The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-15

The indignant restiyeness with which the
Radical organs denounce the Democratic
platform shows clearly enough the appre-
hensionsit has excited. Already they dis
Germ the thick-coming omens- Of defeat.
Never did rabbit, startled from his snug
thicket, adopt more numerous shifts and
turns t., escape the pursuing doom.
The Commercial Advertiser endeavors to
prejudice the popular mind against the plat
form by giving list Of the rebel generals
and aympathizers employed insits construc-
ton. 1t has even prophesied that no plat
form could be constructed on account Of the
opposing and incongruous elements Of the
Convention. Nor could any candidate COM
.mand the cordial support of oil the various
factions of the party. wh.. ground there
was for these political vaccinations appears
to-day, when new declaration ofindepend-
ence, and great statesman and gallant
eloquent soldier, have secured the unanimous
sufrages of the Democratic party; and after
years of-confusion and anarchy, the glorious
phaianx are once more reassembled, and,
glowing with high hope, march on with
locked shields to victory
Tae Tribune denounces the platform as o
mere beating Of the air. It would have
military despotism uncondemned, because,
forsoo,h, the department commanders are
quietly turning over their authority; and
the Freedmen's Bureau unassailed, because
Congress has provided, or is providing. for
the closing Of that Bureau so soon as the
machinery of Radical self-goverument is
put in operation. Of course the Bureau
will not be needed when this happy recon
struction takes place. The sans-culotte
may let go the purse of the government
when he takes in hand the purse of the
State. a2The industry of some other hands
than his own must feed him-and for his
part, he cares not whose. But when mil
itary despotism and wasteful proscriptiye
beaurocracy comes to an end, the RESPONSE
bility Of the Radical party remains. A
criminal isssnot excused because his crime
was committed last week or last year-be-
cause the house he tired is burnt down, and
the man he stabbed is dead. 1t is the mall
efactor's plea which the, Tribune urges:
/" Let bye genes be bye-gones just let me
soft this time, for don't you see that am
"not going to do SO any more" To such q
| plea, what other reply will the grand jury
of the American people render-what but
this: aWe know that you are not going to
edo SO any more; for you shall notretain the
"powey you have abused; you shall not sac
"ri6ce the liberties of the country again,
"and aquander its wealthy resources to
"mske sure the triumphs of your party"
But, says the Tribune, with o portentous
shake of the head "We have no doubt that
"if the Democrats triumph, the new State
O. governments will be subverted." This is
certainly a terrible anticipation for Radical
ism. To establish these mongrel concerns,
the Republicans have kept the country in
state of anarchy for three years; destroyed
the industry of ten States, and burdened
that of all with taxes; expended hundreds
of millions os dollars; threatened the judi
ciary, damaged the executive, invaded the
constitution. and even the fundamental laws
of civil society, and given to BUTLER the
custody of archives, the chas:isement of
crimes and the key of the capitol. To undo
the costly work would be to convict Radi-
calism of such political madness as has no
parallel in the history of mankind.
Yet this thing has to be done. The
American people would be unworthy of
their ancestry and their place among the
nations of the earth, if they allowed this
wretched mongrelism and usurpation to re-
main supreme. Il is not government, but
misgovernment, that Radicalism has con-
ferred on the Souyh There, for example,
is the motley Legislature of Louisiana,
where he United States commander had to