The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-14
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Wendell Phillips Reads Warning
LeotuIe to General Grant.

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Lecture to General Grant.
Wendell Phillips (s'the man that supplies the
Republican party with brains") thus. in his
Anti-Slavery Standard of this week, notifies
General Grant what he must and must not dc
in order 10 ''carry on the government" :"
Abolitionists and all earnest Radicals are
now summoned to address themselves to the
work which is yet to be accomplished. 1t has
become very apparent. through what has tran
spir I'd in Georgia and elsewhere, that the Re-
construction laws require careful revision and
perfecting in sundry particulars. The negroes
| and loyal whites of the South greatly need the
means OF self-defence. The question OF con-
6scation, especially W til reference to the lar
amount of land fraudulently conveyed from
the possession OF the United States Govern
ment to the hands of rebels, should be ct once
blacks, to whom, by virtue of their past un-
requited toll, the soil rishtfuly belongs. A
system OF national education which shall be
comprehensive, and at least coextenslvc with
the extension Of the ballot, should early be in
augurated by Congress.
The measure OF primary importance now to
be promptly initiated and adopted on the re-
assembling of Congress is an additional amend
ment to the constitution forbidding disfrau-
chisement or prescription from Official trust on
account Of race or color in any State or Terri
tory OF the Union. Such an amendment il
adopted promptly by Congress, and submitted
to the Legislatures of the several States,
would, without doubt, now be ratified by TIE
requisite number. It is urgently demanded to
guarantee the ballot to Southern coiored men,
and to enfranchiso many thousands IN the
Border and Northern States. This measure
should not be postponed for the consideration
of the Forty first Congress, but should be
promptly acted upon and adopted by the
Fortleth.
'tLet us have peace" has been many times
reiterated during the campaign just closed.
One danger before US is the assumption that
the fact of Grants election in itself will insure
"peace at the South. Abolitionists and those
who have studied attentively Southern society
know better than this. While Southern Legis
latures are permitted to perperate such high
handed outrages as the lawless expulsion OF
colored members, as in Georgia, without due
punishment; il rebol5 are permitted to take
seats in the House of Representatives who come
from districts wherein colored and white Re-
publicans were practically excluded from tho
coils. "peaco" cannot be realized. The negro
is still the bone Of contention, and until his
manhood and political equality is everyw lere
recognized he will continue to be q disturbing
element in our politics.
Smarting under their political discontinue,
the Ku-Klux will still hold sway, especially If
their reasonable chief is permitted to remain
in the White House till The 4th of March next:
With tho triumphant reelection of General
Butler, and tho well-lnown desire OF most oil
the Southern mombers for tho revival of the
measure, we have strong hopes Of the success
full cousummation of the impeachment and de-
position of Johnson by the beginning OF tho
new year.
With Wade even two months in the White
House. and such tools of treason as Rousseau,
Steedman and Company, OF New Orleans, re-
placed by Sheridan and other trustworthy,
ioyal men; with the reconstruction laws prop
erly revised and amondcd; with suffrage and the
right to hold Office vouchsafed TO the negro
everywhere, the nation may be we'll on tho way
tow ards ''peace," having secured It's essential
conditions, before Grant Is iDauSuratcd. While
deliberate and organized injustice to the negro
is perpetuated, the "irrepressible conflict, will
continue, no matter who may be President.
"Let us have peace" then, by promptly doing
hose things which mako for peace.
The new era which opens before US, with the
significant defeat OF the shareholders and their
apologists OF Tuesda', is full OF interest to
Abolitionists and conscientious Ra licals. to
whom the national conflict means something
moro than mere partisan strife, to end with
election day. Our many triumphs Of the past
have been won under circumstances Of adverse
opposition much more formidable than any
thing we are likely to have to encounter in the
near future. Opposition we are undoubtedly
10 have, but now, as hitherto, logic and right
are on our r:le. We have but to press urgent
ly and pelsevcringly our demand, and our past
successes are guarantee of ultimate, complete
triumph. The Times, the Post, the Herald,
and the conservatives" for whom they speak,
already exultant at what they deem the eclipse
of Radlcalism, reckon without their host N
supposing it to be within the power OF General
Grant, il, as they allege, it be his disposition
to materially obstruct the progress OF Radical
reformation in national politics. If the Rcpub.
lican party consents to be the instrument OF
that benefcent reformation, all will be well
with both the party and the country. II it re-
fuses it will only be worse for the party. There
is no hallway house for permanent lodgment
between slavery and genuine Repubican:sm.
The only truly formidable opponents the ABB
ltIonists ever had were the brain champions
OF the slave system while their power was CO.
extensive with the nation and their lea iership
acknowledged North and South. Their day is
over. The earnest Radicals are the positive
force in the new order of things. The tendon
cy OF this century is to universal Radical Re
publcanism.