The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-28
Talk from the New York Herald.

fest destiny of the South, the New
York He''ald writes one of its peculiar
articles, from which we extract the
slbloined paragraphs:
On the new Southern tripod OF
''Libcrtv, Equality and fraternity"
there was, the other day, most i'm
pressivc initial meeting of whites
and blacks, at Columbia, Sonth Ca
rollna, at which Gen. Wade Hamp-
ton-thc very pink OF the chivalry of
that Southern Confodcracy which
was set up on the cornerstone of
negro slavery stood between two
black men, eXpounding the new idea
and the new epoch Of equal rights.
We published yesterday : special re-
port Of an interesting mass mcctinc
of whites and blacks, held the dav
before. at Charleston, at which Judge
Moore (whitcl presided, and Il. j.
Adams lcolored} acted us secretary.
The object of this meeting was 'sto
form an association to be known as
the Union Republican party of South
Carolina" while that ut Columbia
was to initiate Il movement for u new
and independent Southern party,
embracing a political fusion of the
land owning whites and the Iaboring
blacks, upon the broad ground of
common interest, political and social,
local and national.
Thus South Carolina, the pioneer
and prime mover in the late rebellion.
very properly takes the lead in this
work of submission to the issues of a
war OF her making, and in this i'm
portant business of reorganization
of parties upon the new ideas, facts
and established principles of this new
era in our national history. Four
years Of the bayonet have hurried US
through a radical and sweeping revo-
luton of Il hundred years of peace.
Excepting the revolutionary conse-
quences of that terrible French con-
vulsion which first startled the world
in 1889, there is nothing in the on
ward march of any nation to COM
pare with the revolution inaugurated
in the United States with the seces-
sion of South Carolina, in December,
1860. That Act was limited TO a
dozen lines, declaring the Union dis
solved and South Carolina an indie
pendent sovereignty; but it decreed
the slaughter of six hundred thou
sand men, the emancipation from
chattel slavery of four millions Of the
African race, and, with their eleva-
tion to citizenship and civil and poll
tical equality, the blotting out of all
the political leNcrescences and accesso-
ries of slavery, ans all its legal and
social atrocities.
The new departure thus devolving
upon the Southern States is change
from the world before to the world
after the deluge. The delays of
restoration resulting from President
Johnson's policy have, in this view,
served q good purpose in gradually
preparing the Southern mind for this
great change. From the movements
of leading Southern politicians in
different places remote from each
other, all tending in the same direc-
ton, it is evident that they have been
watching the course of events and
preparing for the ultimatum that has
come upon them, while hoping for
better things They now know what
they have to do, and in following the
example Of Wade Hampton they have
their future in their own hands. BY
meeting promptly and fairly the con
ditions OF Congress, and by harmon
iZing in good faith with the blacks,
the ruling white class of the South
may take the game OF reconstruction
out Of the hands OF Secretary Stanton
and the Northern radicals, and build
iip The i,..,,ro donliiI;,iII purity Of the
South upon the balance of power
held by the blacks This may be
done IN season to secure the read
mission into Congress of ali the
excluded States next winter, which
will give them ample time to play q
deliberatt: part IN the approaching
Preside II Ial election.
In tins connection we hold to the
idea that the ticket of Grant and Lee
is the ticket for the projected new in
pendent party of the South, because
it will operate to fuse Unionists and
rebels, whites and blacks, Fall under
the same political banner. Grant and
Cameron would be an excellent
ticket for tho North; fer Cameron in
the field Of politics is as hard to beat
as Grant in the strategy and tactics
of war. Ii Grant stands as the victor
over Buckne", Sidney Johnston,
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