The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-05
The Man VINO Blazes the Way.

]
destruction. He says TO one man, go,
and he goeth; to another, come, and
he cometh. Even Brother Beecher
consents to walk by the deceitful
glimmerings of Wendcll's dark Ian
tern. Wendell made speech at Chi
cago last Thursday night. The fol-
lowing is an abstract of his lecture,
rs we find it reported in the Chicago
Post:
What brought on the war? It was
the conflict between two IDEAS, as
Mr.. Seward told us, ut Rochester, be
fore he lost his brains. Applause
In 1861, WAS revealed the irrepressi-
bic contest. Now what is the remc-
dy? The prophet at Plymout Church
and the Secretary OF State say, put
the pieces of the bursted gun toge-
ther. fill it with powder, apply hot
Goals, and hope it won't burst.
Laughter.
He would say of the thirty ninth
Congress, that it has conducted the
affairs of the nation on principles
which, il a business man.Lad applied
to his business, would have made him
bankrupt at once. The Congress has
not omitted every good act. 1t has
given us a Bureau, civil rights bill,
and a glimpse at negro suffrage, but
it should not have left moment
wasted in trying to put the parts of
the nation together. Except i'll the
past week, Congress has done nothing
toward reconstruction. The South is
as firmly set in its way as she was at
first-defantly convinced that her
barbarism is as good as our civiliza-
ton. 1t says, when labor touches
government, it is a revolution.
The white race at the South is
race with convictions which half
dozen defeats have not washed out
How many defeats would it take to
wash the Declaration of Independence
out of Massachusetts and Illinois?
In spite of hundred Bull Runs, we
should still say, ''All men are born
free and equal. Had Jefferson Davis
succeeded, he would have had the
right to enforce his doctrines. We
conquered, and we have a right to en-
force ours. We are dealing with
race that believes its principles as
strongly as we do ours. Here, in the
West, nation has been constructed
by the talent, the blood and the mo-
ney Of the East, and it can no more
be separated from the East than you
can cut off u slice from the Rocky
Mountains SO the North must re-
construct the South, just as the East
constructed the West, by planting its
civilization there When Lincoln was
elected, the South saw that she must
remodel the Govesnmentt to her ideas,
or she must go out of the Union.
The party that conquers, it is well
settled, has the right to stamp out
rebellion that it shall not again arise
We have laid 800, 900 martyrs in their
graves. We have pledged the credit
of the country for $1,000, 900, 900; we
have mortgaged the real estate of the
country for two generations, and now
the voice of justice demands that we
fix nnalterable guarantees for future
safety.
If we had good President, it
would not matter what laws we have;
and as we have a bad President, II
does not matter what laws we have.
Our President is a traitor; he is la
boring to save the South from the
consequences of her defeat, and he
knows how Once put Southern
statesmen inside the capital, and we
give them power to fight over the
battle again inside the Government.
The speaker said that he would
notice next that crowd that have
wriggled their way up to Congress,
nobody knows how. If the South
should bring a bushel basket of her
money and say, You shall have
that money if you vote right, and
we will build palaces for you if you
do it" he knew one Congressman in
Massachusetts, who. would take the
offer at once.
The amendments cry to the white
men of the South, ''Come back and
be the Government, and sit down
with us We hope to put you under
such motives that you will, by-and-
by, admit the blacks to vote, but we
do not compel it, Has the South,
said the speaker, ever obeyed single
clause in the Constitution which she
did not want to? What's the use
now of adding idle clauses to the
Constitution? He proposed to put
the ballot in the hands of the blacks,
but Congress lets the South come in,
| and then talks about re-Oroanizinr