The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-06
COLUMBIA.
Saturday Morning, April 6, 1857.
The Decision OF Connecticut.

The Southern States-for the time
being military districts" of course
are excluded from On active partici-
patton in national party politics;
nevertheless, when fully restored
should that time ever come-they
must ally themselves with one of the
two or more political parties, which
republics and all moderate forms of
government are very certain to pro-
duce among the people. Atthe pre-
sent time, it is very well to announce
q dissolution of copartnership, not
only with the Democratic party, but
with all parties based upon national
politics, because We cannot help our
selves in this respect, but that as
restored States, having common
interest in the political welfare and
material prosperity. it is idle to talk
of the people of those States not
identifying themselves with one or
the other of the political parties of
the Union.
No matter how averse all of us may
be even to re-enter as political parti-
sans on the public questions of the
day, yet we doubt if there is man in
South Carolina, or in the South, who
may have received the intelligence,
who does not rejoice with the Demo
Gratis of Connecticut, and of the
whole country, at the triumph of that
party in the first State in New Eng
Land which has cast her vote since the
passage of the Sherman bill-the law
of which we of the South now live
under. This issue was squarely be-
fore the two parties in Connecticut,
and more prominently and directly
brought into the canvass by the con-
templated bill of Sumner, forcing
negro suffrage on all the Northern
States, Connecticut included, the
people OF which State gave q large
majority against any such measure
last spring.
At this election, this question was
thus directly before the people of
that State, and we are, therefore, dis
posed to attach more Importance to
the result than that of IN ordinary
election. The defeat of the radicals
IN itself would be matter of congra-
tulation, but, in this instance, it is
more-it is stunning condemnation
of the policy of the dominant party,
and especially as that policy is deve-
loped in their late measures. It be-
gins to inspire the hope that, after
all, the people of these States may be
merely passing under cloud, which
has silver lining that even Butler
will not be able to appropriate to him
self or party. If the States of New
England and the people of the North
generally follow in the footsteps of
Connecticut, in their condemnation
at the polls of the legislation of Con-
gress, then must we hail the results
of the Connecticut election as the
dawn of a brighter day, not only for
the South, but for the whole country.
Therefore, while active co-opera-
tion is denied lis in the work of the
restoration of the true principles of
republican Government, VIC must
give our words of sympathy and cheer
to the Democratic party of the North.
Through that party, and through it
alone, may we hope to see the coun-
try rescued from misrule, and saved
from lapsing into despotism. That
party, notwithstanding its alterations
and shortcomings, has q proud re-
cord, and when it rises to the import
ance of the present situation, and the
dangers that environ the country, as
we think it is, this first blow Mt its
adversaries will be followed by others
equally as effective.
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THANKsGIvING.-By proclamation
from the Most Worthy Grand Sire of
the Grand Lodge of the Independent
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