The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-16
COLUMBIA.
Tuesday Morning, June 16, 1858.
The Views OF the New York world-
Two Features.

We regard the views of the New
York World, as lately put forth, as
implying in one feature, at least, o
gigantic and shameful swindle upon
the Southern Democracy. The fea-
ture to which we allude, is that pro-
posing, in effect, that the National
Democratic party shall waive, as on
issue, the proposition that the pre-
sent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Govern
ments of the South are null and void,
and ought to be upset by the Demo
cratic party in the hour of its tri-
umph. For ourselves, we maintain
that the reconstruction of the South
ern States, under the military bill of
Congress, is unconstitutional andil-
legal, and ought, by the National De-
mocratic pG,4y, to be regarded nall and
cold In other words, we have re-
garded that party pledged to the
South to remit the reconstruction of
the Southern States to the white
people thereof.
For the World now to change base,
is to commit political treason to the
Democrats Of tile South, and to use as,
as the instruments at our o,On expense
of the eleuation Of the Northern Demo-
crdcy. This seems the purpose of
the World, but we cannot think that
the New York Convention will thus
betrny the Southern Democracy. On
tho contrary, let us trust that tho
more manly principles suggested by
the National InteNigence,', upon this
point, will be enforced. That journal
well says:
''To tell the whites of the States
that suffrage is to be left to the States
to regulate, without declaring these
negro governments to be u tyranny
and usurpation, is to trifle with and
evade Il great issue. It is to turn
our eyes away from q great crime, to
ignore the sentiments of the North
ern masses rs evinced in every cleo
tion where the issue has been pre-
sented to them, and would be IN
abandonment of principle alike dis
graceful and impolitic In short, it
would be dissolution of the conser-
vative party.
eve propose, therefore, manfully
and earnestly to grapple with the
many outrages and atrocities of radi-
calism; and, when We shall have the
power, to blot them all out. It is for
this that the people are rising as one
man from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Here we have q clue to the GOODNESS
and apathy with which the nomina-
tions of Grant and Colfax have been
received. If we desire like fate for
our nominees, all we have to do is to
send them forth with doubtful and
uncertain utterance to the masses,
who long for deliverance and q con-
stitntiOnal government under the
control of the white race in all the
States. In this sign only may we
conquer. .
1t is due to truth, however, to add
that there is another feature in the
Worlds article which we approve,
and that relates to the expcdiency of
our controlling the colored vote,
as best we can, in the coming
canvass. When the World says:
"There is every reason to expect that
the Southern negroes will vote in the
next Presidential election; and, if we
permit all those States to be carried
by the Republicans, we may as we'll
hang up our harps on the willows.
1t concerns us to gain portion Of
the negro vote" We must say that
common sense vindicates the wisdom
OF such course. We look upon
politics as practical thing, and hold
that the affairs of ones country
ought to be conducted on the same
general principles upon which an
honest and sensible man manages his
private concerns. We propose not
to ignore principles, or tone, or
honesty, but we do suggest that our
policies be such as to commend them
to the sober sense of practical and
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