The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-01
The National Union Convention.

The National Union Convention. \
If any proof we're wanting that the
proposed National Convention offered
to the South prospect OF restora-
ton to its rights in the Union, that
proof is furnished by the following
violent attack upon the movement,
which appears as a double-leaded ad-
vertisement, in the New York 7ri-
6,o'e, Of Wednesday. AS the Tribune
hates and reviles it, the Convention
is thething for us. The 7libune heads
its article "The new Johnson party"
and says:
The call of National Convention
by Messrs. Randall and Doolittle, of
Wisconsin; Browning, of Illinois;
and Cowan. of Pennsylvania, with
the endorsement Of Senators Dixon,
of Connecticut; Hendricks, of In
diana; Norton, of Minnesota; and
Nesmith, of Oregon, can be under
stood no otherwise than as formal
proclamation of withdrawal by the
Johnsonites from the National Union
party, Mr.. Hendricks, and, perhaps,
we should add Mr.. Nesmith, cannot
withdraw from party to which they
never professed to belong; but the
Others have all been honcred and
trusted as members of the great party
which they now openly abando2
and conspire to overthrow We thank
them for their frankness, and shall
hope to find them more manly as an
tagonists than they have been faith
full as compatriots.
No one can possibly be duped by
their call. It's terms are explicit and
emphatic. Ex-Governor Andrew, of
Massachusetts, is disqualified by his
convictions for seat in the contem-
plated convention; not SO ex-Gover-
nors Smith and Letcher, of Virgil
mia. Generals Butler and Howard
cannot pronounce the Randall Shib-
boleth; but Generals Lee and Fitz-
John Porter can do it easily. Gov
ernors Oglesby, of Illinois, and
Stone, of Iowa, cannot have seats in
their Sanhedrim; but Wells, of Loui-
siana, and Throckmorton, of Texas
the latter doubtless elected over the
vote of every hearty Unionist in his
State-wlll be present in spirit, and
may be In person. General Geary,
the chosen leader of the Unionists of
pennsylvania, cannot pass their door
keepers; but Hester Clymer, his op-
ponent, who never once even pre-
tended to wish the rebels defeated
and their Confederacy suppressed,
will see those doors hy omen to well
come his approach. This call simply
proclaims the adhesion of the John
sontes proper to the party made UP
of the rebels and pro-rebels which
aims to seize the Government and
control the destinies of our country.
MessTs. Randall & Co. will furnish
the new combinations with liberal
proportion of its managers and Office
holders; but ninety-nine hundredths
OF its votes must be supplied by
those who voted last for President,
either for Jefferson Davis or George
B. Mcclellan. It may be that they
will vote next for Andrew johnson;
but we do not believe it-nor do
they
1t were idle to note that the rights
OF the blacks-nay, the very facts
that they claim and have any rights
ere utterly ignored in this call. The
Ran dali call affirms that "each State
has the undonbted right to prescribe
the qualifications of its electors" but
fails to meet squarely and honestly
the prior and vital question-who
constitute the State? We know, in
deed, precisely what it meant-that
the intensely rebel minority of the
people of South Carolina, for instance,
shall monopolize all power in that
State, and that the invincihy loyal
minority shall have no power at all;
but this barb is concealed by the
bait, and the rebel minority Of the
people of Texas, who have Just con-
solidated their power by the election
OF Throckmorton g. Co., are to be re-
cognized by this Randall Convention
as fully entitled to work their wicked
will on the large majority, whereof
the whites have voted for peace and
the Union wherever they burst, while
the blacks are utterly ignored and
suppressed. If the disfranchised ma
jority Of devoted Unionists in several
States were to send delegates to the
Johnson Union Convention they
would be simply kicked out; or,
rather, would be kicked at the door
for presuming to offer to go in.
Right we'll do Messrs. Randall Il Co.
understand this. they orr On1v in ip,o