The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-10
The Designs OF the Rasaicals--Ad-
DRESS or wendell pha11ips.


lips is not only the most brilliant
orator in the radical party, but has
more brains than all the rest of its
leaders. and that what he advocates
to-day his party will advocate within
twelve months. He is at any rate
candid, outspoken fanatic, and never
leaves his hearers in doubt as to his
principles or purposes. On the 4th
of July he made one Of his character
istic speeches in Boston, following
two negro orators. He commenced
thus:
"This is the fourth day Of July
the day which for ninety years the
nation has devoted to the sublime
idea that all men are created equal;
been for nearly ninety years glitter
ing generality and cruel ie-empty
and idle words, coming from hypo-
critical lips
Then followed this dogmatic asser-
ton:
"No man was ever born SO weak
| that he did not know better how to
protect his own interests than another
could protect them for him."
This would be fine world if this
latter statement were true. We know
not only many negroes but Il few
whites who would be better oft if
they had some one to ''protect their
interests" But this by the way. Let
us come to his political outgivings.
And first, here is his present platform
and the prospective platform Of the
radicals:
"Adnit no State for the present;
hold it under the sword till its high
ways are safe to Northern travellers,
and its marts of business safe for
Northern capital. Admit no rebel
State. even then, till the land educa-
ton and the ballot, under the sane
tity OF the Federal authority, are the
secure inheritance of every man born
on its soil"
He advocates this platform because,
SO he says, the land and the ballot
box control every country-cspeciall
the land, which also controls the bad
lot-boN. Hear him:
''NIen and influences pass away;
but there are certain things and GER
t:tln great clements whose Influences
you can calculate as the astronomer
calculates the motion of Il star.
Land, capital and tho ballot are
things as durable as the North star.
and their influence are just as c.,lcu-
liable rs the moon. NY advice, there
tore, is, trust men no longer: trust
capital, trust the ballot, trust land.
trust knowledge, but never trust men.
Fall
M" i:''t what Roger Pryor believe; tell
me ,!ot what Governor Aiken has
been whipped into | do not care {.
jot i"r it. | want the land of South
Carolina upon my side; 1 want the
bnllot-box of South Carolina upon my
side, and its capital on my side; /
want the same elements Of trust and
confidence to make the South the
same image we have made the West.
II am apprehensivc, not of the alb
sOlute future, for / believe in God
and Justice; but my apprehension
covers the next dozen or sixteen
years, that cover an epoch in which
the still powerful white race of the
South Will strive to regain possession
OF the State Government machinery,
and to WELD it against the possibility
of national peace. My apprehension
IS with regard to State sovereignty,
still strong enough to commit trca-
son. l would cut down State sovc-
relgnty by congressional act or con-
stltutional amendment, so much as
to allow the Federal Government to
arrange political rights.and to protect
the civil privileges of its citizens
within the several States. My appre-
hension extends to that race to whom
we are bound by such ties Of graft
tude, and who are left to be ground
up by the terrible hatred of their
former masters. Glow do we
stand to-day? The South raj
lies her broken lines, marshals her
scattered forces, and her policy is to
restore as closely as possible, and rs
exactly rs possible, the Union rs it
was-yes, and if possible, the Con-
stltutlon as it was; not one word, not
one clause altered, not one clause
added since 1860. say the South
to-day indulgcs the hope that in the
contingencies and chances of politics,
she may yet be able to carry that
point. Who leads her? The Prcsi-
dent, who is her Gencral-in- chief.
he is encamped in the White House.
and he pledges the policy Of the
United States to second the plot Of