The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-23
COLUMBIA.
Tuesday Morning, July %, 1857.
Connocticut.-CentralizatIon

of Connecticut, he says:
'eThe people of Connecticut arc
further, to-day, from striking the
disgraceful word out Of their Consti
tuition, than they were six weeks
ago; and their unreasoning opposi.
ton to the, change will be more and
more confirmed if they find it identi.
fled with the policy of centraliza-
tion."
Of course, the ssdisgraceful word
referred to is "white,'' which word
the people of Connecticut will not
erase from their State Constitution,
notwithstanding all the efforts of the
Republican party.
In this letter, moreover, DR.. Ba-
con is down on Summers proposition
tofo'ce negro suffrage upon all the
States. Upon this point, he says:
GA few years. experience of cleo
tions conducted by authority and
under regulations proceeding from
the seat of the National Government
would convince Ignotus himself "a
writer opposing him) that the de-
struction of the reserved rights of
the States, and the consequent CEN
tralization of power ut the national
capital, is Identical with the subver-
sion of liberty.
"My confidence is, that any at
tempt to gain for the National Go
vernment power over the elective
franchise in the States will result in
the complete overthrow of whatever
party may engage in it,
This is about as good States rights
doctrine as ever emanated from
any Southern statesman or writer.
The truth enunciated in the first of
these two latter paragraphs cannot
be doubted. Continued and increas-
ing Capitalization of power in any of
the departments of tho Natianal Go
vernment, will most certainly subvert
the true principles of republican
liberty, and render all the States
nothing more nor less than colonies
OF dependencies, subject to every fat
or doctrine that may be promulgated
from the national capital. The Ame-
rican people are not what they have
always been represonted-lovers of
true liberty-if they do not check by
the power of the ballot-box this dan
gerous tendency, becoming moro ap-
parent every day.
AS to the prediction contained in
tho last paragraph, as it is against
one of the most prominent repre-
sentatives of his own party, DR.. B.
is evidently alarmed, lest, if this uni
vcrsal suffrage is thrust upon the
States against their will by that party,
it will be the fororunner of its de-
struction. This may be so; and if
the conservative element of the North
shall be found strong enough to sue
cessfully resist this innovation upon
State rights, after reconstruction, the
re-admitted Southern States will thus
occupy the same ground us they
always did. This is by no means an
unimportant additional incentive to
the Southern people to register and
vote in compliance with the laws of
Congress.
Equal rights under the Constitu-
tion, with the safeguards to the
rights of the people of tho several
States which that instrument confers
and guarantees, is all tho South can
ask for. We see no other way for
her people to secure these but by an
early return to the Union of their
fathers in the shortest and speediest
way-in fact, the only way left to
them. AS Gen. Hindman says in q
recent letter, in which he takes the
ground of other Southern generals,
viz: acquiescence in tho military
bills, he does so because "the power
that forces them upon us is greater
than we can resist, and utter and per-
manent ruin may overwhelm us in q
further resistance against it," This
last renson-the probability of utter
ruln-ls the one which impels us to
urge reconstruction and n return to