The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-13
The radical carnival at Washington

during the past week, was marked by
acts Of lawless and utterly unscrupu-
lous wickedness, which brand the
dominant party as open, avowed and
shameless revolutionists. They out
ragged individual rights with the fierce
audacity with which the sans culottes
of Paris once hurried their victims
to the scaffold without the formality
of arraignment or trial They tram
pied upon the Constitution with the
glee with which the japanese are said
to defile the Holy Scriptures.
In the face of the most positive,
conclusive and undeniable evidences
of bribery, fraud and corruption upon
the part Of the contestant, they ex-
PEELED from the House OF Representa-
tives Mr.. Brooks, leading conserva-
tive member from New York. Stock
ton, Baldwin, Voorhees, and Brooks
have thus been driven from the seats
to which they were elected by their
constituents rs unceremoniously as
Cromwell thrust TN English Parlia-
ment out of doors-at the point of
the bayonet. But when eleven States,
whose citizens obey the laws Of the
United States, and who bear all the
burdens imposed upon them, are de-
MED their constitutional rights, cases
of individual outrage cease almost to
attract attention.
But the victory of the radicals in
passing the civil rights bill by two
thirds veto in the Senate over the
Presidents veto, was the crowning
triumph of the enemies of the repub-
lie. The guilty Joy of long baffled
burglars i'll a hardfought triumph
over strong box of treasure would
be tame when compared with the
frantic delight Of the revolutionists
In their recent evidence of strength.
To them a victory won by faction
over a patriotic President is as sweet
as the odor of a good act to an honest
man.
AS we predicted ten days ago, the
expulsion of Stockton, the death of
Foot, the sickness of Dixon, and the
detection of three Republican Sena-
tors who have been classed with the
conservatives, gave the radicals an
easy victory in the Senate. AS all
parties agree that there are already in
durance vile in Thaddeus Stevens
greasy pocket more than two thirds
of the House of Representatives the
triumph of the civil rights bill may
now be regarded as positively certain.
The crack of the whip in day or
two will be heard in that body, and
the well-drilled flock of goats will
clear the veto with bound.
The scenes which marked the
triumph in the Senate of this mon
strous bill carry us back to those
hideous days in the history of the
French Revolution of 1898, when
yelling, shouting, bloody and homi-
cidal mob crowded the galleries and
dictated to the French Assembly.
The galleries of the Senate, crowd
ed with frantic radicals and exultan
and reeking blacks, must have borne
striking resemblance to happy re-
union of the gentle Inhabitants of
Bedlam and Pandemonium. How
Morgan, Stewart and that other de-
serter from the ranks of the conserva-
tives must have enjoyed the sweet
incense offered to their apostacy in
the groans, applause and shouts of
the dusky representatives, Of the
freedmen's villages adjoining Wash
ington! What delicious homage to
the fexibility of these men of weak
back-bones.
In what contrast to this exhibition
of revolutionary violence is the calm,
bold attitude of Andrew Johnson.
The keen intelligence of the patriot
statesman of the White House pene-
trates the mists of error, rage and
selfish demagoguism which have
blinded the disunionists, and rests
securely upon the verdict of great
people. He can afford to wait; for he
knows that the pathway over which
every great nation has toiled to great
ness is whitened with the unburied
and unhonored bones of. just such
parties rs that which now yells its
senseless and frantic JOY over victory
which insures their final annihilation.
There are numerous cases of
chronic individual insanity, but while
great nation may be goaded to
temporary madness by wicked de-
magogues, reason always resumes her
throne
This madness Of the hour has all
the fierce violence of the tornado of
the tropics. 1t sweeps everything
before, and works swift and terrible
ruin, and he who gazes upon its track
and marks its ravages is oppressed