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

party d1d not chlme IN with the poll
cy Of the President; they were vim
dictive, and believed that the South
should be punished. They placed
over us q military government, the
most odious ever recorded in history,
treating the South as conquered
territories from foreign power.
They Undertook to erect a military
despotism over us and to tenr to
pieces the Constitution. We had
been taught to think that this was
the land of the free; but the radical
party ignored all these ideas Citi-
zens have been torn from their
homes and hurried to prison, with
out hearing, and kept in dungeons
for dreary months. 1t is this party
which the people are now rallying
from the mountains to the sea-board
to upset and hurl from power. Sum-
ner, the speaker compared to Cou-
thon; and Stanton equalled Danton;
Butler, the spoon-stealer, and drunk
en- Ben. Wade were also excoriated.
Can we expect that party with such
miserable representatives will con-
tinue in power? They will live in
history, only to be cursed as are
Arnold and Robespierre. The radi-
Gals act above the Constitution of the
United States, which they are sworn
to support. But they ignore it, and
refuse to recognize the teachings of
our fore e-fathers. We assert that we
have right on our side. Thank Hea-
ven, there is brighter sky above rs.
We hear the tramp of the Democratic
ranks, from the North, the South,
the East and the West; they declare
there shall be peace and prosperity
here-that to cripple the South is to
cripple the North. If the great Cau-
casian race is deprived of the right to
rule, the country will be ruined.
The soldiers and good people of the
North declare that the greatest crime
which has been committed by the
party in power, is the passage of the
vindictive constitutional amendment.
The people of the South will forever
venerate the memory of those who
fell in defence of the ''lost cause. ="
Mark the consistency of the Recon
struction Acts-one State ratifies
them, and is admitted; Alabama re-
fuses, but is, nevertheless, declared
Reconstructed. The people are not
so demented as to willingly trample
upon the rights of freemen; the cor
dial manner in which the Northern
soldiers met the Southern soldiers
against whom they had bravely
fought-proves that they are unwill-
ing to submit; they advocated re-
construction in its full and just sense.
The incubus of slavery, the speaker
believed, had paralyzed our ener-
gies, and we never advanced, as
other sections of the country have.
God, in His providence, has freed
the negro; and. unless he works. he
must starve. He can never rule the
white man-God never so intended.
The Caucasian rules, the world over.
Let the colored man remember the
fate of the Indian. The friends of
the negro must be found among the
white men of the South-who pay
them their wages. and thus assist in
their support. Their cause is your
cause; stand by them, colored men
it is yonr only hope. Who are the
white scalawags and carpet-baggers
who participate with the elated
blacks in their legislative "delibera-
tions?" Inquire into their histories,
and you will find that their record is
as black rs the company in which
| they arc now to be found.
Mr.. Kinsler then brought forward
our young friend, Mr.. G. o. Mar
shall, who, apologizing for his def
ciencies, and for OBTAINING the audi
ence, after the admirable remarks of
the gentlemen who preceded him,
expressed his qualification at the
present demonstration, which was
but an indication of what was going
on all over the country. Every lover
of his country and of liberty was
expected to rally around the nomina-
tion of the New York Convention
Seymour and Blair. The heroes OF
both armies have struck hands and
are now united, in sentiment and in
heart, to wrest the country from the
clutches of radicalism, which has
almost destroyed it. He asserted
that the false friends of the negroes
were hurrying them on to destruc-
ton. In the late elections, the me-