The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-28
COLUMBIA.
Thursday Morning, June %, 1853.
The Union Convention.

Fh0sul.c, that several weeks ago q
National Union Club was organized
in Washington. We. published it at
the time, and announced that our
worthy Governor, Hon. J. l.. Orr,
was oner OF the vice-presidents. We
expressed our belief that this associ-
alton would be of vast benefit to the
cause of restoration and union, and
we have-not been disappointed.
The call for National Union Con-
7vention, which reached US by tele-
graph, on Tuesday night, emanates
from that organization, and we are
pleased to notice, by subsequent
dispatches, that the movement is
under the direct approval of the
President, endorsed by all the lead
ing, true conservatives in Washing
ton city. This Convention, when
assembled, will write the sentence,
and subscribe the death warrant Of
the radical party. This Convention
is just what the country wants at the
present time, and will be the effectual
remedy-if conducted as we believe
it win be-for all the political evils
under which our unfortunate country
now groans and suffers.
To the people of the South, to the
people of South Carolina, this call
will be eminently gratifying. We, of
course, have deprecated the idea of the
Southern people becoming involved
again in national, or rather party, po-
Etics; but this movement has not any
Of the offensive elements Of mere par
tisan organizations; it is initiated for
the salvation of the Union, for the
rescue Of the Constitution of our
beloved country from the destructive
clutches Of the base men who are fast
usurping the rights of Government
and of the people.
We presume Governor Orr, as one
of the officers of this patriotic associ-
alton, will communicate to our peo-
pie all the information necessary for
their action. AS at present advised,
we would say that South Carolina
must be represented.
Hon. L. ID. Cnmpbell-Negro Suffrage.
Hon. Lewis d. Campbell, from
Ohio, has, within short time, be-
come somewhat distinguished for his
manly and frank utterances on the
great political questions of the day.
In a recent speech made by him at
Dayton, Ohio, he declared that, as
near as he could remember, one h,ua-
d'ed and si.cty.fce amendments to the
Constitution had been offered during
the present session Of Congress.
What commentary is this on the
course of the Republican party, who,
before the war, rejected every motion
to amend that Constitution, in q wav
that would have saved the country
from all the horrors of civil war, and
the evils the same party are now in
Hicting upon the country.
But in the same speech, Mr.. Camp
bell took the strongest grounds
against the right of the Congressional
faction interfering with the matter of
suffrage in the States. He illustrated
and justified his opinion in this
respect, by alleging that from the
date Of the foundation of the Go
vernment, this inalienable State right
had not been interfered with, al
though, as he said, no two States in
the Union had precisely The same
laws on the subject. AS We learn
from our exchanges, he charged that
the radicals had no motive in their
interference but to keep the South
orn States out Of Congress-, and to
exclude them from voting in the
Federal elections until after the next
Presidential election.
''He furthermore declared himself
against the amendment basing repre-
scntation on coies. He is afraid the
South will confer the right of suffrage
on the negroes, and thus increase
their representative power to the ex