The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-01
COLUMBIA.
Friday Morning, June l, 1866.
Our Country's Future.

our country much to cause grave
anxiety in the minds Of every lover
of his country. A party at the North,
unfortunately now welding the legis-
lative power of the Government, are
attempting to remove the old land
marks laid down by the founders of
our political system, and are wanton-
ly disturbing and disorganizing the
machinery by which it has been run
for nearly century, endeavoring to
subvert and overturn the platform of
the Constitution erected by their
fathers. The only principle they
would apply in administering the Go
vernment is, that the will of the
party in power must take the place of
the Constitution and laws, and to en-
force the supremacy of this fractional
dogma, there must. if necessary, be
applied the power of force. This
despotisnn, if successful, must neces-
sarily expose the liberties of the
people to a severe shock, if it does
not eventually overwhelm them
Federal authority, exercised by their
faction in Congress is to hn supreme,
leaving scarcely a vestige of State
rights lines and boundaries. Such is
the programme of the party followers
of Stevens, Sumner, &c.
On the other hand, we have OPP
posed to this destructive organization,
the true, the good and conservative
throughout the land. The exponent
OF their faith and doctrine is the Pre-
sident of the United States, ably sus-
tanned by Mr.. Seward and other
members of his Cabinet These
statesmen have TIE great bulk of the
American people ready to sustain and
support them, but to prevent the
mischief that may grow out of the
schemes of the factionists, Andrew
johnson and his ministers must
stand firm in carrying out the policy
of the Administration; backward
step might, nay, in all probability.
would prove fatal to those mighty in
terests of the country entrusted by
the people to their management and
protection.
Secretary Seward, in his speech at
Auburn the other day, simplified tho
mode in which the country could be
fully restored, when he said that no
thing whatever was wanting to accom-
plish this desirable object but s'recon-
Citation" and nothing more, and
added: ''Let the reconciliation be
made first, either in Congress or any
Of the constituencies, and it will fol-
low in the other place Immediately.
But we have little hope that the
present so-called Congress will ever
make any advance movement towards
reconciliation. Each succeeding day
shows an increase of bitterness and
invective, and that their hatred of the
South and hostility to the Executive
only grows on its daily food of railing
and invective. Instead of s'recon
ciliation, every succeeding PROPOSE
ton brought forward by Stevens and
his confreres is more humiliatinc
than its predecessors And as for
the hostility to the Administration,
his assault on Secretary McCulloch,
on Saturday last, which we publish
elsewhere, is the latest evidence.
To whom, then, must we look? AS
MIR. Seward says, to the constituent
cies of these men-to the people of
the North and West. We of the
South are powerless. 1t may, ere
long, be more difficult task to save
the country than it is now. Let pri-
mary meetings of the people in these
Congressional Districts be held. and
eonamand their representatives to
alter their course or resign, AS Pre-
sident johnson has said, the course
Of the radicals is calculated to foster
nnfriendly feelings, and will ''arrest
the progress of those influences which