The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-09
The Way to Peace.

The Way to Peace.
The following extract is taken from
speech recently delivered at Day
ton, Ohio, by Hon. @. l.. Vallandig-
ham: .. ..
Depend upon it, gentlemen, no
party, whose only cementing element
is a sympathy of hatred, can ever be
permanent in power, or even in ex-
istence.
With large multitudes of men, this
spirit of hate was the controlling
motive throughout the late civil war,
and has continued to govern them at
every step in their efforts at recon
struction. But with o smaller, yet
far more dangerous class of politi-
clans, the sole aim for the last three
years has been the perpetuation of
Republican rule, through the negroes
of the South. To this basest of mo-
tiyes and purposes the public good
and the pacification of the country
has been steadily sacrificed; and,
worse yet, all constitutional limita-
iion altogether disregarded. Signally
defeated in their efforts to establish
negro suffrage and equality in the
North anS,pWest, they have now i'm
pudently in their platform proclaimed
that here each State shall regulate
suffrage for itself, while at the South
the elective franchise shall be deter
mined by the Congress of the United
States. Acting upon the double mo-
tive of hate and the desire to main
tain partizan supremacy, they have
disfranchised large majority of the
white population of the Southern
States, and conferred upon the ne
groes, by act of Congress, the right
to vote; and then, at the point of the
bayonet, have proceeded to establish
seven State Governments. controlled
by negroes or white adventurers
meaner than they-mere soiourners,
birds of passage, and very foul birds
at that; and have gone through the
farce of admitting them into the
Union, and to the right of representa-
tion in the Senate and the House,
and full vote in the Electoral College
for President. In this manner, gen
tlemen, they expect to control the
legislation and the elections of the
country. And these ignorant, brut-
lsh negroes of South Carolina and
Florida, and the other States, do
now make laws and levy taxes and
create public debt for you, white men
of Ohio; and they expect to over
rule your choice for President.
Yes, gentlemen, under these Re-
publican Reconstruction Acts, en-
forced by an army for which you pay
heavy taxes out of your hard earn
ings, half million of negroes in
South Carolina, reinforced by some
thousands of adventurous white
loafers from the North and West,
will control as many electoral votes
as million of white men in Ohio.
Aye, and at this present moment the
Governor" so-called, of that State,
elected by negroes, under an Act of
Congress, and through the aid of
ySar army, is citizen of Ohio,
having legal settlement here; so
that If he would become q pauper-
and South Carolina is very poor now.
and no longer able to enrich her
satraps-the proper township in the
County of Henry, in this State, could
be compelled to maintain him as n
public charge. And, moreover, Gen.
Willard Warner, q noble confrere of
his from Ohio, has, I observe, Just
been elected q United States Senator
Aom Alabama.
:. These are the doings of the Repub-
lican party. and, if not marvellous in
your eyes, they are at least costly to
your pockets. These are q part OF
the blessings over which the Chicago
platform exults, and o continuance,
and, indeed, multiplication OF
: which they promise upon the election
Of General Ulysses s.. Grant.
Now, gentlemen, suppose for q
moment that the case were reversed,
and that the South had waged sue.
cessfnl war of conquest against you
here in the West, and had compelied