The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-23
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Het anlike the one 5that the pspers of
selss State have soAewhats indutged id;
M aadSthst the Carfek- -JdarnalIa Jan abIe
end discEset jourfai, and the lieadink
6sypsnper in Kentucky, arrives at con.
|cI6sions,similar to those reached by our
selves. We are we'll sustained. The
Courier Journal says: ,, :. ,,u,r
''The Democratic party now stands
where many another party has stood be-
fore it---ylpop. the threshold of new
epoch, The elements which compose il
are various. The duties which confront
it are complicated. None of the cid is.
sues which were identified with its name
can be sold to be directly before the ooun.
try. 1t always was the party of internal
peace. 1t was never anything but ANA.
tional party. Hence, its overthrow pro.
duced domestic war, and, being unsnited
to war purposes, it could not regain it's
ascendancy so long as the war lasted.
The Republican party was the offspring
of the war-essentially . war party-and
it is,- consequently, unsuited to the re.
quiremonts of peace. The war being
ended, its usefulness expired, and but for
the indamed passions of the country, its
power would have ended with its useful
ness. That which kept those passions
alive, and through them kept the war
party alive. is passing away. It was no.
thing mere nor less than the violent eff
fort OF the Democratic party to re-organ.
ize itself upon line of battle on which
it had been signally defeated. It is for
tunate perhaps that it was defeated, for
it could not have changed the complex
ion of the Senate soon enough to render
its administration OF the government eff
icient, and it is therefore not RESPONSE
BILE for the financial condition of the
country, nor the reconstruction of the
South. Before it re-enters the field as q
contestant for the suffrages of the whole
people, all the issues growing out of the
war, and most likely the greater number
Of the issues growing out of reconstruc-
ton, will be settled. We shall begin to
experience their ill effects For these
i'll effects the Republicans will be respon-
sible. The new issues thus brought
about will certainly not be negro suf-
frage, nor negro testimony; and if we
should keep on deluding our minds with
these, as the old-line Wings deluded
themselves with banks and protective
tariffs, we shall find ourselves uufitted
for the situation which we should be able
to control. Mr.. John Quincy Adams is
right. Mr.. Pendleton is right. The
Wisconsin Democrats are right. The
Southern States will be right enough by
the time we get to them. Let us put our
own house in order as we proceed, 80
that, when the time comes for national
union and communion, kentucky may
be united; and thus united, may take
her place in the procession, not to fol-
low, but to lead.
"We propose to accept nothing that
we can avoid, But We do propose, by q
cool and silent observance of events, to
SO preserve our relation to the nationality
of the party, that we shall be able to use
everything that we may find useful to its
needs. We do not regard the fifteenth
amendment as an accomplished fact; but
negro suffrage in the Southern States is
an accomplished fact, and our Southern
their situation. If the. fifteenth amend
meut is not ratified, it will be an issue in
the next Presidential campaign, and the
Democratic party will make it ring the
death-bell of radicalism. But, if it is
ratified, the Democratic party will fight
its consequences, not it's existence; and
other issues, relating to finance and trade,
will occupy the position of fore.fgures.
''No man can predict certainly six
months, much less three years, ahead;
but we can discuss these possibilities
frankly and confidently, for they are al
ready being discussed all over the South.
1t is worse than folly to blind ourselves
to the present situation of affairs. If we
would avert the dangers of contention
among ourselves, and "third parties, u
and "new parties" we must meet them.
Every line that we have written has been
directed to the unity of the Democratic
organization, taking q broad, national
view of lit, and it is matter of pride with
us that the Democratic press of the whole
country, excepting only our weak bro
theirs of the Democratic press of Ken
tuoky, not alone approve what we have
said, but use it as Democratic arguments
addressed to the people Of regions which
are supposed to be hardly so Democratic
as Kentucky"
VALUABLE INVENTION. Bristol, Ten
nessee, man has invented machine for
pressing brick, which does four times
the work, can be built for half the mo-
ney, and does the work better than INV