The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-07

=. ~. klnard, Newberry q. n. 81
w. Z. Sims, Union.
JIM. Allen, Greenyille.
The South as Seen by Senator Wilson.
MIR. Wilson declined the first invi-
tation to speak at the anti-slavery
convention in Boston, but was after
wards called up and made some
remarks: @,'
OF the Sonth, in reply to the state
ment of Phillips and others, he said
it was to-day more radical than radi-
cal Massachusetts. In his tour over
the South, he had heard nothing but
the very essence Of radical sentiment.
But the great danger to Republican
institutions in the South is the want
of education. AS things now go, the
slave is in danger of acquiring habits
of his old master-that of intoxication
and, brutality. OF the liberty of
speech, he said that he was not afraid
to say in the South anything that he
deemed or seemed proper to say in
the city of Boston. While in the
South, he made thirty-two speeches
to large audiences, and on no occa-
sion was hissed or interrupted, and
he never spoke to great masses of
people who listened with greater at
tention, or who seemed more anxious
to learn and understand every word
that ne said. There was no moro
danger in speaking there than in any
part of the North He then spoke of
the election, and felt sanguine that
they would return both to their State
Legislatures and to Congress good
men and true, both white and black,
and if he was not mistaken, the Re
publican party would, in the next
election, carry eight of the eleven
Southern States. 1t is, therefore,
our duty, as good citizens, to encou-
rage the good work now going on,
rather than to be quarreling with
each other. In ten years, he bc-
ieVed these States would be the ra-
dical States of the Union In re-
ferring to the amendment for the
States) bearing upon the right of
suffrage, he said that if it was not eff
fective, if it did not do the work as it
ought to be done, then he would
have it engrafted upon the Constitu-
ton of the United States, where no
men or set of men can change it.
The military men in command of
the South, he regarded as all Repub-
licans of the most trustworthy class {;
and if things progress under their
administration as they are now
moving on, in less than five years
South Carolina and Georgia will be
accusing Massachusetts of being too
conservative.
A special correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing from Bos-
ton, on the 1st instant, says that he
has had an interview with Senator
Wilson, and we extract from his
letter the following interesting. state
ment (if true) concerning the Sena-
tors views on the political situation:
Concerning the condition of recon
struction, Mr.. Wilson said that he
held the same opinion now as when
he returned from the South. AS to
the matter of admitting the Southern
States to their former status, he
claimed that if they complied with
the terms laid down in the recon
struction bill, and elected men who
could take the oath, no member of
Congress had any right to say that
new conditions should be imposed; :;
for the law said that they shall be adj
raitted when they comply with its re-
quirements. He would like to have
added another condition-that It
should be obligatory for every State
to establish an impartial system of
common schools: but he felt bound
to say that he met no man, of what
ever party, at the South, who was
not in favor of establishing such a
system. He believed that it would
be established, because all intelligent
men were agreed that, now that the
negroes were free, it was important
that they should be educated.
He believed, he said, that all the
Southern States could be represented
in Congress before tho next Presi-
Dental election; that they would par