The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-22
Comments of the Press.

Jnhus POppe, Anderson @. II.
Comments of the Press.
The New York Herald concludes
its comments on tho action of the
Convention as follows:
The endorsement Of the course of
President Johnson and the measures
of his administration, is emphatic
and without equivocation. The fnan-
cial legislation and the jobs of Con-
gress are not shown up with the
strength and earnestness that they
should have been, nor are the dangers
to the financial interest Of the coup-
try, which will follow continuance
of their financial policy, pointed out
with sufficient force and clearncss
A much stronger case could have
been made on this subject, for it is
one of the weakest points of the RI
ideals, and is equal in Importance to
their efforts to prevent the restoration
of the country. It is question that
the people of the North will realize
quicker than any other, for it is being
brought home to them every hour in
the day. Nothing would suit the IA
dicats better than to divert the issue
from this point. But tho public have
the records Of Congress and their eff
forts at usurpation and civil war be-
fore them. They now are presented
with the proceedings, the address
and the resolves of this first gather
ing, growing out of the uprising of
the people in support Of the Union
and the Constitution. To them these
records are submitted rs the great
jury of the republic, for their deci-
sion at the approaching Congressional
elections. Let the movement, which
has so auspiciously commenced, be
followed up with vigorous cam
paign, and we have no fears of the
result. It will work out arevolution,
peaceful, yet effective and lasting.
No person can longer doubt that the
central States, commencing with
Pennsylvania, in October, Will over
whelmingly repudiate the radical
usprpers of the present Congress.
The New York Neos says:
They declare distinctly in favor of
the right of the South to be repre-
sented in Congress, and make that
the main issue of the fall campaign.
We wish that they had made more
explicit declaration against the en-
forcement of the test oath, but that
could hardly have been expected
under all the circumstances.
We think they acted wisely in
adopting the resolutions touching
slavery, the national debt, and the
Confederate debt; the South will thus
have an opportunity to put ct rest the
absurd suspicious that they desire to
re-establish slavery and to repudiate
the national debt. While they feel q
natural sensitiveness about contribut-
ing to the payment of debt which
was contracted for their overthrow
and ruin, the Southern people feel
and know that the honor and faith Of
the nation ore pledged to its pay
ment, and not one of them would
vote to repudiate it. AS to the debt
contracted by the Confederacy, there
is not man in all the South who has
ever thought for an instant of its be-
ing assumed by the United States.
The World concludes It's article rs
follows:
Probably majority of tho people
OF the North, and certainly the great
body of the people of the South, have
met, through their delegates, and
have made public renewal of friond-
ship, with mutual attestations of con
fidence and esteem. The two great
sections are no longer at variance;
but party of malignant disunionists
assume to rule and dismember the
country against the sense of maio-
rity Of the citizens Including the
,ohole country, the friends of the
Union outnumber it's enemies by at
least two to one, as the ensuing elcc-
tions will demonstrate. The ques-
ton, therefore, is now rapidly assum-
ing the shape, whether the majority
shall rule; or, in other words, whe-
ther republican government is to be
contiDued in the United States.
There can be no doubt whatever that
large majority Of our voting citizens
nre opposed to the disunion policy OF
the radicals.