The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-23
COLUMBIA.
Thursday Morning, August %, 1866.
The Snarler.

The Augusta Constitutionalist is one
of the few papers which has opposed
the Philadelphia Convention from the
beginning, and its correspondents
have, of course, taken the cue from
their employers. One of these, writing
from Ne,o York, speaks very sarcasti-
cally of the Philadelphia Convention.
He says:
cit has been the boast of the South
erners that they have gone through
a crisis of unparalleled severity, and
uniformly preserved their integrity
and honor as u people. This, even
the NOR" rejecting radicals have al
ways stood ready to admit. But
Southern men must now pause, and
ask themselves whether they have
not been degraded by the course of
those who have pretended to repre-
sent them in the Philadelphia Con-
vention."
It strikes us that the Southern peo-
pie knew better than this New York
correspondent the character of the
men they sent to represent them i'll
the Convention, and they We're not
men of that stamp who would degrade
their constituents We cannot con-
ceive why the ConstitutiondliSt and its
very few confreres, in their war
against the Convention, carry their
opposition to such an extent. This
writer, like others who carp at the
Convention, make the 'sexclusion" of
Vallandigham and others, called at
the North ''peace democrats" the
groundwork and pretext for their
opposition to that body, while in fact
these tmen were not excluded, but
Doluntarily, and from the highest mo-
tives, declined to take their seats, lest
carpers and snarlers should make
their membership an excuse for de-
stroying the harmony and unity of
spirit which they could not otherwise
disturb.
Again, this (as we suppose) profes-
sional letter-writer from New York
undertakes to say, in addition to the
implied calumny that the Southern
representatives had degraded the peo-
pie they represented, that Southern
rights and dignity" have been be-
trayed, and that President johnson,
also, has discovered that he, also, has
been betrayed in the house of his
friends. Wonderful! This wise-acrc's
letter is dated New York, August Is,
and, on the 18th, our sagacious Pre-
sldent had not discovered that he was
betrayed, when the committee from
the Convention waited on him with
copy Of the address and platform
of that body. On the contrary, judg-
ing from his speech, he thought the
members were his best friends, and
had taken just the proper course for
the most successful and efficient sup
port of his policy.
But we think there is still further
evidence i'll the letter of this cores
pondent that he is one of those pro-
fessional party hack-writers, whose
business it is to invent nominations
for the party they are opposed to, in
the hope of damaging its cause He
writes:
The Convention has adjourned
this afternoon; and the net result is
the betrayal Of that view of South
ern rights and dignity Of which JET
ferson Davis under John c. Calhoun,
was and is the proper exponent; its
proceedings may be summed up in
the following:
NOMINATIONS FOR 1868 For Pre-
sident-Willian II. Seward. For
Vice-President-James L. Orr
''PresidentJ ohnson has already dis
covered that he has been betrayed in
the house of his champions. 1t is
true, the above nominations were not
formally made, but they are known
to have been agreed upon by the
power behind the throne This in
glorious result marks the Convention
MS tizzle, and plunges the South
into greater uncertainty than ever.
For the South, | take it, will never
support the above ticket; and it has
no STRENGTH at the North -