The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-24
THE SITUATION.
FROM yALIANDIGHAM.


nthar denart1uent OF the Federal Government, nor
ali the departments combined. The States made
fha Federal Government In the beginning; but 70"
the fable of Saturn is reversed, and the chla de-
Az to your second inquiry-the probable ere
suit il the Radical scheme be carried cut or at
tempted"- pardon me little Latin. DE car
fhadine sattus est silere Qua: pGTID: deere" Ony
fhe wisest of mortas, and in these dark times,
when every lesson Of history, and every laW OF
God, OF man, Of political economy and OF finance,
saem TO be brokon with impunity, and when either
or ndsf OF at osf
friotic plans for the public good, have ceased
eyer to speculate as to the future, much less do
ventrre is prophesy. Yet I think that had the
programme for the political campaign of 1855, as
May last been honestly, courageousy and vigorous,
" Carried ont instead Of being get aside, for that
combination of procured abortion and Academia!
miscarriage, the Philsdelphla Convention caat OF
victory in the fall elections as We suffered de.
csiye defeat AS it is fear that the last hope OF
the reaction perished tnen, and that tno "Great
American Revolution Of 1861" must now go on u1-
checked, till either it shall have overturned totally
in form as already substantially in fact, that grand
old Federal Republic which our fathers set up
substituting in it's stead imperialstic despotism,
nnder the shadow Of the name and form and the
Counter conn Is revolution, through which, by the
piation of fire and blood and suffering, it may be,
The American people shall recover that light, free,
cheap system Of government which they so eagerly
sad hsyf bv Ss ts o the
Union, when it commenced; and ! for one, have no
new quarrel with radicalism and it's exponents Tor
striving to attain the natural legitimate and me
vitable results OF changing our system rom
fioyernment of consent to Government OF coer-
cion o. force. At the same time am not prepar-s
ed to compete with them in the raco Of radicalism
and il wer, I should aim at that which alone
could command success; to oe ou5heroa ne ae5oa
raauds that oven Republican radicalism would
sta.d aehast I should s'cut UNDER so deep that
no slower deep" could be found or fathomed. For,
in good sooth, I am not one OF those who de!ude
one-haH. the other can be made secure Such
tsscDs to Cerberusn never silence the trpe-headed
dog Of fanaticism, And there is but one way to
deal with revolution; either to SO with 1t tota1y,
It. We hitherto have not so fought TIC
battle, and by consequence, We have gone
down before the bold, dashing charge Of tho Back
Knight with his v'Eor up. And so it hasever been;
not add Amen; it s'sticks in my throat" For still
I would remember the sublime old Roman maxim,
and never despair Of the Republic "for even now,
with more than eight hundred millions OF paper
money, having no other basis than credit upon
credit four-ply, and taxation, State and Federal
Tor mperial, quite equnl III amount, an not
sure that f'blessed stranding" in the way Of
finance, might not, at any moment, prove the very
salvation of the ship in her last lurch. For, as NJ
Guizot in his History Of Cromwell, profoundly Oh,
imposes Justice and good sense upon nations.
: Meantine, however, deriving suck satisfac-
tion-and it is both great and sweets springs
rom the recent decisions OF the Supreme Court OF
the United States, convicting Abraham Lincoln
and his Administration Of high crime against the
Constitution and pubic and private liberty, Icon
flne myself chiefy-having no cabbage garden to
cultivate especially during the present cold snap
content just now to look on in politics, and await
With faith and patience the work OF slime, the cor.
rector and ayenger."= Two suggestions only
Fould make, most respectfully:
,or Convention of all the States, to meet and adj
INST upon the basis Of the fundamental principles
II the old Constitution and Union, the new and
questions and the altered condition of
yainh which our fathers made for the sake of Sc
;uring Union and Federal GoyernT emit at all, is
% be set aside under pretence Of establishing exact
ustice and equality, and States are to bo dealt
With Us the mere creatures OF the Federal will and
,leasure, and divided, console lidatedand moulded to
nit the fashion Of the hour, and the interests of
hose who can secure and hold the power, is it not
good time now to demand that the gross iniiTuty
4 the present Senatorial representation should
i've way to sequty before the law" and that in re-
citing the great question cf suffrage upon the
heory Of ssimpartiality," three millions Of Yam
ees" shall no longer be permitted to vote twelve
senator's, while three millions Of Buckeyes are
raciously allowed to vote but twol Would New
Ingland, think you. see the point?
q. Without single representative man, to whom
Il defer; in any department. Of the Federal Gov
rnment, or any State Government in the North or
Vest, and without even general committee, al
rays In session, and having the confidence Of the
arty, and therefore without any means to give
concert and promptitude to the opin-
ons and actions Of the Democratic party, uron the
udden and very grave questions which, in the |
aidst Of q revolution, every dav brings forth to
erplex and divide, what that party needs most 5
ow is it not frst-ciass daily newspaper, say at !
Yashington-ike the old Washington Globe-se- =
ure on its pecuniary foundation, totally Demo- 4
ratio in it's politics, controlled BY no clique dopcn-
eut oriy on the Democratic masses for support, q
be reiex Of their sentiments, devoted heartily F
their interests, and edited by some one or moro /
the statesmen Of the country having an estab- n
shed national reputation, and in whose ability y
nd integrity alike the people have full confidence
ut of BY fanatisism and revolutionary hate from Il
very other public employment, what, but want of r
apital can forbid the representative public men
the Democratic party from connecting them
elves with the Fourth Estate"-a department in
oitics quite as honorable and as full of dignity
lore potential too, and fur more lucrative Often
mes, than any official station, eyon when fairly a
aimed, arl, as to the last especially when hon is
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