The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-23
THE so UTH AND HER ADVISERS.

The people of the South have much advice,
Mt present, from their Northern friends Many
out of the ranks of the Republican party arc
in dread of consequences. Many in it, even,
are not altogether easy. They look with
pugnance on its organizations and aims. They
must do so, for they are not all crazcd but,
being prudent, they sec nothing else to be done.
However rcpugnant to the whole thing, they
had better be of it than under it; but to ap-
pcase it and have an end Of the somewhat too
exciting exhibition, they would have us come
to terms. They would ask us not to be too
particular or exacting. They would, also, have
us not to be proud, stiff-necked, OF, especially,
rcbellious; and, with amiable sweetness, they
would have us respectful of proprieties, and
not anger, further the somewhat imperous, but
certainly the stronger and, perhaps, bettcr
genius of the North. And so advice and
expostulation have been frequent. We arc
willing to believe those who make them
sincere. They are forced to concur in cruel
ties and wrongs which it is the nature of
the ruling party to commit, but can have no in
dividual feeling to inspire sense of justice in
such feeling or the fear of further consc-
quences, or both, we believe them earnest, and,
if assured of the justice Of their Judgment we
would be much inclined to consider the matters
they suggest.
But, admitting their candor, we distrust their
conceptions. Conscious only of their own mo-
tives, and having but an inadequate conception
of hc nf hat porfv wit il,o,,
have become associated, they assume that it
has n perception of its own purposes, and
would accept Of that as a fnalty with which
they themselves will be content And if this
were so-if, in the nature of things, here could
be any rational expression of the aims and ten
dencies of that party, and it were true that
these were consistent with any remnant of con-
sttutional liberty in these scccdcd States-it
were, perhaps, the highest prudence to accept
them, and by single sacrifice of rights and
privileges, ultimately to be conceded to end
the controversy.
But there is the error. The controversy is
not to be so ended The instincts of that party
organization arc stronger than tho reason
which assumes to direct it. The intelligence of
that party would be satisfied with concessions.
II would have been satisfied with the restora-
tion policy Of the President; would have been
satisfied with secession, even, if allowed to be
so, and now would accept the constitutional
amendment, or with anything more or less than
that. But the instincts Of that party are more
truly conservative of its organization and exis-
tence. They instruct it that it must have IN OBJ
jcct to antagonize; that one object of exception
removed, it must take another; that the want is
not of something we will concedc-but of some
thing we cannot concede; and with party to
which this is the motive principle, there is no
ground for parley. 1t must, Of necessity, an
tagonize oil political restriction Of its will 1;
each barrier of the past, or any future constitu-
ton, created to protect one single right remain
ing, must be broken down and to those, there
fore, who sit 80 far in pleasant connection
with this organization, and who intend us kind
ness in urging us to accept its requisition, we
have 70 say that they themselves are in error as
to what those acquisitions are. We know that
organization better than they dove always
have known it better. The writer of this arti-
Gle announced the irropressible conflict before
Mr.. SEWARD and Mr.. LINCOLN vcntured to avow
it. He predicted the election of Republican
President, when those who now advise us rdi-
culed the thought; as far in advance he ndi-
Gated tho fato Of Northern friends, who vauntcd
their strength to stem the current of aggres-
sion, and he has as little hesitation, now in say
ing that the aggressions Of that party will find
their only limit in the physical power sufficient
to restrain it, and that it will come to order and
forbearansc only when crushed by the present
Government, or when o despotism, springing
from within itself, shall become established
over it.
Who ride upon that party, therefore, have
but temporary advantage over us. They may
commiserate and advise us until all the forms
OF constitutional Government shall be trodden
, down, but the wrongs inflicted upon US mus
react upon themselves. The Constitution de.
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