The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-16

precipitanoy and alarm which al
most amounted to panic. Several
favorite measures which had been
agreed upon in Congress were nban-
doned. Tie Republican General
Committee notified the leading ora
tors and stumpers that they must
take the field. Messengers were hur-
rying to Washington from every part
of the country, asking aid, and giving
doleful accounts of the spread of De-
mocracy and of the lukewarmness of
their party. and of numerous deser-
tions. No one can go into any part
of the North without perceiving these
Indications, which always precede
great political changes in this coun-
try. That large class who control
and effect great political changes, the
great conservative mass who cannot
be controlled by party leaders, but
who look to results, and are quick to
perceive the tendency of political
affairs, and to adopt q new pro-
gramme; the mass who desire peace
and return to the old condition of
our Government, and who have real
lied the utter failure of the radicals
to give peace to the people and OBJ
literate the sad effects of war--this
partyis supplying the great reinforce
ment to the Democracy which will
enable it to sweep the country. 1t
is not the candidates or the platforms
of the party which are producing
these great effects. The single idea
that the radicals have failed, after O
full trial, to do what they undertook
to do, and that the other party may
succeed, is the great controlling one
with this class. This is human ma
ture, and it has been manifested too
often in our history to doubt its
power and influence. Never was
party presented to the people with
such record as the radicals have nc.
cumulated, not of misdeeds only, but
of utter failures. They naturally
conclude that no party would do
Werse. and the Democratic party,may
do better. The people are, besides,
heartily sick, and tired of military
domination and of appeals to the
spirit of war and to the associations
and memories of that unhappy era
in our history when everything was
absorbed by the war. They wish to
see the administration and legis.
lation of the country confded
to statesmen and conducted on
the principle of the Constitution.
This is the great pervading feeling
and sentiment which is swelling the
ranks of the Democracy with the
deserters from the radical or Repub-
lican party. Nothing can prevent
its achieving one of the most bril-
liant triumphs in our political histo-
ry, but some great blunder or fault
of the Democracy in the conduct of
the campaign. 1t behooves the
leaders and prominent men, and the
mass of the party. to exercise the
greatest care and prudence to pre-
vent such an occurrence. Vigilance,
energy, activity and organization are,
of course, needful; but all violence,
all infammatory app eals, all sugges-
tions of revolutionary resorts and
excess of vituperation and denuncia-
tion, should be avoided. We hold
too strong hand, and have too
much at stake, to lose our tempers
and permit ourselves to be discom-
posed by anger or passion. There
is another caution which the New
Orleans Times says NC Of the South
are imreratively called upon to heed.
Our Northern friends, who embarked
in the war on the Federal side, have
magnanimously ignored and dis
n