The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-15
COLUMBIA. .
Sunday Morning, April l5, 1886.
The People nre Right.


legislation for the veal of the coun-
try, but to the accomplishment of
misehievous and destructive schemes
to keep, their authors in, powef. yet
We have daily evidences that the mass
of the people of the United States
are awaking to . sense of their duty,
and are unequivoca11y [rebuking the
radicaism Of the dominant faction in
Congress.
The election in Connecticut was
the first popular demonstration
against the radicals since the war be-
tween them and the President was
recognized as irreconcilable. That
election shows that over 10000
voters had forsaken the radicals and
their candidate, and gone over to the
platform of peace, restoration and
the Union. Chis coming from q
New England State-a State where
the average intelligence of the voting
ranks high. The radicals strained
every nerve, used every means, mis-
representation, bribery and corrup-
tion, to maintain their former posi-
tion, and yet failed.
The next evidence we find in New
jersey, where we find the Legislature
emphatically condemning the radicals
in Congress, by refusing to elect a
Senator hey had unjustly ousted
from th Senate to replace him by
one of their own stripe, and even the
man they had selected to carry out
their dishonest scheme refused to
become participant in their shame
less attempt. Public meetings have
been held there since, and town cleo
tlons have taken place since this
fraudulent affair, and the voice of the
former and the results of the latter
have rebuked, in unmistakeable
terms, the mad schemes of radicalism.
Elections which have recently taken
place throughout the great West all
tell the same tale. In Ohio some
public meetings have been held in
favor of restoration, and in Kentucky
the same. The election held in the
great commercial city of st. Louis is
very significant, and the result, as the
Republican of that city states, is
GLORIOUS. In st. Louis, last April,
the radicals elected their Mayor by
3,26S; at the last election the con-
servatives have carried the general
city ticket by 5000 majority. St.
Louis, says the Republican, Islands
by President johnson. She endorses
his noble and patriotic course, and
responds in thunder tones of appro-
baton and delight to his annual mes
sages. his vetoes of the Freedman's
Bureau and civil rights bills, his recent
peace proclamation, his addresses to
various delegations of citizens, and,
IN general, those measures, principles
and sentiments which make up what
is known as his restoration policy"
Such, we feel convinced, will be
the voice Of the people of the whole
country when the question of deciding
between the President and Congress
is squarely and fairly brought before
them. But still the work of usurpa-
ton and wild fanaticism goes on in
Congress. We have been warned by
the National bteligence1. that another
bold and startling movement of the
destructives will shortly take place,
and from the givings out of the Chi
cago Tribune, which openly advocates
the measure, and the letters of Wash
ington correspondents, that move
ment is to be the Impeachment of the
President. Will the Executive, or will
the people, submit to the develop
ment of this conspiracy, asks the
Louisville Courier. Will they allow
the Onion to be any longer held dis
severed?
The President is sworn to protect
and defend the Constitution, and be
stands ut this moment in the very
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