The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-04-19
3fllchla1d Doanocra,lS CLUB,

Alta called meeting of this club, a
large and enthusiastic assemblage Of
the members responded.
On motion, the reading of the last
minutes were dispensed with.
Col. Thomas addressed the meet
ing on the prospects Of the party and
the duty of the hour, and submitted
the following resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted:
Resolred, That the Democratic
party of Richland District find, in
the result of the recent election,
naught but the presage of future
success. With q party organized but
two weeks before the election, and
having unusual obstacles in the way,
they polled, in spite Of the disfran-
chisement of many of our best men,
q heavy vote, and reduced the radical
majority far below the current antici-
pations even of the most sanguine.
Resolred, That the District Central
Executive Committee be directed to
proceed at once to the more thorough
organization of the party in this Dis
trict, and that we here pledge to
them and to each other our earnest
and constant efforts in behalf of the
cause. --..l % az
Resoiced, That the colored people
throughout the District, favorable to
the party, be invited, as mode Of
action moro agreeable to themselves,
to form cooperative Democratic
clubs. which clubs, together with the
Ward and District clubs, shall form
and make up the central organization
of the District. ~
Resolred, That the colored people
who have attached their. political for
tunes to ours, nre entitled to our
patronage and support, and shall re-
ceive it; and that this patronage and
support will not be withheld from
those colored persons who may now
come forward and ask to be enrolled
among the faithful, in the Democratic
ranks.
Rssolced, That those colored per-
sons who have voted to put upon the
white man and the colored man Of
this State, an ignominious Constitu-
.tion, ruinous alike to them, and espe-
ciany SO to us, have forfeited many
of their claims to our sympathy and
mid. and that the policy of declining
to give work to those persons, and
especially to their leaders, will be
steadily and firmly carried out by our
-citizens-due regard being
had to the moral and legal obliga-
tions of existing contracts, and each
citizen being at liberty to discriminate
in behalf of those well-tisposed and
conservative colored men. who may
have been led astray by the devices
of artful and designing leaders.
ReSolued, That the Richland De-
mocratic Club appeal to their fellow
citizens throughout the State, to or
ganize and work until the party in
the State stands q political column,
with full and disciplined ranks, with
leaders ardent and true. and with
principles wise, just and distinctly
pronounced.
James G.. Gibbes, Esq, introduced
a resolution looking to the interests
OF those colored persons who had
proved their devotion to the true in
terests of their race and country, and
proposing a practical mode of show
ing our appreciation of their pa
triotic conduct.
d. B. DeSaussure, Esq, calling
attention to the discharge. as report
ed, from the Howard Schooi, of tii,e
children of those colored persons
who had voted the Democratic ticket,
suggested it rs duty incumbent
upon us to see that they were fur
nished with the means of obtaining
educational advantages such as those
of which they had been deprived.
. BY request, William Myers (co-
lored) and Pleasant Good (colored)
were called upon to give the feeling
among their people. Their remarks
were well conceived and received with
attention.