The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-26
COLUMBIA.
Thursday Morning, April 26, 1856.
The National johnson Club.


Chairman, Montgomery Blair, has
issued an address to the people OF
the United States ON the political
condition of the country Its length
prevents its publication in our
columns, but an extract OF two will
give our readers an idea of its tenor
and purport. As to the radicals and
their purposes it says:
CHOW, the whole radical party have
assumed, as their party principle, the
anti-eonstitutionM doctrine that the
States put in allegiance by rebellious
usnrpation shall only be recognized
rs In the Union when submitting to
terms prescribed by III Act of Con
gress This attains the point at
which the Essex junto-the high
flying Federalists of the North
would, at the beginning of the Gov
ernment, have fixed the power of the
General Government The whole
policy of this aristocratic body Of
politicians has ever been, and is now,
the consolidation of the supreme
power in the hands of Congress. Its
legislation is to pervade the States
and supplant that of their Legisla-
lures. They mako full manifesto
ton of their design in their Freed
mans Bureau bill and their civil
rights bill, by which they undertake
to establish nation of negroes
among nation of whites, and render
them independent of the laws and
courts of the State in which they
reside, and in contempt of all sense
OF Justice and humanity, their revo-
iutlonary measures invading the
rights of the States, and annullinc
their municipal laws, by excluding
them from their rights in the Union,
and their representation from the
halls of Congress, and governing
them rs England once governed Ire.
land, refusing to hear her voice in
the Imperial Parliament. AS Ireland
was governed by laws sent to her
from England, so the eleven States
of the South, still excluded from
representation in Congress, although
they have given proof of entire sub
mission to the Laws and Constitution,
and acquiescence in NIL the issues de-
termined by the war, are governed
by laws shaped in caucus, and
passed by Congress representing
another section of the country cx-
clusively.'
The address thus puts the whole
question IN q nutshell. The Consti-
tuition expressly provides that the
President of the United States and
Congressional representatives shall be
the voters of each State authorized
by it to elect the members of the
popular branch of the Legislature.
This right Is expressly reserved to
each State to prevent the consolida-
ton of all power in the Congress of
the United States. But it would be
as profitable to try and teach an ele-
phant to read the Latin and Greek
tongues as to indoctrinate the radi
Gals with the principles of the Con-
stitution.
We extract another paragraph from
this address:
congress has not yet ventured to
annul the clause in the Constitution
giving the creation of electors to the
several States; but Mr.. Sumner, who
speaks for the Senate, has asserted
that the late emancipation amend
ment to the Constitution warrants the
concession of suffrage to the negroes.
and q measure has been introduced
INTO the House of Representative to
deny it to all the white people dis
qualified by the test oath. But nei-
ther OF these expedients need be
resorted to now. Congress. bv ex-
ciuding from the National Legislature
the whole race in the South that
fought the battle for our indepen-
dence, and who contributed largely
IN founding what has hitherto been
looked upon as the white mans Go
v.ernment, established by his courage,
intelligence and labor MS his own free.
hold, and as the inheritance of his
children, renders any further disfran-
chlsement superfuous, and his degra-
dation Is completed by putting the
negroes upon higher ground than
the white race in other respects: edu-
eating their children at the national
expense; feeding clothing and shell
terlng the hundred thousands who
reject the tempting wages which in
vlte them to return to employment in
the South; according to them seats in
the galleries of the two housns tbo