The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-14

Senator Salisbury, of Delaware, is
an appropriate Representative Of that
diminutiye State. He is q very small
but an exceedingly impulsive politi-
clan. The honorable Senator is said
to. be addicted to deep potations, and
sometimes, therefore, makes an eyre
gious donkey Of himself. He is,
however, most fearless conservative
and consistent Democrat, and de
serves to be forgiven when he stag
gers occasionally to very foolish con-
clusions.
At the meeting of Democratic
association in Washington the other
night. Senator Salisbury said he was
weary of supporting man who
would not help himself He was n
warm personal friend of President
Johnson, but he was ''tired of sup
porting a, man who let the Connecti-
cut State election go against him
when he could have prevented it;
who gives his Offices to men who are
his personal enemies; who keeps
4 Cabinet about him not one of whom
is friend to him, and who has
scarcely member in Congress to
ouPPOAG L1SttSuIcS.
All of this talk is very foolish, and
affords the most intense pleasure to
the revolutionists. The position of
President johnson is peculiarly EN-
barrassing, and he is more likely to
be injured by unwise friends than by
implacable enemies. . In the present
condition of affairs, no one expects
that the President should become the
leader of either of the old parties.
The formation of a new and power
full party, and its gradual crystaliza-
ton around the leading measures of
his administration, is what alone will
rescue the nation from the perils
which surround it. We sympathize,
however, with Senator Salisbury in
his earnest longings for the speedy
removal OF those officials who are
notoriously using the influence of
their places in the Cabinet to break
down the President. We cannot
doubt the purpose Of Andrew john
son to drive from his Cabinet his
avowed enemies, and we only regret
that the time for their expulsion has
not yet arrived
We do not attribute the tarliness
of the President in removing Stanton,
Harlan and Speed to want of nerve.
No man, since the days of Andrew
Jackson, has possessed more deter
mined pluck than the President.
Wonderful moral and personal con-
rage has characterized his long poll
tical life. But the great and control
ling object of the President is to
gather around him the good, patri-
otto men of all parties, for the pur-
pose of saving the life of the repub-
lie. He cannot do this by giving all
the Offices of the Government to the
patriotic, but hopelessly feeble mi
nority to which Mr. Salisbury be-
longs. 1t is, undoubtedly, his pnr-
pose to remove the revolutionists
from Office, bnt time is required to
find out who are his friends and who
his enemies. Violent and irrccon-
cilable as is the quarrel between the
President and the revolutionists, it is
of very recent origin. His enemies
sailed under false colors until Stevens
and Sumner ran up the black flag of
war to the knife few weeks ago.
I The smoke has not vet cleared up
sufficiently for the President to dis
tinguish friends from enemies, and
he wishes to make no mistake when
he, among the paltry Office holders,
puts the guillotiner fairly in motion.
The advice which Senator Sauls-
bury gives to the Northern Demo
cracy to break with the President
upon the question of spoils is the
counsel Of a very foolish adviser.
Such blunder would utterly annihi-
late that party.-Richnaon Times.
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