The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-05
The True Basis or Action.

The following remarks are from
the Richmohd Wig, and are as ap-
plicable in this State as in Virginia:
Our newspapers and ouir. people
should all be united, Ind should ad.
vocate the redemption of Virginia BY
all Virginians, OF, whatever color, OF
party antecedents and political creeds.
Our interests are the same-our obli-
cations and duties identical. When
we see our common country imperilled
by dissensions among ourselves,i we
show more" selfislIness than patriot
ism by continuing them-.a blind self
iBhness. too, that promises no good
toanyl,ody4a perverse wilfulness for
which no justification tan' be offered.
We are nll under the military law, and.
by uniting and co-opernting ns sensi-,
BILE people shonld, we, cum get froui,
under that law; escape idisfranchise-
ment md .confication; get self
vernment, md be placed III practical
relations with the General Govern
rhent. Every rejecting man must
know that, if the white people keep
to themselves. vote against conyen-,
tion, and defeat it, when Congress
agaiii assemblies, it will pass another
bill more stringent than the present,
under which tho handful of t'loynl"
whites and blncks will be nuthbrized,
to hold IL convention. and frame a
Constitution whose acceptance by
Congress will be certnin,. : Not only
this, but that nll of us Who shall
have voted against II convention, will
be marked for perpetual lisfrauchisc-
ment and, for confiscation.
But suppose tlic whites keep tpge-
ther, vote for.in conventions and,
maintaining. II separate organization,
nominate their own peculiar cau1i-
dates, elect them, excluding all other,
representatives, frame Constitution,
and then still maintaining theifisepa-
rate organization, elect a Governor,
Judges, n Legislature, and nll State
officers-suppose all this is done. will
Congress ratify this work. when it
learns that the original Union men
and the negroes have, by 'our'refusal
to act with Them. andtby means of
our majority, been studiously. ana
entirely excluded from participation
and representation? We shall not
further elaborate these points, but
leave them for the reflection of our
readers, with the single remark that
Congress win not, in our judgment,
accept any such work if opposed by
the so-cnIlct '1oyal'' whites aid the
blacks, as opposed it most certainly
would be. II we selishly exclude
those elements, Congress will exclude
Our duty is plain. It is to unite
with all men who can be prevailed
upon to unite with us, vote for the
convention, elect to it men'whol will
follow tho provisions of the military
bill, frame, Constitution thnt will
command the support of the several
classes referred to, and that will be
acceptable to Congress, and elect
Senators md Oongressmen!who can
take the -clnd oath. .Itiis not
worth while to do anythingunless we
do all these things. If we, think to
hoodwinls and deceive Oongress by
any device, we deceive ourselves.
The eyes of that body are steadily
HXeu upon liz, anu It's great business
is to see that reconstruction shall not
be effected in the interest alone iof
the Confederate whites, and to the.
exclusion and injury of the Union.
whites and tho blhcks. If we would
get back into the Union. we must ge.
back on the basis of Union among
ourselves Let us all bear this in
mind.
THAD. STEVENS CoNFrscATroN Doc
TRrNE.--A despatch from Washing
ton says: .n ,l ..i -
Lending Republicans are +, ,tele-
graphing here, from different sections
Of the North, their repudiation tof
Thad. Stevens confiscation doctrine. "
We do not SEQ why 'leading Re-
publicans' should put themselves to
that trouble. Able and eminent as
Mr.. Stevens is, his confscationspeech