The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-18
EOrcibIy Saiu.


tutional advisers, and that is Secry-
tary Welles,; Ne find letter from
him in the Noiionn Mtelti9ence,'. of
Saturday. from which We make the
following extract:
The policy initiated by President
Lincoln, to restore national unity,
was adopted and carried forward by
President johnson; the States which
had been iii rebellion were, under
this benign policy, resuminH their
legitimate functions; the people had
Ialn down their arms, and those who
had been in insuIrection were return
ing to their allegiance; the Coustitu-
ton had been vindicatcd and the
Union was supposed to be restored,
when check was put upon the pro-
gress to national harmony ami pros
perity thus dawning upon tilc coun-
try. On the assembling OF Congress,
ali efforts towards Union and nation
ality became suddenly paralyzel; the
measures Of reconciliation which the
President had, from the time he en-
tered upon his duties, pursued with
eminent success, were assailed, and
their beneticcnt purpose, to q great
extent, defeated; attempts were made
to impose conditions precedent upon
States before permitting them to cx-
ercise their Constitutional rights:
loyal Senators and Representatives
from the States which had been in
rebellion We're refused admittanc
into Congress-the people were de
nicd rightfnl Constitutional represen-
tation-and eleven States We're and
are excluded from all participation in
the Government. These proceed
ings, which conflict with the funda-
mental principles on which on.
whole governmental system is found
cd, are generating and consolidating
! sectional animosity, and. if long per
sisted in, must cventuate in pcrma.
nent alienation. Irejoicc, therefore,
;; III q movement which has for its
object the Union in one bond of love
of the people of orr common coun-
try, and which invites to council and
to political action the citizens of
every State and Territory, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. and from the
Lakes to the Gulf. The centraliZinc
theory that the loyal and qualified
Senators and Representative from
eleven States shall be excluded from
Congress, and that those States and
the people of those States shall not
participate in the Government, is
scarcely less repngnant than. that Of
secession itself.
The Secretary has very correctly
traced the destructive course of the
dominant faction in Congress. They
and they alone, without the shadow
OF prctcNt as to the success of any
statesmanlike measure. or the ad-
vocacy OF any lofty national policy.
have kept the country, for the last
seven months. in a heat and Torment.
wasting the peoples money, and con-
tinually engaged in thwarting anv
measure likely To give peace to the
country.
The writer truthfully exposes the
almost certain tendency Of these pro-
ceedlngs generating and consolitl.t-
ing sectional animositv, and which
must cventuatc in permanent alien
alton a result which all good men
must deplore, and to prevent Which
should be the highest aim of every
patriot in the land. Surely, the pco-
pie OF the North cannot be deaf to NIL
these solemn words of warning from
some of the ablest men of tho present
day and generation.
Posi- OFFICES. The following post
offices, in this State, have been re-
opened since the 10th instant:
Equality, Anderson, Mrs. Rebecca
Mayfeld, p. NJ; Shutdown, Andcr-
son. james Is. Smith: Mill Creek,
Pickens, Mrs. Mary j. Robbins:
Hunters Mills. Pickcns, William
Hunter; Arnold's iIills, Pickens.
VIM. McMahon: Dacusvillc, Pick
ems, Marcus \. Morgan; Beaver
Pond, Lexington, Charles Hutto:
Glllls onville, Beaufort. John Amin:
Clinton, Laurens, Henry NJ. Martin;
Chicks Springs, Greonvil!e, Mrs. .
Louisa Smith: Marietta, G,'urnville. ,
Miss q. Josephine Good; Cellar
Hill, SDartanburo. Francis T. Farm. /