The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-04-19
tion, by men full of professions and
boasting of loyalty, you have met

it twenty-six bright stars, radical
Congress would have welcomed the
dismantled ensign with shouts of Joy,
as being evidence of an unrepentant
people. But it was standing rebuke
to them to find it pass safely and
.triumphantly throughout your entire
journey without an insult, and re-
qulrlng no reconstruction at their
hands.
Yours is the same banner denounc-
ed by radical organ thus:
"Tear down the Haunting lie;
Furl up the starry flag;
Insult no sunny sky
With hates polluted rag"
Could you expect better fate for
the flag of your country from such O
source?
Your mistake, Mr.. Sergeant, is an
innocent and national one. You
believed in the professions of these
men. You thought their loud boast
ing OF love for the Union was sincere.
The people once thought like you;
but like yourself, they have found
that they keep the word of promise
to the ear but break it to the hone.
Had you taken some dusky son of
Ham, and borne him Atlas-like upon
your back through the sunny South,
and landed him safely here, radical
Congress would have opened wide
those bolted doors, and when you
thrust your sable brother-the Ameri-
can citizen of African descent-into
the ontstretched arms of the Goddess
OF Liberty, which crowns the dome
of yonder capitol, one loud, long
shout of joy would have gone up
from those gilded halls below, and
you would have been hailed as hero
and crowned with the laurel.
Seated in that same capitol from
which you are driven, they strike
down the Supreme Court, trample
upon the Constitution of our fathers.
ride over the sacredness of law, and, in
the madness of their wrath, drunken
with power, they are this moment
enacting the solemn farce of i'm
peaching President for the high
crime and misdemeanor of refusing
to bow down to their party lash, and
daring to stand between them and
future power.
This "'traitor President" gave YOU
and the flag warm welcome to-day,
and the loyal Senate, that bars YOU
out of the capitol, may, for that
crime, frame another charge in their
bill of indictment.
But we must not despair. Their
transient voice is not the voice of
the people. No; they but initiate
the rash youth ."who fred the Ephe
sian dome, that his name might out
live the memory of the pious fool
who reared it,"
we'll remember, in the Compro-
mise days of 1850, Daniel Webster.
the great expounder of the Constitu
ton, after voting for those measures
that spread the bow of promise in
the political heavens, returned to
Boston and asked the poor privilege
OF defending his course, and the
same radical fanatics that drove You
and your flag from the capitol to- -day
barred the doors of Faneuil Hall.
that cradle of liberty, against Daniel
Webster. Like yourself, he was
| uiiNOu 1uGo Iuo 1nCleme0t air, and
gave them that rebuke, which l may
we'll repeat here:
go! ye solid men of Boston, you
have conquered an inhospitable eli
mate; you have conquered sterile
and barren soil; you have conquered
the very waves that wash your shores;
but. you have yet to conquer your
prejudices."
You, sir, have faced rebel bullets
in time of war, and you can bear
radical insult in time Of peace.
The day will soon come when your
bright banner Can aud ,oia font from
yonder dome, every star having a
State, and every State having her
star. Then will your triumphant
march live fresh and green in the
memory Of grateful nation, while
the very names of the men who
drove you from the capitol will be
| forgotten. or rememberod onlv with