The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-10
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Now that She Presidential campaign
is ciosed, there is one platform, and
but one, on which all parties and ali
sections may, and must unite, five
are to re9ain our former prosperity
and happiness, and that is the plat
form. m. not of q party, nor of Sec
tion, but OF the whole country, one
and indivisible. In order to insure
this unity there must be restoration
Of mutual confidence. if not of mu-
tual affection, and to this end the
dead past must be buried and for
given, even if it cannot be forgotten.
We must take a new point of depar-
ture, and, dismissing from our con-
temptation the things which are
behind, press forward in the labors
and to the rewards of new era of
DEVELOPMENT and progress. Mr..
John Quincy Adams has declared his
belief that the heartfelt desire of the
great bulk of the Northern people is
to treat the South with kindness and
generosity, and the opportunity is
now offered in Gen. Grants election
to give strong and practical express
sion to that desire. The extent of
the confidence manifested in Gen.
Grant by the large majority he has
received ought to add to his indie
pendence end efficiency in carrying
out liberal and patriotic sentiments.
The apprehensions Of the party
which sustained him Of their ability
to carry sufficient number of States
in the North to1insure their success,
aud their consequent dread of the
revival of civil convulsions, which led
to the adopting of coersive policy
in the South, with all it's rigors and
sufferings, to retain their political
ascendancy, must be so completely
dissipated by the result of the late
elections, that they can now afford to
treat the South with clemency and
magnanimity. On the other hand,
the South, which has been ever ready
and anxious to meet overtures of real
reconciliation more than half way,
can be more easily won by u spirit of
Cancellation and li5erality than by
compulsion and menace. 1t can
adapt itself to all the political re-
quirements of new era, if only they
are dictated in m equitable and fra
ternal spirit, and leave unshackled
its energies for material recuperation
and advancement. The solution of
oil difficulties is not so much in any
particular legislative policy as in the
spirit which animates legislation, and
if this shall be honestly patriotic and
brotherly, if the words of Gen.
Grant. "let us have peace" shall in
dicate the abandonment of vindic-
tive policy, the future regeneration
and salvation Of the country will be
put beyond all doubt. Any other
course. while it may crafty the pas
sions of unappeasable revenge
against the South, will be purchased
at the indefinite detriment and cost
of all those material interests which
are of supreme concern to all sec
tions. Forbearance, moderation and
patience should be the controlling
sentiment of all sections, and then
this great Republic, the refuge of the
oppressed of all nations, and the
hope of all the friends of liberty
throughout the world, will emerge
from its tribulations purified and
strengthened by the fiery ordeal
through which it has passed.
baltimore San.
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