The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-28
NIr. Vailandighnna.

exclusion of Messrs. Vallandigham
and Wood, as evidence that the South
ought not to have participated in the
proceedings Of that body. The fol
lowing extract of a letter published
in the New York Ne,cs, from John
Forsyth, delegate at large from Ala
bama, throws some light or the sub
ject:
81 take the occasion to deny, with
emphasis. the statement in this
mornings He,mltI that Mr. Nallan-
dlgham was notified by Tire Southern
delegations that if he did not quietly
withdraw they would vote him ont
1t is impossible to conceive q more
odious and damaging imputation
upon Southern delegations than this
what! turn upon man who had
suffered imprisonment, persecution
and exile, for sympathizing with our
sufferings and trials, If there was
one wretch SO hcartless from tho
South, [ am happy to say I did not
and never wish to know him. My
own views and sense Of duty were
very clear, and I believe they were
those of every Southern gentleman
in the Convention. 1t was, that we
could not, in personal honor or con-
science, and with q due regard to the
honor and conscience of our consti-
tuents, vote to unseat . gentleman
whose right to Il seat was patented to
him by the gallant Democracy of
| ONO, was as good as our own. and
whose only disability was that he was
our friend i'll trouble Under the
call tor the Convention he had Il clear
right, for It's theory was amnesty for
the past and fidelity to IA common
patriotic object III the future. 1t was
upon this theory that we of the
South were there, and it was forcion
to the objects and fatal to the effects
expected to be produced to begin
the work of peace and harmony hv
prosecuting and furnishing for past
political differences. [ would not
and could not. have remained an in
slant III that Convention if anv
! Northern delegate like NIessrs. Val
landlgham or Wood, properly ac
credited, had been unscated by vote
1t was not the banquet to Which we
were invited, and we should have
gone home with the reflection that
the North Is not Yet ready for peace
and restoration. But happily and
nobly, on their part, these gentle
men saw the rock and removed it out
of the path of harmonious action.
The Convention became Il great sue
! cess, and Northern gentlemen tell me
1t IS DONG great good and working
we'll Tor the cause OF reunion.
trust so for the common veal. for this
has become Northern rs, we'll rs
Southern question. There is danger
that the dislnion maladv may become
chrome, aye and infectious, and it
would be u singular spectacle to be-
hold the North lay down its thousands
OF millions OF treasure and pour ont
! ltS blood Ill rivers 10 prevent the
seeding South from breaking ND the
empire OF States, and then. being
victorious, to turn round and decree
and perpetuatc the event they took
up arms to avoid. In truth, in the
late war, both helligcrcnts have SO
far failed of their objects. The
South struck for independence and
failed to attain it. The North armed
and invoked her nationality to save
the Union, and, up TO this time
fifteen months after every Confede-
rate arm has been grounded she has
failed in its attainment. The oppo-
nents of the Union in the South are
beaten, sincerely accept the armed
political solution and are ready and
anxious to gather around the old
hearth, and, when permitted, to
rally around the flag All We ask is
fair play, fidelity to the principles
upon which the North appealed to-
arms Ii. tie face OF the world. and
upon which we laid ours down. and
that when we do come in, we enter
by the broad stairway and the front
door to the temple OF the Union,
with heads erect, in the consciousness
that We have done nothing in all our
struggle, on land or wafer, to bring a
blush to the check of American man
hood. This done, and Won vii!
surely find the best Confederate
fighters the trucst and bravcst lup-
holders OF the Constitution and the
Union of the States. But YOU had
best be wary of those who Skulked.
and now claim loyalty, when war
famed at our uoor stones, and the
fire and sword OF invasion were busy
with the roof-trecs md lives Of
ncighbors and friends. v