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The Manifest DeAtiny and the Manifest
Policy of the south,

The Manifest Destiny and the Manifest
Policy Of the south,
Frofn tte Herald.
As a morning fog at Sandy Hook is lifted and
cleared away by a regular Northwestern, so has
the Southern delusion of the restoration OF
their old Bourbon dynasty been dispelled by
the recent decisive action of Congress. The
fallacies and foolish promises revived by Pre-
sident Johnson's policy and the last lingering
hopes resting upon Southern "masterly mac
tivity" are all gone. The severe logic of stub
born facts has suddenly opened the eyes of
Southern politicians to their manifest destiny
and from Virginia to Texas they are waking
mn TO their manifest policy-the policy of i'm
mediate and systematic action in meeting the
conditions laid down by Congress-as the con-
sequences of a revolutionizing Rebellion from
which there is no escape.
On the new Southern tripod of "Liberty,
Eouality, and Fraternity" there was the
other day most impressive initial meeting of
whites and blacks at Columbia, South Caro-
lima at which General Wade Hampton (the
very pink of the chivalTy of that Southern
Coniederacy which was set up on the corner
stone of negro slavery stood between two
bIocl, men. expounding the new idea and the
new epoch of equal rights. We published on
Friday a special report of an interesting mass
,neetinc of whites and blacks held the day be-
fore at Charleston, at which Judge Moore
Nybite) presided, and &. J. Adams (colored)
acted rs secretary. The object of this meeting
was Uto form an association to be known as
the Union Republican party of South Caro-
lima. while that at Columbia was to initiate o
movement for a new and independent South
ern party, embracing political fusion of the
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upon the broad ground of common interests,
nolitioal 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 war of her making, and in this
important business of reorganization of parties
updn the new ideas, facts and established
principles of this new era in our national his
tory. Four years of the bayonet have hurried
us through a radical and sweeping revolution
of a hundred years OF peace. Excepting the
revolutionary consequences of that terrible
French convulsiOn which first startled the
world in 1889, there is nothing in the onward
march of any nation to compare with the revo-
luton inaugurated in the United States with
the secession of South Carolina in December
1860. The act was limited to dozen lines
declaring the Union dissolved and South Caro-
lima an Independent sovereignty; but it decreed
the slaughter of six hundred thousand men,
the emancipation from chattel slavery of four
millions Of the African race, and with their
elevation to citizenship and civil and political
equality, the blotting out of all the political
eXcrescences and accessories of slavery and all
its legal and social atrocities.
The new departure thus devolving upon the
Southern States is a 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 a
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 direction, 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 knew what they have to do and il
following the example of Wade Hampton they
have their future in their own hands. BY
meeting promptly and fairly the conditions o.
Congress, and by harmonizing in good faitl
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 up the future
dominant party of the South upon the balance
of power held by the blacks. This may bt
done in season to secure the readmssion int
NOLSlcSS vi all Tie 6NCluueu SLdJ6S mex
winter, which will give them ample time t.
play deliberate part in the approaching
Presidential election.
In this connection we hold to the idea tha
the ticket of Grant and Lee is the ticket fo
the projected new independent party of tn
South, because twill operate to fuse Unonist
and Rebels, whites and blacks all under tn
same political banner. Grant and Cameron
would be an excellent ticket for the North fo
Cameron in the field Of politics is as hard t
beat as Grant in the strategy and tactics c
war If Grant stands as the victor over Bucl,
ner, Sidney Johnston, Beauregard, Pemberton
Bragg, 30 Johnston, Lee, ETC., Cameron ha
also beaten host of opposing leaders, includ
ing Foney, Governor Curtin, and cold ThaG
Stevens" In any event the next PRESIDENT,
contest lies open to the South, and in the wor
of reconstruction the Southern planters an
theirFhite allies around them may. if the
will, IN the names of Grant and Lee, build II
Southern political balance of power ON II
black vote-sOlid, self-sustaining, and eI
during.
New War ClOuda I'm Eurooo