The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-05
G III a r L E S ON
FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY s, 1869.
Grant and the Party Hacks.

Grant nd the Party Hacks.
The President elect seems to be falling
from Radical grace; not because Of, what
he has actually said and done, but because
he has not declared that he will be the
plant tool Of party, and has made no sign
to show who are to be the chief officers Of
the new administration. This conduct may
seem highly proper to the outside world,
who do not desire to be Cabinet officers,
foreign ministers, or whiskey inspectors;
but it is very disgusting to those who scoffed
and jeered at the successful soldier until
after his nomination at Chicago, and who
now, because he was nominated and is
elected, claim the right to control his every
movement and mark out the policy which
the incoming government shall pursue.
These people make politics their trade.
They made war upon the South for profit,
and remained quietly at home that their
days might be long in the land. They
emancipated the negro for profit. They
planted the heel of the negro on the breast
of the white man for profit. They played
shuttle-cock with our constitutional rights
for profit. And now for profit they would
direct the movements ola man whose strong
point has always been to do, right or wrong,
as he pleased. To them, new lease of
Radical power meant more plunder, more
place and more corruption; it being admit
ted that they might have treated the South
with generous liberaity if it had been
shown that the policy could be made to pay
Their disappointment, then, is ns natural as
it is keen, whep they fnd that Grant is as
dumb as tho idols of the Egyptians: nor
will it be surprising if they become actively
indignant when the die is cast, and they
fud that Grant is disposed to suit himself
without regard to party. We do not imag-
inc that General Grant will have the slight
est leaning towards Democracy; but we do
believe that he will choose his men because
they can work with him and he with them,
and not because they are the pet lambs of
any fanatical newspaper or of any Congress
s onal delegation.
Already the malcontents are preparing
to swing the tomahawk. Some Of them
profess to smoke the pipe of peace; but
others growl in public, and the notorious
Butler avows himself to be in favor of re-
pealing the Tenure of. office bill so that
Grant may have full power to make
himself liable to impeachment and removal
from Office. There is no doubt that the
President elect will ind more thorns than
roses in his path; but he may be soldier
enough to fight it out on the line Of econo-
my, purity and manliness, though it takes
all four summers.
After oil, whatever the turmoil in Wash
ington, our fight must be made at home.
We are face to face with universal suffrage.
We have to contend against large colored
majority. We have to overcome as we'll as
we con the crafty schemers, who would
drive the freedmen as we'll as the white
men to destruction. We have no fear that
Congress will meddle with South Carolina.
We could not be more thoroughly Republi-
canized, more thoroughly revolutionized,
than we are; and we have confidence that
the Legislature will act so as to do honor
to their breeding, and prove that there is /
no immediate prospect Of the State of
Marion, Of Hayne, of McDuffie, of Calhoun.
being ruled by wisdom and sense. But the
four years to come must and will work
wondrous change in South Carolina The
bottom rail has been on top for long enough.
The turn of the white race is coming, and
in regaining the position which nature gave
them, and which no law can long take away.
they will be made strong by the increase of
their commercial and agricultural prosper
ity, and will be assisted by the very freed
men who, for little while, are tempted to
lord 1t over us. No conceivable oircum-
stance, no law, no army, no musket or bay
onet can keep the Caucasion i'm subiec.ion
to the African; and when the certain change
does come, the freedmen will have more se-
curity, more protection and more individ-
ual freedom than they have with majority
in the fields and streets, with majority in
office and at the polls, and with o thump-
ing majority In the General Assembly or the
State. SO General Grant and bis dissatis
fed allies may war as they please 1T the
Federal capital. Our woyk is at home, and
here shall be our victory.
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Tine Southern Press Convention.
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