The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-03-12
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The South, to-day, is q land OF anarchy,
OF blood and of insecurity. to property he
cause the outgoing President called tolhis
aid theiwhite men Of the South and trusted
the element OF secession 5000 600 of
Southerners, bred in secession for thirty
years were not converted by Gettysburg.
A mistaken idea i,carnated in generation
never gets out Of it. They adhere under all
circumstances and both are buried in one
grave. There are certain steps which, once
taken, are irrevocable. The South stands
to-day having taken that step which cannot
be retraced. Andrew johnson has gone to
Tennessee, but there stands the South with
all the consequences of that step staring her
in the face. The nation has to fght the
battle over again. The South wants capital
The North offers money and school -mnrms,
and the South replies. 1--WE will have yonr
money bnt not your school -marms." The
long history of Andrew johnson is to get
capital, not schools. down South Grant,
with that stalwart, rigorous despotic right
hand OF his, means that a dollar shall go
South in front, with Il Yankee on the one
side, and q schOol-marm on the other. The
President tells us in his fine inaugural that
the fifteenth amendment ought to become
law, that the debt of the nation should be
paid, citizens protected &C., and there he
leaves us. He leaves 10000, 900 people to
shape its own future. That future is easily
shaped. When Ben. Butler was in New
Orleans you could travel down South with
millions of dollars in your possession; you
could stand IN public square and read the
Declaration of Independence; you might
wave your hat in salutation to the stars aud
stripes, and feel perfectly safe. Now if we
could have Ben. Butler large enough to
cover thirteen States, the thing is done
What Grant listens for in the White House
is to know what 20, O00 600 people want
him to do. We hope he will go down to
Texas and make it safe to plant the flag
therc7he has not done it yet-and it will
add laurel to his wreath even greater than
he won on the battlefield. There is one
laurel, repeat, which Grant has not earned
yet. Oliver Cromwell said that he would
make the name of Engishmen such
power, such terror to enemies, that an
Englishmnn might feel perfectly safe even
though he stood on the verge of the civil.
lied world, and he did it. We want Grant
to initiate that example. We want him to
undo the history of five terrible years, to
employ that cannon now lying in Washing
ton to such purpose that man may travel
through any part of the South and saw 'sI'm
Union man" without fear of molestaton.
The kn klux shall then fly away. I would
have scaiTolds erected in the South, and
wherever murder would be committed 1
would hang the perpetrator as high as
Haman. (Applause) The great shame of
the President to-day is that he has not done
this. The moment he does it all England
and the North will rush to the South in one
great crusade of business Tho Senates
may then dissolve and the armies may be
dlsbanded. Let the fifteenth amendment
be made limo in the Constitution. We
cd in g.
four years to a traitor President for our own
peace, and if the work be not now accom-
pllshed, our children will have to fight the
battle over again. If another administra-
tlon like tho one Just ended had succeeded,
the crisis Of war would come even sooner,
we would have the peril at our very doors.
Only think how narrowly we escaped.
Seymour carried New York by the help Of O
mob, made up of rowdies and the lawless ele-
ment, against Grant with the brave soldiers
who conquered the rebellion. Only little
more on that side and VIC were doomed.
The contest was so close that there is
nothing like it on record.
The times have also another meaning,
namely: that the war has taught us that
neither In Congress, nor the Executive, nor
In administrations, can we trust for the sue
cess of republican institutions The great
security and stability of our Government
are founded on the education of the masses
Aristocracy was killed on the scaffold with
Charles L, and to-day it holds the English
people in slavery. SO with us. We have
killed the root, but tho tree lives One
thing can be said Of Grant, that words
from his lips mean more than those uttered
by other men. His message is promise,
and 1T will be carried ont to the letter. /
lave no doubt he will vigorously execute
every law that Congress puts into his hands
But Congress shonld cover the South with
cannon, banners and scaffolds till full secu-
rity OF person and property is enjoyed, and
till it can be said with truth "we will have
peace"
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