The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-19
The People Aroused.

the call for n National Union Conven-
ton' we were not sanguine enough
to witness such q general uprising of
the people, i'll all sections, rs this
simple, patriotic call has awakened
among all parties, save the radicals,
throughout the land.
This approaching assemblage of
| Union men has carried CONSERVATION
into the camp Of the destrnctives.
and, as each succeeding day bears to
the Jacobin conclavc, ut Washington,
the overwhelming evidences of the
determination Of the masses of the
people, they are getting beside them
selves, and are fairly at their wits
end. The whole drift Of public SEN
tlment, as evinced by the press of
the whole country, is setting towards
Philadelphia, and all are looking to
the work to be done there as the
means of saving the country.
The mere announcement of this
meeting having evoked such spon-
taneons expression OF public favor,
what must be the effect of its action.
II that action is conformable to the
principles and objects set forth in the
call? 1t Will be the sweeping away of
radlcallsm from its present position
of power, and the restoration of peace
and harmony to the country.
Bat one of the great benefits we
look for from this Convention is, that
the conservative men from both of
the sections lately ut strife. will come
together LII friendly contact for q
conanlo~ p"t1oSe-the restoration of
peace to oar distracted country, the
staying of sectional animosity, which
for thirty years has kept us to /. great
extent Il divided people, and to crush
out that ticndish agitation which, gc-
ncrated III New England. grew pow
erful enough to get hold of one of the
departments of the Government, and
which they can only retain by a con
tinnancc of that agitation. All causes
of sectional strife are at M end.
There never was IL time in the history
OF the country when such n maoniti
cent opportunity has presented itself
for the complete eradication of every
cause of SectiomH discOrd than the
present moment offers, and no more
potent agency to accomplish this end
than the proposed National Conven-
ton.
Our political future, if the people
are now true to themselves, may never
show on its record any issues array
ing one section against the other.
The thinking men of the whole coun-
try have but recently witnessed its
baleful effects, and the extremity to
which it has brought us rs Il people.
and, although minor issues may here
after divide them into parties, vet
each party, III its own way, may work
for the common veal. Embittercd
sectional feeling can now be wiped
out forever and that man, North or
South, Is an enemy to the public
good. who would seek to foster it at
the hazard Of future strife.
. -
1t WAS rnmored in Washington last
Saturday, that IL proclamation from
the President announcing the resto-
ration of Texas to the Union, and
declaring, IN uncquivocal terms, the
abolition of martial law in the South.
may be looked for in I" day or two.
The correspondent of the New
York My,d'i writes Statements have
been going freely TO the press in re-
gard to the intentions and plans of
the President in the future, many of
which are wholly unauthorized and
most entirely wrong. ! am authorized
to say that the President has no in
tention whatever of being present Mt
the Philadelphia Convention. He
does openly and rndeniab!y sympa-
thlze with that Convention, and will
exert all his influence to make it :.
success