The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-16

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comfort lie as possible, and then an
,nounced; atseveral gentlemen would
address them on the political situa-
tion. He then introduced Col. j. P.
Thomas, of this city.
Col T. expressed his qualification
at being called upon to address his
fellow-citizens on the important sub
iect now {. itating the country. Stand
ing upon his native soil, he felt that
he had the enthusiasm to warm, and
hoped he would have the language to
kindle the flame in the breasts of his
hearers. From the mountains to the
sea-board, the clans are gathering,
and they are determined that the
'land we love" shall never be given
up to the alien or the African. He
called on all voters-white and CO.
lored-to rally to the Democratic
banner, confident of final success.
All the omens indicate success. The
warm gulf speaks to the cold lakes,
the Atlantic to the Pacific; the fires
of Democracy are burning, and will
continue to burn. A great wave is
sweeping over this continent, and it
will bear away that radical house
built upon the sands. Kentucky has
counted her thousands, and distant
Montana swells the Democratic roll.
Rally around that banner, and plant
it where it will be seen. He congra-
tulated himself upon seeing before
him the heroes of the work shop and
the sons of the soil. Industrial de-
velopment and political regeneration
are the work for the hour. In South
Carolina heretofore we were not dis
posed to join in the scramble for
Presidential office; but the times have
changed; new issues have arisen, and
if we would redeem our State and
country, we must place South Caro-
lima in the grand column. A great
fight has been fought; but we will
never deny our glorious past; our
record is glorious, and he would be u
traitor who would deny the glorious
past. He addressed himself to the
men of the present. Our great OBJ
jects are to be consummated under
the banners of the National Demo
cratic party. 1t should be remcm-
bered that we need we'll filled grana-
ries and we'll cultivated farms; there
fore, let all now work who never
worked before, and those who always
worked, now work the more. No ap-
peals to the past will save us. We
have dusky workers; the labor of the
colored man is necessary. The union
of the muscle of the black man and
the brains of the white will form an
industrial development unexcelled.
What is the state of affairs which now
exists? We are living under q Con-
stitution forced upon us by fraud and
misrepresentation; we are represent
ed in a black -and-tan assemblage,
composed of venal rascality and stu
pid fraud. If you should rise in the
morning, and find the face of nature
completely changed-mountains on
their peaks-we would say such as
that cannot last; and so with the po-
litical situation-the broad foot of the
negro presses heavily upon the neck
of the white man. The carpet-bag-
ger came to the South to obtain the
position which he could not hope for
at the North, but the idcs OF Novem-
ber will see him returning. The
speaker had the utmost consideration
fyr the ignorant colored man: Il
would be to his faults little blind,
and to his virtues little kind" But
to the vicious office-seeker, he would
not so speak. The renegade white
man, who would unite with the CO.
lored man to crush out our people,
commits treason to his kind; he will
go down to the grave "unwept, un-
honored and unsung." The true sons
of the State must redeem the State
politically before they can do so prac-
tically. The speaker then referred to
the late Democratic Convention in
New York-it was the sign and SYM
boil of great political regeneration.
The platform adopted points to resto-
ration; the Reconstruction Acts of
Congress are unconstitutional, un-
just, null and void. The success OF
the Democratic party in November,
will prove this. The cause in which
we are engaged is not the cause OF
politics, but of constitutional liberty.
On the conclusion of his remarks, OF
which the above is O mere outline,
the crowd cheered heartily.