The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-07-29

and Texas, it they are allowed to
vote. Arkansas and Tennessee are
equally certain, if the elections are
conducted fairly and honestly. There
was great confidence expressed, too,
on the part of North Carolina. And
we will not despair of South Carolina
and Florida. There is hope, too, in
Maine and Illinois, and several other
Northwestern States. Indeed, it did
seem, from all that we heard and
could learn in the New York Conven-
tion, that the tyranny, oppression
and misrule of the radical party had
thoroughly disgusted the thinking
and rejecting masses everywhere all
over the republic.
If there is one feeling in the Ame-
rican heart stronger than that of all
others, it is a love of constitutional
liberty and Republican principles.
They love the Federal Union in the
North, East and West. because they
sincerely believe, with Washington,
that it is the palladium of liberty and
independence. It was this feeling
which made them fight for the Union,
and the same feeling will prompt
them to drive i, the radicals from
power and Office in the ensuing Pre-
sidential election. There is no hope
OF any change, with the radical lead
ers, but the radical masses are begin
ming to compare the condition of the
country, at present, with what it was
years ago. They are beginning to
feel the iron hand of their party in
the enormous taxes which they have
to pay, and in the prostration of their
commerce and manufactures.
No country was ever so happy and
prosperous as these United States,
for the last thirty or forty years,
prior to 1860, when they were under
Democratic rule. The radicals came
into power eight years since, by an
unfortunate division of the Demo
cratic party, and how changed has
been everything since. By their de-
termination to make no compromise
with the South, bloody war en-
sued, in which 100000 of Ameri-
can, lives were sacrificed and $3,O00,-
600, 900 or $4,00O,0O0,0OO of money
madly spent. When the war was
over, instead of restoring the Union,
they have kept it disunited, and ex-
cluded all the Southern States from
the councils of tie nation. They
have kept up standing army, in
time of peace, OF On expense of
500, 100000, to elevate the negro
above the white man. They have in
creased the burden of taxation until
it has become intolerable. They es-
tablished the Freedman's Bureau at
an, expense OF many millions, for the
purpose of establishing radical rule
throughout the Southern States.
They have established military des-
potism over ten States, suspending
the writ of ha6eas. corpus, and sus.
pending the civil court, with military
commissions for the trial of civil and
criminal laws. They have usurped
the power of the Executive Depart
ment and stripped the President of
his most important constitutional
prerogatives. They have encroached
on the rights of the Judiciary, and
manifested a determination to give
Congress all the powers of all the
other departments of the Govern
ment.
Under this system of tyranny and
oppression, usurpntion and despot-
ism, they have destroyed the prospe-
rity, the peace and happiness of the
country, civil liberty, all constitu-
tional rights and Republican princi-
Piles. They have boldly set the
Federal Constitution, which they
were sworn to support, protect and
defend, ut defiance; and claim to be
acting outside of that sacred charter.
In order to perpetuate their party
and their tyranny, they have nomi-
mated for the Presidency the general
commanding their armies. Iii order
to secure the election Of this military
commander, they have passed an Act
of Congress, authorizing that body
to refuse the electoral vote of any
Southern State, unless the vote is
given for the radical candidate for the
Presidency. Because the present
virtuous and patriotic Chief Magis-
trate would not sanction their gross
and palpable violations of the Fede-
raj Constitution, they have impeach-
ed him of high crimes and misde
meanors. In order to prevent the
judiciary from declaring their lille
gal and unconstitutional legislation
null and void, they have passed laws
repeating the hearing of cases before
the Supreme Court of the United