The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-01-23
The Situation--Danger.

The SituatiOn--Dan2er.
The Washington correspondent OF
that excellent paper, the Baltimore
Gazette, writes;
In the course of these letters. ]
have frequently asserted the inability
OF Congress, as at present constituted.
to adopt by the required vote those
measures necessary to q practical
overthrow of the Government, name
ly: The displacement of the Presi-
dent; the corruption or abolishment
OF the Supreme Court, and the sub
mission of. the Southern country to
the rule of the negro population, in
conjunction with the few itinerant
political mountebanks who infest that
unfortunate portion of the United
States. l have now no doubt of the
entire correctness of these assertions.
The difficulty in the accomplis hment
OF the unholy ends of the revolution
lists has been, and still is, in the Sc
nate. But it need be no longer
disguised that very shortly this I'M
pcdiment will have been removed
This, IN short, is the key to the de-
teat OF Foster in Connecticut, Harris
IN New York, and of others 1 need
not name. It was also the oversha-
dow,ng influence that prevailed in
the admission of Nebraska and Colo
RADIO as States. On the 5th of March
next, then, a day selected by the con
spirators by an Act of CONGRESS re-
Gently passed, the people of this
country may expect to see the initia-
tlon OF means fully adequate to con
summate their ncfarious purposes. 1t
IS as certain as any future event can
be, that unless decisive measures
shall be taken to arouse the entire
country to its imminent danger, the
"1des OF March, will witness the
total snbversion of the substance and
the very forms Of this Government.
1t IS IN full view of the transcend
ant importance of this great emer-
gency that many consultations have
been recently had in this city by dis
tlngulshed gentlemen from all parts
OF the country, and the universal
sentiment is entertained that, if CON
stltutional liberty is to be preserved
IN this land, no time is to be lost in
assembling true representatives of
the two millions of voters who re-
corded their suffrage on the side Of
the Constitution at the late elections.
IN solemn council, there to make
known that the infamous purpose to
deprive the people of their Liberties
will not be unresistingly submitted
to. 1t is high time, in the opinion
OF wise and cautious heads, that the
magnitude Of the present peril should
DC markedly set forth, in order that
the people may fully comprehend the
awful preclplce to which the radical
leaders have been, step by step, con-
ductlng them. / we'll know that the
country is IN such a frenzied condi-
ton that words Of warning like these
have nearly, if not quite, lost signifi-
canoe, to say nothing of their influ-
ence. They are not, however. nv
words, but those of the ablest, most
prudent and purest men the nation
can boast.
The momentous questions now
pressing upon public attention are
not those in which the South, as
such, are especially interested. 1t
suits the purposes Of the conspira-
tors to veil their latent intentions
and to couple their measures, de-
signed for general subjugation, with
an apparent purpose of vengeance,
only against those whom we have
lately regarded as enemies. They
thus seek to appropriate the passions
of the people of the North to thrir.
own ruin. AT a time propitious to
calm reflection, when the public
mind remained unbiased by preiu-
dlccs the effect of war, such gigantic
strides to despotism as have ALREADY
made would have been altocether
impossible: The attempt to impeach
the President or to overthrow the
Supreme Court, for the causes pre-.
tended, would have consigned tic
projectors to eternal infamy. Nol
could al appreciable minority of the
people, for a single moment, have
been brought to second the insane
project of elevating the negro te
political and social equality, if no.
seduced by their thirst of venganct
against an imaginary foe. They
would, if left to the unbiased exer