The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-29
Political Huckstering.

The following is from an article i'll the
/ New York Times, of Tuesday:
''It is very evident that the public mind
breads the renewed ascendapcy Of the
Democratic party more than it does the
continued exclusion of the Southern States
While it regards the latter as a temporary
! inconvenience, involving no important or
lasting consequences, it looks upon tho
former rs Iuil or permanent peril to the
| country. Perhaps, too, q sentiment of JUS
tice has quite as much to do with this feel
ing as any distinct foreboding of specific
evils What the Democratic party would
! do, if fully reinsta in power-by what
definite action it would damage the future
OF the nation--thosc who dread it most
might not be able to say. But there is no
difficulty whatever in feeling that the party
which opposed the Government during the
war, ought not to assume control Of it.
when the war is over. The instinct of the
country ;s, that those who stood by it
during its time OF perilshould have charge
| OF its fortunes when the danger has
passed.
/ This sentiment underlics the resolute
; resistance OF the people to the struggle of
| the Democratic party for a renewal of
power. All other issues arc overlooked
Nobody stops to discuss questions of con-
! stltutlonal law, or to canvass the chances
OF another war The right of representa-
tion-thc scope Of the power conferred
upon ConSress-thc effect of hostile lcyis-
lati0n upon public sentiment in tho South
crn Satcs-.these and other subjects of
grave importance nre dismissed, rs haying
nothing to do with the immediate issue,
to be first decided. They are .postponcd
to some more convenient season. The
North feels conscious of its power to crush
| opposition and to insist upon such luca :
surcs as 1t deems essential to the public
good.
while VIC believe the great body of the
people desire the speedy restoration of
peace and harmony to the Union, they are
not inclined to purchase this at the cost of
restoring the Democratic party to power
They Will trust the work of restoration to
! the Union party, and to none other. They
lind 1t much easier to check the cxcesscs
and rcbuke the fauatical passions of it's
! extreme sud reckless men, than to infusc
; INTO the Democratic organization the spirit
.; progress, Of reform. and OF political
h.,crty which the emergencies of the times
domanl. They find that party still titled
with all the harrow and ;lliDcral prcju,iicos
which marked its action before the war
The same hatred of the colored racc-the
same unwlllngncsS to extend aud broader
the basis of our free institutions same
attachment to caste and arbitrary distirc-
tions in the distribution OF political power
! the same clamor for the largest lcepsc
to wee ani immortality, and the same lack
OF sympathy with all efforts to elevate the
degraded and to improve the condition of
the ignorant and the down-trodGen mem
bers Of our republican society marks its
action now as before the great tempest
which. in sweeping away human slavery
has destroyed the great bnwark OF all tlc
, injustice and all the inequality by which
our free institutions were formed and
married. The people will not trust that
party with the reorganization of our Ijo!;-
tical society. They dread its influence ON
nati"na! affairs. They dread, especially,
the alliance ii will form with whatever re-
mains OF the influences ot slavery in the
Southern States. And they mean to avert
this danger hy excluding the Democratic
party from power"