The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-10
The Important Question Before the
Country nnd It's Solution

The Important Question Before the
Country md It's Solution
Shall this great and proud Repub-
lie be governed by negro balance of
power? That is the important ques-
tion now before the country. Shall
100000 of the Caucasian race
the highest type of mankind-be
ruled by a few millions of ignorant
negroes, who are the lowest in the
order of human beings, and who are
scarcely removed from barbarism?
Such proposition would seem in
credible were it not supported by
facts. Some may doubt even whether
such monstrous idea would be seri-
ously entertained by any party or
faction, and may think that we state
the case too broadly. There is, how
ever, no exaggeration; it is the well
known purpose of the radicals to per-
petuate their power, if possible,
through the votes of the Southern
negroes. This has been their policy
all along. The Reconstruction Acts
of Congress, disfranchising large
number of whites and enfranchising
the blacks of the South, were passed
for this purpose. The bitter feeling
to the President, the threats cs III
peaching him, the scurrilous abuse of
him, and all the legislation to humi-
late him and his Office and to take
away his power, grew out of his op-
position to this atrocious policy of
the radicals. The brutal and be-
nighted Africans, just emancipated
from slavery, and not knowing their
right hands from their left, not know
ing what q vote meant or what they
vote for, have been given power with
view to deciding the Presidential
election and the destiny of the Re-
public. The intelligent white people
of onr own blood and race in the
South have been placed under these
barbarian5, and the fairest and rich
est portion of the country is turned
over to desolation, with the prospect
OF frightful starvation, demoraiiza-
ton and war of races. And this is
all done for no other motive or OBJ
ject than to keep the radical party in
control of the Government
The spouting of radical orators and
emlssaries about equality. the rights
of man. the poor negro, and all that,
is sheer hypocrisy and clap trap.
These radicals have refused to give
the suffrage to the few negroes in
those Northern States where they
had the power to do so, and where
the negro vote would be of little con-
sequence comparatively, while they
are doing the utmost to make the
ignorant and degraded blacks Of the
South controlling policical element
in the Republic. Who ever heard of
anything more inconsistent or mon
strous? Such conduct seems like in
sanity, and could hardly be credited
were there not examples in history of
a similar character. The Jacobins in
France shed rivers of blood in the
name of humanity and equality, and
the Puritan ancestors of our Jacobins
Of the present time were not less
cruel and proscriptive in the name of
religion and truth. The radical re-
volutionists of France set up
strnmpet as representing the God
aess of Reason, and committed the
foulest deeds under the pretention of
progress and higher philosophy. 1t
IS the same in all countries and ages
under revolutionary radicalism, what
ever form ii may take. It is so now
with the nigger worshippers and ra-
dical rcvo!utionists. Passion, fanati-
cism and political ambition have sub
verted reason. Everything must give
way before their intolerant dogmas.
Let the glorious institutions handed
down to us by the fathers, this white
mans government, so full of glory
and happiness in the past and the
future OF our grand Republic, perish
for the sake of mn irrational and i'm
practicable theory. That is the poll
cy of the radical Republicans. That
is the cause of the trouble between
the President and Congress. That