The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-16
GRANT IND THE SOUTH.
Wendell Phillips Indorses the President
and Cries for Vengeanee-He Wants
the South 10 Drink the Blood of the
Ku-EIux.
From the Anti.slavesy standard.l

We have fell and said that the course oil
| General Grant was open TO grave criticism.
But we have always judged him by his actlons;
| always allowing that he meant all he said and
would do all he promised. We propose the
same rule in time TO come. We shall take big
words as earnestly meant, and we shall wait tor
action before We critleise him In his new Office.
| Thus far We have only thanks to give him. For
three things in his inaugural we desire 10 give
hiu credit. With full heart and most earnest
ly, we thank him for his frank, prompt and
hearty Endorsement Of the constitutional
amendment. The words In which he refers to
it show that his heart is in he right place and
that he cordially accepts the lesson Of the war.
1t emancipation made Lincoln the slaves Presi-
dent these precious and statesmenlke words
make Grant the nesros President. We hail
WITH similar feeling his assertion that his policy
looks to the ''cltIZenship" OF the Indian. Let
him cover the Iudian with this shield aud give
h m, for the present at least, department in
the Cabinet which shall watch bus rights, aud
President Grant will have met these Two great
problems OF race with o brave and wise, as
we'll as Just craftsmanship.
The third pledge of lis inaugural we hail is
that which promises q vigorous and-rigol Gus
execution Of law. We trust ill.,. hsIe his words
mean literally all they say, and only wish they
had been more decisive and uuequivocal. Our
complaint OF Grant hitherto has been that ho
held power without using it.; that he has sat
and seen Union men murdered unavenged.
Some OF his friends excused him on the ground
that President johnson crippled the general.
at last the Ku-KluX have left tho White House.
Those midnight cowards need only half q doz-
en- summary executions in as many States to
disappear forever. Ii we were in the Senate
We would coutrm no man for any office from
any Southern State, Kentucky included lnot
even Holt, till life was IS safe there as in Yer
mont. Shoot and hang first; nominate and
confirm afterward.
We 80. amen, most heartily, to all the inau-
gursl contains about public credit and payment
in gold. But there is q debt just as sacred as
the bonds, the debt we owe to the Southern
loyast, black and white. This debt is their
immediate and perfect protection. II either
Is entitled to precedence this comes first in
obligation and importance. This is to ue paid
in blood long before the other Is paid in coin.
The bondaolder only gains by waiting. For
these other creditors every hour of danger and
sg ouy cut short is au indescrlbable gain. The
governments faith with the bobdholder has
never been broken. Toward this 9th credi-
tor the government has heeu perjured and
faithless fol four bitter years. We beseech
Grant to send men South whose very names
shall mean vengeance, deep, terrible, and most
effective vengeance. Pat aside sham govern
ors and paltering officials, and give US the
peace which is sure to follow tho drawn
sword in the hands OF q prompt honest man.
borrow In case Of another rebellion. THIS debt
promptly paid will render another rebellion
impossible. It will a od tho South with capl-
tel and brains, the two enemies against which
she rebelled, and which her madness and
Johnson's have been striving to get along
without.
Congress cannot reconstruct the Soutil-law
can. Safety for men and money 1ilL Such q
man as Butler IN New Orleans is worth now
more than mule load OF lows. Hang twenty
assassInS in every Southern capital Blk hours
after they arc arrested, and you will empty half
the bank vaults OF Christendom into the South;
you will hight up all its lorges and crowd its
exchanges with business men. This IS the
way, soldIsr of the Wilderness, to hammer
the rebellion to pieces. Make your vengeance
80 swift, sure and terrible that the mere name
of o "Onion mau" may be as ample pro.sctlou
even on the Dol Norte as that Of o Roman
citiz an" was to st. Paul at Jerusalem.
The Cabinet gives no indication OF the Presl-
dents plans It rather shows that he has none,
for it mesns nothing. Massachusetts FURNISH
es all the first-rate brains it contains.
Thomas Campbell made selection from tho
English poets. on the plan OF excluding every
piece any other previous compiler had taken.
OF course, they, the first cCners, had taken
the best, and accordingly all Ca spbe rs pieces
are seoond-rate. Grants Cabines follows this
copy. He exc udes evcry one that anybody
ever thought OF. Of course he takes the leav'
lngs. But this only means that the people are
al hitherto, to do the work.
Press the Constitutions amendment. Push
the Executive for strong arm OF res olute lsw
throughout the South. Ii ths South loves
b:oJd, lot ner sup full oft, only lot 1t be the
blood Of assasslns. Sheath no sword un il hon
est Union men, black and whlto, native and
foreign, alone, and i'll companies, on lonely
pralrles and in city streets, sls eacL under his
own vine and ig tree-the stars and STRIPES
with none to moiest or make them AFRAID.
WENDELL PHILLIPS.