The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-29
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The National Convension.
= The following remarks are from
that admirably conducted paper, the
National Eatelkigeace,,:
We hail with great 10Y and sntis-
faction the call for National Union
Convention, which appears in our
columns to-day. 1t is announced to
the country under the auspices of
names that, since the outcropping of
the conspiracy against the President.
against the Union, against the Con.
stltutlon, and against Republican
form Of government itself, are en-
shrined in all true hearts for their
self-sacrificing and courageous efforts
against overwhelming odds to still
higher exalt the standard of the
Union, with not stripe erased and
not star obscured. AS said Ma
poleon to the French people at the
dawn of disaster tx his army, before
allied hosts on the bloody field of
Dresden. "Let all that love me fol-
low me; SO let all the people of this
country who admire and confide in
Andrew johnson, who stand fast by
his policy and principles, esstrike the
resounding shields of departed pa
h1ots,' and rally in serried ranks
against the worst form Of hostility to
constitutional government that has
ever yet developed itself in Ameri-
can affairs.
The friends of the President are
still In the full faith that the masses
OF the people do now, as they did at
the opening of the session Of Con
gress, approve of his course and his
policy as to the rehabilitation of the
late rebel States, and their represen-
tltion by loyal men in Congress, and
as did the Governors of States, MS
announced by the approving organ
OF the central directory Of the reyo-
iutionists of Congress, just precedent
to its assembling in December.
The day nor the hour has not been,
when the friends of the President
have not held in proper horror the
conspiracy that was secretly and fur
lively formed to beat back the adj
vancing waves of popular apprecia-
ton OF the policy developed in his
message to Congress. The day nor
the hour has not been that they have
not detestcd the secret Vaccinations
OF Il star-chamber directory over Con-
grcss, in contempt of the Constitu-
ton and the law. They have success
fully resisted the sum of all viilainies
IN unjust legislation, as originally
presented III the monstrous incuba-
ton of the Congressional conclaye.
They now resist it in that modified
form which was made the subject of
Executive protest but two or three
days since. We need not now repeat
that compact argument against OBJ
vlous wrong, any more than wo need
repeat, III this article, the grand prin-
clples that are expressed in the ad-
dress that, to-day, graccs our CO.
lnmns.
But through seven tedious, anxious,
harassing months, the friends of the
President and his policy have fore
borne, hesitated, eXpostulated, and
protested against the disunionists in
Congress, in the hope that right
counsels might at last rule the hour,
and that the loyal representatives
from the South might be admitted to
the floor of Congress. But this spirit
OF unselfish and patriotic desire for
harmony has been met only by a
more lndurated resistance, though
clothed i'll more deceptive forms, to
mask its fell intention to forever re-
duce the people Of eleven States of
the Union to the condition OF colo
nists, to be controlled by military sa-
trapies a form Of rule which, in the
end, would, rs all history teaches,
precipitatc n heritage of woe upon
the entire American people.
But the qualities Of patience aud
forbearance are completely exhaust
ed. lime only remains for IL popular
rally around the President rs the un-
dannted Standard-bcarcr of the con-
sstltutional union OF the States. There
is scarcely y position OF the address
calling II National Convention Of the
Unionists of the country that has not
been announced, supported and de-
tended IN the columns of tho NtairnM
I"feHige1cer. To their support we
pledge "hand-work. heart-work and
head-work. , Unuuestionably, ma
jority Of the people of the North are
friendly to the principles enumerated,
and an opportunity is now presented
of united action upon an issue of all
sorblng interest and most grave i'm
portancc. To effect the desired OBJ
ltct OF success at the polls in the