The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-20
why We Support President johnson.
PrO-Slavery Doctrine.

Pro-Slnvery Doctrine.
In respect to the following views,
SO well and conscientiously expressed,
we may say that sentiments of like
character are sinking deep into the
hearts of thoughtful people, and the
day is not now distant when earnest
thoughts will have their appropriate
act IN q spontaneous movement of
the people in support of the Presi-
dent, his policy, hi administration,
slngly and alone considered, without
respect to past traditions, platforms,
or names. A Johnson party may be
formed that will make the issue direct
before the people, whether radical
destructlveness is to prevail or the
reign of "Union, now and forever,
one and inseparable"
National L,telligence,.
We support him, because he is from
the people, is 1Nost essentially one of
the people in sympathy and philoso-
| ply; while the radicals are above the
people, and look exclusively to the
interest of spectators and monopo-
lists.
We support him, because for
twenty years he has been the cham
plon of the laboring classes, and can
be relied upon in respect to the many
great questions in which they are
now deeply concerned; while the
radicals are his antipodes on this
subject, except in respect to the
negroes.
We support him, because he is op-
posed to the concentration of power
IN the Federal Government; while
the radicals are aiming to swallow ND
the constitutional rights of the
States, both by amendments to the
Constitution and by usu,.pation-a
policy that will prove more danger
GUS to the Republic than slavery
itself.
We sustain him, because he believes
the world is governed too much-es-
peclally too much in the interest of
the few at the expense of the many
and that the sole function of a free
Government is to protect the people
In the enjoyment of their natural
rights, in making IN honest living,
and pursuing their happiness; while
the radicals hold that the Government
may sweep over the whole realm of
human relations, and in every con-
ceivable way in which the Influential
shall suggest, may restrict the privi-
leges and hamper the industry of the
masses by special privileges to the
few, and by such Il complicated sys-
tenn of indirection, that the common
people may not perceive how they
are plundered
We sustain him, because he is op-
posed to drawing the interest on,
and the principal of, the war debt
out of the soldier class, but is in
favor of levying it upon the surplus
income and surplus wealth of the
country; while the radicals seem de-
termined to so adjust our revenue
system, and keep it so adjusted, that
the soldier class shall pay fully seven
tsnths Of both the interest and tho
principal, Us well as the ordinary ex-
penses of the Government.
We support him, because he is not
disposed to leap high and dry over
the public sentiment of the loyal
people of the North in respect to un-
limited suffrage to those who were
but yesterday slaves, and are to-day
only the wards of the Government,
and thus endanger more fatal and
bloody civil strife than that through
which we have just passed; while the
radicals are not satisfied with suf-
frage to this class as far as they can
read and write or have served in the
army, but must bring them all in at
once, notwithstanding they outnum-
Der the whites in two, and probably
three, States, and in spite of the fact
that it will require an army of 3OO,-
600 men, and a perpetual despotism,
to preserve the peace through 1876, :
600 square miles of territory!
We sustain him, because there is
no doubt that he will take the
peoples part in the currency ques-
tion, and the payment of the public
debt within ten years, while the radi-
Gals are opposed to the best currency,
IN favor of speedy contraction, and,
III short, Of Il system of expansion
and collapse, under which the few
grasp so much of the peoples wealth
and keep the laboring classes poor
indeed.
Cincinnati Times, (Repu6liean.)
SLAUGHTER AMONG HORSE THIEVES.
The Memphis Comme7'ciM mentions
the depredations of gang of horse
thieves in Tishomingo and Itawamba