The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-29
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THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 80 1866.
80, 1866.
COMPROMISES.

THE CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY AND THE DUTY o.
coSoREsS-A PROTEST FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS.
From the Ant-Sidrery StnaddrL1
We hear of compromises to be suggested by tn,
President 1t is rumorcd that he is prepared /,
adopt Mr.. Greoley's plan. universal amnesty ant
narty, it is said and tho Southern rebels also, nc
cept this. We may be obliged to submit to it now
since treason in tho White House and "Iractica
golden opportunity OF May. 1866. Such terms nrc
preventative Of future rebellions; the precedent
thus sot that mon may rebel at Richmond, starve
Fort Pillow riot, and murder ut Memphis and
New Orleans, and still laugh at law and justice.
But with traitor in the Presidential chair; with
the dominant party all ut sea- without chart or pi-
lot its officers having shut themselves up in the
cabin, stuffed their ears with cotton and covered
their eyes seycn-fod for fear of the lightning and
the noiho, with timid non-combatants for editors
OF our leading journals--eyery Republican fort
''covered constantly with flags of armistice"-
what better could we expect?
We only enter our protest Tint such plan will
restore peace to the South, no such plan will give
room for the commencement Of real reconstruction
Accept such plan and leave the South to carry il
out, and VIC may look to see her. for some wears
to come, repeating the bloody, bankrupt, aiinless
and barren anTcby Of Mexico. No State charter
2fpoa!iea riglts to the negro will ever secure him
grant Of rights - him by the bgotted. besotted,
angGrcd andr S,oi -. white me;' Of the, South
will lack an Executive principle, rs Burke and
Canning long ago warned us.
What tho South needs is peace. and cordial
welcome to horthern brains, capital and enter
mence. In order to have this, the antipathies
between her classes must be kept down by the
s.fong arm Of the United States; her old lead
ers poisoned and poisoning all others. must be
senced and curbed, and her streets mato safc for
every man. however hated, who brings mind
money, schools and energy with him.
ratio this state of things and in ten years the so1th
will become, like the West, the counterpart, with
healthy differences, of the Northeast the cradle
and true mould Of the nation.
at present the country population of the South
is in a hopeful state Of mind and feeling, easily
moulded and led, because always accustomed to be
tated by their rotten comrade in the White House
arc full Of mischief. Tho real leaders of the
South its large property hGders and educated
realize their situation. Could the Government hold
the South quiot while real reconstruction COM
menced, those men would, in three years, be its
Investment, not as political hobby, and now that
is ended seek to overthrow those 'iold men of the
sea" Pollard Pryor, and the rest, i'll order to i'm
statesmanship could have managed this crisis, ali
power in the rebelous territories would have been
t1t entrusted to loyal hands black and white, and
Hamptons would have been protected by civil
rights bills and bureaus from any possible misuse
OF this exclusive power on the part of our white
and black allies. But as that opportunity was lost
we must protect the negro for two or three years,
rs he rises into his place. and then States NAV be-
safely formed, and most of the powers formorly
conceded to State sovereignty may bo entrusted to
It again. The war has taught us that the reguIa-
tlon OF citizenship its civil and political rights
ought always to be retained by tile Federal Gov,
ernment.
Our claim ia that Congress- shall wholly onore
tho military boards and committees of pardoneS
rebels which style themselves "States.'' Let no
executive sanction induce Congress to recognize
such usurpahons. It is not yet time to authoriZe
those territories to form State governments.
Secondly, whonovor any bargain is made ana
whatever it's terms, let it be guaranteed by the
United States. Let the political equality and right
OF each citizen be secured by the Federal Consti-
tuition. The South; when she could not violently
rob, has always cheated her victim. The Missouri
compromise was eyaded by smuggling into that
State two or three counties north Of the forbidden
hne years before it WAS openly Sc. aside BY un-
FLUSHING frand. So will any arrane ements made
by States for tho negro be evaded OF annulled.
"Punic faith" is pure gold, spotless Abdicl.
compared with Southern trickery, in all that re-
ates to tho negro and the nation.
DO you doubt my word 2" said Southern Bonn
bastes Inrioso, in New York court wears ago to
an Abolltionist, who demanded his Fond and not
ms promise, to produce there again an alleged
II know you steal, and see no reason wby con
should not also lio," was the quiet reply; which
;mbodles volumes of wisdom for this crisis. Let
'he nation need 1t. WENDELL PHILLIPS.