The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-01-10

through good and ill-fortune. had
fought their fight with an humble, a
contrite, and an honest spirit, and
given the victories for which they
had hungered and thirstad for four
miserable years.
The writer pays o weli-dcseryed
tribute to Andrew johnson, butas our
limits prevent us from publishing the
whole Of his remarks, We subjoin tlIo
concluding paragraph:
"When h's was called to fill the
perilous seat which an act If marty
dom had LEFT vacant, the Coz federacy
had collapsed, &nd its brasa but
luckicss President was flying for his
life toward Texas, with n hope
which, if it had been realized, might
have changed the fortunes OF The
North American contincnt-tiiat if
he could reach this vast and not
easily to be conquered territory, he
might have prolonged the war for
twenty years. Jacison's task was
but childs play compared with Lin
coins as Lincoln's WAS compared
with Johnson's. Il is easier to cou-
Qucr 8 foe than to raise him manned
and bleeding, from the ground, and
make him love the hand that smote
him. It was the business Of Jackson
and Lincoln to prevent the disinte-
grafton Of . great community of free
men, and to hand the national flag to
their successors without the erasllrc
/ Of ~ sJr, ,CrIn uto- frO
performed the duty we'll and wisely
the first with comparative facility,
the second amid all but superhuman
difficulties and discouragemcnts
Upon johnson devolyed more gi-
gautic work. When he became Chief
Magistrate, it might almost be said
that political chaos had come again.
The war had destroyed slavery, but
had not provided for the negroes.
War had dcluged The land with blood,
destroyed friendships, exasperated
animo.ities, laid waste what might
have been the garden Of the world.
consumed countless millions of
wealth, taken q father, 4 son, or ahus-
band from every household, laid low
in bloody and namaless graves and
trenches the heads OF families,
pauperizcI the rici: and dclicatc,y
nurtnred, ald thrown back for half
q century the civilization of the
fairest half OF the republic Il is
true shat the national temple stood
on the hilltop, a Goodly structure,
to be seen and admired OF men; but
many OF its main pillars were broken,
strewn on the ground, 5lackcncd with
the torch OF destruction. or red,;cn-
ed with the blood OF unhappy thou
sands who had been crushed beneath
their fall. How was Andrew John
son, the poor plcbeian, to restore
these broken columns to their places:
How was lie to el'ace the bitter
memories OF conquest, and reconcile
the victim to the victor? How was he
to draw North and South Into that
partnership of interest and affection
without which the Union would be
nation on tho one side, and humiliat-
ing submission on the other? The
task indeed was herculean, and need
ed not only honesty, courage, de
votion, and wisdom, but rare Good
fortune in him who undertook it.
The honesty, the courage, the wisdom,
and the devotion we're with Andrew
Johnson. 1t remains to be seen
whether the good fortune will attend
him"
Truly, as the writer says, the task
imposed upon Andrew Johnson was
herculean, and needed not only ho-
nesty, courage, devotion and wisdom,
but rare good fortune i'll him who
undertook it. That he is equal to the
emergency in which he and his coun-
try are placed we need only refer to
the message which we published on
Tuesday. It is the production of q
sound thinker and an honest states
man.
THE TARIFF The New York Herald,
in its notice of the report of Com
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