The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-04-15
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wednesday MORNING.. aAnril l6. 1868.
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i We, are gratiAed to observe the
success of the D mocratio movement
in this State. In all parts of Sonth
Carolina the spirit Of the people ID
aroused. and tie Conservative action
of the Convention has united. the
white men of the State, and excited
the sympathies of o number Of the
colored people. We anticipate the
best results. Here, we are glad to
say, We are thoroughly organized;
and we intend still further to perfect
our organization, and soon we expect
to receive any number Of t.African
auxiliafies. - We are informed; that
it is in contemplation to form CO.
operative Democratic Clubs among
the, colored people, many Of whom
are awakening to their true interests.
Let the colored people throw their
leaders and tricksters, white and
black, overheard, and embark their
fortunes in the Democratic ship.
Hear what the New York Herald
says; observe the effect Of our action
abroad: T.. aE.f'ct
'The proceedings Of The Democra-
tic Convention held in Columbia,
South Carolina, on the Sd inst, and
it's address to the colored people of
the State. show great and healthy.
change in public sentiment. With
the exception of very few Of the old
fiSe-eaters and fire-eating press of the
Charleston Mercury stamp, the peo-
pla everywhere realize their changed
copdiGon and the necessity of
broad and liberal policy towards the
negroes. They are adopting, in fact,
tile policy wisely proposed by Wade
Hampton Immediately after the war
closed. It would have been much
better for them had they cheerfully
adopted it before, but, to use COM
mon expression, better late than
never. Old things have passed away,
and the ancient chivalry of South
Carolina have the good sense to ac-
knowledge it. Among the resolu-
tions adopted by the Convention, We
find this sentence: we recognize
the colored population of the State
as an integral element of the body
polite, and as such, in person and
property, entitled to q full and equal
protection under the State Constitu-
ton and laws; and that as citizens OF
South Carolina, we declare our will
ingness, when we have the power, to
grant them, under proper qualifica-
tions as to property and intelligence,
the right of suffrage What more
should be required? What moro
liberal or sensible than this declara-
tion? Yet our Jacobin Congress re-
fuses to restore these people to their
place in the Union. The address of
, the Convention to the colored people
and the advice given are in excellent
taste, and show the anxiety of the
superior race and the old master class
to improve and cooperate with their
late slaves. After appealing to the
colored people in the most sensible
and eloquent manner, the address
concludes with this earnest and
honest warning: 5s s'Remember that
your race has nothing to gain and
everything to lose, if you invoke that
prejudice of race which, since the
world was made, has ever driven the
weaker tribe to the wall. Forsake,
then, the wicked and stupid men who
would involve you in this folly, and
make to yourselves friends and not
enemies Of the white citizens of South
Carolina r
1t is proposed now to try and hang