The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-23
TIE SOUTH AND HER AD VLSERS.

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TIE so UTH AND HER ADVISERS.
The people of the South have much advice,
at present, from their Northern friends. Many
out Of the ranks of the Republican party arc
in dread of consequences. Many in it, even,
are not altogether easy They look with re-
pugnance on its organizations md aims. They
must do SO, for they arc not all crazed; {; but,
being prudent, theysce nothing else to be done.
However rcpugnant to the whole thing, they
had better be of it than under it, but to APP
peasc it and havo an end of the somewhat too
exciting exhibition, they would have us come
to terms. They would ask lis not to be too
particular or e1acting. They would also, have
US not to be proud, stiff-necked, or, especially,
rcbellious: and, with amiable sweetness, they
would have US respectful of propricties, and
not anger further, the somewhat imperious, but
certainly the stronger and, perhaps better
a genius of the North. And so advice and
expostulation have been frequent. We arc
willing to believe those who make them
sincere They arc forced to concur in cruel
s tics and wrongs which it is the nature of
the ruling purity to commit, but can have no III
, dyidual feeling to inspire q sense Of 'nsticc IN
! tho inaiction; and, whether from thczwant OF
such feeling or blie fear OF lurli.cr#aonse-
uucnocs. or both, We believe them earnest and.
if assured of the justice of their judgment, We
%En of tnru
} they suggest. ==
! But, admitting their candor, we distrust their
conceptions. Conscious only of their own mo-
tiyes, and having but an inadequate conception
of the nature of that party with which they
have become associated they assume that it
has a perception of its own purposes, and
would accept Of that as a fnality with which
they themselves will be content. And if this
were so-if, in the nature Of things, there could
be any rational expression Of the aims and ten
denotes of that purity, and it were true that
these were consistent with any remnant of con-
stitutional liberty in these seeded Statee-lt
were, perhaps, the highest prudence to accept
them and by single sacrifice of righss and
privileges ultimately to be conceded, to end
the controversy.
But thorc is the error. The controversy is
not to be SO ended The instincts Of that party
organization are stronger than the reason
! which assumes to direct it. The intelligence OF
that party would be satisfied with concessions
! 1t would have been satisfied with the restora-
1 ton policy of the President; would have been
satisfied with secession, even, il allowed to DO
so, aud now would accept the constitutional
amendment, or with anything more or less than
that. But the instincts of that party are more
truly conservative of its organization and cxls-
tence. They instruct it that it must have an OBJ
ject to agonize; that one OBJ cct Of exception
removed, it must take another; that the want ls
notof something we will concede-but of somc-
thing we cannot conccde; and with a party to
which this is tho motive principle, there is no
ground for parley. 1t must, of necessity, an
tagonize all political restriction of its will;
each barrier of the past, or any future constltu-
ton, created to protect one single right remain
ing, must be broken down; and to those, there
fore, who sit SO fur in pleasant connection
with this organization, and who intend us kind
ness in urging us to accept its rcquisiton, we
} have to say that they themselves arc i'll error as
: to What those acquisitions arc. We know that
organization better than they dove always
!. have known it better The writer Of this art-
Gle announced the irrcpressiblc conflict before
A1r. sEwARnand Mr.. LINCOLN yenturctl to avow
! it, Tic predicted tho election of Il Republican
0 President, when those who now advise us rdi-
0 culed the thought; as far in advance he indi-
l Gated the fate of Northern friends, who yaunlcd
Q their strength to stem the current of agrees
sion, and lie has rs little hesitation, now, in say
) ing that the aggrcssions of that party will find
their only limit in the physical power sufficient
to restrain it, and that it will como to order and
forbearance only when crushed by the present
:, Government, or when q despotsm, springinr
from within itself, shall become established
? over it. ,
l Who ride upon that party, therefore, have
| but ~ temporary advantage over us. They may
q commiscrate and advise us until all the forms
of constitutional Government shall be trodlen
down, but the wrongs inflicted upon us must
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