The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-11
Ths Bzongrei ceayenlssn.

10 spare SPACE for much ac1 the pro-
ceedings o. the motley asssnbls 10
session at Philadelpl.is, duting The
past week. AS might hare been ex-
pected, there was np harmony smong /,
the dark spirits convened. As the
Richmond Times says, the most
animated proceedings of the Conven-
ton were literally punctuated with
t'yells,' ''cat calls" ''hisses,"
''shouts" and an unceasing under
current of cursing and swearing. We,
therefore, do not wish to dirty our
columns with an account of their
proceedings. The resolutions adopt
ed entirely ignore the negro suffrage
question, and thus Sambo finds
himself still left out in the cold. The |
character and quality of the resolu-
tions will appear from the following,
which we select:
Resolued, That the unhappy policy
pursued by Andrew johnson, Presi-
dent of the United States, in its
effects upon the loyal people of the
South, is unjust, oppressive and in
tolerant; and accordingly, however
ardently we desire to see our re-
spective States once more represent
ed in the Congress of the nation, we
would deplore their restoration on
the inadequate conditions prescribed
by the President, as tending not to
abate, but only to magnify, the perils
and sorrows of our condition
Resoioed, That the political power
of the Government of the United
States in the administration of pub
lie affairs is, by its constitution, con-
tided to the popular or law-making
department of the Government.
Resotced, That the political status
of tho States lately in rebellion to
the United States Government are
political questions, and are, there
fore, clearly within tho control of
Congress, to tho exclusion of the in
dependent action of any and every
other department of the Government.
Resoloed, That there is no right,
political, legal or constitutional, in
any State to secede or withdraw from
the Union; but they may, by wicked
aud unauthorized revolution and
force, sever the relations which they
have sustained to the Union; and
when they do, and assume the atti-
tude OF public enemies at war with
the Unit =. States, they subject them
selves to AL the rules and principles
OF international law and the laws of
WAY applicable to belligerents, &C
cording to modern usage.
Resolcea, That the organizations in
the unrepresented States assuming to
be State Governments, not having
been legally established, are not
legitimate governments until recog-
nized by Congress.
The resolutions were adopted
separately, and committee appoint
ed to lay them before Congress. A
motion to make Fred. Douglass one Of
the committee was received with
hisses, and ruled out of order by the
chair.
Fred. Douglass, at a gathering, after
the adjournment of one of its ses-
sions, thus gave his opinion of the
conventions:
Frederick Douglas was called for
and came forward. He came here n
few days ago, he said, with un-
mingled feelings of admiration. He
was compelled to say now that he
liked the men before him better as a
public meeting than as convention.
Applause. He wished the conven-
ton, as convention, were half as
true to their convictions as the men
who compose it were when in a mass
meeting. He - appealed to the
audience TO ,ldopt principles of JUS
tice, liberty and humanity.
The Richmond Times sums ND it's
comments on the proceedings us fol-
lows:
The resolutions remind us of the
play of Hamlet with the character of
Hamlet left out The convention
was opened by Tilton, white man,
walking in arm and arm with Fred.
Douglass. For several days thousands
of perspiring, odoriferous, grinning
and grateful negroes were bespatter-
ed with praise and hailed as saviours
of their country; but when Tilton's
black companion asked for the right
of suffrage, Tilton pleasantly kicked
him ont of doors.
And poor Cuffee is just now scratch
ing his thick skull and vainly essay