The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-04

ment in Congress or-hefore the ce1,tl-
try, s.and there is every reason TO
believe that the Southern peonle viii
at once address Themselves to the &C.
ceptance of the conditions So gene
rously proffered. as they will be in
fiexibly enforced. -
What language, says the Richmond
Dispatch, is strong enough to chalnc.
terize such @ faisehood, based upon
such Il Misrepresentation of facts?
And Forney hnen that he was lying.
He h,,e,c that he had no reason to
suppose that the Southern people
would accept the terms proposed.
. These terms will be "infexibly en-
forced says Forney. How? By
whom? BY what authority? Evi-
IDENTIFY his idea is that the amend
ment will be adopted by the Northern
States, and 'Jorced" upon tho South.
The Baltimore Sun, truthful
paper, takes the true view, i'll saying:
eff it is not designed to prevent
reconstruction, it is difficult to see
what other purpose it could possibly
have. It can hardly be supposed
that the committe or the majority in
Congress would expect this illiberal
scheme to be acceptable to the people,
or that the requisite number of States
would ratify the proposed constitu-
tlonal amendment. a
"Analostan' writes from Washing
ton:
'sThe propositions made by the
committee will, without doubt, be
endorsed by their associates in Con-
gress, but are of such q character
that it will be impossible for the
South to accept them, which is pre-
clsely what the radicals want. They
have no intention that the South
shall be represented in the National
Congress unless she sends members
LII full accord with them, and who
Will at once fall into the party traces
under the lead of Stevens. Summer
& Co."
The following scathing comments
are from the Richmond Times:
The report of the Reconstruction
Committee is bold and most impu-
dent confession Of the fact that the
Constitution is to be used for the
retention in power of the party
which Is now warning upon the Pre-
sident.
The proposition to disfranchisc the
great mass of the Southern people
until gt1er tho next Presidential cleo
ton, is the result of shallow sort of
political knavery, which fatters itself
that when the great majority of the
intelligent and respectable voters of
the South have been disfranchised,
that the radicals will secure an easy
triumph.
A careful analysis of the report
reveals the fact that the only object
OF the party now in power is to re-
tam the Offices and patronage of the
Government few years more.
Finding it impossible to keep the
Southern States out of the Union
much longer, the report of the com
mlttee provides for their restoration
after they have complied with the
most degrading and revolving require
ments. They may elect Congressman,
but those Congressman shall onlv be
voted for by more than one per cent
OF the voters of the South. They NAV
vote for Presidential electors, but
none who gave voluntary aid and
comfort to the Confederacy shall ex-
erclse the right of suffrage.
BY such restrictions as these do the
revolutlonists absurdly hope to post
pone the hour of their inevitable
overthrow. Nothing can he more
Idle than these attempts to prolonc
the existence of q party which cannot
survive the angry passions engendcr-
Ell by the late civil war.
Even If the Southern States were
to ablectly accept the humiliating
condition proposed, and crawl back
INTO the Union with our people dis
franchised, and our representation
reduced two-thirds or one half. the
revolutlonists would never profit by
such submission. The conduct Of
that party during the last six months
has deprived them of all hope of ever
acquiring strength at the South. In
excluding from their seats in Con
gress all Southern members elect.
whether they could or could not take
the test oath, the revolutionists have
lost their last chance of building up
a party at the South favorable to
their Dr1rnOsea