The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-01

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tie had cleared away, it was acknoW-s
lodged by the South thne the questions
Of secession and African slavery had
been decided against her, and the
people acquiesced in the result fully,
freely and candidly. The Fsidssifai Fsidssifa,
BxeSutiF carrying out Iincoln'e
programme, required certain conces-
sions preliminary to the admission of
the Southern States into the Union.
and these were promptly complied
with. This restoration of the South
GIN States, and thus the Union of all
the States, was about to be consum-
mated, when the evil genius of the
country came in and stopped the
work of restoration. Since the war,
more than three years have elapsed.
and yet the Union is not restored.
Seven States stand upon totteripp
base, and three are "unreconstruct.
ed. Hence, the radical party is the
party of disunion. For party pur-
poses, they have obstructed the union
OF the States-to secure party ascend.
ancy, they have sacrificed the interest
of the country.
0"Oio co PIO-SmEeTy party
in the country it is the radical party.
| proceed to establish this PROPOSE
ton. When the emancipation pro
clamation of Abraham Lincoln was
put forth, it was distinctly declared
to be war measure, and justified
on that ground. Even the radical
party seemed not to have regarded it
of binding force, inasmuch as when
the war ended an amendment to the
Constitution, known as the thirteenth
amendment, and declaring African
slavery abolished in the Union, was
proposed to the Southern States, and
ratified by them all. Now the radical
party, be it observed, takes the
ground that those Southern Legisla-
lures that adopted the thirteenth
amendment were illegal bodies. If
they were illegal, their adoption of
the thirteenth amendment is null and
void. Thus, according to the radical
view, African slavery has never been
duly abolished in this country. And
thus, if there be pro-slavery party
in the country, it is the radical party.
Again, the Democratic platform
adopted in July last declares the
question Of secession and African
slavery settled by the war No such
admissions appear in the radical Chi
cago platform. Inasmuch, therefore.
as the Democratic party hold that
those Southern Legislatures that
adopted the thirteenth amendment
were legal bodies, and for the further
reason that they have incorporated
in their declaration of principles an
acknowledgment that African slavery
is forever abolished, it follows that
such party cannot be called pro-
slavery party. But in another point
of view hold that the radical party
Is pro-slavery. By their strict party
rules, and their Loyal Union
Leagues, they have subjected the
colored people to bondage more de-
grading than that of the body. They
have subjected them to the bondage
of the mind. The colored people call
themselves free, and yet they are the
abject slaves of their radical leaders.
AS these men, however corrupt or
badly disposed, turn them, SO they
go. Thus they have escaped the
slavery Of the body for the slavery of
the soul, and seldom do they venture
to think or act for themselves.
But I rise to higher grounds. T
contend that the radical party is pro-
slavery, because they have deprived
their white fellow-citizens of the
South of their blood-bought heritage
of liberty and political control. They
have sought to reduce to slavery and
to impose a CALLING yoke upon men
their equals in all respects, and of
their own blood and race. And thus
has it been made to appear that the
only pro-slavery party in the country
is the radical party, which claims to
be party of freedom and of great
moral ideas.
5. My next proposition is, that the
radical party has opposed peace be-
tween the sections.
After the late war ceased, there was
o general disposition on the part of
the Southern people and the con-
servatives Of the North to let by
cones be by-gones- forgive if they
could not forget. Even Gen. Grant,
the radical nominee, after a visit to
the South, bore testimony to the
conciliatory and "loyal" spirit pre-
vaiiing throughout the Southern
States. But the radical leaders would
not have peace. They stigmatized
the Southern people as "rebels" and