasons, in
which one said: Jack, I'll tell you
dy aind; Esn not otgoingbefghs for
aseopntgy where I don't own a square
yard of land. y The writertakes this
text ana whites an article, in which
he says: 50 Ts'-' 800 "a Sag"
. .:The rapid rise Of rent all over the
conntry is creating. q difference be-
tween the owners Of lands and houses
md the farmers who cultivate the
one and the tenants. who live in tho
other, which is making itself more
and more evident every day. Many
ugly symptoms are upon us The
constantly increasing bands Of roughs
incur large towns; the degraded con
dition OF the field laborers; the swell
ing number Of the criminal popula-
ton; q the exorbitant claims Of the
moneyed3 class--as evidenced by the
prevalence of pawn-broking and bill
discounting and banking: the inef-
iciency of the Church of England as
81 national teacher, Of religion, the
profigacy, the prodigality and the
wanton caprices Of the racll-these,
and a thousand other symptoms, tell
az q national decay similar to that OF
ihc Jews before the Babylonish cap
tivity.'' '
This is condensation, in o single
paragraph, Of the opinions now freely
expressed by the liberal speakers and
writer's of England. II the Govern