The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-05
COLUMBIA.
Friday Morning. June 5. 1868.
The Next FiEht--OK With Your
Gloves---Unfon at Homo.

Gloves---Union at Homo.
The District elections are over.
Excepting municipal elections, in
volving local issues, the next matter
before rs is the Presidential canvass.
Let all true conservatives prepare in
time, and let us even in South Caro-
lima, with her heavy black vote, re-
solve to attain the heights of success,
or, failing therein, to plant our colors
as near the top as possible. We are
obliged, ultimately, to win in this
political contest; but friends, all you
who have got the instincts Of patriots
and MEN in your souls, let us resolve
to win speedily. Upstairs are, in
many cases, in the ascendsncy. Ig-
norant colored men presume to hold
Office over the wealth, the intelli-
gence and the integrity of the land.
Bad men have been raised to power
by means of the black mans vote.
Some of your truest men are not al
lowed to vote, whilst every black
man, whether decent, or whether
stupid and depraved, is allowed to
vote, and thus to control in part
your country and your property.
Your political foes brave the field,
and strut along the stage with the
insolence of power. And timid or
traitorous white men, here and there,
stand with bated breath. Can this
continue? Manhood answered. can
not and shall moi, so help it Heaven.
We have gone for for the colored
man. We have subjected ourselves
to sneers and imputations, because
of the concessions we deem due, not
so much to the black man, as to JUS
tice and truth and ourselves. We
have stood between the extremes of
conflicting viows, and there we shall
continue to stand. But 1Oe haze also,
from The first, firmly and constantly up
held the doctrine that tbs, political con-
troll Of the South belongs TO the S,000,-
600 ,0hites ,cih their Intelligence, aoealh
and integrity, and not 10 the less than
1000, 600 blacks, soiM their ignorance
and inerpe,'ience and general infe-
rio,-ity.
Upon this ground, let us stand
together in this State. It is under
stood that the South Carolina Demo
cracy will conform to the action of
the New York Democratic Convcn-
tion. It is known that one of the
cardinal doctrines of the Democracy
leaves TO each State the question of
suffrage. Why, then, have any divi-
sion in the ranks of the South Caro-
lima Democracy Brothers in
Charleston, brothers in Oconec,
Carolinians everywhere in the State,
we cannot afford to quarrel. Let us
unite, as one man, to oppose the
common enemy, and secure the COM
mon victory. Planting ourselves
upon the immutable foundations of
just concessions, guaranteeing to
every class the rights to which they
are entitled, burying our dissensions
of once in q common grave, let lis,
the white people OF South Carolina,
join hands with our Democratic
friends of the North, South, East
and West, and seek, by manly effort,
to redeem our country, and thus
bring salvation to ourselves. Let us,
in South Carolina, no longer confine
ourselves to State issues let us shun
isolation-let us plant ourselves in
line with the moving columns of
legitimate progress, and have, con-
trolling our movements, broad and
comprehensive statesmanship-one
that shall include the whole country.
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. and
reaching from tho Northern Lakes to
the Gulf of Mexico.
And let us open wide the door
to foreign immigration. We want
here Tho oanar0ua b1ood of TraJop1