The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-08
OH A RI E S T O N.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8, 1866
"A WORD OF ADVICE"


other hand, there is also nothing rated so
oheaply, valued so little, as this same advice
and especially is this the case when it is ten
dered unasked, and by parties not entitled to
the position of counsellors. But if the un-
Fortunate object of the homily were disposed
to let even all this pass, and give the preacher
patient and respectful hearing, the cold
ADAM" would inevitably be aroused, upon
his seeing the adviser assume O conscious air
of superiority, patting the advisee on the
head, and with @ patroniz,ng tone of self
Righteousness cast up all his peccadilloes,
real or imputed; and perfectly intolerable
becomes the mockery, when the derelict in
dividual finds his Mentor actually ignorant of
the subject on which he presumes to lecture.
We are led to these reflections by very
prolix "leader" in the Washington "National
Republican" of August 4, headed "a word of
advice to the people of the South respecting
the two Philadelphia Conventions" Know
ing the Republican to be a conservative paper,
We read the article with an honest purpose
to "mark and inwardly digest" the whole
some counsel we there expected to find. But,
sad to say, we were grievously disappointed.
The writer opens his sermon with Judge UN
DERwooD, not q very felicitous exordium. He
says:
"Judge John c. Underwood, of yireipia. and
twenty others, residents of the States now un-
represented i'll Congress, having embarked in an
effort to divide the south if not to defeat alto
gether the friends Of the Administrations to afford
the southern people an opportunity for hearing,
of which they have hitherto been deprived bV
Congress, it seems to US proper to tender word
of advice upon the subject.
If the "advice" is specially intended for
Messrs. UNDERWOOD & Co., the Republican
might have saved its ink, for nothing uttered
by any conservative organ stands even a |
shadow of chance of being read by that
model judge or any Of his notable confrater. |
nifty.
A sentence, little further on, however,
shows US the mistake into which the writer |
has fallen, and which accounts for the sippu. |
lar inappropristeness of the whole article. |
He says:
Defeated in your efforts to break up the re- |
public, and left, according to the representations
OF your leading men, more terribly punished for |
your presumption than any people in modern n |
times, it naturally enough followed that you sub |
mltted to the National Power with more or |. IS
dpprt IOr the 1utur6."
Now we know very we'll that such i'm
maculate t'original loyalists" as UNDERWOOD,
HAMILTON s. Co. would not feel compliment |
ed at being addressed in such strain. Thew
very properly would retort that they never
made any "efforts to break up the republio.n
Even those of the signers to the call or the |
Southern Loyalists' Convention, whose record |
has not always been ant. Confederate, are |
now so thoroughly repen tant of the error of
their ways, that they have altogether for |
gotten they ever had such disreputablo con-
nections.
=. Yet the writer in the Republican makes the
singular mistake Of considering these rene
gades and Radical tools as the accredited rep- |
resentatives OF the South. Utterly oblivious,
too, Of the fact that every one of these men
belongs, soul and body, to the Radicals, and
are merely acting at their bidding, the writer
launches columns Of "advioe" at their deaf
ears. We should, of course, have no obiec.
ton whatever at his preaching to UNDER.
WOOD, HAMILTON, WARDwELL and others
(since these miserable sinners doubtless stand
in great need of good presohing), but we pro- |
test against these men beng in any, even the |
most restricted sense, considered the repro.
seutatives of the South or her people.
To be scolded, reprehended, and even
threatened with serious punishmeut,- for
what we cannot help, is hard,-and we feel
it due to ourselves, and the Southern people
generally, to enter this protest.
We have, in these columns, again and
again urged the acceptance Of the President's
terms of reconstruction and we know of not
a single ex-Confederate in the South who is
not ready fully to cooperate with President
JOHNSON and his friends. We have advo
Gated the Philadelphia August Union Con.
vention from the very commencement, md
were pleased to fi d our sentiments favorably
responded to from every quarter of the South.
Every one of the States of the late Cpnfede.
ra"y will be fully represented in Philadel-
phia on Wednesday next.
The signers of the call to the Loyalists,
Convention are faotioniets-rnen without no.
sition or influence, representing no one in
the pay of the Radicals of tho North, to get
up another revolution. Their efforts upfor.