The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-05
COLUMBIA.
Wednesday Morning, June 8, 1857,
Still Onward.

The man who has the brains and
does the thinking for the dominant
party is certainly no idler or skulker
in his self-appointed mission. We
mean, of course, Wendell Phillips,
who just now is high on q rampage,
and is blazing the way for the party
to follow. However wild, crude and
extravagant Phillips may be in the
induction of his policy, yet we have
never seen him fail to lead the party,
which in every movement has come
up to the line he has marked out.
He is now out for q colored man
being nominated as Vice-President.
1t is not enough for him, as the New
York Times says, that the negro is
invested with political and civil
equality, and with the opportunity of
obtaining homesteads, if he chooses
to work for them. Phillips claims
for him ready-made farms, with i'm
plements and stock stolen from the
planters; liberty to live without toll,
and to luxuriate at others cost; the
right to Office because of color, and
to honors and emoluments, with q
scanty disposition to earn and fee
BILE capacity to merit either. Simply
because the black man is black, Phil
lips wou lheap upon him, by schemes
Of spr'lat on, the comforts which the
thrifty German or industrious Irish
man earn by the sweat of their brow.
Being black, too, he must be Vice
President of the United States, for
no other purpose, seemingly, than to
prove that in this country the preju-
dice against color is extinct. Here is
what he said the other day in speech
he made before the New England
Anti-slavcry Society:
elf the negroes had law, the spell
ing-book, land and the ballot box.
they would be respected by, the dema-
gogues; and further, when they are
situated rs the Germans are in this
country, then he would have assur.
ance that they could fight their own
battles. If they did not do it, theirs
would be the fault. and he should
then believe and proclaim that God
never meant they should be free.
When he was permitted to witness
the people of the United States place
on their ticket for Vice President a
colored man to strengthen it, land
not, as they did i'll 1866, nominate q
drunken Iennesseean to weaken it,
when he saw such men as Fred.
Douglass and Robert Small; when he
saw colored man competing favor
ably with q man with three stars on
each shoulder; then, and not until
the glorious then: would he believe
that prejudice against the black man
Was gone"
There is not an intelligent freed
man who may read the above extract
who will not pronounce its author a
fool or knave. The great mass o.
that population among us, especially
in this section of the South, know
just what their rights and privilege.
are, and their department., notwith
standing all the fulsome talk concern
ing them by the radical missionary
orators, gives abundant evidence that
they have sufficient good sense tc
appreciate the true valor of such
rhodomontade But, as we sale
above, Phillips does the head-worb
for the party, and although sucl
moderate Republican journals as the
Times may try to hold him back, yet
we should not be urpriscd-unles.
the party is kicked out of existence
to see the rank and file follow him
and adopt his widest theories as THEN
platform.
Mrs. Waters, wife. of Mr.. James
Waters, living in Bonne Femme
Bottom, below Burlington, in Boone
County, was last night delivered o1
four boys ut Il birth, weighing SIX
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