The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-11
CHAR Es TON.
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST IL, 1858.
Tho Friends: and. Enemies of Peace.

/ Eor Vfce. President. FRANCIS p. BLAIR.
The Friends: and Enemies Of Peace.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
tells with triumph the story of q Democrat,
who rvs he will vote for GRANT because
che CO. sand the rebel crew that SEY-
ssmouR is gathering around him." For our
part, we don't believe it. No true Demo
crat could Have said anything of the sort.
-The-D Democrats very well-know whom the
Radicals stigmatize es. rebels. They are
the peaceable Southern people-the, friends
Of order, the advocates Of consHt Htutional
liberty. The only disorder now existing in
the country is that of Radical creation.
The only rebellion against the Union is
what that party is carrying on. Every
body outside of the Radicsl- ranks is ask
ing for peace; they alone are breathing
threstenings and deyising slaughter. They
alone are striving to arm one portion Of
the population Of these States against the
other. They alone can be benefited by q
ssnguinary outbreak, which, indeed, they
ara now endearoring by all means to pro-
duce. -!ats
u Thsrery fact that ssYmouR cencilistes
the South--that part Of the republic which
the Radicals are perpetually stigmatizing
as disaffected-instesd Of being an objec-
ton to his election, is one of the strongest
arguments in his favor. A union of hearts
is precisely what the whole country needs.
We have had war long enough. We must
have peace if we are to have prosperity.
And tho Democrats are the peaoe-party-
the party which seeks to reconcile all SEQ
tions, to harmonize all classes, to foster all
interests in our land. This is its mission.
And the success Of it's efforts 10 subdue the
discords and repair the frightful rayages of
war, is its commendation, and win hereaf-
ter be its ,crowning glory. sc.
n tI,et us have ,peacew cried Mr.. CoIrAx,
inhis speech at South Bend; but disparity
Is perpetually saying, "Let US have war!
uLet us have more outrage, more carnage,
"more debt. Let sectional hatreds and dis
..sensions prevail Eet the men who op-
sposed each other in arms never cease to
.contend with each other. Let the
sbleeding wounds OF the common nwealth
unoyer be staunched. Let US wrangle and
slight forever e: 80 -
The man who cannot stay in the Demo-
cratic party becaasefhe policy Of that party
embraces the whole country-because its
success win secure not only the material,
but also the moral reconstruction Of the
rspublic-isunworthy Of the name Of DEM
oorat, and leaves his party for his psrty's
good. To the Radicals let him 60 by all
means He will find himself there among
congeuial spirits. :
In truth, the dealing Of the Republican
party with this great question of public con-
cord is ine1pressiblys mean and low. They
are not satisfied with conquering, they
would also degrade; they do net ask US
simply to submit to the fortunes of war, but
to cringe and fawn; they demand that the
sacrifice of our convictions should follow
the surrender of our swords. Thus the
New York Times denounces HAMPTON for
refusing to admit that the principles for
| which he fought we're wrong, and for pro-
testing that he never would brand the men
who so nobly upheld them as rebels OF
traitors. Upon this manly avowal the COM
ment of the Times is as follows: "Hsving
"thus renewed mis- adhesion to the policy
sand principles of the horrid rebellion,
s'WADE HAMPTON urged all his hearers to
"vote for HoRATIo SEYMOUR" The versa
tile Mr.. RAYMOND can't understand that
devotion which fingers tenderly beside the
grave of buried cause, and hangs the vo-
tive wreath upon its tomb. Never did his
flial step disturb the quiet of such a rest
ing place: He saye, in sense of which
the poet never dreamed:
''Let the dead past Dury its dead"
There is nothing tu: the brutal instinct
of the tyrant, tia. viii demand of the South
ern people any concession of principle hat
ever. Whatever certain extreme journals
at the South may assert-journsls to which
certain sensational excitement is the pulse
of their being-our people are neither va
poring nor conspiring, but are seeking by
peaceful means to recover the political
equality of the States, and the constitu-
tionsl liberty aud social rights Of the peo-
pie thereof And they adhere to the Dem
ooratic party, because that party alone has