The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-30
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The calm and disinterested opi-
hion6 of An enliahsened foreign press
in relation to the fanaticisrn Of the
radical Congress, are important as
Pretgurlng the opinions that all in
telhgent persons in America will come
to entertain when unreasoning pas
sion shall subside, and men are
brought to their sober senses. It is
not often that SO much truth and
good sense are compressed into SO
few words as the following from the
Lond n Post, of the 7th of August.
Says -ae Posk: - -, 49,
1t certainly does seem strange that
any faction, however extreme its
views. should still exist in the United
States, which can persist in policy,
which, if steadily pursued, would in
evitably bring about another civil
war. The great object with which, as
we were told, the North engaged in a
costly war against the Southern
States, was to prevent them seeding
from the Union. It was absolutely
essential that the republic should be
one and indivisible. This unity, it
was insisted, was necessary for its
greatness and its prosperity; and to
maintain it, no sacrifices were consi-
dered too great. Now, however, that
the war is Mt an end, it is those who
are most bitter in their hostility to
the South who strive to prevent this
much desired unity becoming an &c
complished fact. It is fortunate,
uLder such circumstances, that the
republic has for its Chief Magistrate
such man as Andrew johnson. The
honesty with which he has endeavor-
ed to reconcile the differences of the
antagonlstic States, and the sound
craftsmanship he has shown in his
efforts to reconstruct the Union on
the only possible sound basis-name-
~, tho equal recognition of the rights
OF all its citizens-have secured for
him the respect of every true friend
Of that great republic Against the
narrow minded prejudices of those
whom, In the first flush of victory,
the Republican party sent to Con
gress, he can do little more than pro-
test. That protest may or NAV not
be availing; but such as it is, he
deems 1t his duty to make it-not
doubling, however, that the moral
support accorded to him by the bulk
of his fellow-citizens will give to it an
efficacy which no hostile najorities in
Congress can entirely destroy.
A French journal, L,1 Libe,1e, of
August 8, thus speaks of President
Johnson:
"a singular circumstance! This
President, whose entrance on power
the day after horrible crime seemed
to announce q policy of exclusion in
the very man who, in taking the
reins of Government, loudly mani
tested the most violent sentiments
and the most menacing intentions,
suddenly became the most devoted
agent of reconciliation between the
two noble fragments of the American
Union, and of the restoration of the
rights of the vanquished This fact,
placed by the side Of the general dis
armament, Of the scene of generals
and soldiers going peaceably to re-
sume their former occupations, of
liberty snbsisting even during the
war ltsef-does not this fact charac-
terize American society? What au
admirable spectacle is that of this
functionary arriving at power with
hatred in his heart and threats in his
mouth, but soon listening with re-
spect to the voice of public opinion
as manifested by meetings or by the
journals, and giving to the wishes of
the country precedence over his own;
preferring the sentiments of the ma
tion to those of a personal nature! 1t
is in this way that liberty modifes
profoundly the conditions of author
ity."
THE RETURNING TIDE OF SPECIE. -
The financial items by the Atlantic
cable which we publish to-day are of