The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-20


fees of blood and treasure were freely
made; and now Mr.. POLLARD has found out
that we really had a cause for which we were
ignorantly contending, and that it was not
o bad thing after all! No doubt! But
who, i'll all this land, of any age or either
sex, needs TO be informed now, that social
order and constitutional liberty were the
prizes that inspired the mighty athletes of
the war? For nothing, boyhood and hoary
ago do not hurry together to the field; or
lovely women pluck the marriage ring from
the finger, or the funeral locket from the
breast; OF Sabbath congregations drag down
the airy chime of churches, and cast them
into the brazen throats and trumpets of the
battle. The lost cause had more in it than
blind impulse and mutual rage, before it was
lost.
Yet, disputing as we must, the originality
and novelty Of Mr.. PoLLARD's philosophy,
we arc free to admit that his fundamental
position is we'll taken, and that his line of
argument is we'll sustained. The history
of the Reconstruction measures is ably re-
sumed and sagaciously interpreted. Es-
pecially worthy of note is the succeeding
chapter which refutes the Republican pleas
in favor of these measures. Mr.. POLLARD
very conclusively proves that the theory OF
- g. SC aho r1 nd 1non
ble-that territory recovered by force of
arms cannot be lawfully regarded OF treated
as conquered country"-and finally that
the cons itutional gurantee of a republican
form of government to a State not only
does not require political and civil changes,
but positively forbids any national inter-
ference with the State institutions extant
when the law was established. This chap
ter, the best in the book, is model of clear
and powerful augmentation.
The objections of our author to universal
suffrage, which, indeed, are to be found
substantially in Mr.. JOHN STUART Mills
great work on representative government,
do not admit of any successful reply, even
by the latter gentleman, now an apostate
from his earlier and purer faith. While the
lower classes constitute the majority in
every land, universal suffrage simply and
necessarily transfers to them the absolute
control of public affairs and interests-to
them, we say, or rather to the demagogues
who control them. In this case democ-
racy becomes mobocracy, in which sta
tion, intelligence and property are at dis
count. In such society as ours, the evils
of universal suffrage would be enhanced by
all the prejudices of race, and would, sooner
or later, produce the most destructive social
We desire to give the writer of this inter-
csting volume all the praise to which he is
entitled. We are, nevertheless, constrained
to add that he displays, in some particulars,
a want Of consistency and consideration.
1t does not losk well in Southern man to
magnify the faults of Mr.. DAVIS, at sstme
when that gentleman is under indictment
for services TO the Southern people; or to
eulogize Mr. JOHNSON to the skies, even for
his opposition to the Southern movement;
or to magnify the greatness and glory Of
the Union, and to claim for it a certain re-
ligious vencration, at the very time when
we are exiled from its benefits and oppressed
by its gigantic and resistless power. Would
it not be more digni6ed in us to wait awhile
before We fling up our hats and vociferate
our p1ans?
We cordially agree with Mr.. Pollard
hat the salvation of the country rests with
The Democratic party. Vain are the hopes
Of patriotism, lost are the liberties of Amer
ca, unless this noble band Of true states
men succeeds in the approaching Presiden-
tial election. Let our people realize this,
and let them spare no effort to secure this
glorious contamination
The ''Lost Cause Regained' is published
By G. W. CARLETON & Co., of New York,
and is for sale in Charleston by JOHN Rus
SELL.