The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-04-01
" COLUMBIA"
Wednesday Morning. April l, 1858.
The Coming Reelection.

GQe negro suffrage Olil ieSehoiJ ihelO
duced into Congress. 1t argues that
since the integrity of the party was
based solely on this issue, that the
individual efforts of its members to
trim their sails to the popular wind,
has happily destroyed its spirit and
its impulse. Nothing now is left to
keep it together but the cohesive
power of public plunder. In this
view, most people will believe the
Herald to be right. The verdict Of
the elections throughout the West
was so overwhelmingly against the
establishment of negro suffrage, that
no radical politician with any ambi-
ton will dare to risk his hopes by
advocating it. Mr.. Broomall, who
offered the bill, may succeed in strik-
ing the shackles from the South by
the identical blow with which he ex-
peoted to rivet them irrevocably.
This bill declares that call provisions
and enactments in State 'Constitu-
tions and laws, which make distinc.
tions between blacks and whites, as
regards civil or political rights. shall
be void and of no effect" and may
decidedly be characterized as-sweep-
ing. It is cheering to note, however,
that Judge Spaulding Zone of the
most violent Of radicals) opposed it
strenuously, and declared that sra
ther than vote for it, his right arm
should fall from its socket" Several
other radical members also gave Mr..
Broomall q severe brush. It is very
evident that all are not prepared to
follow blindly the leadership of Thad.
Stevens and Ben. Wade. Bad in
deed must be the course pursued by
the radical directory at Washington,
when we find members of it, and its
press, losing no opportunity to place
a PERSONAL disclaimer upon record
even while aiding in its enormities.
Butler, Chase. Stevens, and many
others, have taken occasion to cast
an anchor to the windward in antici-
patton Of the day Of sweeping retri-
button yet in store for them. What
is true of individuals is more strik-
ingly apparent in the press. For the
first time, perhaps, in the history of
the country, and it speaks we'll both
for the spirit Of the age and the
dignity of the profession, we find
editors who, while they sacrifice their
own principles to the party whip,
and work obediently in party traces,
yet refuse to prostitute the columns
of their papers to the advocacy of
measures they Lknow to be unjust
and unrighteous. The editor of the
Nation, in its last issue, hitherto the
rade naecun of radicalism, thus washes
his hands like modern Pontius Pi-
late of the sins of his people, while
contemplating the elevation or Ben.
Wade to the Presidency:
He is lamentably ignorant with
regard to the various economical
questions by which the country is
beset, and, if he has any opinions on
finance at all, they are probably not
very favorable to the maintenance of
the national credit. In his selection
of his Cabinet, he is likely to prefer
zeal-of which we have already rs
much as the country can stand-to
discretion and knowledge, which the
country is dying for want of. What
is worse, he will probably, with that
blind reverence for party traditions
and practices for which men of his
stamp are generally remarkable, feel
that his first duty in Office is to nse
the Federal Oatronaoe tO heln the