The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-05-20
From the Charleston. Mercury.
Progress Of Evil.

Nothing can chow more clearly, the in.
evi.abie progress Of us''fraiion 10 a free
government. than the history Of the last
eight years. II tdivided and overthrew the
D.mocrattc party. II, then, made war;
William II. Seward more than any other
man In fhe United States, Is responsible fr
this war. BY his persistent agitation. he
kept alive the sectional differences. concern.
log slavery before the war ; aud by oppos.
Ing all Propositions in Congress for an ami.
cable adjustment Of these differences. he
forced on the war. He more than apy
other mau. merged the Wing party into The
Abolition party, baptized with the new pame
OF Republican party. Whore is Mr. Seward
nowf He has faithfully adhered to the
policy OF President Lincoln, which wa. ,hs
policy OF all the great Wing leaders Of the
war; He is stranded high and dry--the
mock and scsrn Of his more progressive-
revolutionary associates II The whig lead.
ere Of 1880 and 1850 who followed up
usurpation by war, could have foreseen
whore u would have landed them aud their
country : would siugls man Of them have
identified their party NTH (he Abolition
istsi And President Johnson--the head of
the Southern Unionists--what thinks he
nowf l' he. and his associated Unionists,
satisfied with the part they took against the
efforts OF the Southern people. to save them.
selves, from the savage hate anfla brutal
predominanoe Of Northern Radica lism -
When he holds in his hand, the resolution
he offered, in the euate, declaring the nur-
poses Of the war, for, which all his Radical
associates Woodland now; finds himself
about TO be convicted ace cri,iSiBal frr
beiug faithful to it what <tpust be his fesl
ingsf However good may. hsye been Nj.
intentions-is he sure Of his wisdom. iu pnt
ting such people over his country p
Where IL the constitution, for whose iut-g
ritv he professed TO actf Where 10 the
Union, Tor which he let looee war, and
spread desolstiou over the Southf Where
10 Tree government itself. for which he hns
so nohly struggled, against the steady march
Of consolidation and despotism, 10 its ma
turai sequence Of usurpa'ionf or all the
people iu the Southern States, the most to
be pitied, are the Uniouists Of the late war.
They see their country domiueersd over by
a military tyranny; and they are forced
by its exact.ons, either TO r.pudiate and
oppose IL, iu sorrowful repentance, for hav-
ing aided the suhjugation ofLh-ir couutry-
or they must join the brutal policy, Of put,
ling her under negro domination. Some
lew oi them, with that pride. which Pope
describes as the never failing view Of
fools, will refuse 10 acknow edge their
o't"'. ihey VIII 60 on IKE BtownlOw I;
but the greater part Of them will follow
President johnson. They will see, like
him-that t support usurpation and ag.
gresSion y war, is to open wide the gates
| OF revolution and rather than be further
participants in The political ruin (more fats |
than the physical ruin) of their country,
they will take. like him. persecution, pro
scripiioA or death Falling back into the
great body Of the white race OF the South,
they will help to make the South, a people
more separate and united, from their oom.
mon ruin. symrathies. and expressions,
than they ever have been.
In the meantime, whilst the revolution.
ary policy Of the Radicals unites the South,
what will be its effects In the N"rthi A
party which ia false to the great faith due
10 the constitution. can be relied on TO re.
spect TO other faith. Is the love Of free
government, 30 dead in the hearts Of the
Northern people, that t'ey will make no
! effort TO save il, and transmit II to their
Posterity2 Gen. Grant already calls for
one hundred thousand soldiers. The pres
ent army Of fifty thousand men, costs one
hundred and forty millions Of money annu-
ally. Can they mistake the diff Of these
thihgsf Is II not plain that we are rapid.
iy hurrying on TO imperialism The his.
tory OF the Caucasian race. which is the
history "f the civilized world, contains no
record of people, free and inhrriting O
free government, sinking passively down,
without struggle, into political slavery.