The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-07


and blood" as the necessary result,
of their dominion not being recog-
nized. Forney's correspondent is
also full of fight. He says, "the
election of Blair will bring war
more fierce and bloody than the one
we have passed through" But,
strange to say, whilst their tigers are
raving for war and blood in the pa
pers-they assume in Washington the
attitude of bleating and helpless
lambs. They there say, to their
party, that unless they have the mill
tary OF the United States to protect
them, they will be killed-they will
be driven out of the country.
We suppose, therefore, that the
war and blood in the South, which
the defeat of Grant will occasion, is
to be the work of the United States
soldiery. But how are you to get
them, if Grant is defeated? Will
President johnson, will Seymour
send them, to support Governors,
who consider the white race to be
''rebels or to support Governments
set up by the bayonet, with carpet
baggers, and scalawags, and radical
negroes to rule? We trow not. Then
where is the 'blood and war" to
come from? Gen. Scott will be left
to his "loil' subjects. Or are we to
understand that should Grant be de-
feated, he intends to rally them and
to lead them against the "rebels'' in
South Carolina? This must be his
meaning. The negroes on the coast
say that they are arming and drilling
at his command. If this is his mean
ing, Boabdil and Falstaff were small
potatoes, compared with this gigan-
tic pumpkin. A reward OF ten mil
lions of dollars to catch Scott would
be mockery of his humanity.
Greeley, if not quite as valorous as
our so-called Governor, is far more
astute. He anticipates peace for the
South, under radical reconstruction,
with nothing but the United States
bayonet. We oil along said this was
their policy from the first day the
project was announced. It was not
reconstruction" at all; but war and
despotism. He has sense enough to
see that the "war and blood" will
not come from the defeat of Grant,
but from his election. He publishes
the question put to him by CORES
pondent as follows:
What can Grant do for us? We
are being waylaid and slaughtered rs
though we were wolves, and there
seems to be no prospect that the re-
bells will hate us less because of
Grants election. What, then, can
that election do for us?
Now, here is Greeley's answer:
II. The President is Commander
in-Chief of the army, and selects the
commanders of departments. The
rebels are now favored by the rule of
such satraps as Buchanan and Gillem.
These will change their tune directly
upon Grants election; if not, better
men will replace them. Had Andrew
johnson been put out of Office when
impeached the Camilla butchely-
and many more such-would never
have taken plaao.
III. The election of Grant will de-
termine, for at least four years, that
loyal men shall rule America. ,"
Johnson declared it, but has proved
false to his own principle; Grant
never will. The postmasters, and all
other Federal officers throughout the
South Twill be Unionists and anti-Ku-
AluX; they, with the army, will form
nucleus of white unionism in every
Southern community. We shall find
or create means to punish ruflians
and murderers, rely on it!
Here ia the trutb oOp facOo1 srPlo
postmasters and all other Federal
officers throughout the South will be
Unlonists and anti-Ku Klux; they,
with the army, will form nucleus
of white Unionism in every Southern
community" Here is the "war and
blood;" and it is to follow Grants
election. "The army" of the United
States is to be used to rule Southern
people along with the carpet-bagger
and the negro. If Seymour is elect
ed, "the army" cannot be thus used:
and, therefore, there will be no war.
and no blood. Left to the Southern
people to dispose of, the wicked in
cendiaries and negroites, who affect
to rule us by the bayonent, will take
care to dispose of themselves. They
will not "be swift to shed blood"H
but very swift to avoid its shedding.
The South will then have the peace,
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