The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-17
1,hs Herald Again. 8

The Herald Again.
The New York Herald, of Monday,
has another leading article. from
which we make the following extracts:
We fought to free the nation from
party domination guided by slave
holders, and we fail under party
domination based on the votes of
the slaves we made free. We have
set them free to make them our
masters. We exchange a white
tyranny for black tyranny. This
was not what the people meant when
they gave lives without limit and
money without stint to prosecute the
war. Even those who desired to free
the slaves would not have made them
masters of the political destinies of
any part of the nation; yet something
very near to this must be the result
of the policy of those radical leaders
of whom Mr.. Stanton is the type.
Actual political domination in ten
States is given to the nigger; and
what did he do to deserve it? From
fifty to hundred thousand enlisted
on our side, out of four millions, and
the remainder stayed at home and
did what they could against us and
our cause, in growing the corn that
fed the rebel armies. Not a single
insurrection-not one organized blow
for freedom-came from these slaves
and sons of slaves duriug four years
of war, that taxed the utmost energies
of their masters. They were held
IN bonds by men mt war with the
nation, and they never added the
weight of one little effort from their
own side, to aid the cause whose
success was to make them free. They
tamely ploughed and sowed, and
meanwhile half million white men
were MANNED in the struggle that
was theirs rs we'll as ours And of
such material we make voters! Into
the hands of creatures who continued
slaves while there was any one left to
hold whip over them, we put such
power that they may become the
arbiters of great political questions,
and even balance votes with North
ern as we'll as Southern white men.
We degrade and adulterate the ma
tional life by Introducing into it half
a million servile, semi brutal voters
all that the supremacy of an nrro-
CANT and dangerous faction may be
secured and made permanent. And
this, indeed-this making of nigger
voters and driving the white men of
the South, from the polls-is the
whole result of the war, as radical
leaders see it.
But the people are awakening to
the true perception of this great mat
ter, and it needs no extreme previ-
sion to know that the nation will
eventually trample under its feet
every vestige of the party that holds
such ideas and has led it into this
false position. The plain question
for Mr.. Johnson is, whether he has
the courage to take the current OF
this national tendency and make a
bold fight with Congress and the
radicals. now that they are in the
wrong-to fight when he may have
the people on his side, with the same
spirit with which he assailed Con-
gress when its acts were in harmony
with the national will. If he has, the
case is plain before him. He must
make a clean sweep of all the present
personnel of reconstruction. He must
brush away all the commanders, and
if there are no generals to take theil
places, make some. He must not
stop with Stanton even in his Cabinet
Taking thus n new departure, pur.
suing an honest policy of recon.
struction, never losing sight of the
real objects of the war, but breaking
mp utterly this mischievous attempt
to secure nigger supremacy, he viii
merely go before the wishes of tho
people; and though an attempt al
impeachment would come as sure n.
sunrise with the assembling of Con
gress, the attitude of the nation woult
awe It into silence.
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